Stand-Made Guitar Stands - review from Chris Difford (Squeeze)

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As a small family business from Shropshire, we were extremely proud to receive a great review of our product from one of Britain's finest Singer-Songwriters CHRIS DIFFORD (Squeeze). We recently made him an OAK GUITAR STAND/RACK and he was so impressed he was kind enough to offer us his support. You can see a picture of Chris's with his stand (and a few of his guitars!) and read his review on our website - WWW.STAND-MADE.CO.UK . Many thanks!!

EricTheWeary

Honestly, I thought he'd died. I probably need to go look up the meaning of testimonial don't I? :-t

Chuffola

Phew. Me too.

Squeeze are one of my favourite bands. I've loved them since they started. Just watched a small outdoor concert in New York that was on Sky Arts recently - Glen Tilbrook's voice is still superb and Chris Difford's lyrics are as good as anything ever written. 

He was using the polka-dot Tele in that picture.

In my book, that's a fantastic testimonial for your product!

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Chuffola said:

Phew. Me too.

Squeeze are one of my favourite bands. I've loved them since they started. Just watched a small outdoor concert in New York that was on Sky Arts recently - Glen Tilbrook's voice is still superb and Chris Difford's lyrics are as good as anything ever written. 

He was using the polka-dot Tele in that picture.

In my book, that's a fantastic testimonial for your product!

Thank you. I have to say he is genuinely one of the nicest people I've ever met and may they BOTH continue performing for a long time to come!!

Gassage

Chuffola said:

Phew. Me too.

Squeeze are one of my favourite bands. I've loved them since they started. Just watched a small outdoor concert in New York that was on Sky Arts recently - Glen Tilbrook's voice is still superb and Chris Difford's lyrics are as good as anything ever written. 

He was using the polka-dot Tele in that picture.

In my book, that's a fantastic testimonial for your product!

I know Glenn pretty well and I've met Diff too. The Polka dot guitars were made for their 2011 tour- both Fender CS- Glenn has a Strat and Diff the tele. Glenn has some wonderful guitars including a 1952 Blonde Tele given to him by Elvis Costello for singing the backing vox to Good Year for the Roses. His main squeeze (no pun) is a 1966 black tele with Rosewood Board and B Bender. He's also got two of the most wonderful Taylors ever- a redwood 12 string and a dark wood 6 string with one of the best necks I've ever come across.

He is totally a straight into the amp guy- when he tried my Cornish board the comment was "this is the thin end- get me away from it before I spend money..."

And yes, his voice is sublime and his playing ridiculouly good.

Everytime he plays the Shep Bush Empire I get a call for a resident parking permit from him as I have house right by the Empire. I had the honour of doing Some Fantastic Place and Goodbye Girl with him in 2008 and he signed one of my old Tele's-

Chuffola

@Gassage

I am very jealous now!  Without wishing to come over all teenage fanboy - get me an autograph!! Glenn and Chris were the soundtrack to my youth and, unlike so many other bands of that era, still sound as fresh now as then.

Gassage

Chuffola said:

@Gassage

I am very jealous now!  Without wishing to come over all teenage fanboy - get me an autograph!! Glenn and Chris were the soundtrack to my youth and, unlike so many other bands of that era, still sound as fresh now as then.

PM me with your address and I'll email him.

Chuffola

Really? Wow.

Incoming.

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A good deed done indeed!!

Gassage

All done.

TTony

@Stand_Made - you should put some decent pics of your stands on this thread.

Gassage

You should do a matching pedalboard option.

I reckon the way forward is to take a Pedaltrain, and make kind of a wooden cladding frame around it- would be great.

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Gassage said:

You should do a matching pedalboard option.

I reckon the way forward is to take a Pedaltrain, and make kind of a wooden cladding frame around it- would be great.

Let's "talk" soon ;-D

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TTony said:

@Stand_Made - you should put some decent pics of your stands on this thread.

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