| re: the American Guitar | |
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crazy_janey 12:21 am UTC 06/26/09 |
| In reply to: | re: the American Guitar - Scaramouche 11:02 am UTC 06/24/09 |
> Ha I've wondered this as well. Perhaps Jim was trying to > be clever in that he didn't remember if it was a > Telecaster or a Stratocaster so chose something else? > > The guitar to me is a bit of a hybrid. The neck & > headstock is almost certainly from a Fender Telecaster: > http://jimsteinman.com/neverland.htm > > The body is almost certainly a Gibson Explorer but with a > modified scratchplate, only one humbucker pick-up, and one > volume control. > > Either Jim borrowed it from someone or he had it > custom-made. > It does seem deliberate- the fact that there is a close-up of the neck/ headstock seems that he wants to emphasize that it was in fact a Fender; however, if he used an actual Tele or a Strat, it wouldn't be ambiguous anymore. (He couldn't remember)Thus, I think maybe they changed the body on purpose. Either that, or it just cleverly worked out that way. ;0) | |
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