Thank you, LuvTim, for enabling my self-indulgence I didn't mention that I already have three guitars - two electric, one acoustic.
I love how a 12-string sounds though - so rich and chimey.
Aww, what a sweet soul you are. Just like a certain long-haired bassist from Sacramento.
Oh, I could never be as sweet as dear Randy. He and Tim could form a duet and call it the Sugar Bros.
Back on topic before someone gets testy! Here is a nifty, recent article on America from Taylor Guitars magazine: https://www.taylorguitars.com/wood-and-steel
(and there is Eagles content too!)
I have to admit I don't really know America very well apart from two songs - these being Ventura Highway and A Horse With No Name. I like both, although I think I like Horse better.
Although I can see why people consider them to be contemporaries, I personally think they have a lot more in common with CSN than with the Eagles - America have never had a full-time drummer, for instance, whereas the Eagles were always a complete band.
One thing that is quite interesting is that when A Horse With No Name came out a lot of people thought that it was by Neil Young, and there's still people today who think it's a Neil Young song. Listening to the lead vocal and the music - especially at that time when a back injury restricted Neil to playing acoustic guitar - I can totally see why. In fact, I believe it even managed to replace Neil's classic Heart Of Gold at the top of the Billboard chart in 1972.
Yes, Neil was very steamed about that.
Thanks for the link. More than 40 years ago, I talked my mother into buying Hat Trick. I still love Horse With No Name and enjoy many of the other songs.
I've mentioned the Holodigm website before in relation to the Eagles but it has even more on America including a videoed lecture by Gerry Beckley. Scroll down a few names on the side:
http://www.holodigmmusic.com/index-save.php?pg=guests
John Hartmann also has a good story about having to find a drummer for America at very short notice.
http://theholodigm.blogspot.co.uk/20...on-august.html