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Philly Q

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Re: Aston Martin guitars
« Reply #15 on: May 25, 2012, 12:37:57 PM »
We shall see.....  :lol:
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Re: Aston Martin guitars
« Reply #16 on: May 25, 2012, 02:25:39 PM »
I'll let you into a secret... (which might help explain things, or it might not)

I agree with you on that PRS :lol:


Crikey!  :o

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OK then..... maybe it's something to do with the fact that Fenders have bolt-on necks?

So, consciously or subconsciously, you're looking at the neck and body of the Fender as "separate entities"....? 

Which obviously doesn't apply to the PRS.

Nope, I think my aversion to painted headstocks on strats (and teles) is a LOT simpler than that:

All of my personal strat-playing heroes are associated with "vintage" strats with maple headstocks... I clocked on to that look in 1979 or so, and ever since then I've wanted that look if I'm buying/playing a strat... that's it :lol:

Doesn't really apply to any other guitar for me. I have several other types of guitar that do indeed have painted headstocks and cause me no pain or misgiving.


The fingerboard-perception thing is a bit more complex and possibly not entirely relevant to the above...

I only just realised that I look at guitars this way and that others possibly don't. It applies to all guitars, possibly even all stringed instruments. I realised that I've always viewed the fingerboard as a distinct, almost "separate" part of a guitar. It's the "playing field" on which I doodle, I can almost say that I regard it as the instrument itself, the rest is "extras", all important and mostly essential extras, but in my mind the "instrument" is its fingerboard and the frets (if it has any)...

The fact I've been playing bolt-on electrics for years might have reinforced this, but I've had it ever since the first acoustics I owned.
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Re: Aston Martin guitars
« Reply #17 on: May 25, 2012, 03:03:12 PM »
as far as car themed guitars go - i kind of prefer this one:

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Re: Aston Martin guitars
« Reply #18 on: May 25, 2012, 06:49:22 PM »
Jon, you b'stard... I was just going to post a picture of that Rudolf V!

Guess I'll have to post the Mercedes one..

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Re: Aston Martin guitars
« Reply #19 on: May 26, 2012, 12:16:06 AM »
I have to say I'm not a fan of those Vs, at all.

If I had the choice of one of these guitars, I guess it'd be the Jaguar Strat.
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Re: Aston Martin guitars
« Reply #20 on: May 26, 2012, 02:32:41 AM »
as far as car themed guitars go - i kind of prefer this one:



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Re: Aston Martin guitars
« Reply #21 on: May 26, 2012, 07:50:54 AM »
I have to say I'm not a fan of those Vs, at all.

If I had the choice of one of these guitars, I guess it'd be the Jaguar Strat.

I'm glad it's not just me :D

I don't have a V yet, and I possibly never will - but they do intrigue me and I like the shape.

But start putting car references on Vs and they seem to get just a little bit too "industrial" for my tastes (the other shapes do as well, but not so much in my eyes). They seem to lose the "attractiveness" of both the guitar and the cars they're referencing. The Ferrari V maybe not so much, because my image of Ferraris (or the road models anyway) is somewhat angular anyway.

However, you can probably all disregard my opinions entirely on this subject. Cars, and motor-vehicles in general, really do not ring my bell and never have done. Some are more attractive than others, but really they're just tools to get me from A to B. For all the "sexyness" and "oh wow" factors they seem to raise in other folks, they excite about as much interest for me as a super-market trolley would if I thought about it! :lol: (this will possibly sound terribly shocking for those of you who love your cars etc... please forgive me!)
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Re: Aston Martin guitars
« Reply #22 on: May 26, 2012, 10:04:45 AM »
However, you can probably all disregard my opinions entirely on this subject. Cars, and motor-vehicles in general, really do not ring my bell and never have done. Some are more attractive than others, but really they're just tools to get me from A to B. For all the "sexyness" and "oh wow" factors they seem to raise in other folks, they excite about as much interest for me as a super-market trolley would if I thought about it! :lol: (this will possibly sound terribly shocking for those of you who love your cars etc... please forgive me!)

I'm with you on that, Andy!  I don't even drive, so my opinion's pretty much irrelevant, but cars don't really do anything for me.

.....which isn't entirely true, because when I watch old British films from the '40s to '60s there is something fascinating about old Humbers and things like that, I know not why....!  :lol:  And up until the '70s/'80s I was pretty good at recognising different makes and models.

But now all the vehicles on the road seem to be sleek, aerodynamic things, nearly all of them are either silver or black.... and I genuinely can't tell them apart.  If I witnessed a hit-and-run or something, apart from the colour and maybe the number of doors, I'd have no chance of identifying the vehicles involved.


(Flying Vs are a different matter.... although I've decided they, like Explorers, Firebirds and 335s, are basically too big for me, I do still love the basic design.  If I ever buy another, it'll definitely be of the '58 variety.)
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Re: Aston Martin guitars
« Reply #23 on: May 26, 2012, 01:57:25 PM »
To me the whole project is upsidedown.You're buying an overhyped brandname.Rich bling.
I like brandnames like Fender because they developed a product that was great which then made the brand famous.
When a company just bolts on a brandname to anyold bit of designer junk,i think as a buyer you've been had.This doesn't matter if you have money to waste.
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Re: Aston Martin guitars
« Reply #24 on: May 26, 2012, 09:30:41 PM »
I'm surprised Yngwie doesn't play that Ferrari V

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Re: Aston Martin guitars
« Reply #25 on: May 26, 2012, 10:29:37 PM »
To me the whole project is upsidedown.You're buying an overhyped brandname.Rich bling.
I like brandnames like Fender because they developed a product that was great which then made the brand famous.
When a company just bolts on a brandname to anyold bit of designer junk,i think as a buyer you've been had.This doesn't matter if you have money to waste.
Modern marketing at its worst.

I couldn't agree more. The guitar looks cool enough, but philly pointed out earlier it's more or less a "rip off" of known guitars (I know it's hard not to).
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Re: Aston Martin guitars
« Reply #26 on: May 28, 2012, 01:53:02 PM »
surprised no ones posted the Gibson Corvette:



I happen to think it looks alright!
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Re: Aston Martin guitars
« Reply #27 on: May 28, 2012, 01:54:47 PM »
this Gibson Corvette looks pretty awful though:

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Re: Aston Martin guitars
« Reply #28 on: May 28, 2012, 02:10:46 PM »
^

I think both those Gibsons look cool, in their own ways!  :D

But more as ornaments than guitars.  I'd hang them on the wall, but I think they'd be a bit embarrassing to actually play.

PRS did a Corvette model too, a modified Standard 22:




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Re: Aston Martin guitars
« Reply #29 on: June 02, 2012, 08:04:13 AM »
If I was at a gig and met someone actually using one of these, I would be very surprised.  At the very least I would expect it to be some kind of post-modern ironical statement. Personally  I'm a sucker for winged symbology - but I'd maybe go for something pharaonic  8)
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