Thomas, the guitarist/singer of my then band, was aghast when he found his once silverburst Paula all green in the case after a year of adultry - serves him right! - with a Hamer Prototype Phantom (that Andy Summers guitar). I immediately liked the discoloration, but he said: "I'm not playing no green guitar!" (A blatant lie as the Hamer was.) He years later on sold it to the lead guitarist (Thomas preferred rhythm though he had a nice lead style), who loved the sound and elicited a much more creamy tone from it too. Thomas was and is (it took decades until he realized it) a Telecaster man, the Paula was too phat for his rhythm style and his solo style is too percussive for the Paula to ever sing right.
