Six strings, wood and metal. That’s what guitars are made of, at least the boring ones. However, there will always be something else, something different than every other guitar you have ever seen. New shapes. Mixed elements. Screaming colours. Or, simply MADNESS. Ladies and gentlemen, freak out all you want because this is the top […]
Hi there, my name is Mike Zimmerman and welcome to my series of articles about guitars and guitar collecting from the techie’s point of view. I’ve been collecting guitars for many years and have accumulated quite an interesting collection. I also have the usual, accompanying collection of sad tales of “the one that got away” […]
By: Chris McMahon There’s a lot of bad information on the internet, as I was reminded while trying to resuscitate a recent score: a Silver Sparkle 20th Anniversary Squier Jagmaster. Don’t laugh, it’s paid for! It’s not a guitar for everyone, but I bought my first about five years ago when I started playing […]
Vegematic Guitars By Michael Wright The Different Strummer As with our old friend Nigel Tufnel, that more is better goes without saying. Why play an amp at 10 when you could play at 11? I’ve bought guitars just because they had 4 pickups. And I’d for sure be interested in a guitar like this Hagstrom Impala […]
by Michael Wright The Different Strummer There are any number of things I associate with pickup trucks (from Handicaps to gun racks), and guitars aren’t one of them. Yet—as anyone who’s followed the recent advertising battle between the Ford F-150 and its competitors—the two sometimes flirt with the use of aluminum to optimize performance. Certainly […]
By Michael Wright The Different Strummer It’s curious how wildly tastes can swing in a relatively short period of time. When, in the 1967 classic movie The Graduate, Murray Hamilton (Mr. Robinson) leans in to advise Dustin Hoffman (Benjamin Braddock) to consider a predictably successful future in “Plastics,” the very concept of “plastic” was […]
by Michael Wright The Different Strummer It’s odd that I never thought of things this way before but it was encountering Japanese guitars that started me on the road to writing guitar history. It was probably more about coincidence—and me being cheap—than any sort of far-sighted strategy, maybe salted with a generous dash of […]
By Michael Wright The Different Strummer Back in the early 1990s I did a few “guitar shows” for my son’s primary school classes, basically a show-n-tell with half a dozen guitars in various shapes and colors. I’d conclude with “Swamp Thing,” the then-popular TV show theme adaptation of the Troggs’ classic. At the end, I’d ask […]
By Michael Wright The Different Strummer I’ve always been a sucker for oddball guitars. A LaBaye 2×4? You bet! A Bunker Astral Series Sunstar? Yup! A Jay Turser Shark? O’Hagan Shark? Of course. So, when a chance to get a moon-shaped guitars beckoned, the call was irresistible. Now, despite its hallowed place in the […]
By Michael Wright The Different Strummer I never really warmed up to headless guitars. Oh, they were really cool looking and there’s no denying Andy Summers had real style playing a Steinberger for The Police. But I guess I’m old fashioned. I need a head to keep me oriented. Still, present me with something made […]
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