Thursday, October 11, 2007
Best Guitar in the Whole World!
ok... I lied. Did everyone hear about the science experiment, where college students were given 'alcohol' and studied to see how long it took for them to become fall-down-drunk... and then they were told that what they were drinking had NO ALCOHOL in it whatsoever...after they were all acting loopy? Well, I was reading an interesting piece in Vintage Guitar Magazine... about a man who played an original Les Paul 'Burst'... he said it was pure magic...fit perfectly into his hands etc... but when compared to his new Les Paul, he had to also admit that his NEW guitar sounded amazing too. A lot of the 'good feel' about old guitars surprisingly must come from the expectations attached to something worth so much money, and coveted by so many musicians (sort of like a Stadivarius). Another musician just called and asked me which sounded better... my Linhof Guitar, or my 'Twisted Tele' (built by Yuriy Shishkov at the Custom Shop). It was a tough comparison.. both are a musician's dream.. the Twisted Tele is punchy, and kicks *ss. It also has a Bisby (that, by the way, for my mind works BETTER than the trem on a Strat... but that is only my personal opinion). The Linhof is also an *ss-kicker... but in a DIFFERENT way...sort of like comparing Eddie Van Halen to Joe Satriani... so what are you going to do? (the Linhof is also about half the price...)