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Lewguitar
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Hi Guys! Just got back to town...it was a long drive back home but it went easily enough.
So here's my first report from NAMM: the most impressive new guitar I played at NAMM was the new PRS Single Cut. This guitar looks a little like a single cutaway Les Paul but it's also quite differant.
The sculpting on the top is truly beautiful and encourages running your fingers over the curves. The sculpting actually flares out a little along the edge of the the upper bout where the toggle switch sits on a Les Paul and reminds me of a Gibson Lloyd Loar designed F-5 mandolin.
A superb guitar. Johnny Hyland was demoing the PRS Single Cut at the PRS booth and both Curly and I were very impressed both with the playing and the tone.
But I have to say that my very favorite guitar that I played was not a new one! It was Bill Kirchen's well worn 50's Tele with Joe Barden pickups. That guitar blew me away. Played great and sounded even better. The Barden pickups are spectacular and in that guitar I heard none of the hi-fi quality aften alluded to in reviews of the Bardens. They were clear as a bell but strong, ballsy and high output.
I told Bill that I remembered that guitar when it looked like new...which I do! We had a nice time remembering the "good ol' days" of Ann Arbor, Michigan in the late 60's/early 70's. Bill and I played with alot of the same people back in those days and it was great catching up on what some of my old friends were up to.
He told me about an old friend and keyboard player we both played with alot...a guy named Robert Scheff. Robert turned alot of people onto alot of music they'ed never heard growing up in the suburbs of Detroit.
Bill told me that Robert had turned him onto the Swan Silvertones...a great gospel group with stunning vocals and harmonies. I told him that Robert had turned me onto alot of pre Motown and Stax black music too, especially the music of Percy Mayfield!
It was great meeting up with Bill...now if I could just remember the name of the amplifier he was endorsing at the show I'd be a happy man. It started with a P...that, and the tone, is all remember. Maybe Curly will chime in because it was my favorite amp that I played through at the show.
Only had a volume and a drive control. The bass control a was a two position switch...as was the treble control. But it worked beautifully and the tone, especially when I played Bill's old Tele through it, blew me away.
Lew
So here's my first report from NAMM: the most impressive new guitar I played at NAMM was the new PRS Single Cut. This guitar looks a little like a single cutaway Les Paul but it's also quite differant.
The sculpting on the top is truly beautiful and encourages running your fingers over the curves. The sculpting actually flares out a little along the edge of the the upper bout where the toggle switch sits on a Les Paul and reminds me of a Gibson Lloyd Loar designed F-5 mandolin.
A superb guitar. Johnny Hyland was demoing the PRS Single Cut at the PRS booth and both Curly and I were very impressed both with the playing and the tone.
But I have to say that my very favorite guitar that I played was not a new one! It was Bill Kirchen's well worn 50's Tele with Joe Barden pickups. That guitar blew me away. Played great and sounded even better. The Barden pickups are spectacular and in that guitar I heard none of the hi-fi quality aften alluded to in reviews of the Bardens. They were clear as a bell but strong, ballsy and high output.
I told Bill that I remembered that guitar when it looked like new...which I do! We had a nice time remembering the "good ol' days" of Ann Arbor, Michigan in the late 60's/early 70's. Bill and I played with alot of the same people back in those days and it was great catching up on what some of my old friends were up to.
He told me about an old friend and keyboard player we both played with alot...a guy named Robert Scheff. Robert turned alot of people onto alot of music they'ed never heard growing up in the suburbs of Detroit.
Bill told me that Robert had turned him onto the Swan Silvertones...a great gospel group with stunning vocals and harmonies. I told him that Robert had turned me onto alot of pre Motown and Stax black music too, especially the music of Percy Mayfield!
It was great meeting up with Bill...now if I could just remember the name of the amplifier he was endorsing at the show I'd be a happy man. It started with a P...that, and the tone, is all remember. Maybe Curly will chime in because it was my favorite amp that I played through at the show.
Only had a volume and a drive control. The bass control a was a two position switch...as was the treble control. But it worked beautifully and the tone, especially when I played Bill's old Tele through it, blew me away.
Lew
