# Oh no - Guitars Lost in Nashville Flood
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-guitars-lost-in-nashville-flood/538523
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [May 6, 2010, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-guitars-lost-in-nashville-flood/538523 "2010-05-06T16:20:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2010, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-guitars-lost-in-nashville-flood/538523/41 "2010-05-10T11:10:05Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#):
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> Couldn’t agree more.
You know, I do too - I mean, I couldn’t geek out about them so much if I didn’t find them special. But my cult of the guitar always leads back to what they do and how they are used. I love Dimebag Darrell’s cheesy lightning bolt guitar - not because it epitomizes pointy shredder-osity but because he played the crap out of it and it was beat in all kinds of wondeful ways (can’t find a photo since Dean has several Dimebag models now, so photos of those are all I turn up).
But I love jazz archtops in their elegant way. A [D’Angelico New Yorker](http://72.5.117.144/fif=fpx/sc1/SC121.fpx&obj=iip,1.0&wid=400&cvt=jpeg)has every right to be in the MoMA Design exhibit as a statement of Bauhaus form following function, beautifully.
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### Author:  [@cgg419](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cgg419)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2010, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-guitars-lost-in-nashville-flood/538523/42 "2010-05-10T15:09:20Z")
> [@WordMan](#):
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> I love Dimebag Darrell’s cheesy lightning bolt guitar - not because it epitomizes pointy shredder-osity but because he played the crap out of it and it was beat in all kinds of wondeful ways (can’t find a photo since Dean has several Dimebag models now, so photos of those are all I turn up).
You mean this one, right? 😃
[The Dean From Hell](http://www.fxmusic.pl/gfx/dean/Dime-Dean-From-Hell_Gitara.jpg)
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### Author:  [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2010, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-guitars-lost-in-nashville-flood/538523/43 "2010-05-10T16:10:06Z")
> [@cgg419](#):
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> You mean this one, right? 😃
> [The Dean From Hell](http://www.fxmusic.pl/gfx/dean/Dime-Dean-From-Hell_Gitara.jpg)
Oh yeah - that was ridden hard and put away wet on a regular basis; I love it.
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### Author:  [@diku](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diku)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2010, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-guitars-lost-in-nashville-flood/538523/44 "2010-05-11T12:48:42Z")
And the news gets worse…some totally irreplaceable historic guitars and instruments were destroyed during the flood of Soundcheck. The Musicians Hall of Fame had been storing their stuff there while looking for a new building.
[http://blogs.tennessean.com/tunein/2010/05/10/musicians-hall-of-fame-future-uncertain-instruments-damaged-in-flood/](http://blogs.tennessean.com/tunein/2010/05/10/musicians-hall-of-fame-future-uncertain-instruments-damaged-in-flood/)
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### Author:  [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2010, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-guitars-lost-in-nashville-flood/538523/45 "2010-05-11T13:48:06Z")
> [@diku](#):
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> And the news gets worse…some totally irreplaceable historic guitars and instruments were destroyed during the flood of Soundcheck. The Musicians Hall of Fame had been storing their stuff there while looking for a new building.
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> [The Tennessean: Nashville and Tennessee news, Titans sports](http://blogs.tennessean.com/tunein/2010/05/10/musicians-hall-of-fame-future-uncertain-instruments-damaged-in-flood/)
Crap.
> [@](#):
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> But in May, the rains came and Soundcheck flooded, and Chambers couldn’t gather his jewels until they had been underwater for days. And now Pete Townshend’s guitar from The Who’s Quadrophenia tour, Jimi Hendrix’s 1966 Fender, the drums Kenny Buttrey used on Neil Young’s “Heart of Gold,” the bass Lightning Chance used for Hank Williams’ final recording sessions and hundreds of other fine things are irrevocably altered, their futures uncertain.
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### Author:  [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2010, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-guitars-lost-in-nashville-flood/538523/46 "2010-05-12T20:13:47Z")
Here’s a thread on The Gear Page with a link to a video report featuring the guitars from the [Musicians Hall of Fame](http://www.thegearpage.net/board/showthread.php?t=718085)- the upright basses are just in pieces…
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