Longhorn tele
― peace, man, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 13:17 (three years ago) link
ah yes, with the optional angled Strat headstock
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 13:21 (three years ago) link
More than anything, the left hand placement and "activity" is just a disaster. I don't think the rest of the guitar is that bad actually, I mean there's six tuning pegs, it looks like a Jag with a glandular problem more than anything.
― flappy bird, Monday, 15 June 2020 04:51 (three years ago) link
picking that high E string with his thumb while shredding some sick hammer-ons
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 15 June 2020 09:21 (three years ago) link
for real that is a Telecaster body he's apparently trying to stab with a Strat neck - one cutaway, control plate with knobs and switch in a line. Art guy you're doing an illustration for the FUCKING FENDER catalogue, how do you get their two iconic models jumbled up?
― assert (MatthewK), Monday, 15 June 2020 12:25 (three years ago) link
haha yeah I mean if that was just some drawing in a magazine it's whatever but the fucking catalogue guy can't even get it right lol
― flappy bird, Monday, 15 June 2020 19:38 (three years ago) link
is there a thread for particularly egregious examples of actors faking playing guitar? Drives me insane. rewatched I'm Not There fairly recently-- Christian Bale, naturally, could clearly play. Cate Blanchett, meanwhile, does this shit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4S5JKBUYHs
― flappy bird, Monday, 15 June 2020 19:41 (three years ago) link
I am willing - just barely - to allow that the Fender catalog illustrations were meant to be impressionistic on purpose. Otherwise they could just have used photographs. So including elements of several iconic guitar designs could have either been acceptable, or even desired.
― Okay, Boomerang (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 15 June 2020 19:56 (three years ago) link
Same artist upthread does feature-correct but wonky renditions of 4 similar models tho
― assert (MatthewK), Monday, 15 June 2020 21:06 (three years ago) link
― peace, man, Wednesday, June 3, 2020 8:17 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, June 3, 2020 8:21 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
this is basically what Fender is doing with its "Parallel Universe" series
https://www.adorama.com/images/Large/fe176032703.jpg
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 15 June 2020 21:32 (three years ago) link
True, he or she was just a visionary
― assert (MatthewK), Monday, 15 June 2020 23:44 (three years ago) link
also Fender were doing Strat headstock on Tele back in 1972https://images.reverb.com/image/upload/s--nXKyF_Uf--/f_auto,t_supersize/v1566580144/lagtqvbe5cnnhb7py92j.png
― assert (MatthewK), Monday, 15 June 2020 23:46 (three years ago) link
been looking for a 70s tele deluxe for a long time.
― Spottie, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 00:00 (three years ago) link
man i want a tele deluxe.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 00:15 (three years ago) link
heh heh hehhttps://i.imgur.com/frkYKE0.jpg
― assert (MatthewK), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 00:18 (three years ago) link
those Vox amps rule so much
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 01:35 (three years ago) link
best practice amps ever
I'd heard they were good then one came up locally for $50 and I figured OK, let's give it a shot, then I plugged in and O_O
― assert (MatthewK), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 01:47 (three years ago) link
(that's a 1975 Greco special-order, for the curious)
dammit you guys, this thread is for incredibly shit guitars, not incredible guitars.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 02:36 (three years ago) link
I don't get the point of a Tele with humbuckers. Isn't the original design's distinctive single-coil sound whole point of having one, at least nowadays? That's why I own a Strat and an SG.
― Soz (Not Soz) (Vast Halo), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 11:52 (three years ago) link
* the whole point
I have a Tele with singles too, but these pickups are like glassy Fender neck pickups more than PAFs. Plus Teles are nicer to play and indestructible.
― assert (MatthewK), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 12:44 (three years ago) link
I honestly have never worried about destroying any of my guitars
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 13:00 (three years ago) link
those teles with the neck humbucker but the trad single coil in back are a nice combo
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 13:01 (three years ago) link
Plus Teles are nicer to play
Nicer to play than what?
― Soz (Not Soz) (Vast Halo), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 13:19 (three years ago) link
Yeah, it's a reasonable compromise. Plus, for whatever reason, they look like less of an abomination than a Fat Strat. (shudders)
― Soz (Not Soz) (Vast Halo), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 13:29 (three years ago) link
When you get into the details of the original Fender WR humbucker pickup design from the 70s, there's something to the original copper/nickel/iron magnets in them that's tonally separate from other humbuckng pickups of the era and completely different from the HBs that Fender uses now.https://reverb.com/news/dont-fence-me-in-the-fender-wide-range-humbucker-family
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 19 June 2020 21:26 (three years ago) link
Yep - the idea was to use a machineable ferromagnetic alloy so that you could have magnet polepieces (the Fender sound) but they could also be screwed up and down (a humbucker principle, since Seth Lover did both these and the Gibson PAFs). CuNiFe is machineable with a screw thread (AlNiCo would chip and shatter), but wasn't commercially available after the 70s so they stopped using it. Demand from the boutique pickup market brought it back maybe 5 years ago?
― assert (MatthewK), Friday, 19 June 2020 23:32 (three years ago) link
That awful poster with Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc
― peace, man, Monday, 21 September 2020 16:30 (three years ago) link
https://64.media.tumblr.com/9c23f95b19b1ae973739a9aa19cc69de/066454a29e0ad044-87/s1280x1920/0083d48b3dc282ce56b784e38063359051b8f970.jpg
― you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 07:31 (three years ago) link
WYRD STALLYNS
― assert (MatthewK), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 07:56 (three years ago) link
https://img.discogs.com/CuSPnqsyolE1E7gxKeNm_I0jKlU=/fit-in/600x607/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3554589-1553317810-4363.jpeg.jpg
― city worker, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 14:40 (two years ago) link
Listened to Eric Gale yesterday, and while this isn't *that* bad, it's off enough to trigger my OCD.
https://img.discogs.com/HfuSDC72GDjjM0hK5L7eoKOl5KU=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(webp):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-621401-1322586810.jpeg.jpg
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 15:19 (two years ago) link
Kind of gets worse as it gets into the body, also looks like the artist gave up on the picking hand.
How's that record?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 15:24 (two years ago) link
I love that you used to be able to send away for a glossy art print of many Kudu/CTI titles.
And while I love Gale's playing, this one gets too smooth in places for me (Bob James arranged and plays keys.)
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 15:33 (two years ago) link
Yeah I get it. Stuff is always on the border for me and sometimes crosses the line.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 15:46 (two years ago) link
baffled by city worker's - is smoking dude an Australian yob checking out McCartney and deciding he wants to play the Hendrix model Hofner bass? And where is his body?
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 18:36 (two years ago) link
That Australian Rock painting would fit in nicely on the "swagger of Oasis" picture thread.
― I Advance Masked (Vast Halo), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 19:02 (two years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ab/24_Nights.jpg
― ledge, Friday, 24 September 2021 08:30 (two years ago) link
incredibly shit all around
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Friday, 24 September 2021 16:30 (two years ago) link
And yet much more interesting than his music.
― chap, Friday, 24 September 2021 18:03 (two years ago) link
oh, I was including the music in that
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Friday, 24 September 2021 20:36 (two years ago) link
Drawings of incredible shits with guitars
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 24 September 2021 20:59 (two years ago) link
vizhttps://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2022/01/GettyImages-474103336-1643577891-1000x665.jpg
― assert (MatthewK), Monday, 31 January 2022 12:36 (two years ago) link
Drawings of guitars on incredible shits
― for 200 anyone can receive a dud nvidia (ledge), Monday, 31 January 2022 14:54 (two years ago) link
Oops missed prev post :(
― for 200 anyone can receive a dud nvidia (ledge), Monday, 31 January 2022 14:55 (two years ago) link
perpetually baffled by how terrible these insanely rich ppl look, how you gonna have billions of dollars and show up to the ted talk lookin like a big soft thumb
― adam, Monday, 31 January 2022 17:20 (two years ago) link
https://ibb.co/SNYDMgYwatching the olympics
― tomorrow, Thursday, 10 February 2022 01:04 (two years ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/0qHgRCJ/IMG-0977.jpg
― tomorrow, Thursday, 10 February 2022 01:05 (two years ago) link