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Post by LeoThunder on Jul 13, 2018 11:28:56 GMT
The original meaning of "cool" as American slang is an attitude which affects to ignore the trouble one is going through. People stay "cool" in the face of adversity so making do with bad instruments which are all you can afford while looking like it's just what you would choose to do is only fitting the meaning of the word.
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Post by LeoThunder on Jul 13, 2018 12:15:03 GMT
That's right. When people purchased unwanted Fender Jaguars from pawn shops so they could make music on good instruments, that was "cool". Those who put serious money into replicas of them today are not.
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Post by salteedog on Jul 13, 2018 12:31:33 GMT
I know it was the eighties but they compromised the quality for just $1.50 of cost savings...? Crazy. I read here that the first batch of 1981 Bullet guitars are the desirable one because they had to be re-built and reassembled in the US after the Asian factory made a mess of them. Source of that story could be the same book you have?
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