Re: (TV) CUSTOM-MADE TOM VERLAINE-TRIBUTE "TELEVISION" F*NDER JAZZMASTER

[William Ancell <ancellwilliam@gmail.com>]

WHY IN GOD'S NAME WOULD THE VIBRATO BE DISABLED?


On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 10:50 PM, Joe Hartley <jh@brainiac.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Jun 2014 22:21:39 +0100
> Keith Allison <keith@thewonder.co.uk> wrote:
> > Having seen this photo, I set out to re-create Verlaine's iconic guitar;
> > the fruits of which you see here.
> >
> > AWESOME! Sounds like LITTLE JOHNNY JEWEL!!!
>
> AAAUUUGGGHHHH!!!!   the horror.... the horror....
>
> See, the thing is about guitars like Tom's (or Willie Nelson's for that
> matter),
> the guitar's about 10% of it.  Tom can make a piece of crap guitar sound
> like
> gold; just having the same pickups isn't going to do it.
>
> I've heard that if you can get close enough to Willie to ask to try his
> guitar, he'll let you just so he can laugh at how bad it sounds played by
> anybody but him.
>
> This thing... with its mistakenly routed body, badly fitting neck. no
> shielding (you KNOW it hums like a mofo) - it's got to sound FANTASTIC.
> No, wait - what's the opposite of fantastic?  That's what it must sound
> like.
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