Lester

fretfinder

stimpsonslostson said:

We should compile the ultimate ad:

Here’s my LESTER, SHE plays like BUTTER. BEST guitar I’ve ever played. I’ve done £500 of UPGRADES (including BIGSBY) and RELICING, I put in a lot of time and effort on HER so that’s reflected in the price. I took it to MY tech & they agree SHE’S worth more than I’m asking. 
First to see will BUY. No postage.

Did I miss anything? 

‘Better than Custom Shop and all my mates agree.’ 

JerkMoans

fretfinder said:

stimpsonslostson said:

We should compile the ultimate ad:

Here’s my LESTER, SHE plays like BUTTER. BEST guitar I’ve ever played. I’ve done £500 of UPGRADES (including BIGSBY) and RELICING, I put in a lot of time and effort on HER so that’s reflected in the price. I took it to MY tech & they agree SHE’S worth more than I’m asking. 
First to see will BUY. No postage.

Did I miss anything? 

‘Better than Custom Shop and all my mates agree.’ 

This guitar owes me £1759....

Sassafras

Don't care what you call a guitar as long as it's not "she" or "her".
Really makes me cringe.

WezV

Iamnobody said:

Dominic said:

Iamnobody said:

CloudNine said:

'Lester' is annoying, but I reserve my full anger for people who have 'herds' of guitars.

Almost as bad as people who say my drummer or my bass player like they own them! Some little pet monkey that performs on command just for them.

How about referring to them as the drummer in my band etc.

To be fair people will refer to ;
MY doctor
My Solicitor
My Accountant
My Wife !!!!!!!

Of course and all those listed provide you with a personal service (we’ll hopefully the wife still does).

You’d also refer to a co-worker as My Colleague. and they don’t provide you a defined service so my own argument doesn’t even stand up!

It just doesn’t seem right in a band context to call them ‘my’ whatever. Maybe I’m the odd one! 

Our drummer, our bass player works better.

I am going to start calling my wife "the wife in my marriage"

Dominic

Going back to the original subject I just remembered how I once heard Les Paul's playing described by somebody as "a guitarist with musical Tourettes "
Actually very accurate in my opinion as that's exactly how his playing comes across 

Haych

Iamnobody said:

CloudNine said:

'Lester' is annoying, but I reserve my full anger for people who have 'herds' of guitars.

Almost as bad as people who say my drummer or my bass player like they own them! Some little pet monkey that performs on command just for them.

How about referring to them as the drummer in my band etc.

Does nobody else keep their drummer and bassist locked in a cage in the kitchen then?  Especially when guests come round.

I've just about trained my singer though, I can take the muzzle off him in polite company if I feed him a biscuit or two for good behaviour.  I had to put the keyboard player to sleep though, he was never the same after his Moog fell out the back of his Ford Galaxy.

Funkfingers

merlin said:

Does anyone call a Telecaster a "Leonidas"? 

No, on the grounds that they ought to use the name Clarence. :-p

GoldenEraGuitars

Could be worse.. our American friends call it a Less Paul

Bigsby

WezV said:

Iamnobody said:

Dominic said:

Iamnobody said:

CloudNine said:

'Lester' is annoying, but I reserve my full anger for people who have 'herds' of guitars.

Almost as bad as people who say my drummer or my bass player like they own them! Some little pet monkey that performs on command just for them.

How about referring to them as the drummer in my band etc.

To be fair people will refer to ;
MY doctor
My Solicitor
My Accountant
My Wife !!!!!!!

Of course and all those listed provide you with a personal service (we’ll hopefully the wife still does).

You’d also refer to a co-worker as My Colleague. and they don’t provide you a defined service so my own argument doesn’t even stand up!

It just doesn’t seem right in a band context to call them ‘my’ whatever. Maybe I’m the odd one! 

Our drummer, our bass player works better.

I am going to start calling my wife "the wife in my marriage"

"Oh, so all of a sudden it's YOUR marriage...." 

DLM

JerkMoans said:

fretfinder said:

stimpsonslostson said:

We should compile the ultimate ad:

Here’s my LESTER, SHE plays like BUTTER. BEST guitar I’ve ever played. I’ve done £500 of UPGRADES (including BIGSBY) and RELICING, I put in a lot of time and effort on HER so that’s reflected in the price. I took it to MY tech & they agree SHE’S worth more than I’m asking. 
First to see will BUY. No postage.

Did I miss anything? 

‘Better than Custom Shop and all my mates agree.’ 

This guitar owes me £1759....

No mention of Chappers, or Andertons. Hey, you could talk about how you get a great Joel Bananamonster sound out of it!

It'd be even more effective it it were an "artist/double signature" Les Paul, like a Slash/Joe Perry/Banananmonster/Lord Buckethead, etc.

chris78

richardhomer said:

Correct - calling one a ‘Lester’ means you’re a knob. Fact.

Ah balls. What do I call my Maybach now? Frank?