lol Fender

gross

Rickenbacker is a pretty big collector guitar these days. There are just boodles of old dudes who love the Beatles and have a half dozen of them sitting around.

They are really beautiful and nice guitars, but man that skinny fretboard is really hard and weird to play on.

Are the fretboards considered skinny? I have a 330, and it's hella broader (and the neck fatter) than the one on my SG.

The frets themselves are really skinny, though. Not great for playing leads, but it's a fun challenge.

Maybe the 330 is different, my 360 feels like playing a banjo. I also got a weirdo 72 SG Special that's also got this weird narrow fretboard too an that thing is pretty much fretless. It sounds pretty good and its got a cool red paint job.

No way, my SG is a 72 too! Neck is annoyingly narrow at the headstock, but I love the sound, and whoever had it before me put on a tremolo (just a bendy piece of curved metal, not the old Gibson spring-loaded thing). I think '71-'72 is when the necks got crazy narrow on those, because that's why/when Townshend stopped using SGs.

The one I got probably had a tremolo, but sometime it got swapped out for a wrap around bridge. It's got mini-humbuckers that have the Duncan logo on them and look pretty old themselves. It looks kind of like this one but with an ace cherry red finish.

http://dumb.org/wp-content/gallery/gibson-sg-pro/sg_pro-0.jpg

I've thought that with the small neck, it would be cool to set it up for open G ala Keith Richards and leave off the low E, except put the strings up starting at the top and leave the bottom one off.

Wait, are you talking about the maestro tremolo? Because that could be original, I would have to check if they were still using those in 72

http://images.epiphone.com.s3.amazonaws.com/News/2005/N_gom8.jpg

I've thought that with the small neck, it would be cool to set it up for open G ala Keith Richards and leave off the low E, except put the strings up starting at the top and leave the bottom one off.

― earlnash, Friday, October 25, 2013 6:44 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh wow, that'd be a cool thing to try...I may give that a shot. Mine was/is an SG Custom, but the previous owner took the 3 PAFs out and put in two black humbuckers (dunno the make).

Yes, that's the tremolo! Although mine doesn't have that big metal cover.

Pretty sure the one on mine isn't original though, as there are a few extra drilled holes where (I assume) the original bridge used to be.

Send me some pictures when you get a chance and I can prob diagnose it. J0hnjust3n at gmail

Look familiarish?

http://www.allparts.com/TP-3680-001-Long-Gibson-Style-Nickel-Vibrato-Tailpiece_p_4255.html

Or this

http://www.thewho.net/whotabs/images/equipment/guitar/auction/auction_christies_gibsonsg1970_1.jpg

i would have sex with all this SGs

http://www.rocknrollrelics.net/

Really disappointed in them for not going all the way and having the Townsend model have a broken of headstock.

Off

Dude you should take new guitars, smash them to bits, then sell them... Think about it.. The Ultimate Relic Series

I have played a RnRRelics Jazz Bass. It was fantastic, actually.

we have an og starocaster at the studio now,it's bloody lovely!

starcaster*

http://www.fender.com/acoustics/?series=electracoustic&utm_campaign=Fender+Guitars&utm_content=sf21798524&utm_medium=spredfast&utm_source=facebook&sf21798524=1

wtf? why?

*vomits*

oh, i guess these are not new. still sad though.

The guitar player from TSOL, Ron Emory, has a signature Fender acoustic for some reason

Meet the new boss:

http://mmrmagazine.com/1229-fender-names-roback-president.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=1&utm_campaign=topstory?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=1&utm_campaign=topstory

And in worse news, Fender closed the USA ovation plant in Connecticut, which is a shame, and means 45 people just got the punk slip dropped on them without warning. Before you go "eh ovation who gives a shit" what no one is talking about is that this is the same and only factory used to make us production guilds. So it appears that Guild USA is also a thing of the past.

Roback will have a wide scope of responsibility including overseeing the development of Fender’s emerging digital strategy aimed at deeply engaging musicians and music fans more broadly. Roback will also establish a new Los Angeles office in order to expand the company’s consumer marketing and digital capabilities.

Yeah, the number one qualification in that article seems to be that he used to be a securities lawyer, so I'm guessing they are going to try to go public. Again.

Well that and further implementation of their direct to consumer sales thing. Basically every store owner I know that still deals fender is going through waves of furious exploding head disease.

lol I've never heard of any of this stuff.

Roback was most recently the CEO of Dashbox, a cloud-based workflow management system for music licensing, and Managing Director of The Media Farm, a media company focused on owning and managing an IP portfolio for multi-platform exploitation. Prior to Dashbox and The Media Farm, he founded LAUNCH Media, Inc. and served as its president.

LAUNCH transformed the consumer music discovery experience online, and Roback led the company through its initial public offering in 1999 and then its acquisition by Yahoo! in 2001. Following the sale, he served as vice president and general manager of Yahoo! Music, where he led the company's global music operations and built it into the Internet's most popular music destination.

I interviewed at Launch (can't bear to type its silly capitals) in 1998. They had a big, empty office in Santa Monica and were in need of code monkeys to maintain their cumbersome content system - only they expected said monkeys to, ahem, *intern* for no pay, long hours, the usual.

Didn't take it. My dorky little sysadmin job was just fine and near a record store. Also, standard "fuck you pay me" rules are always in effect.

Never got a chance to ask Bob Roback if he was related to the Rain Parade/Mazzy Star Robacks.

Genuinely upset at loss of Guild plant.

The tech industry is is a great place for "failing up"

and now fender has sold the iconic guild brand to esteemed famous legacy builder Cordoba

who are known for classicals. and ukuleles. its a match made in heaven.

the fender lols they just get sadder every time

The fender lols
And the lightnin' strikes
Another love grows cold
On a sleepless night
As the storm blows on
Out of control
Deep in her heart
The fender lols

lol Fender

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6099434/bono-the-edge-join-fenders-board-of-directors?sf26722690=1

Bono doesn't play guitar, and Edge mostly plays Les Pauls, Explorers, and Rickenbackers. Good move.

a vintage telecaster is my dream guitar (super boring I know), but will probably go G&L at this point

Hit me up for a quote if you feel like it

Have to pay for a wedding first but will be looking in 2015. So I'll be sure to message for a quote then.

Btw when I saw this edge/bono thing surface earlier today I thought it was a joke but yikes apparently not

Bono doesn't play guitar, and Edge mostly plays Les Pauls, Explorers, and Rickenbackers. Good move.

TBF, I always liked the Stratocaster/AC30 sound Edge used on War/Under A Blood Red Sky

http://www2.fender.com/experience/artists/dee-dee-ramone-signature-bass-unveiled-nyc-event/

uh, isn't that just a white P Bass?