ramblings 14 Apr 2008 06:30 pm
Guitars! Guitars! Guitars!
So, I've been shopping around trying to get the right guitar for The Monitors. The 3 guitars that are pictured are as follows from left to right… Godin LG, Fender Telecaster (made in Mexico), and the Godin Exit 22. These are the actual colors of the guitars in question…
Now, you may know that I bought the Godin LG a couple of months ago. It's a really great guitar… well built, solid and sounds great. However, I was having all kinds of intonation problems with it. Certain chords would be out of tune, and others would be fine. I bought it from my good buddy Kane over at Sticks and Strings (a great local music shop). After working on it a couple of times he said, "bring it back, and we'll do whatever we need to make you happy". Thanks Kane!
I decided to just return it for store credit and pick something different. After playing many, many, many guitars, I narrowed it down to a used (made in Mexico) Fender Telecaster, or a brand new Godin Exit 22. I've always wanted a Telecaster… however, the Tele isn't perfect, it has similar issues that the LG had, but it's a really good guitar. The Exit 22 is solid, has good hardware, and seems like a great guitar, too.
The used Tele is well under budget, which means that I can afford to "hot-rod it" as Kane says with my store credit. Which means putting in new pickups, fancy locking tuning keys, etc… sounds like a great idea to me. The Exit 22 is much closer to the same price that the LG was which leaves a lot less for upgrades.
As it stands now, the Exit 22 sounds slightly better… but, I would really like the Telecaster. So, my first choice is to get the Telecaster (assuming Kane can get it in tip-top shape. If not… then the Exit22 is what I'll be rocking.
Tune in later for the exciting conclusion…
on 14 Apr 2008 at 8:31 pm 1.The Wife said …
*yawn*
on 14 Apr 2008 at 10:20 pm 2.Annie said …
I say go for the Telecaster! Then you’ll be like Kurdt Kobain, man!
And anything Kane can “hot rod” is gonna be a hot commodity. You can advertise this: The Monitors, featuring guitarist Morgan Schlaline, playing a Fender Telecaster Pimped by Kane of the Provocative Whites who just finished recording with Steve Albini at Electric Audio.
Which would be a long flier. But awesome. An Awesome Long Flier.
on 15 Apr 2008 at 1:15 am 3.Morgan said …
Also, I would be just like Frank Black Francis, and Andy Summers with the Tele… Nobody plays Godins though… except for Kane, and I think Seal.
And that WOULD be a awesome long flier! If I get the Tele, I’ll put together that flier… that awesome long flier.
Speaking of fliers… the font on the April 11th flier was called Dom Casual. You have a good eye… it does look a lot like Comic Sans (which I can’t stand either). But the Dom Casual looked more like a Sharpie to me than anything - so I used it. I just made a new flier for our April 30th show… it has lots of cool fonts. Check it out at http://www.myspace.com/themonitorsrock
on 17 Apr 2008 at 2:58 pm 4.christa said …
can i make your next flyer?