Mellotronists

<<Ever see Rory Gallagher's guitar ?  You never know who or what until you 
ask.>>

I know what you mean- our guitarist has one of the 47 replicas made by 
fender, and we've photographed it next to the original. and I suppose my m400 is 
quite scruffy... somehow it's possible to be guarding an instrument with your 
life (rory only used this one strat and very few other guitars) and still knock 
all it's paint off during the course of playing it. I think the state of 1098 
helped me secure it- if it had looked a bit less like an abandoned kitchen 
unit, maybe the original owners wouldn't have abandoned it under tim wallhead's 
bench back in 1990. and maybe this is how come rory got his '61 strat back, with 
bits of someone's front garden stuck to it, when it was stolen. I wouldn't go 
so far as to say they actually sound /better/ for all the dings and scrapes- 
that would be bad science- but there's definitely a connection between signs 
of frequent use and good behaviour.

duncan/400nr1098 ("get y'r hands off of my woodwork, m*th*rf***er!")