inventery
gigster
about gigs
in the spotlight
the first semi-solid-body
electric guitar in the world
a new template of design
Growing as a musician isn't just
about equipment, and neither
are most opportunities to play.
The most important influences
and examples of communication
that helped me invent my guitar.
A story about a night in Toronto
when he helped me make up my
mind about playing left-handed
with bass strings on the bottom.
The acoustic has the electric strings I use only lighter gauge, to break my fingers in gradually, so they toughen outside without callouses.
With my electric being in parts for over a year, I wanted to go over and write songs and get working on my fingers without having to plug in.
Please don't judge the tone and buzz of this guitar by what I've done to it here.
I'm also holding it so you don't see my face.
Merci beaucoup again, President Robert for a kind and generous letter.
a band contest in Niagara Falls,
now over, still activated after.
Where else can a local boy
shop for very good offers,
and take ad-vantage too,
interior email for musicians.
many questioned the reality of my semi-solid-body guitar, and my ability
to play with the bass strings on the bottom, and that's putting it politely.
I put up this video playing an acoustic to quell the rising tide against me.
You may have heard squeaky Fender tremolo arms before, but my squeak not only
out-squeaks any squeak you ever squeaked, it's squealing or alternately squelches
and squirts out new audible frequencies that will get you squirming or act squirrelly.
This is my reply to Jimi Hendrix's "And the Gods Made Love" on "Electric Ladyland".
George Benson
Conduct yourself in a symphonic way, when you log in to
Take a breather and see some fresh canal air, before we find the entrance to the
studio of Master Photographer Thies Bogner, for this walk-in one-take nine minute
explanatory video, starting with traditional tapping, wiggling fingers into openings,
shoving my hand inside and moving it around, and when I start rubbing the wood
between the pickups chasing some harmonics around, you'll be having a first-time
viewing and listening experience, a new phenomena I call "accelerated acoustics".
lookin'to buy?
Even though it's just a cold, first-take attempt, I still wanted to impress,
so I decided to play all six strings all the time, warming up with one string, droning the rest, getting into "Little Wing".... rapping off Harmony Central user names, riffing off comments about what's really reggae and how one-
chop "Maneater" by Hall & Oates is. I knew I wanted to try some tapping.
about gigs
inventery
in the spotlight
George Benson
gigster
lookin'to buy?
For seven minutes you may wonder, then the proof.
A Stratocaster Tremolo Unit Arm tone poem.
Marine mammal frequencies? Hump-back me up on bass:
My favorite antique and vintage to semi-hollow-body:
A high school friends' mountain hiking and family domain:
He said they agreed with my use
of the term "semi-solid-body".
That made it official for me.
Jon, the owner of Ring Music in
Toronto, where I ordered my two
custom '64 Strat repiica necks and
bought a third over twenty years
later, caught my message, emailing
back to say he and staff watched
my video and discussed it.
Trying to get into it, when I began logging in to
THIS DOMAIN IS JUST GETTING STARTED - hang on to your mouse!
One Haida creation myth, predating glacial oral history, has mankind walking out of
the mouths of Orca onto a beach. Only one mammal has a fetus indistinguishable from human, to Doctors and Scientists, up until the age of three months. The Orca.
in the world
gigster
invented by John Watt
invented by John Watt
gigster
gigster
title page
title page
the first semi-solid-body electric guitar
the first semi-solid-body electric guitar
in the world
Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix
Stratocasters: Marshalls: effects:
a loud sixties style tone zone trip.
some nice rock down memory lane