Inexpensive 80s metal guitars - funkified? (pick heavy)

24HRS2MDNT · Post by **24HRS2MDNT** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 5:08 pm

Ebay is full of once high end 80's metal guitars that can be had for peanuts. I've seen loads of picks of funk players using these same guitars but they come off with a wild funk flavour in their hands. Could I get a BC Rich Mockinbird, repaint it, and use it for covering When doves cry?

With some paint, rhinestones, and feathers could a guitar like this be made useful?

Am I brave or a complete mentalist?

lorez · Post by **lorez** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 8:01 pm

that is an amazing pic bomb. love those guitars!

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 9:50 pm

Do an Bootsy C

Sloan · Post by **Sloan** » Sun Dec 12, 2010 4:39 am

don't be a pussy. DO IT.

24HRS2MDNT · Post by **24HRS2MDNT** » Sun Dec 12, 2010 5:51 am

Sloan · Post by **Sloan** » Sun Dec 12, 2010 4:56 pm

I actually really dig BC Rich Mockingbirds, in the red stain or natural. they are THE SHIT.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Sun Dec 12, 2010 5:05 pm

Aye, I've a recently realised love for Mockingbirds. I think I hadn't really looked at them as plausible guitars because of the shit metal BC Riches that posh kids had at my school so's they could get teh slopknuts.

Eighties metal guitars aren't usually particularly metal, rather they are excellently made, super-versatile guitars designed to be able to do everything fairly well. It's no surprise that they are good at funk, and it should be no surprise that they manage blues, jazz, rock, pop or anything else for that matter. I always think of them as working guitars for working musicians who might need to pull any tone from their setup in session work or in a covers band whose repertoire includes pretty much every song ever to enter the top forty for the last forty five years.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Sun Dec 12, 2010 5:43 pm

I've got two Mockingbirds, great guitars but a little neck heavy.
The good thing about BC Rich is they are very unfashionable so you can pick up serious high quality guitars for very little money.
Oh, that guitar Vernon Reid is holding will probably be an expensive Tom Anderson or Hamer.

My Mockingbirds..

24HRS2MDNT · Post by **24HRS2MDNT** » Sun Dec 12, 2010 5:53 pm

Metal OR Funk ?

"Uhmm, Lord Devil von Branmuffin ... uhh ... yer guitar is purple."

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Sun Dec 12, 2010 6:01 pm

Either.

I'd say the more standard shapes of Schecter, Ibanez and ESP dominate the Metal market now. BCR in particular only seems to have survived well in Death Metal.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Sun Dec 12, 2010 6:11 pm

V's and Explorers are everywhere in metal too. Also the odd Les Paul or SG. I remember talking to the guitar tech at MachineHead (I managed to get the job of helping him put away each guitar into it's case, pretty cool and a lot more glamourous than the jobs I usually get), and the guitarist had all these cool guitars including an early 60's SG. Unfortunately he'd put EMG's in all of them so they all sounded exactly the fucking same.

Ballbag.

JJLipton · Post by **JJLipton** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 12:52 am

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 2:22 am

Morris Day and the motherfuck'n Time yo....

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SpaceFace · Post by **SpaceFace** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 4:27 am

My friend Craig has one of those mockingbirds, a higher end one. I remember thinking what the hell is this shit when he got it, until I played it. It really is hands down one of the nicest guitars I ever played.

kim · Post by **kim** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 10:49 am

i'd like a metalz guitar again one day, nothing like tuning down, gain on max or some tight distortion and just doing an metalz..ahh..nostalgic. lol

also..an artist called 'Black man' ? hahaha

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 11:47 am

24HRS2MDNT wrote:

I really quite like that, mainly for the sound he gets out of it. makes me want to fit those dimazios on my strat.