Can I show off my guitars here?

[Hardrock69]

Friend of mine I was in band with in the Tacoma area in 1978 had a Travis Bean guitar. He named his son Travis Marshall Trader, in honor of the guitar and the amp, lol.

[jhale667]

Did he use it on Heroes, by Bowie or was that an E-bow?
All I know is that I couldn't stand that effect after Ed overused a sustainer.

Didn't think the Ebow was even in existence when Heroes was made...but then I read the first one was made in 1969...I'd always heard Robert Fripp was one of the first users of them, and he played on the Bowie Heroes sessions, so it's possible...


I kinda like the way Vai uses a sustainer, btw...

[chefcraig]

Didn't think the Ebow was even in existence when Heroes was made...but then I read the first one was made in 1969...I'd always heard Robert Fripp was one of the first users of them, and he played on the Bowie Heroes sessions, so it's possible...

Fripp had all sorts of strange effects he'd developed over the years, which first came about when he was collaborating with Brian Eno. He referred to them as "Frippertronics", and made several albums with the devices, which were based on the use of reel to reel tape recorders. The results were either fascinating or repetitive doodling, depending on your tolerance for such things. You'll hear echos of "Heroes" in this piece (indicative of the three albums Fripp made with Bowie during the latter's Berlin period). For me, a little bit of this stuff goes a looong way, and spread over an entire album becomes tedious after more than 3 or 4 minutes.

[ThrillsNSpills]

wiki on Fripp and Heroes:

In addition, King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp generated an unusual sustained sound by allowing his guitar to feed back and sitting at different positions in the room to alter the pitch of the feedback.

[jhale667]

Hey CATO...

Heard back from my friend last night...that thing is so old they're checking the archives...

[Hardrock69]

Wow. Cato may have a vintage Ibanez.

[jhale667]

Wow. Cato may have a vintage Ibanez.

Um, if it's so old no one in their US office recognizes it, quite possibly!

[chefcraig]

Um, if it's so old no one in their US office recognizes it, quite possibly!

Yeah, the headstock looks like it came over on the Mayflower.

[Cato]

Hey CATO...

Heard back from my friend last night...that thing is so old they're checking the archives...

thanks for the effort.
I guess it was made in 1973 or 74 by Fujigen because it has no serial number and the tuning machines(old Gotoh) have stars.

effects had no problem. it was just a trouble of electrical contact.
and a dead PU was replaced. now I can play it!

[GAR]

Model 2614 artist, with controls yanked from a MultiVox paul copy.

As with any Jap guitar, why serial a fraud.. really.. the very idea

What did I win?

[kwame k]

[jhale667]

What did I win?

[GAR]

The stars tuners came on around 76 as I recall, I liked the Velvetune ones with the knurled pinch-shaft on the side that pulled the slack from the gear how tight you liked it.

Those were pretty cool! Whatever happened to them - that's about the only original thing Ibanez ever came out with: the velvetune machine heads..

[rustoffa]

The neck looks like it's on fire.

[Cato]

look at a couple of guitars I got recently!

Tokai Les Paul Reborn (1980)






Vesta Graham VGS (1979)