U2start.com | U2 & Guitar Gear: Q & A

Originally posted by anstratdubh1979[..]

I would love one! I love white falcons in general - not just for looks and design but tone. The lighter green "everygreen" never set well with me. So yeah... If they have truly gone to the cadillac vs. everygreen finish, I wouldn't mind one.

It just seems far too big lol. Don't get me wrong, if someone gave me one tomorrow, I'd happily keep it and look after it BUT I wouldn't get one otherwise. One thing is that I don't like pointy headstocks in general, hence I dislike stuff like SGs, most PRSes, Schechters etc. - however, I make exception for the Explorer because it just looks different to everything else and to me looks pretty swish.

Originally posted by flowerchild[..]

now tell me, someone who has no clue how to play a guitar, why is that?

Ok, Jana matey you've lost me - erm, I do play the guitar lol. And as for why I wouldn't want one, read above

wtshnnfb01

17 years

Originally posted by anstratdubh1979[..]

You were really kidding, right? You weren't really offended by silly boy humour, right? Especially as it was hardly the point that I was making... the point being the guitars and effects.

Honest.

It was an "In Living Color" refrence. I wish thye would bring that show back.

anstratdubh1979

17 years

Originally posted by flowerchild[..]

now tell me, someone who has no clue how to play a guitar, why is that?

Gretsch guitars has a model called a White Falcon. It's been made since the 1950's. During the Elevation tour, Fred Gretsch brought Bono a proto-type of a White Falcon but in green. Bono had been playing a cadillac green 1959 Gretsch Country Club for most of the early Elevation dates.

The "everygreen" (finish) Falcon became known as the "Irish Falcon". This is the guitars that Bono has with The Goal is Soul emblazoned on the pickguard.

Gretsch later introduced a production model of the guitar, with a portion of the procedes going to DATA.

http://www.gretschguitars.com/gear/index.php?product=G6136I&cat1&cat2&q&st=1

anstratdubh1979

17 years

Originally posted by wtshnnfb01[..]

It was an "In Living Color" refrence. I wish thye would bring that show back.

I get the reference. And yep, that was a great show. But I doubt that Jim Carrey would go back to doing TV and the Wayans Bros quit the show as FOX kept intruding and telling them what they could and couldn't do and should and shouldn't do.

wtshnnfb01

17 years

Originally posted by anstratdubh1979[..]

I get the reference. And yep, that was a great show. But I doubt that Jim Carrey would go back to doing TV and the Wayans Bros quit the show as FOX kept intruding and telling them what they could and couldn't do and should and shouldn't do.

I got the full series on DVD, but lets get back on topic. Should Edge start using a talkbox>

flowerchild

17 years

Originally posted by WojBhoy[..]
It just seems far too big lol. Don't get me wrong, if someone gave me one tomorrow, I'd happily keep it and look after it BUT I wouldn't get one otherwise. One thing is that I don't like pointy headstocks in general, hence I dislike stuff like SGs, most PRSes, Schechters etc. - however, I make exception for the Explorer because it just looks different to everything else and to me looks pretty swish.
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Ok, Jana matey you've lost me - erm, I do play the guitar lol. And as for why I wouldn't want one, read above

hmm, are we misunderstanding eachother now? I meant that -I- don't play the guitar, but still wanted to know why you wouldn't play that particular one (even if that meant that I wouldn't understand your explanation, but 'too big' I can understand, lol).

I just love this topic so much, even though I have no clue what's going on most of the time

am trying to absorb it all though.

anstratdubh1979

17 years

Originally posted by wtshnnfb01[..]

I got the full series on DVD, but lets get back on topic. Should Edge start using a talkbox>

Talkbox... well the DID cover Peter Framton songs early on.

I am sure if he DID use one, it'd be ran though other odd effects so that he'd be doing something a bit different than the usual things that Peter Frampton, RItchie Sambora (Bon Jovi) and Joe Perry (Aerosmilth) did with it.

WojBhoy

17 years

Originally posted by flowerchild[..]

hmm, are we misunderstanding eachother now? I meant that -I- don't play the guitar, but still wanted to know why you wouldn't play that particular one (even if that meant that I wouldn't understand your explanation, but 'too big' I can understand, lol).

I just love this topic so much, even though I have no clue what's going on most of the time am trying to absorb it all though.

Oh I see, I thought you meant why would I care if I don't play guitar lol? My mistake, sorry! And yeah, there's nothing necessarily technical about why I wouldn't want to play it, i.e. nothing related to the tone, the action, the pickups etc. - it's just personal preference with regard to how the thing looks; doesn't go with me. Like I say, too big, pointy headstock and just not my kinda thing lol!

flowerchild

17 years

Originally posted by WojBhoy[..]
Oh I see, I thought you meant why would I care if I don't play guitar lol? My mistake, sorry! And yeah, there's nothing necessarily technical about why I wouldn't want to play it, i.e. nothing related to the tone, the action, the pickups etc. - it's just personal preference with regard to how the thing looks; doesn't go with me. Like I say, too big, pointy headstock and just not my kinda thing lol!

hehe it's ok, harry. I still like you, you know