alex maiolo wrote:I'm about 95% certain that it's a Goya Rangemaster.

-A

Verbs and Nouns wrote:

helenforsdale wrote:

mr.arrison wrote:

helenforsdale wrote:none of those guys were really concerned with tone...just heroin (the drug) and speed. heh.




-joshua...

Are you serious? How do you know this?

I did notice the five or so times I saw Unwound it was like watching a bipolar band. They were either energetic, great and amazing, or boring, bland, lifeless and almost nodding off while playing.

no no, you misunderstood. not unwound - but the other bands on gravity...
the substance abuse of members of antioch and clikatat are pretty well documented. sadly, the bassist of clikatat passed away due to an overdose...



-joshua...

I always found it ironic that the reason the band Heroin broke up is because the guy that runs Gravity (the guitarist maybe?) got addicted to heroin (the drug). Correct me if I'm wrong, but I read that a while ago in a copy of Alternative Press. They had a two or three page article on Gravity records. The whole drug thing... It sucks, Clikatat Ikatowi were amazing. I mean what I can gather from their recordings. The other stuff, Champagne Kiss, Spacehorse... I find it pretty average.

godawful wrote:

Verbs and Nouns wrote:

helenforsdale wrote:

mr.arrison wrote:

helenforsdale wrote:none of those guys were really concerned with tone...just heroin (the drug) and speed. heh.




-joshua...

Are you serious? How do you know this?

I did notice the five or so times I saw Unwound it was like watching a bipolar band. They were either energetic, great and amazing, or boring, bland, lifeless and almost nodding off while playing.

no no, you misunderstood. not unwound - but the other bands on gravity...
the substance abuse of members of antioch and clikatat are pretty well documented. sadly, the bassist of clikatat passed away due to an overdose...



-joshua...

I always found it ironic that the reason the band Heroin broke up is because the guy that runs Gravity (the guitarist maybe?) got addicted to heroin (the drug). Correct me if I'm wrong, but I read that a while ago in a copy of Alternative Press. They had a two or three page article on Gravity records. The whole drug thing... It sucks, Clikatat Ikatowi were amazing. I mean what I can gather from their recordings. The other stuff, Champagne Kiss, Spacehorse... I find it pretty average.

i think spacehorse was some silly side project. that record is ok, but not very interesting. you should check out Mohinder and Angel Hair. I like both way more than Clikitat

Big John wrote:The pickups and knobs look like a old framus (not the new ones). as well as the vibramute on the bridge. Not at all like a tesco. The thickness of the wood in the top photo is also a giveaway to me as tesco's are generally 3/4 inch like and framus's are thicker than tesco's but not as thick as a fender. The location and abundance of switches on the plate and finish / color too. By that I mean the odd moon burst.

The problem with my theory is that the head stock looks more like a micro frets neck. I have a framus here and that headstock looks exactly like a fender. But this if it were a Framus is not the same model.

The framus pick ups are pretty distinctive and thease look like them.

As do the metal knobs

This is the style that I play but mine had the metal knobs and typical pickups. This one has simplified electronics and a new bridge. Mine has been radicly modded.

I think this is the right direction but a lot of Japanese copy guitars would grab stuff from other makers and clone them so it could just be Framus like. It is unusal to see the big magnets in those old pickups except for framus.[/list]

Verbs and Nouns wrote:
I'm not a huge fan of Angel Hair. I have a 7" and that's it, but I find Sonny Kay's work with The VSS and even Year Future way more interesting. Subpeona The Past on the other hand...

But I find that the The VSS and Clikakat Ikatowi have stood the test of time music-wise a lot more compared to Angel Hair.

I'm intrigued to hear more Gravity-esque stuff. I may check out the newer Spacehorse 12".

benjaminbunny wrote:...and I've spent about an hour every day fo the last 5 years procrastinating by searching for 60s japanese guitars...