All I was doing was taking the train downtown to pick up my 335 from Rudy's repair shop. Often when I go to 48th St. I really don't want to go into the stores. Manny's and Sam Ash are just nightmares of noise and hype and attitude but Rudy's is different. The problem with Rudy's is that you spend top dollar on anything you buy there but they have lots of great super expensive vintage guitars to look at (just in case you win the lottery- right after getting a parking space for the car). They also have good new stuff. The repair shop is actually in another building so I didn't have to go into the store but that particular day I thought, oh what the hell I'll just go in for a minute.

So in I go and I see this guitar on the wall, a new Gibson ES 336. I had been wanting to check one out and this was the first one I had ever seen except for pictures online. I thought OK why not try it? So the guy there hooked me up into some nice amps and I start playing it and thinking, well this is pretty nice. This feels pretty good and hmm this sounds really good and boy it's really in tune and I just kept playing and thinking am I really going to do this?

So obviously I did do that and I totally love this guitar. It's similar to my 335 in shape- the body size is smaller and the neck feels like a combination of 335 and Les Paul. It also just sounds really good- I'm usually a reverb addict but I have to say that this guitar straight into an amp with nothing else is pretty nice. It's also beautiful and did I say I really love it? It's amazing to me that Gibson is making such great new instruments. It wasn't cheap but for reasons I won't go into now I regard it as a last gift from my Mother. Anyway I'm really pleased.......now I just gotta work on how to play it.....