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GFS / Earl Slick guitars
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^Was looking at these the other night and that's the one I like. Probably a bit more Telecastery in feel than MM/Jr with the ash body and bolt-on maple neck. I love that funky, recessed high-mass brass wraparound... SO '70s.
Probably the premier wanky sideman of my early record collection, and one of few who gets a pass; thought it was kind of hilarious when he played with the Dolls, it seemed so wrong and so right at the same time (granted he's cut a lot of the gratuitous flash out of his leads since the '80s). Every time I see his name in print I invariably either hear John Lennon calling out his name before a stawk rawk solo or the record "David Live" [Bowie @ Tower Philadelphia] where Bowie was touring Diamond Dogs material with his newly-found/yet-to-be-recorded Young Americans aesthetic and Slick just noodles through every song.
Probably the premier wanky sideman of my early record collection, and one of few who gets a pass; thought it was kind of hilarious when he played with the Dolls, it seemed so wrong and so right at the same time (granted he's cut a lot of the gratuitous flash out of his leads since the '80s). Every time I see his name in print I invariably either hear John Lennon calling out his name before a stawk rawk solo or the record "David Live" [Bowie @ Tower Philadelphia] where Bowie was touring Diamond Dogs material with his newly-found/yet-to-be-recorded Young Americans aesthetic and Slick just noodles through every song.
Aug wrote:which one of you bastards sent me an ebay question asking if you can get teh kurdtz with that 64 mustang?
robertOG wrote:fran & paul are some of the original gangstas of the JS days when you'd have to say "phuck"
Man I will never get over GFS product descriptions.
"What's the formula for incredible LP sound?? Oh how about using the BEST wood... The BEST hardware...The BEST tuners....The BEST pickups...
Yeah that's how we do it."
Oh, right, because that should be said about a $219, bolt-neck, single-knob, flat-top LP copy mass-produced who knows where? Sometimes I feel like emailing them and telling them they sound like huge ass hats and I'd never buy one of these just based off that fact.
That aside though, I do like the look of the bodies, but not anything else. Necks look unfinished, "hand-slotted" nut on a cheap guitar does not bode well, brass tuning pegs and strap buttons don't fit. All things that could be changed, yeah, but I find Axl Badwater guitars a lot more interesting for the price. Too bad that series was chopped down to almost nothing.
"What's the formula for incredible LP sound?? Oh how about using the BEST wood... The BEST hardware...The BEST tuners....The BEST pickups...
Yeah that's how we do it."
Oh, right, because that should be said about a $219, bolt-neck, single-knob, flat-top LP copy mass-produced who knows where? Sometimes I feel like emailing them and telling them they sound like huge ass hats and I'd never buy one of these just based off that fact.
That aside though, I do like the look of the bodies, but not anything else. Necks look unfinished, "hand-slotted" nut on a cheap guitar does not bode well, brass tuning pegs and strap buttons don't fit. All things that could be changed, yeah, but I find Axl Badwater guitars a lot more interesting for the price. Too bad that series was chopped down to almost nothing.
It's got a bridge P90, so it only needs a tone control added before it sounds better than most other guitars in the history of your face for basic crunchy rawk.
Aug wrote:which one of you bastards sent me an ebay question asking if you can get teh kurdtz with that 64 mustang?
robertOG wrote:fran & paul are some of the original gangstas of the JS days when you'd have to say "phuck"
