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...i don't worship instruments, i use them...

i've had lots and lots of guitars...some great, some average, some shitty. in the recent years i started to prefer functionality and playability over name recognition.

for a number of years i've been playing manne guitars quite a bit...it started at first with the BACH album...the SEMIACUSTICA...i loved the fact that it sounded like a strange hybrid, not quite an acoustic guitar not quite electric...andrea ballarin of manne sent me a new electric guitar based on some ideas i gave him and it totally rules!...

one of my favorite guitars ever was that red charvel that's on the picture of me and shawn (lane)...unfortunately it got destroyed during a tour...

bottomline, give me as low an action as possible, low output pickups and i'm a happy camper...

these are the beasts i'm currently keeping around :

The Kids

   

 

                       

Holding hands right to left : Charvel 750, Manne Semiacustica, Charvel Fretless Fusion, Manne Dark Horse, Manne '62, Manne Alex Masi, Farnell Soloist, Farnell Bass, Carvin Rostrum, Carvin Khaler, Pedro Martinez Nylon Strings

 

 

 

 

 The Sauce

 

 
  Top Left: Raagini Tamboura Box, below it: Roland Expression Pedal, on the right: DL4 Line 6 Digital Delay Modeler, above it: Gautama Skinny version, on the right: Cry Baby Wha, on top of it : Joe Meek Pre-Amp, on the right: CS-3 Boss Compressor (top) Digitech Envelope Filter (bottom), right: Frostwave Blue Ringer (bottom), POD 2.3 (middle), Laughing Buddha (top), on the right: Roland V-Wha, last on the right: POD XT 3.1  
     
     

 

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