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TOP BEATLE: Thirty
years after parting ways, the
Beatles once again proved their
staying power with the release of The
Beatles 1, a collection of the
band's chart-toppers. With hits like
"I Want to Hold Your
Hand," "Yesterday,"
"Get Back," and 23 others,
the album debuted at #1 on the
Billboard 200 chart in late
November, selling more than 594,000
copies in its first week....
EXTENDED LEAVE:
Jam-band heroes Phish announced at a September 30, 2000
Las Vegas performance that the band
would go on hiatus -- the first in
its 17-year history -- for at least
a year. During the interim,
guitarist Trey Anastasio will
release an album of demos and
acoustic duets via the band's
official Web site, phish.com,
and will perform with the Vermont
Youth Orchestra in February....
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MUSIC NEWS
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The
Guitar Factory Electric/Acoustic
(Comments from
April 1990 Guitar Player
Magazine)
The Guitar Factory
E/A puts a slick spin on the
omnipresent Strat design, despite
its Strat-like body and string
scale. The E/a is a hybrid: It has
an acoustic bridge and a semi-hollow
body, yet in terms of construction,
features, and looks, its definitely
an electric axe.
Comments:
Guitar Factory has produced a
striking, lightweight instrument
that plays like a dream and offers a
wide spectrum of useful tones. The
transducer delivers lovely, rich
percussive acoustic timbres...the
E/A's distinctive voice is very
welcome in this day and age of
sound-alike electrics.---(Harvy
Citron - Guitar Player Magazine)
Body:
The sound chamber is built from two
hollow pieces of mahogany and topped
in rosewood. (There are no sound
holes of any kind.) I really like
this unusual combination of woods:
The mahogany is sweet and warm, the
rosewood robust and bright. The
E/A's top and back are flat, with no
waist cut or top bevel; edges are
slightly radiused (about 1/4").
controls are accessible via a
recessed plastic plate on the back
of the instrument. The instrument
boast neck-through-body
construction. The section of the
neck that runs beneath the bridge is
hollowed out to the butt-end of the
instrument.
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Neck:
The laminated neck consists of an
attractive maple and purple heart
center strip surrounded by lengths
of quartersawn mahogany. The woods
in the center strip contribute
weight, stiffness, and brightness to
the neck; lamination adds stability.
The neck meets the body cutaway at
the 19th fret on the bass side and
at the 24th on the treble side.
Access to the uppermost frets feels
effortless. The neck is fairly slim
and evenly rounded. The
fingerboard...has a rather flat
radius. Position markers are
1/4" in diameter mother of
pearl dots. ...The entire instrument
is finished in a clear gloss that
shows off all its lovely grain.
Electronics:
The E/A's Bartolini magnetic pickups
are mounted in solid wood. A Fishman
transducer, which captures the
instruments acoustic timbres, is
located in the bridge. A two
position microswitch allows you to
choose either the electric, or
acoustic sound.The pickup volume pot
has a push/pull switch to select
single output or dual output mode.
In single output mode, the electric
or acoustic sound is routed to the
main output jack. In dual output
mode, the electric sound is routed
to the main output jack, and the
acoustic sound is routed to the
second jack mounted adjacent to the
main jack. This allows dual sound
for even more tonal variations.
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Brand New
Day -- Billie
Joe
Armstrong
crafts new
sounds for
Green Day's
new album Warning.
GO!
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