Trippin Hillbilly wrote:Oahu wrote:HendrixWS wrote:Hey dave still plays the Martin. What about CSNY. They all swear by Martin. What about Petty and Mayer and Clapton, they all swear by Martin as their Acoustics. I'm sure theres many more, I'm forgetting
Yeah, I'm sure Martin could build me a guitar I'd like too, but it's their standard line I am attacking. Dave plays a 714, 914, and a W65 from Taylor, all without his name, and one special guitar named after him.
BTW: Besides Dave and Mayer, every act you named was playing before Taylor guitars existed. It's sad a thirty year old company can take major market-share from a company that's been around since 1833.
Umm Dave played a hd-28 before they made his DM3MD, which is part of their standard line. If that's the argument you're going for.
Anyway, that doesn't matter. All I know is that when i've played a 914ce......it sounds, feels and plays like my Yamaha apx9c.
Which doesn't say much for taylor since it's probably a 5th of the price of the 914.
I think that the only two reasons dave plays taylors with the band are that
1. the thinner bodies of the 14's are more comfortable then the dreads when you're standing for 2.5 hour sets every other day
2. they're brighter so they cut through the rest of the band
That Jumbo Taylor he plays DOES NOT have a thinner body. If that's the argument you're going for. And yes the Taylor sound is brighter, something Martin never figured out how to do. You'd think with the fact that they're older than shit they would know how to put different sounding guitars together, and they don't.
Any first time luthier with a Stew Mac Kit can teach you how to make the Martin sound: Deep Box with tight braces on the soundboard and lighter braces on the B+S. Not a worthy trick. Developing the balance of a Taylor is far more difficult.
Why is it that every Martin I've played has had action two inches off the fretboard? Why has Martin never managed to come up with it's own acoustic pick-up? Why are Martin's sales lagging to the point that they have to build an arch-top. Why does Martin put laminant on higher end guitars? Why won't martin use the new great tonewoods like Cocobolo and the old great tonewoods, like German Spruce.
And why does the number one elite guitar manufacturer, Goodall, whose guitars are quite bright and Taylor-like, have no problem selling guitars, while Collings, who are a shop of the same size and reputation and put out Martin-Style guitars, have lackluster sales?
If you can't spot the quality in a 914, that's just your misguided and deluded opinion.
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