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telecaster

― Barnaby (Barnaby), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 11:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Fender Jaguar

(pre-CBS, duh!)

(and tremolo arm doctored by Kevin Shields, perferably)

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 11:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Warr

― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 11:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Either my current guitar, a Yamaha AES500:

http://64.95.118.51/images/opti/5d/8f/instElectric_GuitarsAES500-resized200.gif

or this, a Yamaha AES820, but in blue probably:

http://www.giles.com/yamaha1/pr/mus/guitar/images/aes820_0302.jpg

Though the photos do neither justice. And mine hasn't got pick up covers anymore since i did a quick and cheap repair after the bridge pick up became microphonic.

― mei (mei), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 11:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Duh duh, Danelectro...

http://www.underexposed.org.uk/lollies/lol2.jpg

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 11:27 (twenty-two years ago)

If you have a guitar that has a brand name on it, you're a sell-out.

― NA. (Nick A.), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 11:33 (twenty-two years ago)

anything so long as it's ME playing it

― dave q, Wednesday, 11 June 2003 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Brian Jonestown Massacre or Fait Au Canadia are brand names?

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 11:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and if this is actually meant as to only list guitars you actually only (i only drool over the idea of having a Warr or a chapman stick, let alone the knowhow to play them)
Euh, this cheap Admira Poloma classical guitar. It might be cheap and crappy, but it's still the greatest thing to ever touch the carpet in this room.

― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 11:41 (twenty-two years ago)

1968 Gibson SG Custom with straight-arm whammy and the big ol' chrome bridge plate, hot-rodded by Bill Lawrence himself when he ran a tiny shop on Sunset as a street lab in the early 1980s (he added some weirdo prototype single/double coil pickup in the treble position, but left the original humbucker in the rear slot).

1998 Tacoma Chief cutaway acoustic with paisley sound hole, active electronics and balsa finish that I'm slowly shredding into sawdust for a Willie Nelson effect.

19XX short-scale Korean bass, white

― Chris Clark (Chris Clark), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 12:06 (twenty-two years ago)

telecaster, man

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 12:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Really, who cares as long as it works? As long as the pickups are grounded right and the frets are in the right places and the jacks and knobs don't crackle, I could give a shit. I avoid the Les Paul and the Strat because they are boring. Rickenbackers look awesome but they feel weird to me when I've played them. Telecasters and the various weird 60's Fenders (Jazzmaster, Mustang, Musicmaster) are cool, though are becoming overubiquitous in indierock circles. SGs are awesome for rock. My favorites are semihollowbodies, because they sound all bassy and loud, they look classy, but you can rock on them. Hollowbodies are funny, they make you look rockabilly. 80's metal guitars are lame, anything with a Floyd Rose is lame by default. Flying V's are awesome except you can't play them sitting down unless you prop them up at a weird angle. If you have any questions about my opinions about any other guitar, just ask.

― NA. (Nick A.), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 12:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Really, who cares as long as it works? As long as the pickups are grounded right and the frets are in the right places and the jacks and knobs don't crackle, I could give a shit.

this is totally right. i love my little knockoff, it was cheap and sounds fine. though i do confess to occasionally ogling the Big Brands in shop windows.

― di smith (lucylurex), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)

GUITORGAN!
http://www.oddmusic.com/gallery/guitorgan.jpg

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 12:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Honestly, it depends on what I'm going for. For most of my rocking-out purposes, I like lightweight solidbodies with single-coils (or even more preferably those Dano pickups), but I also use big fatty boombalatty hollowbodies a lot for smoother clean stuff and melodic lines and also for feedbacky noisy stuff. And don't even get me started on acoustic geetars...

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 12:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Martin

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 13:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Duesenberg Starplayer TV. An amazingly gorgeous, good-sounding, good-playing and (relatively) affordable guitar:

http://www.duesenberg.de/duesenberg/image/dgt.jpg

Were I to Pick Only One BASS guitar, it would be my David King five-string.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

http://freespace.virgin.net/john.blackman4/images/JJH4.jpg

― Ferg (Ferg), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 17:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh no. Sorry.

― Ferg (Ferg), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

http://ebay3.ipixmedia.com/abc/M28/_EBAY_a9a6e6622ad9d3cbf55e82516fa0a9a2/i-1.JPG

― ss, Wednesday, 11 June 2003 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

i need my guitars to sound bright and jangly. hence my tele and rickenbacker. wouldn't mind a Vox either. I despise Strats with every cell of my being.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 22:13 (twenty-two years ago)

kate,

ks prefers fender japan 80s reissues. i told this story elsewhere but i remember seeing a '62 of his (autographed) at a record store in santa monica in the early 90s (92-93) selling for the (what i thought was then) ungodly amount of $1,000... i remember saying to my friend: "for a jaguar...?" within a few months they went from being $200 junk shop guitars into the current market frenzy that has yet to deflate.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 22:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Gibson ES-135

or if I could have the guitar of my dreams it would be the 1967 ES-355 that was at the guitar shop where I took lessons for $400. The best guitar I have ever played, and the only guitar that I still pine for 12 years later.

The real kicker is that I talked my mom into buying it for me (I was 13 at the time) after it had sat there for four months. I saw it at the shop on a Thursday, she finally gave in on a Friday night, and by the time my lesson came around on Saturday they had sold it. That was 12 years ago and I am still bitching about that damn guitar.

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Thursday, 12 June 2003 01:59 (twenty-two years ago)

The only thing you need to do to get KS whammy sounds is strum the guitar with the whammy bar in your hand and make sure that it is not screwed all the way into the bridge.

I have a guitar player magazine that has a long article with kevin sheilds discussing his guitar technique and the tricks he used in the studio to make loveless. Good stuff, I need to dig it out one of these days.

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Thursday, 12 June 2003 02:04 (twenty-two years ago)

(an aside - as lovely as that album is, i'd never personally choose to emulate it. it's very tinny sounding to my ears these days. does anyone else agree?)

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 12 June 2003 02:06 (twenty-two years ago)

KS's tremolo + tuning + reverse reverb = The Sound of MBV, simplified.

― Cub, Thursday, 12 June 2003 03:28 (twenty-two years ago)

+ 2 amplifiers to play same signal slightly (ie, .25-.50 s) out of phase

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 12 June 2003 05:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember that guitar magazine. It was Guitar Player or something? They did a whole series of shoegazer bands in the early 90s, cause I remember a huge interview with Ride. (That is where I stole the notion of running stereo outputs, one into a Marshall and one into a Vox, one clean and one with effects. It *does* sound HUGE!)

I seem to recall that KS wrapped his tremolo arms in electrical tape so they did not quite fit. My bassist was a jeweler, so she took all our tremolo arms and bent them so we could hold them comfortably while playing. I wanted her to solder a pinkie ring onto the end of mine, but we never quite got that far.

I miss my floating tremolo... I really should get that guitar back from my mum's house. :-(

― kate (kate), Thursday, 12 June 2003 07:51 (twenty-two years ago)

and silly me thought that that ILM had finally seen the light and recognized the greatness of this guy and this record:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000009TH.01.LZZZZZZZ.gif

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 12 June 2003 07:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, it's pretty good.

And his other album like that too.

― mei (mei), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:40 (twenty-two years ago)

five months pass...

telecaster!

― raphael diligent (Cozen), Monday, 8 December 2003 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

MUSTANG

http://home.catv.ne.jp/kk/mrmaxima/gphotos/70sfmustangblack.jpg

― Aja (aja), Monday, 8 December 2003 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Right now, I am partial to my Epiphone Thunderbird bass as my 78 Precision bass needs a new bridge as it is corroded from my sweat.

My P-Bass looks exactly like the one that Clint Conley plays in those old pictures of Mission of Burma.

― earlnash, Monday, 8 December 2003 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I love your bass dude! I also really liked the one song you sang, it k-reminded me of Motorhead. I forgot to tell you the other night; I was distracted by my child.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 8 December 2003 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

What I want right now more than anything in the world:
http://www.rickenbacker.com/images/4003.jpg

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 8 December 2003 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

my holy grail is a 1960s lefthanded gibson j-160e acoustic/electric. i'd post a picture if i actually had photographic proof that such a thing ever existed.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 8 December 2003 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I had a black Epiphone Les Paul that I really liked, even though I couldn't play for shit. I had to sell it to pay bills, along with my little Marshall tube amp.

Now I drool over:

http://www.rickenbacker.com/images/330x.jpg
and
http://www.fender.com/new_repository/fender_guitars/images/0137402_md.jpg

and something to practice on, one of those little earplug jobs.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 8 December 2003 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Those hollowbody telecasters are possibly the most tone versatile guitars I've ever laid fingers on. PRICE TAG I HATE YOU!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 8 December 2003 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

When I had money and was looking, they were relatively cheap (compared to the Gibsons and Rickenbackers) - $600ish.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 8 December 2003 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

ES-335 through a Fender Twin.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 8 December 2003 22:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Nick,

They have a wicked Ric 4003 at Wilcutt that is painted "Montezuma Brown", which has to be one of the most wicked name for a color I have seen.

They have jpgs of it at the Wilcutt site.

Those TBird basses are pretty reasonable price wise, since they are assembled in Korea. I've been looking for one since last spring and no one ever had them in stock, until a couple of weeks ago. I think it is pretty sweet. It is weird in a way, much lighter than you would think and is a bit neck heavy since it has a 35" neck. I'm getting used to it.

That show had pretty good turn out. I stopped off and saw Johnny and PBM in Richmond on my way home.

― earlnash, Tuesday, 9 December 2003 02:45 (twenty-one years ago)

My current guitar is a Jazzmaster, but I really want to imitate miloauckerman and have either a 72 Telecaster (Custom or Thinline, don't care) or any Rickenbacker ever.

― Nick Mirov (nick), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 06:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Really, who cares as long as it works?
It seems that you do.And on my part, Teles til the day I die.

― Speedy Gonzalas (Speedy Gonzalas), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 08:48 (twenty-one years ago)

-- nickalicious GET THE FUCK OUT! Do you have one of those? The Guitorgan is the shit. I saw the inventor at the 1979 Namm show and I've been raving about that thing ever since. Also met either Kevin Godley or Lol Creme that year (the one with the staight hair) and I bought a Gizmatron for a bass. Died years ago.

― Speedy Gonzalas (Speedy Gonzalas), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 08:54 (twenty-one years ago)

No I ain't got one, but I played one once, ONCE!, and it was like a religious experience. The dude had it rigged up through an ancient-as-fuck hammond leslie cabinet he ghetto-rigged up to this badical old tube amp. I just played this big ol' E7 chord and almost made trouser salad.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

My '57 Strat Reissue!!! PHWOAR!! Awesome guitars!!!

― Adrian, Saturday, 3 April 2004 08:58 (twenty-one years ago)

White Gibson Flying V(James hetfield Style)
Black ESP Ex-400
Take A Look at them, My Absoleete Dream Guitars

― Julz, Wednesday, 14 April 2004 11:32 (twenty-one years ago)

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