|
Post by brewmaster on Apr 4, 2018 17:00:33 GMT
|
|
henryj
For A Number Of Things
Posts: 792
|
Post by henryj on Apr 4, 2018 17:30:56 GMT
Looks like it could be in interesting book for gearheads like me.
But I'm less interested in weird-looking guitars than those that my have unusual switches and controls.
Then there is the latest thing: The new John Mayer signature Paul Reed Smith guitar that is really a (Fender) Stratocaster, but with a PRS headstock. Three tuning keys on each side.
In the above link, Mayer explains why he went to PRS instead of staying with Fender.
|
|
|
Post by brewmaster on Apr 4, 2018 18:14:24 GMT
Nice vid. If you like guitars with interesting controls, how about these... [Teisco] [Guyatone Lafayette]
|
|
|
Post by pothos on Apr 4, 2018 22:06:27 GMT
Just been looking at the websites of some guitar companies and boy was I shocked at the prices. However they looked beautiful Gibson Les Pauls look stunning as does the Gretch.
|
|
|
Post by brewmaster on Apr 5, 2018 9:07:16 GMT
Pothos, big name guitars are expensive, but they always were. In The Beatles' Gear Andy Babuik gives the price of the various guitars, plus the modern equivalent. They were not cheap back in the Sixties, which is why so many were bought on credit. Burns Vibra Artist Eko 700
|
|
|
Post by brewmaster on Apr 5, 2018 20:37:02 GMT
Another guitar, from Vox, with lots of switches and knobes.... This instrument has an interesting shape... Kawai
|
|
|
Post by pothos on Apr 5, 2018 22:10:13 GMT
I have been trying to work out the sound of classic guitars to classic tracks.
Fender Telecaster - Led Zeppelin * Whole Lotta Love. Gretch - Stray Cat's * Stray Cat Strut. Common Everybody - Eddie Cochrane. Rickenbacker - The Beatles * I Feel Fine Gibson Les Paul - Sister Rossetta Tharpe Frank Zappa. Les Paul. Fender Stratacaster - Pink Floyd * Dark Side of the Moon. Hank Marvin.
|
|
|
Post by brewmaster on Apr 6, 2018 9:49:28 GMT
Pothos, I'm sure that when those records were made, you could somewhat identify different guitars. However, with modern studio technique and equipment it's possible for a guitar to sound like almost any model, and also to emulate any amp. Musicians go on tour with numerous guitars, for example Steve Stevens with a shedload of Les Pauls, because each has a different sound [due to custom pickups etc] Whether the audience can tell the difference is another matter. Here's a six-string version of the famous Hofner Violin Bass, which is fairly rare....
|
|
henryj
For A Number Of Things
Posts: 792
|
Post by henryj on Apr 6, 2018 11:34:39 GMT
Hey Brewmaster, that Vox you posted was the guitar organ. It was a guitar that supposed was able to make a lot of different tones, like organ stops. Lots of electronics inside.
|
|
|
Post by brewmaster on Apr 6, 2018 11:37:57 GMT
That's right H, it was the Vox Organ, not a success!
|
|
henryj
For A Number Of Things
Posts: 792
|
Post by henryj on Apr 6, 2018 12:02:47 GMT
Then there was the Futurama, such as the one George played before he got his Gretsch Duo-Jet. George's Futurama was a somewhat Strat-like (three single-coil pickups on a solid-body) guitar with individual on-off switches for each pickup. That means that you can get any pickup combination possible, which a Strat can not do unless it has been modified with an extra switch, push-button usually. The problem with three on-off switches is that two (on-off) to the third power (three pickups) equals 8, not the seven pickup combinations, which means one of the possibilities is total silence. When someone not familiar with the guitar gets to experimenting with it, and all three pickups are off, they begin to turn up all the volume knobs all the way up, then change a switch, and then amp's speaker blows. And perhaps eardrums are damaged. www.vintagehofner.co.uk/hofnerfs/futurama/fut.html
|
|
|
Post by ROCKY on Apr 6, 2018 13:06:39 GMT
|
|
|
Post by pothos on Apr 6, 2018 15:38:41 GMT
I can only imagine the sound that one made.
|
|
|
Post by brewmaster on Apr 6, 2018 17:21:43 GMT
Wow, that is a strange one.
|
|
|
Post by brewmaster on Apr 7, 2018 10:41:38 GMT
Another one... The Birdfish
|
|
|
Post by ROCKY on Apr 7, 2018 13:25:00 GMT
I can only imagine the sound that one made. John used it during the recording of the Double Fantasy lp. You'll notice this picture sleeve they are wearing the same clothes as in the pics of John with that guitar. So it was probably taken as they were going to the Record Plant that day, in front of the spot where John would later be assassinated.
|
|
|
Post by brewmaster on Apr 9, 2018 9:01:18 GMT
Ashbory bass Framus Super Yob
|
|
Glass Onion
I'll Be On My Way
Arriving somewhere, but not here
Posts: 376
|
Post by Glass Onion on Apr 9, 2018 9:15:04 GMT
We've all seen the Gibson Flying Vee used by Hendrix, Johnny Winter and Ray Davis of the Kinks. But what were Gibson thinking making this reverse Flying Vee.
|
|
Glass Onion
I'll Be On My Way
Arriving somewhere, but not here
Posts: 376
|
Post by Glass Onion on Apr 9, 2018 9:20:58 GMT
I suppose you could relieve yourself with this guitar.
|
|
|
Post by ROCKY on Apr 9, 2018 13:19:16 GMT
My oddest looking guitar is my Futura replica I made. There are only six known made by Gibson in 1957. An original in the collection of the late Kurt Linhof. and my replica I made.
|
|