Gearjoneser
Gear Ho
Today, Trevor (Pinto79) his wife, and I went on an LA Music store tour, since they're down here from BC Canada.
I took them on a 9 store guitar store tour, covering the San Fernando Valley, Hollywood, and Santa Monica, but that's maybe another thread unto itself.
One thing we saw in large volumes were the new Danelectro guitars for $349 at many stores.
Even though I'd tried a lot of high dollar guitars all day, I was intrigued at our final stop, True Tone music, noticing evey they were stocking them....and they're a highend only store.
So, I plugged a blue baritone model into a Dr. Z Maz 30. Out of all the colors, the blue really grabs me the most, because of it's mother of toilet seat pickguard with brushed aluminum control plate.
It's a flat blue, and the contours of the body conform right to your body, making it a pleasure to play.
But here's the thing....the sound of that beautiful baritone guitar with a big clean tone soaked in reverb. THEN the greatest feature on the guitar, besides lipstick pickups is the AWESOME tremolo system.....basically a Vibrola style that sits in the hand snugly and has the perfect sensitivity level and travel.
So, you've got a big single coil baritone sound accompanied by a killer trem bar. It instantly conjures up haunting octave down riffs, all the way to cowboy type thunderous baritone twang....spaghetti western.
Out of all the guitars we saw today, I ended up being most fascinated with this new Danelectro.
It seems like every decade, they come up with a cool cheap guitar, and these are pretty cool in standard form, but incredibly cool in the baritone version.
Baritone scale w/trem = WIN.
http://guitars.musiciansfriend.com/product/Danelectro-Dead-on-67-Baritone-Electric-Guitar?sku=580357
I took them on a 9 store guitar store tour, covering the San Fernando Valley, Hollywood, and Santa Monica, but that's maybe another thread unto itself.
One thing we saw in large volumes were the new Danelectro guitars for $349 at many stores.
Even though I'd tried a lot of high dollar guitars all day, I was intrigued at our final stop, True Tone music, noticing evey they were stocking them....and they're a highend only store.
So, I plugged a blue baritone model into a Dr. Z Maz 30. Out of all the colors, the blue really grabs me the most, because of it's mother of toilet seat pickguard with brushed aluminum control plate.
It's a flat blue, and the contours of the body conform right to your body, making it a pleasure to play.
But here's the thing....the sound of that beautiful baritone guitar with a big clean tone soaked in reverb. THEN the greatest feature on the guitar, besides lipstick pickups is the AWESOME tremolo system.....basically a Vibrola style that sits in the hand snugly and has the perfect sensitivity level and travel.
So, you've got a big single coil baritone sound accompanied by a killer trem bar. It instantly conjures up haunting octave down riffs, all the way to cowboy type thunderous baritone twang....spaghetti western.
Out of all the guitars we saw today, I ended up being most fascinated with this new Danelectro.
It seems like every decade, they come up with a cool cheap guitar, and these are pretty cool in standard form, but incredibly cool in the baritone version.
Baritone scale w/trem = WIN.
http://guitars.musiciansfriend.com/product/Danelectro-Dead-on-67-Baritone-Electric-Guitar?sku=580357
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