The Paris Music Show. Grande Halle de la Villette
(Porte de Pantin)April 7 1998.
Part 4 High quality American guitars.
Part 1. Objectives, Horns, Mandolinos
Part 2. Continue with the Salon Tour, meet some people,
Part 3. Check out some high quality French acoustic, Dobro and Electric guitars,
Part 4. High quality American guitars,
Part 5. Pascal Rocket's visit deals with the drums we saw and heard.
Part 6. Stringkiller's conclusions
Part 1. Objectives, Horns, Mandolinos
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American Guitars
Prs , Martin , Dana Bourgeois , Jackson , Ovation and finally a Japanese competitor Ibanez.
OK Gaffarel were not showing Gibson and Fender, Rickenbacker but I did get to see some PRS models. This Santana was priced at 55,000 french Francs - more than the Dr Pickup group earns in a day- just kidding. That’s near on 10,000 US dollars!
Here’s one of those lovely PRS vintage yellow Custom 10 tops
What a disappointment - The fullbodied archtop PRS guitars had to be returned to the US the day before. I really like PRS axes and was disappointed that this Red PRS Mc Carthy looked mediocre, felt terrible and weighed as much as my own PRS which is not a hollow body. Sorry Paul, but every other Mc Carthy I have touched and played were fantastic, this one just did not have that 'feel' factor.
Here is a beautiful Martin, dig the headstock. Wouldn’t mind playing this :-)
Here is a guitar from Dana Bourgeois, mm wouldn’t mind trying this!
A funky graphic guitar from Jackson. My friend Robert Jackson plays these and his guitar sounds great (especially when he’s playing it)
Other Jacksons - Dig the shape of the one in the middle!
Here’s one for Roger, me mate who has a wonderful Ovation
Some of the Japanese competition - Ibanez
This guy was wailin’. Smart guy would let people sit in with him encourage them on to really wail with some help from a wonderfull palette of sounds, and then they would move on while another unsuspecting guy would take their place. He was really pushing them. Bravo!
The Pat Metheny model
Part 1.Objectives, Horns, Mandolinos
Part 2.Continue with the Salon Tour, meet some people,
Part 3. Check out some high quality French acoustic, Dobro and Electric guitars
Part 4. High quality American guitars
Part 5. Pascal Rocket's visit deals with the drums we saw and heard.
Part 6. Stringkiller's conclusions
What a disappointment - The fullbodied archtop PRS guitars had to be returned to the US the day before. I really like PRS axes and was disappointed that this Red PRS Mc Carthy looked mediocre, felt terrible and weighed as much as my own PRS which is not a hollow body. Sorry Paul, but every other Mc Carthy I have touched and played were fantastic, this one just did not have that 'feel' factor.
Here is a beautiful Martin, dig the headstock. Wouldn’t mind playing this :-)
Here is a guitar from Dana Bourgeois, mm wouldn’t mind trying this!
A funky graphic guitar from Jackson. My friend Robert Jackson plays these and his guitar sounds great (especially when he’s playing it)
Other Jacksons - Dig the shape of the one in the middle!
Here’s one for Roger, me mate who has a wonderful Ovation
Some of the Japanese competition - Ibanez
This guy was wailin’. Smart guy would let people sit in with him encourage them on to really wail with some help from a wonderfull palette of sounds, and then they would move on while another unsuspecting guy would take their place. He was really pushing them. Bravo!
The Pat Metheny model
Part 1.Objectives, Horns, Mandolinos
Part 2.Continue with the Salon Tour, meet some people,
Part 3. Check out some high quality French acoustic, Dobro and Electric guitars
Part 4. High quality American guitars
Part 5. Pascal Rocket's visit deals with the drums we saw and heard.
Part 6. Stringkiller's conclusions
The Dr Pickup Real Audio Files
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