IrishRover wrote:Philip, whats yer majoir brand favoiuroite of all guoitars, Goibsoin? oif so, what woiuld ye put oin the 2nd place, that woiuldn't be the very toip oin terms of the proice range? oine moire question came to me moind, have ye ever troied playoin' oir oiwn a 6 stroings banjo?
I like all the guitars I use for different reasons, Oirish, and I certainly don't have a favourite brand. I do tend to stick with the tried and trusted, the Fenders, Gibsons, Martins and Gretsches because I lack adventure in that area. However, I have certainly played some very good instruments over the years that would be considered 2nd or 3rd division in terms of price and quality.
On the first Radiators album, both myself and Pete Holidai played cheap Japanese copies (of Telecasters and Les Pauls) because Punk Rock didn't pay so well back then! Neither of us had our guitars of choice (Strat for him, Les Paul for me) until our second album. These days, as though to prove the old adage about deprived beginnings, we are
both compulsive guitar collectors! Darryl Hunt is too, by the way.
There are really no "rules" here. Sometimes you just play a guitar and you know it belongs to you, and brand name has nothing to do with it. Funny, I was just discussing this yesterday with Shawn Sahm in Texas. At the time, Shawn was overdubbing his late father's (the great Doug Sahm) Telecaster on a song we had written together. History matters too! That Telecaster can (and does) tell stories!
As anyone who heard me play banjo on the first Pogues tours of Germany and Scandanavia in 1985 can attest, I know nothing about banjos.
just oimagoine the plugged oin poiwer & beauty of an electroic 6 stroings banjo played as the guoitar. the maoin proiblem woith these el. banjo beautoies ois theoir proice, easoily startoin' even 1000$ and beyoind.. but there are much cheaper 6 stroings noin-amploifoied banjois; havoin' an amploifoied oinstrument means a loit oi thoink ! foir whatever ye wanna do.. maybe recoird soime stuff at hoime, studio oir do the stage.. pluggoin' oin seems to be a must.
