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August 21, 2007
Tuesday
 
 
Taking guitar design to the limits
Johnathan Pearce (London)  How very odd!

I am not a musician, but if I were a guitarist, I might fancy one of these. I like the one with the teeth.

(Via Gizmondo).

Comments

The teeth, of all things? Don't answer that.


Posted by Alisa at August 21, 2007 05:51 PM

That was made for Great White. I believe it showed up in the "Rock Me" video being played by Mark Kendall. The best one has got to be the ZZ Top ones or better yet the Ted Nugent special.


Posted by Andrew Ian Dodge at August 21, 2007 05:53 PM

The fuzzy ones are from ZZ Top, it looks like. I don't see one I remember from the 80s, which was in the shape of a USAF F-15.


Posted by The Sanity Inspector at August 21, 2007 08:42 PM

Interesting curiosities, perhaps worth hanging on a wall, but with almost forty years of guitars behind me, I'm pretty sure that actually playing things like that would get old pretty quickly.

There are very good reasons why most guitars have always looked like they have. The Gibson "radicals" from 1958 (Explorer, Flying V) are about as far out as most people would ever get, who aren't invested in looking different just for the sake of a different look. And even they can take quite some getting used to.


Posted by Billy Beck at August 22, 2007 04:11 AM

Quite so Billy.
I'd settle for being able to play a plain ordinary one properly!


Posted by RAB at August 22, 2007 01:02 PM
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