Housekeeping: I Need You To Buy A Magazine And A Custom Guitar From Me, Pronto
Although my duties as E-I-C pro tem of this august website take up quite a bit of my time, I still have space in the day to do a few other things. It would be nice, therefore, if you supported my other activities as reluctantly fervently as you support my work here at TTAC. And here’s how: For the low, low price of $4.99 and/or $1,599, respectively, you can now buy a magazine and/or a brand-new custom guitar from the skunkworks of my mirror-bright creativity.
If you’re a musician, or just want to look like one, you might be interested in another one of my side projects. Some years ago, I hired a fellow named Chris O’Dee to build a series of guitars for me. During one of our evening jam sessions, he showed me something that he’d built on a whim for a certain long-bearded Texan blues-rock musician. We took that basic design and refined it to create the MelodyBurner, an ash-bodied, no-frills “rat guitar”. It starts at $999 but if you want to play the same MelodyBurner that I do (why you’d want to do that, I’m not sure) you’ll want to opt for the PRS-style full rosewood neck and twin-humbucker layout that runs $1,599.
We just got a great review in this month’s issue of Vintage Guitar, which you can pick up while you’re at the bookstore buying your copy of Road&Track. You can find out more here. Contact us, mention TTAC, and, um, I’ll throw in a free set of Cobalt strings. I’d offer you more but frankly we’re not making a ton of money on these things. At least not yet. As soon as the waiting list exceeds twelve months (it’s at six and climbing right now) the price is going through the ceiling, I swear.
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Well I picked R/T up. Took about 45 minutes to read. Yes, yours was a good article, Jack. The rest pretty much sucked the big one. It appeared to be written to appeal to 20 year olds, lacking only an excess of exclamation marks. Webster trying to be hip at his age really toned the place down. Me no biy again. The June Car & Driver, by contrast, is very good actual commentary and some real road tests. They damned the Kia Forte with a passion, and their view on the CLA mirrors mine. Etcetera. No contest in my mind.
Allow me to clear something up here . A few comments made in reference to my initial post seem to be implying I was disparaging the Value of the guitar on offer here by Jack . Not only was I not : but in fact I never even so much as mentioned ' value ' in the comments I made . So let me be clear on this ; ANY quality guitar [ which in light of Jack's tastes in axes I assume it is ] ... electric or acoustic and hand made in the US for a mere $1000 is a good value . Fact is even Jacks PRS ... and in fact aLL PRS guitars [ in comparison to Gibson etc ] are a good value . Period ! For the record the modifications alone to my 59 Melody Maker back in the day well and good exceeded $1000 All I said was for me personally I do not need or want this guitar seeing as how as mentioned I've already been down a similar road . But should anyone else want or desire this guitar Jack has on offer ? If it suits their needs and playing styles .. damn right they should . As to the only one pickup dilemma some have whined about . If a single pickup was and is good enough for the likes of Eddie Van Halen and especially Alan Holdsworth etc ..... its sure as ___ good enough for anybody . Cause it aint the number of pickups .... its the player ;-) Bda Bda Bda ... thats all folks !