One of my favorites - H150 with P-90s

[mars_hall]

Bought this one from Dave who lives/lived near Detroit.  I want to say this was back around 2017, while Ta was in Thailand and unaware 😜  Brent did the handoff on my way up to O'Hare to pick the little girl up.  I like the uncluttered functionality of it.

Lollar's and TP-6

[davesultra]

Yeah, I remember including that one in a 3 guitar trade to Brent. He had a 56’ Junior that I just had to have. That was late in 2013. I remember meeting Brent half way to do the exchange on a freezing rain laden Saturday morning. It was shortly before Christmas. That one is the only Heritage that I regret letting go of. As for the Junior, I moved that in 2016. It was a great player after a refret. But ultimately I still sounded like me playing it. Sad thing is that I should have held on to it for about another five years and quadrupled my money. 😫 

I still think about that 150 a lot. Glad to see that it’s getting the love it deserves.

Edited Monday at 09:12 PM by davesultra

[mars_hall]

13 minutes ago, davesultra said:

That was late in 2013. I remember meeting Brent half way to do the exchange on a freezing rain laden Saturday morning. It was shortly before Christmas.  

Sounds right to me...  I definitely remember the driving in the freezing rain part, which started turning to snow later in the evening.  At least four hours to Michigan, then the run for Brent's  to O'Hare, so quite a long day of it for me.

I prefer the growl of P-90s to most pickups and then I was a big fan of Leslie West's tone, so every time I see a Heritage with P-90s, I kind of go into deep and needy mode.

[pressure]

I also love P-90s. This is my H170 from 2014. Spruce back, very flamey maple top, ebony fretboard with 5mm pearl dots, 5-piece neck and ThroBak P-90s.

It was Fab getting guitars built by Heritage. Good Times.

[brentrocks]

That junior!!!!!    Oh man.   I’d love to have that back.  

[DetroitBlues]

I do remember playing an old Jr at PSP on a Sunday morning in the Barn.... Through a Marshall half-stack too... sounded marvelous, although it was loud and Kuz started yelling at me... as if I could hear him though.... 😁

 

[davesultra]

23 hours ago, brentrocks said:

That junior!!!!!    Oh man.   I’d love to have that back.  

Yeah, me too as I could really cash in on it these days!! 😡

[mars_hall]

This was one of the finest little angry guitars I've ever owned.  It was a dark cherry 1960 Les Paul Junior, in the true 3/4 form and it had a growl.  It made your hands feel huge.  Bought in Indy for $160 after seeing it in a local ad paper, as I recall...

My home was burglarized on Christmas Eve one year while I was away, and the Junior was taken, along with my stereo and some tools.  The police called me into the station to make a report and eventually returned the Junior and the stereo in about a month, supposedly having recovered it from a taxi driver who had a side hussle as a fence.  The tools remained AWOL.

When it came to court, the accused got a pass.  Months later, he happened to be in a bar where our band was playing and started up a conversation with me.  Never got a straight/complete story out of him, but I suspect he was a snitch and it was implied that the whole thing had been a setup to see what, if anything, the band was up to. 

I had been seeing a girl for about a month at that time, a right fine looker, who the first time I'd seen her, just happened into another gig/bar we played.  We always drew a crowd and had a regular following.  She walked across the floor there in front of the stage, while we were up there hitting it, and proceded to pass out stone cold right there on the floor. 

Something inside told me I had to get to know this girl better, at least for that night anyway. 😜 She was pretty, an ex-cheerleader, yet quite vulnerable, and yes totally strung out.  She was also the daughter of a nearby air base commander, who had grown up with a wild crowd of teens on the streets, off base just outside of San Antonio.  Within about 3 days of that night, she would check herself into detox, and since she checked quite a few of the required boxes, I would go visit her in detox.  This presumably put me and the rest of the band on some kind of a special list to be watched by the locals.  Another time....  Loved that guitar!  Brings back a lot of memories...