If Joe Naylor is still using Kent Armstrongs p-90s, you'd be amazed as they are lower output with more twang and note articulation than the barking dog tendency of the average gibson p-90. Barking dogs are great for brutalizing postmen and musicians trying to sleep at 11am but not for a rockabilly guitar or country git.
oh, reverend guitars! cool looking guitars and cool price! There is only one dealer in germany of it. I`m always receive his advertising emails but i never tried one.
TV, did you play one?
tvthewiredturtle
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oh, reverend guitars! cool looking guitars and cool price! There is only one dealer in germany of it. I`m always receive his advertising emails but i never tried one.
TV, did you play one?
ya unplugged,Last yr at Winter NAmm show he had a "prototype"... but a rep was playing one through an orange 212 combo AD30 I think. I have never owned an import rev, just the americans from the start. My first was #185, a commando. I jones for one every couple of yrs, trying to find a rocco or slingshot to fool around with. This was my last one with the armstrong p-90s.
Brett
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Subject: Re: Gretsch Alternative...hmmm YES.. Thu Dec 18, 2008 2:01 am
tvthewiredturtle wrote:
I have never owned an import rev, just the americans from the start. [/img]
there are 2 kinds of guitars?
tvthewiredturtle
Posts : 3646 Join date : 2008-04-20 Age : 59 Location : so cal.
Subject: Re: Gretsch Alternative...hmmm YES.. Thu Dec 18, 2008 7:41 am
Brett wrote:
tvthewiredturtle wrote:
I have never owned an import rev, just the americans from the start. [/img]
there are 2 kinds of guitars?
The american guitars are now collector items basically. they were all the same shape (like the one above) but they had different pkup/bridge configs and tops. That era is over and its sad but oh well...
welcome to a grip of new variations of the classics with a Joe Naylor twist called "reverend". Its big bang for the buck but it aint what Reverend use to be...cant say that about this Sig model twang box though... I'm not sure what is involved with this new pete model because it is the most expensive model Reverend guitar I've ever seen.
I just wanted to share something a little different that looks fun in the Genre. In a yr we can probably pick one up for $700???
Brett
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Subject: Re: Gretsch Alternative...hmmm YES.. Thu Dec 18, 2008 9:58 am
tvthewiredturtle wrote:
In a yr we can probably pick one up for $700???
yep, you`re probably right. It´s an interesting brand for sure. I watched it now for a while, but never really tried one. At the end a Gretsch guitar kicks me more.
Thanks for the explanation.
B
pony65k
Posts : 684 Join date : 2008-09-07 Age : 57 Location : Adelaide, South Australia
Just had a look at the Aussie dealer's prices. Wow, all around the $1K AUD mark, worth checking out although the PA Sig isn't on the list. Funky shapes, I dig it. (Ahhh proper English now!)
René-a-pony
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the older american reverend guitars are really great rhythm guitars, but for a picker they are strange. Even with the frets as low as possible to the body, there's a bizarre give to the instrument and if you like to play fast, its like running through a wet football field in rubber boots. If you are a slow hand blues cat, then its a really sweet and toneful guitar. I played a summer as a sideman in an emo-core band with 2 reverends (rocco and slingshot) and a tophat king royale (ac30 clone), and these guitars stayed in tune whether it was a hot packed room or sweltering outdoor gig and laid out the phat sonic mulch the band needed. They didnt want me using my gretsch but let me keep my pomp... man I hate emo..'cept for AFI and Weezer.
It was worth it since I got their drummer as mine, he use to play for the Beautiful Mistake:
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