09 October 2007
matt pike is neat
scrolling through photos of a high on fire in-store appearance at amoeba records, and something just doesn't add up about matt pike's guitar - holy wigsphere! it's a nine-string monstrosity (not a "Nashville guitar" as I had originally posted, though, but Big Joe Williams would be proud): single strings on the bottom 3, double strings on the top 3. some of the heaviest rockin' 'round, and it's comin' out of a studio oddity. a custom-built studio oddity. neat.
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Nashville guitars are amazing.
It's good to see you again, Williwaw (even though you can't see me.)
d'oh. mega-double d'oh. i had it all scrambled. a Nashville guitar is only six strings, with the lower strings tuned an octave above; that is, like a twelve string with lower octaves removed. hence the confusion. matt pike's guitar isn't unique, but it is awfully rare. but curiously enough, it makes sense, as the double courses on the upper three strings don't require a different bridge position for intonation purposes, whereas the octave strings on the other three strings would, if one was particular about intonation, that is. many apologies for the error, confusion and such.
If you think that's odd . . . see First Act's "Bettie" (built for Cheap Trick's Rick Neilsen). . . "And you add not one, not two, not three, but six Kent Armstrong lipstick pickups, with a tone knob, volume knob, and switch for each."
http://www.firstact.com/Products/CustomGuitars/Gallery/Nielsen_Rick_customBettie_6pickups.aspx
Sorry . . . here's the full link:
http://www.firstact.com/Products/CustomGuitars/Gallery/Nielsen_Rick_customBettie_6pickups.aspx
i was at a new year's eve party at one of Rick Nielsen's neighbors, just off Parkview Ave. i think we threw garbage cans into his yard. i'm not sure why. (forgive us, father rick, for our sins...) it was rockford; it was the thing to do. how is this related to custom guitars? i'm not sure. there was a guitar shop called Bobby's, I believe, that had some amazing old, odd guitars and basses, and a cash register filled with IOUs. it was sad, and, not coincidentally, rockford.
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