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Wacky…or Incredible Guitar Design?
Posted on 2/18/24 at 4:56 pm
Posted on 2/18/24 at 4:56 pm
What guitars do you think are wacky…or on the other hand, incredible? Custom guitar designs that some love or others hate? I’ll start with this incredible example. Michael Angelo Batio from the band Nitro with his 4 necked guitar monstrosity. Wacky or Incredible? Especially curious to hear FretShack’s take on Batio’s guitar.
Posted on 2/18/24 at 5:02 pm to SaintlyTiger88
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What guitars do you think are wacky…or on the other hand, incredible?
Wacky for pretty much anyone but MAB himself. The guy is a monster player though and always comes off as very humble.
Here he is from a couple days ago. Guy still has it in spades.
MAB - How I Practice
This post was edited on 2/18/24 at 5:32 pm
Posted on 2/18/24 at 5:07 pm to jdd48
I’ve always thought that guitar looked pretty cool, definitely something you don’t see every day. I think only a shredder like MAB, Satriani, or Steve Vai could make it work though.
Posted on 2/18/24 at 8:58 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Vai, yes. Satriani, no.
Posted on 2/18/24 at 11:38 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Richard Henshall’s guitar.
Posted on 2/19/24 at 8:52 am to AthensRattler
The Quad was out of MAB's possession for over a decade, it was stolen while on tour with Nitro in El Paso, TX, in the early 1990s. It turned up about 10 years later on a local pawn shop wall for $225. It eventually got back to MAB after its true identity was confirmed.
Ritz guitars were made by Wayne Charvel and another SoCal luthier in 1988 and 1989. They only made about 150 guitars total. I don't know if MAB's Quad was considered and/or is serialized as one guitar or four guitars. The Quad detaches into separate necks/pieces for easier casing and transport.
The Quad also had Gibson-stamped bolt-on plates, left over from Wayne's very short-lived collaboration with Gibson, aka the Gibson WRC.
The coolest of the Ritz run was their shell covered guitars. AKA like Gibson's block and trap inlay material on high-end LPs and SGs ... except body wraps ...
Here's its precursor, the Gibson WRC. I owned one identical to this one back in the day.
Ritz guitars were made by Wayne Charvel and another SoCal luthier in 1988 and 1989. They only made about 150 guitars total. I don't know if MAB's Quad was considered and/or is serialized as one guitar or four guitars. The Quad detaches into separate necks/pieces for easier casing and transport.
The Quad also had Gibson-stamped bolt-on plates, left over from Wayne's very short-lived collaboration with Gibson, aka the Gibson WRC.
The coolest of the Ritz run was their shell covered guitars. AKA like Gibson's block and trap inlay material on high-end LPs and SGs ... except body wraps ...
Here's its precursor, the Gibson WRC. I owned one identical to this one back in the day.
Posted on 2/19/24 at 12:16 pm to SaintlyTiger88
This was made for Steve Vai.
Posted on 2/19/24 at 12:51 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Rickenbacker Model 331 Lightshow Semi-Hollow Body Electric Guitar (1971)
saw Roger McGuinn playing his... "Roger McGuinn used a custom 341/12 live into the later 1970s, usually for the "Eight Miles High" encore at shows."
saw Roger McGuinn playing his... "Roger McGuinn used a custom 341/12 live into the later 1970s, usually for the "Eight Miles High" encore at shows."
This post was edited on 2/19/24 at 12:55 pm
Posted on 2/19/24 at 5:23 pm to CutTheCord
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This was made for Steve Vai.
Steve has a bunch of weird guitars.
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