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- Kramer Kl8 Bass - Aluminium Neck And Eight Strings
guitarz.blogspot.com: It always kind of annoyed me that no-one seriously took notice of Kramer guitars until Eddie Van Halen started using them, mainly because by this time - in my eyes - they had stopped being cool by abandoning the aluminium necks that...
- Millimetric Guitar And Bass
guitarz.blogspot.com Florian Schneider, a luthier from Montréal, informed me about his instrument brand Millimetric. He builds guitars and basses under the professed influence of Travis Bean and Obstructure, transposing some of their...
- Jeff Lynne Playing A Veleno Aluminium Guitar With Elo In 1973
guitarz.blogspot.com: Speaking of aluminium guitars... I saw this archive clip on television earlier this week: the Electric Light Orchestra playing "Showdown" from a 1973 edition of BBC1's Top Of The Pops. I was very interested to see that Jeff...
- Burke, Usa-made, Aluminium-necked Electric Guitar, Design Patented In 1961
guitarz.blogspot.com: Apologies for the sub-standard photo, but this was the only one that showed the entire length of the guitar in question face on. The eBay seller claims that this 1960s Burke electric guitar in metallic burgundy finish was the very...
- Epiphone Sc-450 Scroll Electric In Las Vegas For $420
This seller is offering an Epiphone SC-450 Scroll guitar for $420. These were made in Japan in the late 1970's and they are pretty darn nice and definitely hard to find for sale unless you are very patient. These Epi Scroll guitars have always...
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Early PiL excellent video, featuring a Travis Bean Wedge and an Ampeg Scroll Bass
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Er, the title says it all but I can give some extra details: this is Public Image Ltd's first TV, on BBC2's show The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1980, performing Poptones from the Metal Box album. You can see Keith Levene playing a Travis Bean Wedge TB3000 - its quite unique triangle shape is easy to spot! Levene gets his razor-edged tone by using aluminium neck guitar - he's been playing also a TB1000 and an all-alu Veleno guitar. Jah Wobble plays an Ampeg AMB1 bass - aka the Scroll Bass - with its characteristic scroll headstock and body-through f-holes. One could tell than on top of being the brilliant creators of their own hybrid of pop and avant-garde music, these gentlemen had very good taste when it came to music instruments!
Actually while browsing through YouTube this morning I didn't only watched old PiL videos, but also saw a Michael Jackson/Eddie Van Halen one, and I understand that some people still loathe the 1980s for having been shallow and flashy, but that's just because they only look at the mainstream crap. To me it was a time of great and radical music, that I highly enjoyed then and since, and PiL was the herald of it!
© 2011, Guitarz - The Original Guitar Blog - now in its 10th year!
- Kramer Kl8 Bass - Aluminium Neck And Eight Strings
guitarz.blogspot.com: It always kind of annoyed me that no-one seriously took notice of Kramer guitars until Eddie Van Halen started using them, mainly because by this time - in my eyes - they had stopped being cool by abandoning the aluminium necks that...
- Millimetric Guitar And Bass
guitarz.blogspot.com Florian Schneider, a luthier from Montréal, informed me about his instrument brand Millimetric. He builds guitars and basses under the professed influence of Travis Bean and Obstructure, transposing some of their...
- Jeff Lynne Playing A Veleno Aluminium Guitar With Elo In 1973
guitarz.blogspot.com: Speaking of aluminium guitars... I saw this archive clip on television earlier this week: the Electric Light Orchestra playing "Showdown" from a 1973 edition of BBC1's Top Of The Pops. I was very interested to see that Jeff...
- Burke, Usa-made, Aluminium-necked Electric Guitar, Design Patented In 1961
guitarz.blogspot.com: Apologies for the sub-standard photo, but this was the only one that showed the entire length of the guitar in question face on. The eBay seller claims that this 1960s Burke electric guitar in metallic burgundy finish was the very...
- Epiphone Sc-450 Scroll Electric In Las Vegas For $420
This seller is offering an Epiphone SC-450 Scroll guitar for $420. These were made in Japan in the late 1970's and they are pretty darn nice and definitely hard to find for sale unless you are very patient. These Epi Scroll guitars have always...