When you are a dead guitar player

[Any Name You Wish]

Will you be buried with one of your guitars? Which one will it be? I think it would be my R9.

 

[jb_abides]

No they will live on in the world, meant to be used. If not by my heirs, then by someone who'll appreciate them, via sale or donation depending upon circumstances. I hope to direct that when I am very old and decrepit before I shuffle off.

 

[Dave P]

If I'm dead, I kind of doubt having a guitar on my viking funeral raft will do me much good.

 

[Jethro Rocker]

I will be cremated. I did think for years I would be buried with my first guitar my Goya L6-S copy...
Spose someone will get them. Never thought that far ahead.

As for the post title -

When you are a dead guitar player​

Your playing ability drops off dramatically...

 

[ScumbackSpeakers]

I was going to be buried with my 68 Les Paul Custom. But since I'm doing the Viking funeral, my wife will have a helluva vintage sale to fund the wake. Just redid my Heritage Insurance. Not sure when I acquired $140k worth of verified/appraised vintage gear, but I know my premium went up quite a bit as of Monday! And that doesn't count all the other cool stuff I have. I'd have to guess right around $250k total...or one 59 Burst. LOL

 

[charliechitlins]

There's something romantic and theatrical about being buried with a guitar, but something supremely wasteful about being buried with a good guitar.
Like smashing it onstage for show.
It might be cool to be planted with a Chibson, just for fun.

 

[Greywolf]

As that will be quite soon , I've left all of mine to my kids and grandsons

 

[J T]

How selfish that would be.
I would feel bad for the guitar. Never again being able to give joy to someone playing or people hearing it sing.

 

[AA00475Bassman]

I don't believe in this ceremonial BS - just as long as my wife's son-in-law, & grandson are not playing my gear I don't care !

 

[goldtop0]

Maybe I'll stipulate in my Will that I be buried with one my fave albums either Sgt Peppers , Gaucho or From The Cradle, who knows, or a fave piece of old sheet music, but not a guitar, the kids can do what they want with those............and the amps

 

[SpencerD]

I was going to be buried with my 68 Les Paul Custom. But since I'm doing the Viking funeral, my wife will have a helluva vintage sale to fund the wake. Just redid my Heritage Insurance. Not sure when I acquired $140k worth of verified/appraised vintage gear, but I know my premium went up quite a bit as of Monday! And that doesn't count all the other cool stuff I have. I'd have to guess right around $250k total...or one 59 Burst. LOL

Dude! That Custom is badass!

 

[LeonC]

Will you be buried with one of your guitars? Which one will it be? I think it would be my R9.

Hell no, I would want other people to be able to continue to enjoy them. They're all willed to friends.

 

[Bryansamui]

Will you be buried with one of your guitars? Which one will it be? I think it would be my R9.

Haha.. "The Hearse has no towbar"( you can't take anything with you)

edit:..the only thing we take with us is the 'good' that we have done for others

 

[Billy Porter]

I'm being cremated just to make sure lol

Guitars and kit going to my son and daughter who both play.

 

[ourmaninthenorth]

All I can hope for is the stuff finds itself in as willing hands as mine have been.

This stuff has carried me through a life, it'll live on way past mine, and hopefully breath more life into others.

 

[garywright]

“Plant me six foot deep,
with a Gibson at my feet “
Bill Shakespeare

 

[SpencerD]

Hell no, I would want other people to be able to continue to enjoy them. They're all willed to friends.

Mine too. For many years. They know it too.

No worries about my guitars after I'm dead! --- Those guys are monster players and can do whatever the fuck they wanna do with my stuff.

 

[Dave the Richard]

The Smithsonian has been bugging me for years for me allocate my guitars to them when I pass, so yeah.