Not feeling deprived at all. Just thankful I don't own one! I can understand how some people like the freaky uniqueness of the S models, but the shape and the thin neck always turned me off. Here I was, working for a company that had a line of electric guitars that was so controversial and unpopular at the time. It was a real challenge for me as a CS rep to try and sell them to Guild's disgruntled dealers, many of whom had stocked S series guitars to have them sit forever unsold on the racks. A few dealers blew them out below cost and that didn't make them happy. The response I often got was, "You guys make great acoustics, but the electrics? Forget it. Can't sell them."
I was friendly with the NJ/NY sales rep, Bob Bromberg, the most successful sales rep in the company, and he had trouble selling those S electrics after a while. So did a lot of the other reps, like Millie Detgen in California, Eli Rabkin in New England and Tony Colantonio in Baltimore/DC. All of them constantly complained to Neil Lilien, asking for a more conventional looking guitar they could sell. That was about the time that they brought back the M-80. Shortly after, Lilien and Leon Tell were shown the door after driving Guild sales into the gutter with unwise business decisions, and Mark Dronge took over as president of the company. Mark was and still is, a smart guy, who looked at trends in the industry and helped bring in the "Big Hair" guitars, like the X-79, X-88, etc.
Mark is now president of DR Strings in Emerson, NJ. He's a nice man. I enjoyed speaking with him recently.