Re: Iboater profiling?
Yup, its a Maton. I don't know the guitar, but if Tommy Emmanuel plays them, they must be pretty good. I guess I kind of think of them as the Martin of Australia.
The avatar photo is from a promotional effort for another Australian artist, who's name I forget at the moment. I saw the pic on the internet and liked it, so here it is!
Of the guitars that I have owned, my favorite was a Washburn D50S. I very foolishly sold it about 12 years ago, and have regretted doing so ever since. The guitar always surprised me, because the Washburn guitars produced after the original company was sold, never impressed me much. I heard several stories about the specific guitar that I had, including one that said it was a prototype for the model, which was later produced in Japan. Right after I bought it, I took the guitar to Mandolin Brothers, in Staten Island, New York, for setup. Even those guys were pretty impressed. So, whoever it is in New Orleans or elsewhere who has my guitar, I want it back!
As for the self impressed guitar player thing - naw, that was never my style. I always did it for fun and all of that stuff would have just made it boring. The band was good enough to play in a few "dives," make a few radio show appearances, and one local TV show appearance, and that was about it. We weren't going to have MTV chasing us around and we weren't about to quit our day jobs. Besides, I ended up spending plenty of time around self impressed jerks while in the production world, later on.
