Eight String Guitars

[Dr_Phibes]

I assume everyone here owns one, I didn't know they exist. Anyway, they have their own revenge wing - they come after you for posting insulting youtube vids.

[Van]

"There's probably like, what, four truss rods in there?"

"I feel like I should be chopping vegetables."

[Van]

It's just a baritone guitar designed to play filthily distorted Death Metal.

[Felix]

there's a follow up video the guitar tech guy made where he actually found some people playing one of those 8 strings

I'm with him, I don't get it.....the thing sounds like shit, you'd need gorilla fingers to play any kind of barre chord, the lower two strings are just as spray predicted distorted as fuck, it makes any conventional chord sound completely off kilter, and what's the point?

the whole thing reminds me of one scene in This Is Spinal Tap

Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and...

Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten?

Nigel Tufnel: Exactly.

Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it's louder? Is it any louder?

Nigel Tufnel: Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?

Marty DiBergi: I don't know.

Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?

Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven.

Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.

Marty DiBergi: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?

Nigel Tufnel: [pause] These go to eleven.

[Toddowen]

Sup, fellas.



Neatest thing I recently heard {and maybe I'm the last one}





I'd heard a few things by Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, but I was stunned at the rock/blues/ duane allman style sound of this.

And for 1936? Fukken classic.

[Toddowen]

I'd like to see and hear if Jimmy Page could tame that monster any. Seems there's a ton of interviews and vid clip of him in the past few years. Maybe someone should put that thing in his hands for a spin.

[Van]

He doesn't play Death Metal, so why would he bother?