(rad) Genre-inappropriate guitars

[repoman]

Johnny Winter played one of these weirdo fusion type guitars a lot.

[Chankgeez]

Johnny was an albino.

(That's the name of our new blues/rock band, repoman.)

I think he played the Lazer for comfort reasons.

So, totally appropriate because bluesmen have had it hard enough as it is. They like to be as comfortable as can be while playing.

Now, this dude on the other hand:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJRABPx7uZY[/youtube]

[Chankgeez]

Chicago electric blues on a Jaguar?

[weed_killer]

Johnny Winter played one of these weirdo fusion type guitars a lot.

also played a Fender XII for a while:

[repoman]

This guy played a Jazzmaster some...kinda weird hearing jazz on a Jazzmaster




[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xCX72Dvknk[/youtube]

also this dude

[goroth]

Dat stasch!

[Inconuucl]

Surprised this hasn't been posted here.

[gnomethrone]

Roy Lanham, you offset son of a bitch

I've got a sons of the pioneers cassette I jam sometimes. Shit is gloomy. Never thought about who the players were or anything.

[p.j.]

I remember seeing a solo jazz guitarist in a Cape Cod club playing finger style chord-melodies on a 7 string Ibanez Steve Vai guitar. He was wearing a suit and sitting on a stool. It sounded great. (No, he never touched the whammy bar!)

[Chankgeez]

I knew when I saw that p.j. had posted in this thread and the Wandre thread that Buddy Miller was somehow involved (good one, p.j.) :

[Mudfuzz]

I you are all going to be silly then fine here.

[Chankgeez]

Dude, who's being silly?

[ognoy]

I was part of a 9-piece band doing a "Music composed for improvisers"-concert recently.
The setup was 3 upright basses(the leader/composer is a quite known Norwegian bass player),
4 electric guitars, one guy doing electronics and one guy playing the theremin, a saw and an iPad.
3 of the guitar players brought fairly "classic" electric guitars: A Gibson L5, a strat and my EGC bari tele.
The fourth guy brought a TUSK by Greco 80s hair metal guitar.

He is one of the best musicians I know, and he has done a lot of great noise/free improv/drone/noiserock music,
but he really caught me off guard with this guitar.
He said the reason he HAD buy it was because he had only seen this guitar on "80s-female-heavy-metal-posters",
and thought it could be funny to play this guitar in a noise/free improv/jazz context.

[Eivind August]

This is glorious!

[sylnau]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H55dYclb2cw[/youtube]