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Johnny Mac

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I found this earlier
« on: April 22, 2008, 10:40:17 PM »
I found this on the Eastwood Guitar website....


I found this Guitar review on Harmony Central a little while back. It was written in 1999, author unknown.
 
Ok. here's the whole reason why I'm submitting this review. Part of this really should go under the Tone section, but I'm going to do it all here. It took my about 30 seconds to realize this was going to be a noise guitar and nothing else, so I plugged it into my trusty Big Muff, cranked everything to 10, ran a line into the beat little Musicman RP65, turned that to 10, made a little under-my-breath apology to the people in the apartment next door, and set about giving this weak little guitar a last hurrah. I wove screwdrivers into the strings. I lay it on the floor and stood on it and pulled the neck up toward me. I smashed it into the floor jamb. I wrenched and mauled and molested that guitar in every way i could think of for for a solid half hour, a little Radio Shack tape player recording the whole thing. And I will never be able to describe the undogly squall that POURED out of the amp while the Hi-Lo protested its mistreatment. Howls of agony. Shrieking harmonics that couldn't even stay in tune with themselves. Torrents of feedback. A strange, crackling, grinding hum that didn't seem to have anything to do with what I was playing. A non stop heavy metal/horror movie/auto accident/industrial site cacaphony. And after that half hour was over, I sat there sweating and in bad need of a drink, and the Hi-lo was unharmed. So of course I took it out for another round a few days later. This time I attached a pair of vice grips to the tailpiece to use as a whammy bar. Same thing. Pure, unfilter, nonmusical noise from stop to start, and the guitar survived again, though the tail was little bent up now. So I took a second pair of vice grips and attached the to the headstock. By thispoint I was twisting the guitar like i was wringing out a wet towel, and still the noise poured out, and still it held up. Finally, after about an hour and a half, after I had propped it headstock-down on the floor and was leaning with all my weight on the vice grips at the tailpiece, the bridge fell out. I still had string tension, and the noise just changed tone a little. Then eventually the tailpiece itself fell off and one would thing that would be the end. Nope, kept feeding back and howing and squaking, same as ever. I had to physically rip the pickups out of the body before it stopped making noise, and even then you could still play around with the leftover hum by jiggling the patchcord in the jack a little. I have honestly never seen such a cr@ppy guitar put up with so much in all my days.
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Will

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I found this earlier
« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2008, 10:46:35 PM »
So, its a cr@p guitar? and until you take the strings away from the pickups, it will still make noise  :idea:

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I found this earlier
« Reply #2 on: April 23, 2008, 07:05:28 PM »
That's hilarious! I can't imagine any guitar being THAT bad to anger someone so much that they would go through all that.

Ratrod

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« Reply #3 on: April 23, 2008, 07:09:26 PM »
That's brilliant! I wish that guy taped it and put it on youtube.
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