A Heritage Moment for Me

[Bluzman54]

I happened to be out last night doing a little "bar hopping". I walked into a club where they had a live band.....as I walked in I looked at the guitarist to see what he was playing. To my surprise he was playing an H150. I leaned in and told him I was part of the "family"....he pointed behind him to his other guitars- 3 more Heritages.

 

This is the first time I have seen someone playing a Heritage in a band...and then to see 3 others as backup was very cool. Of course I live in "Wolfe Country" and I know he sells lots of Heritages, but to actually see one out performing in the hands of an extremely competent player was great.

 

Jim C

[smurph1]

Awesome!! Great story! and it's Friday too..Life is good...

[pegleg32]

Truly an ever widening band of afficienandos.

[Scooter]

Jim, that's cool. Funny, whenever I see a band live or on TV (or guitar mag articles, etc.) the first thing I find myself scanning for is to see if anyone's playing a Heritage. Rare. Actually, the only times I've caught people with a Heritage (outside Wolfe) they've been on youtube clips and a couple mag articles. It's like a bigfoot sighting, so it's exciting when you see it. Live would be best, though.

[Doug]

"I leaned in and told him I was part of the "family"

 

Good thing he didn't mistake you for a goombah wanting payment for protection.

[chico]

Great story, next time grab a shot w/your phone camera of the lineup...

[Gitfiddler]

Interesting and in a very good way!

 

Here in Northern Calif., I am seeing more and more Heritages being played out by REAL musicians these days also.

 

Just last week my brother (an LA producer and full time musician) sent me a photo of him playing keyboards with a new band. Sure enough, the guitar player was slingin' a 535!!

 

The word of Heritage's value and quality is getting out among players, as well as collector nut cases like us.

[Doug]

I rarely see them being played out at clubs even here in Kalamazoo.

 

Probably because they are too valued to bring out into the smokey bars.

[ronalr]

That is a neat story...don't see many around the Baltimore area either....the only Heritage dealer that I know of near here happens to be the store I deal with locally (the owner turned me on to Heritage and sold me my 535) ...I am surprised how many guitar players don't know a thing about Heritage....whenever I let a friend play mine they are really impressed by how nice they are...