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I've never seen anything like this before:
What I've been liking recently are these short improvisations he did for Carter Vintage Guitars - you know the score, get a guitarist in to do noodling on your expensive vintage guitars in hopes it inspires someone to buy it. Except up a notch, I think. And on some apparently out-of-character guitars, too. At least now I know it's really the player and not the instrument, which will save me a lot of money and disappointment in the long run, I think.
I thought it was a vintage ‘54 that had been refinished a couple of times? The fact he has the pickup selector in the middle for the neck pickup suggests it's vintage correct wiring.
Julian Lage seems to think so:
“Julian Lage: Right, right! It’s a ’54 Tele that I think went back for a [factory] refinish in ’57. I got it from Paul McKenzie, from Fiesta Finishes in Berkeley, California, and he had just refinished it. As a guitarist you know that those are kind of untouchable, usually, as far buying them, or finding them at a reasonable price, but because it had two refinishes it wasn’t exactly “stock.” The pickups and everything else is original, it’s just been painted a couple times.”
But...the Tele' in the Layman & Blue What videos look like different guitars, or at least have different finishes. I think the guitar in the Blue Whale videos is his refin '54 and the Layman video is his Nachocaster
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The second time was after Modern Lore came out. I dig Arclight and the tele vibe but the pace of the playing around this time was too frenetic and the dissonant parts turned me off, like he got bored of the melodic slower tunes. It was Camden and sweaty so maybe he felt that was in keeping. As you can guess I dont enjoy the Fred Hirsch/Nels Cline collabs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8E2imKciBo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gfmin0aeoqY
unfortunately I did not figure into it the fact I can’t play for shit compared to Julian.
Stevie Flynn at Flynn Amps from Glasgow makes one but it's £900 which looks to be about the going rate for a high quality clone. I'm tempted but resisting so far...