G&L Topic: My love-hate relationship with my Comanche
I have a 2008 Tribute Comanche - complete with a tiger-stripe maple façade under a wonderfully darker amber-burst. It has the switch, a wonderful vintage finished neck, and plays like buttah.
It is easy to see why I love the guitar, but why do I (supposedly) hate it? I don't. I'm like a billionaire complaining about how heavy my wallet is. No one should sympathize with that - it's just wrong. So here is my "beef" - the tonal spectrum on this guitar is huge. I can dial in so many tonal options that it's crazy. I'll never be able to use it all. The guitar is more versatile than I want it to be. Subtle changes have a more pronounced effect on tone that a typical Strat. It can do anything a Strat can do, but them it goes on to do a whole lot more. It's almost daunting. I find it hard each I put it into the rotation, to remember how did I dial it in that one time when I got that swanky-spanky jangle, or that sweet Albert king tone - the list goes on. Sure, I can write down these things, but I don't.
If you haven't played one yet - get your hands on one when you have an hour or two to play around with the tone. You'll find it does everything and then some.
GUITAR HAIKU: An haiku is a Japanese poem consisting of three lines where the first and third line each have 5 and only 5 syllables, and the middle line has 7 syllables. Haikus focus on a brief moment in time, juxtaposing two images, and creating a sudden sense of enlightenment. The "art" of the poem is to explain in such a limited and simple format the essense of a moment, or a thing.
So - because this is FUN - I'm going to write an haiku about my ASAT, and I want everyone who posts to join in and write an haiku about one of their G&L Guitars. We are artists after all, and stretching and sharing our artistic thoughst is a great way to have fun on a day such as today.
MY ASAT - written today (just now):
There in the hollow
Within its azure casement
Trembles, oh my soul.
Yeah okay, it's my blue burst semi-hollow ASAT Special. Hopefully you guys can do better.
Here is a bonus one - about our humble community
Foam lit upon the waves
like words we speak in darkness
after the lion roars.
Little cryptic I guess - Leo is the name of a lion, and we come here to discuss the works of Leo Fender, yada yada.
No videos to share today. Just putting a post in mid-week to shake up some conversation.
EDIT: One more music-in-general Haiku:
Mixolydian,
Ionian minor seventh
It isn't that hard
