Post pics of the guitar that started it for you

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Post by SSquirrel » Fri Sep 28, 2012 7:06 am

pp1d00d00 wrote:was prince's insane white thing with the wobbly horn an offset? ah yes, it was!
That was called the Cloud guitar.


As for my guitars, it was definitely Sonic Youth that made me love offsets, but my first guitar was a Peavey Predator. It was a good 5 years later before my stepdad bought me a mid-90s Oly White CIJ Jazzmaster. Still my only offset actually, but I'm hoping to remedy that at tax time this coming year :) The hard part will be deciding what to buy and how much money can I talk my wife into letting me spend :)

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Post by HNB » Fri Sep 28, 2012 3:14 pm

joeybsyc wrote:Owned dozens of Strats, never had any desire for an offset, never played one in my life... a new shop opened in my town and I went in to browse on the grand opening day, saw this hanging among the vintage guitars and fell in love. Bought it 3 days later, and have been an offset junkie ever since.

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I just picked up one just like this today. Should show up next week, but here is a pic. Same case too. :)

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Post by electric12 » Fri Sep 28, 2012 9:46 pm

Originally it would have been this fella
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Dave Brock of hawkwind and his Ibanez Artist. I actually got one in 1982 or something but foolishly traded it in a couple of years later and have missed it ever since.

Then it was Steve Hillage and Strat
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and i've been mostly a Fender player ever since- although my main guitar remains my 82 Tokai!
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Post by gil » Sun Sep 30, 2012 9:11 pm

When I started playing guitar I picked up a Fender catalog and the page with the offsets just drew me in. Something about the shape seemed modern but clearly retro. I just loved it! They looked like spaceships getting ready to take off.

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Post by dfordishes » Mon Oct 01, 2012 1:13 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DEnwUAzPG4" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

From the first time I heard this song, I knew I had to be in a band that sounded like this, and play an offset guitar.
I loved the way the jaguar played over the jazzmaster, the way it sounded so brittle, and the way the tremolo arm could replicate the sound of old warping tapes if used in the right way.

I :-* Jaguars

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Post by blacktiger » Mon Oct 01, 2012 8:51 am

First was John Squires' custom Jag-y thing:

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Soon after was a flood of others, from MBV to Swervedriver to Dinosaur Jr. to Come, etc... Everyone was playing them in the early '90s.
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Post by AndyTran » Mon Oct 01, 2012 2:32 pm

^That's a Jazz bass body.

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Post by Brain_Gallop » Mon Oct 01, 2012 9:00 pm

AndyTran wrote:^That's a Jazz bass body.
Hold up, that he turned into a jag? That is BANANANANANAS!?!

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Post by spilltray » Mon Oct 01, 2012 10:32 pm

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Prior to this, I had a Squire strat and then an Epiphone Les Paul. They were decent enough but when I picked up that Toronado, it was a whole new world. It just felt so much more "right". I've owned a Mustang at one point, and a a few other Toronados, but JMs and Jags were out of my price range until recently.

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Post by starshinepony » Mon Oct 01, 2012 11:41 pm

Hoops wrote:Image
Who is this?

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Post by DerRoy » Tue Oct 02, 2012 12:33 am

joeybsyc wrote:Owned dozens of Strats, never had any desire for an offset, never played one in my life... a new shop opened in my town and I went in to browse on the grand opening day, saw this hanging among the vintage guitars and fell in love. Bought it 3 days later, and have been an offset junkie ever since.

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The Jaguar is lovely enough already, but that case .... :-*
Of course it's alive - you cannot make music with dead Muppaphones.

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Re: Post pics of the guitar that started it for you

Post by DerRoy » Tue Oct 02, 2012 12:42 am

HolyVessel wrote:
DerRoy wrote:
DerRoy wrote:What made me want to play guitar, and an offset at that, was basically the record covers of any early-90's surf-bands playing Jazzies and Jaguars.

Learnt how to play (or rather, how to make heavily reverberated noises ) on a borrowed Hoyer/Höfner/H<somethingorother> until I found this one:
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Horrible action, dead bridge pickup, frets above the 7th practically worn to the fretboard. But hey, it was dirt-cheap, came with the original case, and I loved the sound.
A very comfortable guitar to play, too: The poplar-body is super-lightweight. I got so used to it that after a while I thought electric guitars were always this light.

The shape of the body is practically dead on, and the scale is the same as the Jaguar. I got it for 70 Marks (with case), but that was 15 years ago.
What is this beautiful thing?
It's a Klira Kentucky. Klira was a German manufacturer that produced guitars for Quelle (mail order department store like Sears), but they also sold them under their own brand name. BTW, the bridge is just a metal bar with 6 grooves. If you want to adjust intonation you'll have to take it to a blacksmith, I suppose, or get a real bridge.
Of course it's alive - you cannot make music with dead Muppaphones.

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Post by m3dicated » Tue Oct 02, 2012 4:00 am

starshinepony wrote:
Hoops wrote:Image
Who is this?
Brian Molko of Placebo in his more flamboyant days.

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Post by Firecat » Tue Oct 02, 2012 4:34 am

spilltray wrote:Image
Beautiful guitar, one of the guitar players of Explosions in the Sky plays one of these :)

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Post by Gothjuice » Tue Oct 02, 2012 5:38 am

blacktiger wrote:First was John Squires' custom Jag-y thing:

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Soon after was a flood of others, from MBV to Swervedriver to Dinosaur Jr. to Come, etc... Everyone was playing them in the early '90s.
I've often thought about such a fusion. Pretty cool to see it for real.
Kai wrote:Rowland was the first guitarist I noticed with an offset guitar. I'm sure I'd seen images of Sonic Youth and their guitars before, but it took footage of The Birthday Party playing live to really open my eyes. Rowland often did this thing where he would point the end of his Jaguar directly out in front of him like a gun and then flick the end of it up in time with the music. It was SO cool and worked perfectly with the Jaguar's shape.
He was amazing. That might also be partially true for me as well. I'm not entirely sure his was the very first one I ever saw but the memory of him with that Jag (Which was the same one throughout his career right? Always thought that was cool) is standing above anything else.

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