RE: (TV) Verlaine guitar / "The Red Violin"

["Casey, Leo J" <CaseyL@VOLPE.DOT.GOV>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark G. Ryan 
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 3:08 PM
To: tv@obbard.com
Subject: Re: (TV) Verlaine guitar

>So, want to own Tom Verlaine's old guitar?  
>Go to the music store, find and
>puchase a white 1963 Fender Jaguar, swtich out 
>any hardware that doesn't
>look like the one in the picture, and voila! 
>there you have it.  All you gotta do is type a 
>letter and copy Verlaine's signature (it's 
>not like it's George Washington's or something

>--who's gunna know the difference?

Answer : Some Madmen (e.g., see below) :>)

4) Now let's get real obsessive: 
a) In concert and in the studio in 1980s
Verlaine most often plays what two guitars 
(year/make/model)? 

b) What are the colors and wood type(s) of 
the body of each guitar? 

c) Name the color(s) of the pickguard on 
each of the guitars? 

ANSWERS: 
a) a mid-1960s' Fender Jazzmaster or a Fender 
Jaguar;

b) the body of the Jazzmaster is made of wood 
from an alder tree (not ash).  Original wood was 
most likely stained white-ish yellow, and after 
drying, translucent red and dark black-ish brown 
colors were sunbursted (sprayed) on the edge of 
the body.  The body of the Jaguar, also of alder, 
is most likely Olympic-white (or cream/white).  

c) tortoise-shell on both, although it seems probable
that someone (Verlaine?) replaced the original 
metal/chrome colored pickguard on the Jazzmaster 
with a tortoise-shell pickguard.  According to 
Fender experts, only the Jazzmaster and the Jaguar 
can be taken apart with out unsoldering them.  

Ever seen the movie "The Red Violin"?

	Leo    
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