It's funny when I opened it up the picture was cut off at the bottom. I was immediately thinking while starting to scroll, "Hmm, I wonder what's wrong with AAAHHHGGGHHH!!!!"
Well, let's be more specific: a botched homage to an only slightly less botched original idea.
I have bought guitars in the past from companies who also produced abominations like that, and I didn't let a grievous lapse or two undermine my satisfaction in brand ownership of a handsome design.
And I've always rather admired the D'Angelico tradition of just overdoing it cosmetically - of skating flamboyantly (but elegantly) right up to the edge of gaucherie without going over. But I don't own a D'Angelico now, and this complete grotesk might keep me from ever buying one - of any description. I'd kinda hate to even be associated.
Well, let's be more specific: a botched homage to an only slightly less botched original idea.
I have bought guitars in the past from companies who also produced abominations like that, and I didn't let a grievous lapse or two undermine my satisfaction in brand ownership of a handsome design.
And I've always rather admired the D'Angelico tradition of just overdoing it cosmetically - of skating flamboyantly (but elegantly) right up to the edge of gaucherie without going over. But I don't own a D'Angelico now, and this complete grotesk might keep me from ever buying one - of any description. I'd kinda hate to even be associated.
good enough to be in the metropolitan museum of art!..it's a john d'angelico og design!
“In 1957 the musician Pete Girardi, who played in a group called The Teardrops, commissioned John D’Angelico to build a guitar that would be unique to his act. The resulting “Teardrop” has all the decorative appointments of a New Yorker model guitar plus a large protruding fin on the lower right corner. The one-of-a-kind instrument became a much sought-after collector’s piece and an icon of guitar building.”
Ha! I was just thinking that it looks like the guitar is crying - possibly at the foolishness of the builder. It's either crying or melting. Or maybe it's just somewhere to store another cutaway.
Wacky design for the sake of wacky design, I don't care how beautifully it's made. Ten minutes with a decent saw would soon fix it! And as for the archtop guitar -- regardless of its perceived historical importance and value, give me an L5 or a Byrdland any day. Ooh I know I'm such a common old clod!
Well weird ones like the V and Explorer were laughed off in their time. This is something different. My usual statement is "The guitar world is running out of ideas"... or 'just minining/strip-mining their past'.
This I guess just goes back to that old one. Everybody wants the old stuff, although that one was not widely known.
Honestly, all of the new D'Angelicos look pretty hideous IMO. That headstock just doesn't belong on a slew of gaudily-painted LP and 335 clones. On a proper jazzbox it kind of makes sense in a very 1920s way, but I still wouldn't want it.
D'Angelico...usually right up to the edge of aesthetically overboard. This is apparently their shark - and there they go sailing right up and over.
Do you want to know more? I don't. https://www.musiciansfriend...
The fin is on the wrong side of the shark.
Only MAD magazine can properly describe this abomination. And I quote. (Ahem).
"BLECCCHHH!!!:
Further evidence that just because a thing CAN be done doesn't mean it SHOULD be. We now return you to your regular Gretsch pages already in progress.
Yeah, too much...
It's funny when I opened it up the picture was cut off at the bottom. I was immediately thinking while starting to scroll, "Hmm, I wonder what's wrong with AAAHHHGGGHHH!!!!"
D'Angelico first did this in 1957 - to an archtop.
^ exactly that!!! a botched homage
cheers
Wow. That's just awful.
Well, let's be more specific: a botched homage to an only slightly less botched original idea.
I have bought guitars in the past from companies who also produced abominations like that, and I didn't let a grievous lapse or two undermine my satisfaction in brand ownership of a handsome design.
And I've always rather admired the D'Angelico tradition of just overdoing it cosmetically - of skating flamboyantly (but elegantly) right up to the edge of gaucherie without going over. But I don't own a D'Angelico now, and this complete grotesk might keep me from ever buying one - of any description. I'd kinda hate to even be associated.
There must be a secret compartment, I need something more...
Yikes, the archtop pic makes it all-too-clear: playing this type of guitar will result in serious injury to a bassist or second guitar player.
"Tonight's story — rock and roll bassist neutered in sneak shark attack at local bar."
good enough to be in the metropolitan museum of art!..it's a john d'angelico og design!
it ain't no eastwood!
cheers
There's lots of ugly art.
“In 1957 the musician Pete Girardi, who played in a group called The Teardrops, commissioned John D’Angelico to build a guitar that would be unique to his act. The resulting “Teardrop” has all the decorative appointments of a New Yorker model guitar plus a large protruding fin on the lower right corner. The one-of-a-kind instrument became a much sought-after collector’s piece and an icon of guitar building.”
http://blog.metmuseum.org/g...
Ha! I was just thinking that it looks like the guitar is crying - possibly at the foolishness of the builder. It's either crying or melting. Or maybe it's just somewhere to store another cutaway.
A chilling reminder of the dangers of stroke.
A double-cut version with the lower half mirrored would look pretty cool, though.
Wacky design for the sake of wacky design, I don't care how beautifully it's made. Ten minutes with a decent saw would soon fix it! And as for the archtop guitar -- regardless of its perceived historical importance and value, give me an L5 or a Byrdland any day. Ooh I know I'm such a common old clod!
Well weird ones like the V and Explorer were laughed off in their time. This is something different. My usual statement is "The guitar world is running out of ideas"... or 'just minining/strip-mining their past'.
This I guess just goes back to that old one. Everybody wants the old stuff, although that one was not widely known.
Crime novelist Jonathan Kellerman owns the original Teardrop. It's in his book about his collection.
With Strings Attached: The Art and Beauty of Vintage Guitars
FINALLY....a guitar that I don't want.
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I've found quite a few that I wouldn't want.
Please! No!! If you don't know why, I give the Gibson Custom Shop's, Zak Wylde guitar model rendition of what you just mentioned:
Honestly, all of the new D'Angelicos look pretty hideous IMO. That headstock just doesn't belong on a slew of gaudily-painted LP and 335 clones. On a proper jazzbox it kind of makes sense in a very 1920s way, but I still wouldn't want it.