Nice to watch your visit to the Philly guitarshow...as you mentioned kind a overwhelming...wouldn't know if an acoustic guitar will sound in that surrounding. At least you've tried. Thx again..greetings from the Netherlands
Next year, as it is in October every year, you should try to make it to Arlington, TX for their show. It's amazing and I used to go every year and have gotten many way cool guitars there. Worth the trip. Never been to the Philly show but it looked very good too.
They had the Asheville show this year. I went to it, it was pretty cool, kind low key didn't seem like as many people there but was still good. The one for next year in Asheville is already scheduled, I will be there for sure.
An event like this with those sort of acoustics, and the noise from other people, is not a great place to try out an acoustic guitar. It was pretty funny that the $40,000 D-28 was out on a table but some of the less expensive electric guitars were under glass at other booths. Great video on another guitar show I didn't hear about.
lol I was at that show... I remember 40% of the stuff was Les Pauls that looked exactly the same to me. Another 35% was stats and tele's that looked the same, but not as much the same. The coolest thing for me was the old amps. I almost bought this Princeton brown face, The label just said "dirty rat", I think about that amp all the time.
In 1980 I was 15 I was offered a Chet Atkins Gretchen for 400 on time payments it was in excellent condition and very old I was like no I don't want that old junk country guitar I want a Japan Lee Paul copy lol if I could go back in time