[Rick Lee]

I also got my 335 for $1000 around the same time I got the LP. I swear, there is no nicer 335 than mine. I STOLE it on eBay. Photos don't do it justice. It's a deep red with a gorgeous quilt. If I could only keep one, I'd keep the 335 and hawk the LP. 335's just have a magic about them. Would you believe Eddie Van Halen used to play them as his main axe, but then went to Strat-style bodies because the other guys in the band nagged him about it? IIRC, the original incarnation of his Frankenstrat had a 335 pickup in a Charvel Strat body. 335's are magic. No other way to describe them. They are so easy to play, that if it was your only guitar, you'd suck as soon as you picked up someone else's non-335. They are that smooth and they'll spoil you.