Hello folks ! hope you are doing good and are having a nice rainy day ...like the one we had (and needed) in South Texas...well today Texas Joe had to run errands and found himself in..Harlingen Texas..Pawn Shop hunting...(been doing this since 30 years before Pawn Stars came out on cable..! )...had seen this little jewel of a guitar in very ruff shape at a pawn shop on the main drag several days ago...and decided to go back and " see if it was there.." well it was..funny thing is it had a tag on it that said "Great Fathers Day Gift" well I thought to myself Fathers Day has come and gone..Ill rearrange the tag..to read "Great Texas Joe Day Gift" yes more like it ! ha ha ! ...again like always with most guitars a person finds in a pawn shop it was dirty grimy..rusty strings..it had some kind of grease hand cheese all over it...(soft soap is a great idea to keep in the car while pawn shp hunting ha ha ..) I asked the pawn shop employee if i could play it through an amp..and he gave me a cable to check it out..everything worked and it sounded pretty good...so..I purchased the axe...and went on my merry way..very happy..becuse what I had gotten was a very rare..find in South Texas...and anywhere for that fact I had scored a Left Handed...Danelectro U 56 2 pickup model guitar in Jet Black ! yay!
its hard enough to find a right handed normal model but a lefty is beyond rare ! the guitar was strung right handed and it seemed to work good...so I left it like that when I restrung it with a new pair of 9 gauge strings from a quick trip to Dave's Music in Brownsville Texas..
Needless to say the guitar fills a huge and special niche in Texas Joe's Guitar arsenal...and the guitar has a super unique sound...
Famous guitar players like..Jimmy Page of Led Zepplin..Syd Barret of Pink Floyd...and one of my favorites..Randy Califronia ..of the band Spirit...could really put the Danelectro Guitars through some great songs and get great original tones from them..one of my favorite Psychedelic albums of alltime is ..The Twelve Dreams of Dr.Sardonicus by the band Spirit..
.which has a Danelectro U 56 all over it courtesy of Randy Californias great guitar playing..his phrasing..tone choices...effects..are just incredible on this record..and most of it was done on a Dano U 56 guitar.....Randy below...with Spirit..
.if they were good enough for Randy ..well its good enough for me...but Texas Joe's is lefty....ha ha ..so it has a quirky vibe...
below is a picture of Texas Joe all Happy Camper with his new (used and cleaned up) Pawnshop Sweetheart..a Danelectro U 56..
This is not the 1st Dano guitar Texas Joe has owned..previously ..there was a Seafoam Green 2 pickup righty U 56 model...and a Purple Sparkle DC59 righty model..also..(the Jimmy Page Model ) as some people know it..with double cutaway at neck which is differant from the Single cutaway of the U56 model..that Randy California preffered..
Well folks thats about it for now...we are waiting for a cool article in local press so we are pretty jazzed...about it..plus we have...tenatively sceduled a 4rth of July gig if all goes well...(gigs are getting harder and harder to find in South Texas..but thats another story for another day..) so we got some kool stuff in the works...This Dano will probably ..see some recording time on our new Sirenita Blues album if all goes well...but for now our new album Witch Tree is for sale and picking up steam....here ..
www.vallesflyingmachine.bandcamp.com
ok folks have a nice day
sincerely
texas joe valles
Thursday June 23 rd 2011
its hard enough to find a right handed normal model but a lefty is beyond rare ! the guitar was strung right handed and it seemed to work good...so I left it like that when I restrung it with a new pair of 9 gauge strings from a quick trip to Dave's Music in Brownsville Texas..
Needless to say the guitar fills a huge and special niche in Texas Joe's Guitar arsenal...and the guitar has a super unique sound...
Famous guitar players like..Jimmy Page of Led Zepplin..Syd Barret of Pink Floyd...and one of my favorites..Randy Califronia ..of the band Spirit...could really put the Danelectro Guitars through some great songs and get great original tones from them..one of my favorite Psychedelic albums of alltime is ..The Twelve Dreams of Dr.Sardonicus by the band Spirit..
.which has a Danelectro U 56 all over it courtesy of Randy Californias great guitar playing..his phrasing..tone choices...effects..are just incredible on this record..and most of it was done on a Dano U 56 guitar.....Randy below...with Spirit..
.if they were good enough for Randy ..well its good enough for me...but Texas Joe's is lefty....ha ha ..so it has a quirky vibe...
below is a picture of Texas Joe all Happy Camper with his new (used and cleaned up) Pawnshop Sweetheart..a Danelectro U 56..
This is not the 1st Dano guitar Texas Joe has owned..previously ..there was a Seafoam Green 2 pickup righty U 56 model...and a Purple Sparkle DC59 righty model..also..(the Jimmy Page Model ) as some people know it..with double cutaway at neck which is differant from the Single cutaway of the U56 model..that Randy California preffered..
Well folks thats about it for now...we are waiting for a cool article in local press so we are pretty jazzed...about it..plus we have...tenatively sceduled a 4rth of July gig if all goes well...(gigs are getting harder and harder to find in South Texas..but thats another story for another day..) so we got some kool stuff in the works...This Dano will probably ..see some recording time on our new Sirenita Blues album if all goes well...but for now our new album Witch Tree is for sale and picking up steam....here ..
www.vallesflyingmachine.bandcamp.com
ok folks have a nice day
sincerely
texas joe valles
Thursday June 23 rd 2011