GFS / Earl Slick guitars
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 11:29 am
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Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 11:42 am
White aged tele is great but the headstock is gash. But would definitely have one of those.
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 12:07 pm
I saw him playing with the New York Dolls a couple of years ago. Played good for a 312 year old fella.
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 12:32 pm
He's like Keith Richards times 9/11.
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 2:34 pm
Get yer Joan Jett on for cheaps. Hmm.. still want a JJ signature.
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 2:52 pm
^Was looking at these the other night and that's the one I like. Probably a bit more Telecastery in feel than MM/Jr with the ash body and bolt-on maple neck. I love that funky, recessed high-mass brass wraparound... SO '70s.
Probably the premier wanky sideman of my early record collection, and one of few who gets a pass; thought it was kind of hilarious when he played with the Dolls, it seemed so wrong and so right at the same time (granted he's cut a lot of the gratuitous flash out of his leads since the '80s). Every time I see his name in print I invariably either hear John Lennon calling out his name before a stawk rawk solo or the record "David Live" [Bowie @ Tower Philadelphia] where Bowie was touring Diamond Dogs material with his newly-found/yet-to-be-recorded Young Americans aesthetic and Slick just noodles through every song.
Probably the premier wanky sideman of my early record collection, and one of few who gets a pass; thought it was kind of hilarious when he played with the Dolls, it seemed so wrong and so right at the same time (granted he's cut a lot of the gratuitous flash out of his leads since the '80s). Every time I see his name in print I invariably either hear John Lennon calling out his name before a stawk rawk solo or the record "David Live" [Bowie @ Tower Philadelphia] where Bowie was touring Diamond Dogs material with his newly-found/yet-to-be-recorded Young Americans aesthetic and Slick just noodles through every song.
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 11:11 pm
Man I will never get over GFS product descriptions.
"What's the formula for incredible LP sound?? Oh how about using the BEST wood... The BEST hardware...The BEST tuners....The BEST pickups...
Yeah that's how we do it."
Oh, right, because that should be said about a $219, bolt-neck, single-knob, flat-top LP copy mass-produced who knows where? Sometimes I feel like emailing them and telling them they sound like huge ass hats and I'd never buy one of these just based off that fact.
That aside though, I do like the look of the bodies, but not anything else. Necks look unfinished, "hand-slotted" nut on a cheap guitar does not bode well, brass tuning pegs and strap buttons don't fit. All things that could be changed, yeah, but I find Axl Badwater guitars a lot more interesting for the price. Too bad that series was chopped down to almost nothing.
"What's the formula for incredible LP sound?? Oh how about using the BEST wood... The BEST hardware...The BEST tuners....The BEST pickups...
Yeah that's how we do it."
Oh, right, because that should be said about a $219, bolt-neck, single-knob, flat-top LP copy mass-produced who knows where? Sometimes I feel like emailing them and telling them they sound like huge ass hats and I'd never buy one of these just based off that fact.
That aside though, I do like the look of the bodies, but not anything else. Necks look unfinished, "hand-slotted" nut on a cheap guitar does not bode well, brass tuning pegs and strap buttons don't fit. All things that could be changed, yeah, but I find Axl Badwater guitars a lot more interesting for the price. Too bad that series was chopped down to almost nothing.
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2014 1:27 am
these look like the shit that are in mom and pop shops for 89 dollars because they cant afford a fender license
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2014 1:30 am
sooooooooooooooo boring
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2014 4:58 pm
Do like.cur wrote:
Get yer Joan Jett on for cheaps. Hmm.. still want a JJ signature.
Reminds me of the cheapo guitar Paul Westerberg was playing on that infamous snl performance.
Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 6:33 pm
I'm totally in love with it!Noirie. wrote:Do like.cur wrote:
Get yer Joan Jett on for cheaps. Hmm.. still want a JJ signature.
Reminds me of the cheapo guitar Paul Westerberg was playing on that infamous snl performance.
Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 10:00 pm
yes, i love how bare bones this shit is.
Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2014 7:58 am
I've seen worse. I prolly wouldn't own one. Too simple. I need a shit load of pickups and switches. I'd need to go back to a regiment of Ritalin to understand one of those.
Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2014 9:31 am
Rock'n'roll is the simplest thing in the world. It ought to be
Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2014 1:03 pm
Rox wrote: I need a shit load of pickups and switches. I'd need to go back to a regiment of Ritalin to understand one of those.
Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2014 12:17 am
It's got a bridge P90, so it only needs a tone control added before it sounds better than most other guitars in the history of your face for basic crunchy rawk.
Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2014 3:03 pm
Nick, lol.
Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2014 4:02 pm
when i saw the thread i was hoping for something like this brown one he plays here...
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these sigs seem cool though and i like the headstock
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these sigs seem cool though and i like the headstock