Comments on: Out-of-Print-Book-Report: “The Guitars Friend” 1977 https://www.preservationsound.com/out-of-print-book-report-the-guitars-friend-1977/ information and ideas about audio history Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:06:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Laury Ostrow https://www.preservationsound.com/out-of-print-book-report-the-guitars-friend-1977/#comment-662366 Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:06:23 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=3001#comment-662366 In reply to Mark.

Mark, thanks for the comments. CHeck out my current work. Be well. Laury

]]> By: Laury Ostrow https://www.preservationsound.com/out-of-print-book-report-the-guitars-friend-1977/#comment-662365 Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:57:58 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=3001#comment-662365 In reply to Dorian MacDougall.

Dorian, thanks so for the kind words

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Mark, Thanks for remembering.

]]> By: Laury Ostrow https://www.preservationsound.com/out-of-print-book-report-the-guitars-friend-1977/#comment-662363 Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:55:25 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=3001#comment-662363 In reply to Dorian MacDougall.

This is Laury. What a wonderful piece to read. Really means a lot to me.

]]> By: Mark https://www.preservationsound.com/out-of-print-book-report-the-guitars-friend-1977/#comment-662357 Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:17:54 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=3001#comment-662357 I bought a D-18 from Guitar’s Friend around 1976 and received their catalog for probably a couple years. I still have the Martin and it’s in perfect shape. I think I paid around $600

]]> By: Dorian MacDougall https://www.preservationsound.com/out-of-print-book-report-the-guitars-friend-1977/#comment-661172 Sun, 21 Dec 2025 15:17:15 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=3001#comment-661172 On the night of February 9, 1964, (you all know the moment) a quartet of musical sorcerers, magically transformed me into an inveterate guitar geek, and the spell has yet to wear off. So ten years on, and several guitars later, when I discovered this book in the Grossmont College bookstore, in San Diego, California, I felt compelled to take it home with me, and that is where it remains to this day. What might have been considered no more than an info-manual and buying guide for young guitarists, has since become a beautifully illustrated antiquity which offers a peak into the heart of a subculture that has long since slipped away. Though I have never met any of the people depicted in this book, I knew them, and I believe most of my contemporaries could say the same. What a wonderful time to be young. I don’t know what the kids of today will say about the world they will too soon leave behind, but I hope they will wish to place as high a value on their early days as I do on mine. And glancing over the pages of this books brings, at least a very “groovy” segment of that world, into sharp, rose-colored focus.

]]> By: Michael Guthrie https://www.preservationsound.com/out-of-print-book-report-the-guitars-friend-1977/#comment-640182 Fri, 31 May 2024 01:15:17 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=3001#comment-640182 In reply to James Bryant.

Yes Lawerence! I bought a nice 000-28 from him in Sandpoint! Still have it.

]]> By: laury ostrow https://www.preservationsound.com/out-of-print-book-report-the-guitars-friend-1977/#comment-254880 Sun, 10 Aug 2014 03:49:24 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=3001#comment-254880 you can find me at ljosew.com

]]> By: laury ostrow https://www.preservationsound.com/out-of-print-book-report-the-guitars-friend-1977/#comment-254879 Sun, 10 Aug 2014 03:47:58 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=3001#comment-254879 Guitars Friend was my creation. After that Chi Pants and Dancing Helix. You can find me at the web site above. It means a lot to me, to see how our creative effort during a very special time and place has meaning for others.

]]> By: Pat Ryan https://www.preservationsound.com/out-of-print-book-report-the-guitars-friend-1977/#comment-254667 Tue, 29 Jul 2014 23:18:57 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=3001#comment-254667 Leib and Laury (I think it was Laury) played at my sister Sheila Ryan’s wedding in Hortonville, Indiana (north of Indianapolis) back in 1975. I think Leib and Laury were traveling across the country that summer. Sheila did the artwork for at least one of the Guitar’s Friend catalogs. Peter, her husband, made guitars and dulcimers. I always thought they set up shop in San Francisco around Haight and Ashbury.

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