Unsuitable Guitars

mike_l

fretfinder;41535" said:

mike_l said:

Laura, my jackson has been to a couple of jams. It not everyday you hear/see Pink Floyd played on a jackson...


Are you saying that you've given your Jackson a name, and that name is Laura...?

correct.
All my guitars have names.
Apart from the ESP, they are named after girls who've helped me through life.
For reference
Ibanez-Charlene
Jackson-Laura
Charvel-Sammie
Strat-Sarah
all remind me of the person they're named after.
ESP- the beast, an ex-colleague commented "thats a beast of a guitar", and it stuck.

dogload

Briefly (for an afternoon!), in the mid-90s I had a Gibson Explorer II like this:

I was quite chuffed until I got home and sat on the settee with it. Then I strapped it on and stood in front of the mirror and realised it was not suitable. I took it straight back to the shop and swapped it for a gorgeous 80's Epiphone Casino. Much more me.

DrBob

Despite oozing "Pub Rock" out of every musical pore I spent a lot of years being convinced I was all about Dave Navarro & Vernon Reid which peaked with me gigging one of the green tartan Yamaha Blues Saraceno sigs when in truth I porbably should have had a Tele/SG..

daveyh

ICBM said:

Bucket said:

I once took my bright green Jackson Soloist to a blues jam.

Most excellent! I strongly believe in using inappropriate guitars. Sometimes you end up with something really unexpectedly brilliant.

I once saw a country player using a Charvel with a Floyd Rose - which looked a bit odd until you heard him do pedal steel impressions with it.

I recently watched a Johnny Cash gig on telly and the decidedly elderly stetson wearing guitarist sideman was playing something with a Floyd.

stonevibe

Great guitar. 

Not me in the slightest though.

Bought for a song, played for a few years and finally Ebay'd for a serious profit and bought Shugz's R7 with the money.

Lixarto

Evilmags said: Unsuitable or unsubtle. Never had you down as a Randy Rhodes fan.

I'm not particularly. Don't mind those Ozzy albums, but I couldn't tell you the last time I listened to them. His immediate replacement I am a big fan of.

Paul_C

I used one of these at an open mic night to wind up a friend - it worked!

stonevibe

stickyfiddle said:

I had one of the first runs of Gothic Gibson Explorers. Completely brilliant it was, despite bone-crushingly hot pickups.

EDIT: Found a pic. 

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c90/stickyfiddle/Exp1.jpg

I like that a lot. Looks stealth!

stickyfiddle

stonevibe said:

stickyfiddle said:

I had one of the first runs of Gothic Gibson Explorers. Completely brilliant it was, despite bone-crushingly hot pickups.

EDIT: Found a pic. 

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c90/stickyfiddle/Exp1.jpg

I like that a lot. Looks stealth!

It was awesome. I had gold hardware on it at one point too, which was great at the time, but probably a little ridiculous in real life (he says, understating things somewhat..)

limpymcginty

Charnel 750xl....too pointy...hamer chaparral ...slightly less pointy but still not me...I can pitch in two amps too 1990s Hughes and kettner covered in blue fuzz that sounded like bees and a boogie rectoverb ...lord knows why I sold a Marshall jubilee for this horror

mart

mike_l said:

Laura, my jackson has been to a couple of jams. It not everyday you hear/see Pink Floyd played on a jackson... 

Er, geeky trivia: Gilmour's black Strat had a Jackson neck for a brief time around the Wall era. So I guess quite a few people heard some Floyd stuff played on a Jackson (neck) then!

DLM

ICBM said:

Bucket said:

I once took my bright green Jackson Soloist to a blues jam.

Most excellent! I strongly believe in using inappropriate guitars. Sometimes you end up with something really unexpectedly brilliant.

I once saw a country player using a Charvel with a Floyd Rose - which looked a bit odd until you heard him do pedal steel impressions with it.

Michael Lee Firkins FTW!

paulk

Strats hate me. I've tried making friends with them but they just ignore me, call me a dumb string-whacker and always make me sound like a donkey fucking a goat.

DLM

Lixarto said:

Evilmags said: Unsuitable or unsubtle. Never had you down as a Randy Rhodes fan.

I'm not particularly. Don't mind those Ozzy albums, but I couldn't tell you the last time I listened to them. His immediate replacement I am a big fan of.

I'm going for Bernie Tormé as the answer to this particular conundrum...

fretmeister

Paul_C said:

I used one of these at an open mic night to wind up a friend - it worked!

And I've been known to take that to My daughter's orchestra group to annoy her!

mike_l

mart;41993" said:

mike_l said:Laura, my jackson has been to a couple of jams. It not everyday you hear/see Pink Floyd played on a jackson... 





Er, geeky trivia: Gilmour's black Strat had a Jackson neck for a brief time around the Wall era. So I guess quite a few people heard some Floyd stuff played on a Jackson (neck) then!

wasnt it a Charvel neck? I'm sure it was Charvel. I'll check when i have the black strat book to hand.

mart

mike_l said:

wasnt it a Charvel neck? I'm sure it was Charvel. I'll check when i have the black strat book to hand.

Yes and no. There was a Jackson neck first, from '78 to '82, and then that was replaced by a Charvel neck. So we're both right.

(At least, that is according to the Gilmourish website. I'm too lazy to go upstairs and double-check with the Black Strat book. )

mike_l

i'll check the black strat book on sunday, when im home. I dont remember a jackson neck, but the charvel neck was made by grover jackson (iirc)

OilCityPickups

I'm actually looking for a demo guitar for my new 'V' pickup range ... high output alnico 8 and select ceramic models ... and I was sorta thinking a Warbeast ... but my Mrs recons I'd need the Orc costume to go with it

Lixarto

DLM said: I'm going for Bernie Tormé as the answer to this particular conundrum...

And you would be right