Punkacc9 wrote:First thought... Thats fake or a jap copy guitar. Then I thought about it and it looks like they are using the bass VI necks and first wave vm jazzmaster bodies/ hardware. maybe leftovers?
I've been GASing for a Thinline 2xhb for a while. I'd forgotten the Maniacs used them - I saw them in 92, 93 and 94, my girlfriend at the time was a big fan.
Noirie. wrote:JDB used his Thinline to record Motorcycle Emptiness as well.
For the rhythm part? Surely the main riff was done on his usual Les Paul?
NickD wrote:I've been GASing for a Thinline 2xhb for a while. I'd forgotten the Maniacs used them - I saw them in 92, 93 and 94, my girlfriend at the time was a big fan.
Arghh, I've seen them 41 times but only going back to 96 – I'd love to have seen them with Richey.
theshadowofseattle wrote:If you put the pickups in their normal position, you'd be putting them where the standing wave moving across the string has less than maximum amplitude, so they'd be quieter and less rich sounding.
NickD wrote:I've been GASing for a Thinline 2xhb for a while. I'd forgotten the Maniacs used them - I saw them in 92, 93 and 94, my girlfriend at the time was a big fan.
up to and including the Holy bible they were superb after that they went a bit brit pop... Seen them on each of the first 3 tours + T in the park just after Richey went missing... One of the major bands of me youth.
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theshadowofseattle wrote:If you put the pickups in their normal position, you'd be putting them where the standing wave moving across the string has less than maximum amplitude, so they'd be quieter and less rich sounding.
A consideration Mustangs, Jaguars, big-guard SGs and every 24 fret guitar ever built looked at and went "eh, whatever."
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"
He was an amateurish guitarist from a Welsh band who picked his chosen suicide date quite poorly in terms of maximum media coverage, coming not long after Kurt Cobain.
Motorcycle Emptiness was one of their big hits. Although it was nowhere near as good as "If You Tolerate This..." or that time they played a show in Cuba and became really good friends with a dictator whose human rights record is atrocious.
Noirie. wrote:JDB used his Thinline to record Motorcycle Emptiness as well.
For the rhythm part? Surely the main riff was done on his usual Les Paul?
Nope.A fan on the Manics forum met James and told him Motorcycle Emptiness was the reason he went out and bought a Les Paul. James told the fan he'd actually recorded it on Richey's thinline.
I can't wait til these are available in the uk. Haven't been this excited about a guitar in ages.
Fuck getting a crappy Hi Flier now
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