Fuck a Headstock! Steinberger Space Age Guitar Swagg Appreciation Thread

man all these pics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=S9vV5TndLto

http://a2.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/92/1d129b31cdc4228ae3003eb6d2789c27/l.jpg

yeah there's just something unsettling about a guitar w/o a headstock. something that invokes freud's sense of the uncanny, you know?

the p much sum up Gong:

http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4024/4459927642_aec4006204.jpg

i ... kind of like the visual aesthetics of the tiny little square steinbergers? it's like here's the bare minimum of what you need to be an electric guitar.

In 1990 I got an el cheapo steinberger knock off through the mail for like $100. Sort of wish I still had it.

Michael Yonker's punk Steinberger (i think he just cut the sides off a guitar with a table saw....also he did it because of debilitating back problems which in fairness I'm sure Steinbergers are pretty light and easy to wear ppl w/back issues)

http://scs.viceland.com/int/v14n10/htdocs/extreme_magic/main_large.jpg

holy shit @ daevid allen stage garb

yeah there's just something unsettling about a guitar w/o a headstock. something that invokes freud's sense of the uncanny, you know?

― tylerw, Wednesday, August 1, 2012 12:57 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

more like freud's sense of the castrated, amirite?

In 1990 I got an el cheapo steinberger knock off through the mail for like $100. Sort of wish I still had it.

― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, August 1, 2012 1:03 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it would make a good visual prop for your chillwave band at least

It was def not a great instrument but it was def better than $100...

Yonkers also wears his guitar belted around his waist Albini-stlye which some how makes his hacked up guitar look even stranger, just floating in front of his body.

Back to Steinbergers...I'm not a great desgin brain but are these really well designed? I've always thought they looked like ugly pieces of shit.

this was one of the greatest things i ever witnessed btw
http://lh5.ggpht.com/Terrastock7/SGMEwfkQJ2I/AAAAAAAAASg/hY4OK95FND4/IMG_6734.JPG

http://gp1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/802892/production_public/Artist/1362993/image/small/1337093101_Band_With_Bryan_and_Logo.png

much like parker flys (which kinda deserve their whole own thread) these were actually pretty crazily tech spec forward looking instruments back in the day - the pretensioned double ball end string thing was actually kind of an amazing idea, and the transtrem, which let you physically transpose the guitar +/- 3 half steps iirc in like half a second was like next level engineering. plus graphite unwarpable necks etc etc. the g-series were the least horrible looking ones, but yeah, thats a pretty ugly guitar, and i say that as a dude that likes weird looking guitars.

the pretensioned double ball end string thing

these shits have their own strings??

I've never understood the tech aspect of it, that's good to know. Still, they look someone thought "The problem with guitars is they don't look enough like fanny packs"

i will admit some slight bias because we also sold a shit ton of these back in the day and they were $$$$$. i also have one dude on speed dial for any time one comes into the shop because he is a bonafide collector, i think he owns 40 or 50 of them by now, so m@tt if you are ever wondering why mpls/stpl has a steinberger drought, its because i sell them all to a weird dude in arkansas.

xpost hahaha

kinda think no headstock is better than a jackson headstock

jjj are there still el cheapo clones?

well gibson bought steinberger, so they do some but they are ultra shitty. Hohner had a clone for a long time (prob the one you had tbh) but i am not sure if they are still doing it.

I had a Hohner clone in the late 80s. It was terrible.

Cosey Fanni Tutti
http://agitreader.com/img/news/throbbinggristle.jpg

(plus your gran on bongos vocals)

Bowie
http://image.retrojunk.com/acc_2393d7a6a3.jpg

Tin Machine, Tin Machine, take me anywhere
somewhere without alcohol or
goons with funny hair
http://www.steinbergerworld.com/special/chromegl-1.jpg

(FAIL on both counts)

ha bowie looks so uncomfortable in his leather jacket playin his lil d chord

lol bowie

banging out a d chord on one of these seems wrong

xp haaaa

http://content.bandzoogle.com/users/daveiglarband/images/photos/gallery/582487.jpg?0

Bowie plays a Steinberger while rollerskating through a shopping mall. A bit NSFW.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-u10bLJ0PY

I kind of like the small square body Steinbergers - it's the ones that have a more regular guitar shaped body that look wrong.

I rocked one of these for a couple of years in the early 90s. It was really fun but getting replacement strings (silicone!) was a nightmare. Finally another player from the noise band I was in made me an offer for it and it was farewell, eraserhead-baby bass:

http://www.steamroller.com/ashbory/AIR.gif

reeves gabriel is in the steinberger hall of fame

Gilmour w/Kate Bush

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl9OKddQBRg

ashbory bass was awesome! the strings are back in production thx to fender reissuing it several years ago.

the transtrem, which let you physically transpose the guitar +/- 3 half steps iirc in like half a second

Could not for the life of me figure out how EVH got these crazy legato chord changes until I found out about that feature on this song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_a8jtWVTtU

Not headless, but WTF?
http://www.guitar-list.com/files/9stein-guitar-bass-brochure.jpg

http://www.stick.com/instruments/ns/donashtap.jpghttp://www.stick.com/instruments/ns/donashtap.jpghttp://www.stick.com/instruments/ns/donashtap.jpg

those selling points are hilarious

it's in fourths! come on everybody, fourths! didn't you always want to play... in fourths!

xp just coming hear to post that...

a collaboration between Emmett Chapman and Ned Steinberger

Ninestein
http://www.terrahawks.org/images/ninestein_large.jpg

just in case people are worried that the ugly "ergonomic" guitar trend is dead, i would like to introduce you to the currently in production Peavey Powerslide

http://www.peavey.com/assets/images/large/116896_10702.jpg

Not a Steinberger, or even a stringed instrument, but the Stick like Eigenharp...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Eegenqaap.jpg/220px-Eegenqaap.jpg

xp is the curve on the top for accommodating the beer guts of lap steel players?

i don't mind a nu-explorer shape, but that peavey has the ugliest fretboard i've ever seen

weirdly classical head and tuners too.

haha yes actually it is! xxpost

wait that's a lap guitar?

like a right triangle actually, which means that with the right planning i think you could get two out of a prethoughtout rectangle of wood without all that much waste maybe?

yeah you would definitely have to do something like that. that's how i did the neck on my OM to get it all one piece w/ the heel. still left w/ a big chunk of mahogany from the middle that i ended up fashioning into a sanding block of some sort iirc?

i wonder about the quality control, getting an instrument grade piece of wood that big!

i have instinctive suspicions of neck-thru designs

#shotsfired @ carvin !!?!

dude i don't know what the fuck anyway! i've played a mexican tele and a beat ass alvarez for 10 years.

March Guitars J-Walker
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/turquoisemoleeater/guitars/marchjwalker.png

i have instinctive suspicions of neck-thru designs

― goole, Thursday, August 2, 2012 3:12 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well there's this, anyway.

Although limited in scope, this study does suggest that correlation between sustain and neck joint type may not be of practical significance.

Lapstick
http://www.lapstick.com/img/lapstick_natural_chrome_rosewood.jpg

Traveller
http://www.mveducation.com/assets/products/44263_l.jpg

the way i play is not really heavy on 'sustain' type playing, and i'm more worried about long-term maintenance and intonation.

interesting study tho!!

xps

goole i was joking about carvin....but they made a big deal about neck thru body but i think they suck, some mail order company from the 80s

I own one of these basses. It sounds pretty good but is a pain to play.

http://www.eclecticbass.com/minima-sm.jpg

mine is a 4 string though

I don't really mind the Steinberger body shapes. It's the lack of a headstock, the ugly '80s black hardware and stupid floyd rose lookin bridge that make them so fugly IMO. But if you gave them a nice red finish with binding, all chrome hardware, and a bigsby they would look like something Bo Diddley might play.

Parker Flys on the other hand are the worst.

hahahaha a bigsby on a steinberger is the most amazing thought, i'm sure that would make steinberger's head explode in rage

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h316/weirdling_2006/berger.jpg

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h316/weirdling_2006/howe02.jpg

lolololol

hopefully a Chinese manufacturer will jump on this pronto.

Is Steve Howe the model for Peter Jackson's Gollum?

http://cdn.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/commodore64-bass-guitar-Jeri-Ellsworth-1.jpg

^^^ uses the sound chip from a Commodore 64

Also this Apple II...
http://www.apl2bits.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/guitarhero.jpg
(not a working guitar though, it was made for advertisement using parts from a pawn shop guitar)

ashbory bass was awesome!

I couldn't get on with it at all. I don't know if I've got unusually adhesive fingers or something, but I found I had to use ludicrous amounts of the lubricating powder in order to be able to slide easily along the strings. The powder inevitably went everywhere. The Ashbory is visually bizarre to begin with, so performing with what appears to be a coating of talcum all over your pants and the ground around you is really NAGL.

"Girls will climb over each other to kiss your feet."
If you're slinging an Ashbory, babies will climb over each other to ask for their diapers to be changed.

https://i.imgur.com/vO9zawh.jpg

https://schicksalgemeinschaft.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/keith-rowe-3.jpg

Johnny Winter

https://www.erlewineguitars.com/pgs/img/large/lazer/jw-concert2-big.jpg

Leslie West - this one probably would fit just as well on "I got my own album to do"

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71qzw9gppYL._SL1050_.jpg

Eddie Van Halen

https://www.vhnd.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/b4ee03d1264b25aeeaf2d11e71628284.jpg

He also used the one with the trans trem later on.