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28.07.2007, 19:06

The fact that Steve Carr and I both love beer and loud class A valve amps.... a trans-global relationship based on chasing the good things in life- fate indeed!

- davidcarr

30.07.2007, 00:04

I can see by our preferred perspective regarding photo angles, we might see eye to eye on quite a few other things too, David... ;)

- jussi

05.10.2007, 17:18

Question: What can come between a player with a Gretsch Black falcon and a Gretsch Country classic 12 string?

- davidcarr

05.10.2007, 17:26

Situation: While in Surrey UK I drove to Heraford to visit some friends 'Paperadio' who were recording in a studio called Chappel Lane. I had worked with them in the past and turned up with my loan guitar (supplied by Kim) to contribute. This is a photo of 'Ebow' the guitarist who had tried all of his gear to get a particular sound for a song but to no avail. I said "try this".........

- davidcarr

05.10.2007, 17:44

Answer: a Flaxwood Liekki!
This is the engineer Sam exclaiming "we have it" -the sound! The Liekki won over the Japanese reissue stuff and managed at least to get them thinking that beyond the current obsession with 'retro' gear there are products worth considering.
This was not an easy task and I'm rather disappointed with the current blind obsession with retro gear, especially those relic things. Initially the guys said the Flaxwood looked weak, but when I convinced them to give it a go they realised it was special. How do you change a mindset created by clever marketing?

- davidcarr

05.10.2007, 19:01

"How do you change a mindset created by clever marketing?"

By doing what you do. Providing evidence that there is more, and sometimes more suitable stuff out there. And some of that stuff can actually be transformed into great guitars... playing is believing, I guess ;o)

Do some of your studio promotion here in Germany, please! German records need the sound of Flaxwood, too! :o)

I thought you were into retro yourself?

Thanks for sharing the story!

- lars_alexander

07.10.2007, 05:38

Thanks Lars.
If you can arrange 2 Visas, accomodation in Kreitzberg and a part time admin job for Carolyn we will relocate tomorrow!

Yes I am into retro gear but have been for 16 years. In 1991 I could buy a Jennings Vox AC30 for $450 because everyone was into racks. Now anything that looks old appears on Ebay and people pay stupid amounts of money for it.
Take the TS808 for example. Is it really worth $600US? I think not when a WORKING musician can buy the vastly superior Voodolabs sparkle drive for $100. "Oh but it gave SRV his sound" some exclaim. They forget he used a TS10 also ($60) and these were only a single tool in his chain. Also involved were his hands, his style, his string gauge, combination of amps AND his spirit.

I like Flaxwoods because they combine the best of classic elements with a bloody good fresh approach. Here I am preaching again....

This pic is in a Berlin second hand music shop where I found the only other version of my very 1st elctric guitar. Of course, it's a piece of crap and I paid $35 for mine in 1981

- davidcarr

07.10.2007, 05:42

They want $700 Euro ($1100 AU) for it now! Need I say more?

- davidcarr

07.10.2007, 12:41

Hehe! Man, I'd do you the favour! If I ever get influental enough - to get people visas and accommodation and free flights and... Back to reality. No. Not right now, I am sorry... ;o)

Yeah, retro and vintage are big here as well - people get all loony when they lay hands (if only in their dreams!) on some of that magic-o-vintage stuff the great old forefathers used to play with.

You as a musician and producer have the experience to work with that retro stuff and evaluate its functional worth. I don't, and many other guitar players haven't either. We're prone to marketing talk - and we swallow - gladly and eagerly! Haha!
It may have its charm, though. But it's rather expensive :o) I've been to a promotion of Dörrer Amps. It's a local amp tinkerer who works for THC amps and builds his own amps in his free time. A small crowd gathered to see a the band FIN perform and present the 12 Watt class-A amp called "Sumo" (similiar to VOX AC 30) with Steffen Dörrer explaining the details. That was interesting, cause I've never played an amp like that before, nor had I someone to explain how those things work :o)
Ah, yes. The crowd: a bunch of kids who wanted to see the band, a handful of students like me who were just curious and a whole set of well-off vintage stuff players who were into tech-talk and "special" questions right off the start.
Being a rather casual promo everyone was invited to test the amp on his own. There were two guys who played. One other and me.
I think what's so funny about all that vintage/retro/holy-grail equipment-talk is that people stick to talking rather than go on and make music. :o)

Well, whatever they want. :o)

I'm more than glad just to have a rather decent amp and a guitar to play. And I've worried enough about my equipment already.

Guitar player are a strange species anyway. I can't remember any sax-player owning a hundred saxophones...
I've got just one :o)

Oh, well...

Your sermons on Flaxwood guitars seem to work out fine.

:o)

- lars_alexander

07.10.2007, 22:55

Congrats David and great work! I hve found the same thing here in Sweden. You can write all you want about the perks of Flaxwood, but in the end of the day, the conservative guitar popultion will nto bend that easily. It's not until they hear, and see, and preferably try for themselves in a A/B with their fave gear, that they admit that "those guitars sound damn good"!

It's an uphill battle for sure, but Flaxwood is in it for the long run, and it takes years to build a solid awareness and foundation in the guitar community, and especially to raise the awareness that Flaxwood guitars is not just "soem piece of MDF or Playwood glued together and stringed" (oh yes, some people do think that ´. DO I have to mention that they are all hardcore G and F-users? :P )

- richard

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