Last night I had the good fortune to be able to attend one of Taylor's Road Shows. It evening was filled with great music,insight and information about everything Taylor. A Great discussion of Tone Woods, Body Shapes, Necks, Tops, Electronics, and more. The Rep that presented last night was new to Taylor (only 4 weeks with the company) but he did not lack experience or knowledge. He had spent the last 10 years working for a major pick-up and amplifier company and he new his stuff. The little he did lack in knowledge was made up for by the contract guitarist, who was awesome and very funny.
During the "Petting Zoo" portion of the show, this is where the audience gets to come up on stage and play anything they have up there and it's all for sale at reduced prices, I went straight for the 35th Year LTD Edition Acoustic. It had a list price of $19,995.00. It was the best guitar I will never get to buy. Even the reduced price came in at $11,795.00. :woohoo: I tried to talk them into moving the decimal over to the left one more place but, no luck.
After the Zoo they brought out the T5 dual accoustic/electric. Man that is one sweet guitar for anyone needing an instrument to play a wide range of songs in one set.
The night ended with them raffling off fun items like Taylor T-shirts, Hoody's, Elixer strings and Taylor picks. I won a cool black Taylor Guitars T-shirt so the night was complete.
It lasted about 3+ hours and after dreaming all night about guitars I had a tough day at work the next day as I was pretty tired. Who knew being around so many fantastic guitars could be that tiring.
Oh, one last things I discovered was that everyone who attends a Taylor Road Show is eligible for a drawing in December. Bob Taylor draws one of the attendee cards we all filled out and calls that person. He announces, Hi, I Bob Taylor I want to build you a guitar. WOW!
They told us that the first year Bob did this the guy on the other end didn't believe him and said, "Yeah, right." and hung up. Bob shrugged and drew another card.
I wonder if that guy ever found out and kick himself later? I think I would have been depressed for a long, long time.
Cheers all,
Steve