CUSTOM MACHINES: WHAT'S YOUR fAVORITE QUITAR FANTASY?
At the time of this writing, the Grateful Dead just finished a concert at San Francisco's Cow Palace, where 14,000 strong turned out to see them run through a sound check with their new sound system engineered by Alembic, Inc., a custom outfit in San Francisco.
CUSTOM MACHINES: WHAT'S YOUR fAVORITE QUITAR FANTASY?
EXTENSION CHORDS
Micheal Brooks
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At the time of this writing, the Grateful Dead just finished a concert at San Francisco's Cow Palace, where 14,000 strong turned out to see them run through a sound check with their new sound system engineered by Alembic, Inc., a custom outfit in San Francisco. The same company which made Jack Casady's hot new $4,000 bass. The Dead's new system is but a mere $350,000 for those penny-pinchin" mamas out there. That's a price!
But the theory goes, if you're going to be a musician, a true musician, you'll want your music played and sounded to your audiences as you hear it in your head. And, what the hell, a Stradivarius violin (made by Antonio in the late 17th and early 18th century) goes for six-digit figures, not so much because of its age, but its sound. So why shouldn't a guitar player be as equally enthused about custom instruments as a violinist, especially since a concert violinist makes less than half of what a top-selling guitarist does. And let it be known that the theory is catching on.