Part of the family during difficult times

[laut]

Like many of us, I've been spending a lot of time at home these past several days. I am most fortunate to have a lovely family, whom all love music. But it's times like these that I also appreciate the instruments we have. I feel very fortunate to have have this Starfire, and during a brief moment of relaxing (I work in administration within healthcare) today, I had a chance to let it sing. It's a moment I won't forget.

Stay well...

 

[Bonneville88]

Good story for today, beautiful guitar and cool photo

 

[walrus]

Nice!

walrus

 

[davismanLV]

Good post, laut!! I like your style! As a former Hospital Med. Records Administrator for Kaiser Foundation Hospitals in Los Angeles, I can imagine this is a seriously trying time for you. But it looks like between family and instruments, you have to tools to survive. Is that straight vodka in the glass? Just curious, you know.....

 

[sailingshoes72]

Great photo of your Starfire! I like your choice of amp, too. It looks like a brownface/blackface Princeton or Deluxe clone. And a FilterTron in the bridge position for a little extra TWANG!

 

[laut]

Thanks - yes, it is a Princeton Reverb clone I built several years ago, with 6L6 tubes.

 

[chazmo]

That's a beauty, laut!

 

[Quantum Strummer]

Nice! Playing guitar can be like a kind of meditation. Get into the zone and you're not thinking about anything. You're just there in the moment.

-Dave-

 

[Guildedagain]

What a Starfire, and vintage straps are one of my mostly unrequited vices, these days, though I have enough for many lifetimes...

The straps of yesteryear.

Is that a blonde Princeton, or... what is that?

 

[laut]

Guidedagain, thanks. It's a blackface PR circuit in a standard-sized cabinet, but I crammed a 12", with larger transformers and 6L6s. Big sound in a small package.