The insurance company paid and I had a second Valley Arts guitar built Ser. It killed me, but I was fortunate in that I had it insured. Long story short: somebody broke into my car and stole the guitar. I had it for several months, when I visited my friend in Hollywood and forgot that I had the guitar in the car. It was gorgeous I hardly dared to touch it. I was a Musician’s Institute student at that time and I remember eating at a free happy hour buffet for dinner 4 times a week on Sunset Blvd, saving my food money to make payments on the guitar. I was planning to buy a Gibson 335, but when I saw the guitars he was building I had to get one. Before the company sold to Smack and later was bought by Gibson he made only a few thousand of these. His own brand Valley Arts was a made to order special custom guitar built to the highest standards. He had worked at the Gibson Custom shop building Custom guitars for many of the greats. all of them had guitars made by this guy Mike McQuire who was considered to be one of the best Luthiers around. All the LA session musicians would hang out there, Steve Lukather, Abe Laboriel, Larry Carlton, Paul Jackson J.r and so forth. I came to LA in the mid 80 and at that time Valley Arts was the premier music store in town. I want to tell the story of my two Valley Arts guitars.
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