David Lindley and Takamine Guitars

[@Moon_Doggies]

RIP David Lindley

[@RickarooCarew]

back in 72 I got a beautiful Takamine hummingbird guitar... my friends thought I was out of my mind for this disgraceful non American guitar... it was one of the sweetest guitars I've ever had in a lifetime full of beautiful guitars... Rock on Brother Lindley Rock on Bro

[@RickarooCarew]

so... now I'm totally disgraceful... Chinese made Hummingbird... totally amazing.. if I ever get over being sick all the time... I'm going to learn how to play the durn thing too .. I'm retired now... lots of Time to learn new stuff... bottle neck... lap steel... classical guitar... Bach, Beethoven, the Beatles... you know the drill I'm sure... this Chinese guitar is a custom... beautiful woods and skill in the design... sounds like a concert hall guitar should... pretty too .. really really pretty

[@apachekeawe-aiko4900]

This GUY is a LEGEND 🔊🔊🎼🎶🎵

[@brianmungermusic1744]

I own two Takamine guitars and I love them. Great for stage sound and so sweet to play.

[@jebbaldwin8516]

legend

[@michaelshearer3559]

If it's good enough for Garcia, it's good enough for me. Still love my 1977 lawsuit Takamine.

[@JuanSantanalive]

i understand what he means ,i just got a 2002 takamine 12 string ean 40c , its so beautiful that i dont want to take it out on the road on gigs. its the sound I'd been looking for for the past 9 year i went through at least 15 guitars all 12 strings. from taks, yamaha , breedlove, taylor and ovation. But that cedar top is a whole other world.

[@davidallen346]

If it's a free Takamine acoustic guitar he'll take it I would as well

[@edtubesled]

12 fret neck puts the sweet spot where it should be.

[@tiedyekeith]

Looks like this was taped at McCabes Guitar Shop in Santa Monica

[@mtobrien1]

What a great guy. “Give to I!”

[@belascialoja4812]

Yeah, ha! Grammar is all wrong, but it's like Lindley's career, playing all those bastardized instruments that shouldn't sound so damned good, but do.

[@eduardoaviladominguez9017]

Uno de los mejores musicos k a dado gringolandia,,buen maestro

[@mikelord9860]

It looks and sounds good, I just wish he had played it a little more, I mean really air it out like he's capable of doing.

[@Mr-xy1mn]

Does anyone have any information about E80?

[@TheFloofyAce]

hey its a solid cedar top, solid mahogany back and sides :) sapele is generally only used for backs and sides i believe :)

[@rudolph1x]

You're right he said sapele in the beginning. It is mahogany with cedar top.

[@celticgodsoriginal]

There are all-mahogany guitars. Guild's M120 is I believe all-sapele- top sides and back.

[@celticgodsoriginal]

Takamine makes the most difficult model designations anywhere. This guitar is not cheap and he is looking for an acoustic to play on stage, amplified. Gibsons acoustics plugged in sound like a flock of ducks, as do many others amplified acoustics. Fishman systems just aren;t good. Baggs pickups over the soundholes are much truer. The piezo under-bridge sensors jsut don't cut it yet.

[@celticgodsoriginal]

This is also the reason Jackson Browne demanded and got a different pickup and amplification system (and sustainable tonewoods) on his artist model from Gibson, a kind of Roy Smeck re-issue.

[@celticgodsoriginal]

He plays it like an oud

[@jimmrockford9407]

Does takamine pay him?

[@bernardquipot9447]

I don’t know if he can really play. But the guitar is cool.

[@owenrees7544]

",I don't know if he can really play".. you need to school yourself champ

[@ronfrey5327]

he could play anything with strings on it.

[@samdill36]

@@ronfrey5327 gotta be kidding

[@TRICK-OR-TREAT236]

IF BULLSHIT WERE MUSIC ............. YOU'D BE JACKSON BROWN BUDDY !

[@randyscott9034]

He sounds to be either stoned or just a very strange guy

[@robertgarland805]

So?

[@bassmuso]

He is what you would label as eccentric, as he said 'it must be fun". Imagine having a life of playing music with the unmost best in rock history, he kept under the radar and I bet he has a few dollars stashed away..... a life of fun with music... you would be a little strange too.

[@samdill36]

@@bassmuso both

[@Bigbrotheriswatchingus]

I bought a G series because of the rave reviews. Do not do this, all Takamines' are obviously not the same. Mine sounds like a $40 piece of shit.

[@randyphelps3041]

it is the poor carpenter who blames his tools.

[@Bigbrotheriswatchingus]

I have had it repaired,

[@Bigbrotheriswatchingus]

And sometimes the tools need attention. Fuck you

[@randyphelps3041]

I'm assuming by your second response you are the tool that needs attention... c'mon man. own it.

[@Bigbrotheriswatchingus]

It cost half what I paid for it to get it repaired...The luthier explained the 5 reasons why it would sound like it did and repaired the 3 that were faulty.A good guitar, like my Framus, has never needed attention.

[@oliveroneill1388]

Takamine .. not takameany

[@deeder001]

Dude was long-time friend of Mass Hirade, luthier and former CEO of Takamine. However Lindley wants to pronounce it, is acceptable.

[@blanchedesmas]

Too much bla bla...