Danelectro

[Highway_61]

I recently purchased a Danelectro 56U2. (No matter where my guitar journeys lead, they always lead me back to the Danelectro.)

I'll provide details if anyone is interested, but here are some photos of the guitar, along with a montage of the Goya and Modigliani paintings I believe the guitar might be an homage to (modified to protect the chaste or the prurient).

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b50/Highway_61/3dfe_3.jpg

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b50/Highway_61/404a_3.jpg


I recorded the following clip in the same (inept) manner that I always record clips: guitar >Danelectro amp> microphone>Mac w/ Audacity.

http://www.mediafire.com/?cy2zj7m21vc

[tot_Ou_tard]

A nipple tone knob protects no-one :D:rotflmao::D.

I can't listen to the clip right now, but I'm looking forward to hearing her sing.

Nice guitar!

[Big K]

nice clip, that Dano is definitely unique... having lipstick pickups it was only a matter of time...

[Guitar Gal]

Very unique looking Dano :AOK: Nice sound clip of the Dano also :dude:

GG

[aeolian]

Very nice playing! I don't care for artwork on guitars, but I really like these Danelectros from the early 90s. I still wish I had bought a DC12 back then for $199 when I saw it at GC.

[helliott]

Nice tone, well played. I hear a bit of Knopflerism in the picking, which sounds really good on that guitar. Thanks for sharing.

[Highway_61]

Thank you very much, everyone, for the kind words.


In regard to the artwork, I'm not "totally into" artwork on guitars, per se, but I do love the muted colors of this one, and I was able to buy this particular guitar at an unbelievable price.

At the same time, though this might seem like a contradiction, my dream guitars are Girl Brand guitars (http://www.girlbrand.com).

(None of the links to larger photos at the site are working, and I'm not sure what that means, but there plenty of smaller pictures left to give anyone who hasn't seen Girl Brand an idea of what they're like.)

[tot_Ou_tard]

Thank you very much, everyone, for the kind words.


In regard to the artwork, I'm not "totally into" artwork on guitars, per se, but I do love the muted colors of this one, I was not aware of this euphimism: muted.

[just strum]

I found the artwork interesting and certainly unique in ones collection, but why would you want a guitar with eraser marks all over it?:whatever:

Edit: I wasn't able to pull up the sound clip

[Highway_61]

I found the artwork interesting and certainly unique in ones collection, but why would you want a guitar with eraser marks all over it?:whatever:

Edit: I wasn't able to pull up the sound clip

Someone told me that the file at mediafire.com can't be downloaded if one is using Opera. Here is the file at yousendit.com: http://download.yousendit.com/670CFF8C5B43FA13

As a sidenote, I deleted the "eraser montage." It is a bit silly to censor Modigliani and Goya, after all.

In regard to the artwork on this guitar, I really didn't seek it out. It was listed on eBay. I was curious about it because, when I first got into Danos in the late 90s, there was a gentleman in Florida who was airbrushing 56U2s. This guitar looks like his work, and the pickguard is the kind that he was having custom made for his guitars. (He was nice enough to sell me a pickguard back then.)
I had always wanted to get him to do a guitar for me--enamored of Arizona, I wanted him to a Southwest-themed U2--but I couldn't afford it at the time.
Anyway, I saw this guitar on eBay, bookmarked it and--really--forgot about it. Then, for some reason, when I was working at the computer one evening, I remembered the auction, clicked the link and saw it had 18 minutes left, so I put in a bid. Even in the final seconds, I thought my rather minimal bid would surely get bested. But it didn't.
So I became the owner of this one-of-a-kind guitar, a Malt Creme 56U2 with original art, for at least half the price of a stock 56U2.
All of it makes me think that I was meant to have it.