| Mo-Baby by Gibson with Epiphone on the weird headstock. Travel guitar designed as a 3/4 scale "Moderne" originally designed in 1958 but not produced in any quantity until 1982[?]. Gibson coined the phrase "It ain't easy, being cheesey" during the 1994 [?] ad campain for this under reviewed guitar. Cool as mint seafoam green with a 9 volt powered speaker to boot. Played here through W's Sax amp with the Marshall 900 in the back ground, only used to hold drinks. It was priceless to see Mark pulling 1/4 inch jacks out of his pedals in an effort to stop the relentless Hendrix like feedback during the drum solo in the Beatles "The End" while it was the Mo' Baby feeding back upon itself the entire time. I still giggle about it today. The red face and sweat stains are only special effects. |
| Here is Wanda's Gibson bouncin' Gibson SG bass in Heritage Cherry. By this time, she has removed the Ziti and string from the finger board. As can be seen here, Mark has rigged one tuner to contain an LED (light emitting diode) in order to light the pages of the music on the stand. Unfortunately, sometimes the "E" string needs to be out of tune so as to light the right page. Wanda's shirt seems to be of the stretchie stuff. The strap has locks on the SG are black with real golden stitching. In the background is a Rickenbacker 330 12 string guitar. Great sound but she is a little tough to play for a hack like me. VERY close strings and twice as many of them make the pretty potential a bit hard to realize. As I get better, I hope to try this on days when the temperature is constant and the formidable tuning is stable. Below is a pic of Wanda's second sax, a Yamaha Alto with a very high scrap metal value. Be aware that other than this instrument, most of us boycott Yamaha because of the crappy 2002 wave runners they sold. These PWC were flawed and self destructed yearly. The company never warrenteed these and New England Cycle never let on that these should be recalled. |
| Ol' legless and orange here with her Ampeg BA-210 SP. Great bass amp with 2 10" speakers and evidence of a tweeter [?] or a baffle on the upper left. A cool "Digital" plaque adorns the lower right. This has enough special effects and settings to keep a techie busy for hours. 200W loud. Note the amp has feet and wheels, and that is more than we can say about Wanda. Hot chick sold separately. |
| On the left in the music room is a Gibson Corvus III. It was a bit of a failure when it came out and sold for only 3 years. Great head stock and cool shape that was meant to go with big hair and eye make up on boys. This 3 pick up model is fun to play and has a lot of depth with the 5 position selector. The neck likes to stage dive, way before that was popular. The color is metallic green- silver. The red beauty is a 1960 National "Westwood 88". Very playable and an absolute work of art with the deco pick guard, contoured body and linear knob layout. 3 pickups with a piezo {?} bridge pick up lending a great acoustic sound to rough Delaware Destroyers sound of the top 2 units. Both of these came from California. The Corvus was from a dealer and the National hails from the famous basement of the Hollywood Boulevard Guitar Center. |