What A Vintage Guitar Show Is Like
- Music Mukbang
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May, 2025
By Music Mukbang Dad
Bill Burr the comedian does a bit in his “Drop Dead Years” show where he insists the saddest place on earth is Guitar Center! He describes failed washed up musicians watching “men in loveless marriages or divorcees looking for a guitar in a custom color hoping his purchase will fill the hollow void in his chest!”. Is a vintage guitar show like that? - Kind of!
Ok I’m an old guy and I have been to a lot of these kinds of things, from model train shows to motorcycle swap meets, they’re all very similar with mostly generic shaped old guys with cargo shorts, walking around telling “dad jokes” to anyone who will listen.
However a vintage guitar show like this has lots of different people. For example, I met John from Valiant Guitars, a company that makes guitars and basses in Ukraine that are designed by former aerospace engineer for the U.S.S.R.
I also met J Robert from Rafferty Guitars, they import interesting styles guitars with competitive prices.
Being that it is a vintage guitar show there are guitars from the 1950s like this Gibson Les Paul, that cost as much as my minivan!
I talked with Heith, the owner of Rock and Roll Vintage from Chicago, who showed me a 1956 Fender Telecaster. Heith also had disassembled bodies of vintage Gibsons for sale to be refurbished, or customized.
Some vendors sold novelty guitars.
While others show their custom products like these hand made guitar bodies from Reywas guitars.
How can you not like a guy that gives you a free guitar pick? This is Brian from Vine Cable. He’s from Wisconsin and he hand assembles guitar cables from the highest quality components. He had cables in a rainbow of color choices, including a rattlesnake pattern and some that glow in the dark on stage (to prove it Brian will pull out his black light to show you!)
Did this show “fill the void of emptiness in my chest?” No. However I met some really interesting people and saw some things that I wouldn’t usually see.
Below are links to the businesses above.
Noting I was not offered free entry or payment to highlight any of these products (We really are waiting for that day!) “Oh wait, I did get a free pick!”
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