Which guitars would you grab in a fire

Fretwired

My rare 1959 Les Paul, but having failed I'd claim on insurance .. ;-)

zepp76

My Les Paul Standard, it took me the best part of thirty years before I had the chance (money) to buy one. I have no wife and kids to save so it's an easy choice!

thermionic

My Terry Morgan... irreplaceable.

skunkwerx

All of them. 
If I die in the process then atleast I died for something. 

Jimbro66

Kids flown the nest so in a fire I'd tuck the missus under one arm, leaving room for a guitar under the other. Difficult decision but my Schecter Tele bought in '82 was a huge step up from the previous crap '72 Fender Tele and has served magnificently over the years. It would have to be that.

equalsql

The 1978 Precision fretless bass that I saved so hard as a teenager to buy back then, and the Luther Dickenson 335 that I purchased from @Majorscale with the probate money I got after my Father died. To me they're priceless.

Philly_Q

I haven't got any family or pets to rescue, so most likely my Ancho Poblano Strat.  Although there are probably one or two books with more sentimental value, if I could remember where they were.

My place would burn and burn once it got going.  All those old guitar mags.

Rabs

Lol...

Did anyone actually watch the video??   My thread title was just something they talk about at the beginning where Kirk and his wife actually had warning the fire was coming and told to evacuate so they had time to grab some stuff... And some of the actual point of the video and why I posted it is  they are talking about the Greenie/Moore burst.

So firstly he did actually have time.. Secondly, common...  Its a theoretical question and another way of saying which are your favourite guitars... I don't think anyone, even on a forum like this would suggest that a guitar is more important than someones life..

Sheesh...

Thirdly..  Would you all really still say that if you owned the Greenie burst..??

Philly_Q

Rabs said:

Did anyone actually watch the video??   

I couldn't be arsed.  But I've watched some of it now.  Gosh, he's quite camp.

zepp76

Rabs said:

Lol...

Did anyone actually watch the video??   My thread title was just something they talk about at the beginning where Kirk and his wife actually had warning the fire was coming and told to evacuate so they had time to grab some stuff... And some of the actual point of the video and why I posted it is  they are talking about the Greenie/Moore burst.

So firstly he did actually have time.. Secondly, common...  Its a theoretical question and another way of saying which are your favourite guitars... I don't think anyone, even on a forum like this would suggest that a guitar is more important than someones life..

Sheesh...

Thirdly..  Would you all really still say that if you owned the Greenie burst..??

I'm a huge Greeny fan and would die happy if I had that guitar in my hands! I don't know why but I feel a bit sad that Kirk Hammett owns it.

Rabs

zepp76 said:

Rabs said:

Lol...

Did anyone actually watch the video??   My thread title was just something they talk about at the beginning where Kirk and his wife actually had warning the fire was coming and told to evacuate so they had time to grab some stuff... And some of the actual point of the video and why I posted it is  they are talking about the Greenie/Moore burst.

So firstly he did actually have time.. Secondly, common...  Its a theoretical question and another way of saying which are your favourite guitars... I don't think anyone, even on a forum like this would suggest that a guitar is more important than someones life..

Sheesh...

Thirdly..  Would you all really still say that if you owned the Greenie burst..??

I'm a huge Greeny fan and would die happy if I had that guitar in my hands! I don't know why but I feel a bit sad that Kirk Hammett owns it.

Yeah I kind of had the same feeling when I found out he had bought it..  BUT even though I don't really like their music much any more (well apart from the first four albums) I think hes earned the right too if you see what I mean..  Id rather it be in the hands of a well known working musician than someone like, say ohh  Henry Juszkiewicz

Garthy

Rabs said:

zepp76 said:

Rabs said:

Lol...

Did anyone actually watch the video??   My thread title was just something they talk about at the beginning where Kirk and his wife actually had warning the fire was coming and told to evacuate so they had time to grab some stuff... And some of the actual point of the video and why I posted it is  they are talking about the Greenie/Moore burst.

So firstly he did actually have time.. Secondly, common...  Its a theoretical question and another way of saying which are your favourite guitars... I don't think anyone, even on a forum like this would suggest that a guitar is more important than someones life..

Sheesh...

Thirdly..  Would you all really still say that if you owned the Greenie burst..??

I'm a huge Greeny fan and would die happy if I had that guitar in my hands! I don't know why but I feel a bit sad that Kirk Hammett owns it.

Yeah I kind of had the same feeling when I found out he had bought it..  BUT even though I don't really like their music much any more (well apart from the first four albums) I think hes earned the right too if you see what I mean..  Id rather it be in the hands of a well known working musician than someone like, say ohh  Henry Juszkiewicz

Yet Kirk actually took the thing on tour with him and recorded an album with it too. I don't see how you could be any more 'working musician' than that.

Personally I'd rather own some of Kirk's ESP Mirage/KH guitars, the 59 does nothing for me.

My Fire Guitar is my Jackson Dinky, I don't have to worry about the dog as I can't catch him for his bath so I think he will easily beat me out of the house if he's suitably motivated. 

BloodEagle

Surely people would rather a guitarist owned, played and loved it (which he obviously does) than an investor/collector? To me it just looks like a fairly run of the mill Les Paul 

To answer the original question I would grab my Travis Bean 500 in one hand and my EGC Flying V in the other - I would then proceed to (slowly) make good my escape from the raging inferno

Phil_aka_Pip

I'd ensure the cat was safe first. If I could rescue "stuff" I'd start with the most difficult to replace which might be the Washburn SBF-80 as I think they are rare (in this country, at least), and the 45W mid 60s Plexis.

Kalimna

For sure my LP Custom '89. Apart from the fact it is still my favourite guitar to play, it has huge sentimental value to me and in that respect worth more than a pair of real '59s.
There's also the two guitars I built for my boys - the rest is replaceable.

Adam

DaevidJ

My 08 PRS Mira... Would claim the others on insurance... Would also grab the cat too and suffer the scratches despite the cat being 17 years old un-house trained and hates being held... 

stickyfiddle

Theoretically, my CS336, without a second thought. 

In reality, there is no way I'm carrying 2 cats AND a guitar down 42 flights of stairs... 

Ravenous

Rabs said:

Lol...

Did anyone actually watch the video??

No, generally I don't bother to watch people's videos without an idea of content and I'm probably not the only one.  I just answer the question in the thread title.

My answer is: no guitar, just spare clothes and credit card. I can get some timber later and cobble together replacements for most of my cheaper stuff. (My Ibanez RT650 is the favourite you really meant, but I wouldn't risk finger skin to rescue it.)

darthed1981

If I had a fire and got the wife, kids, safely out, called firefighters and still felt safe to go back in and get guitars, I probably should have put the bugger out by peeing on it.