Who's your favorite Offset player?

[Pete Best]

Can't find any pics of him playing an offset right now but, EDWYN COLLINS always!!! He had a pair of Jazzmasters in Orange Juice, plus a Fender XII, and later on had Musicmaster and Duo-Sonic. There's some great clips of him in the "Dada With Juice" video tearing into his blue Jazzmaster, "Bridge" especially.

Love the way he used to play, his attitude was so right. Great taste in guitars too. Might have to have an OJ night now...

Didn't know that Edwyn Collins was an offset player, but I agree with all you said about him above.

Otherwise, Johnny Marr was always one of my favourite guitarists/songwriters and then he created that wonderful swiss-army knife of a guitar.

Finally, Nils Lofgren doesn't get much respect (hard to, when you're buried in the E-Street Wall of Sound) but he does do some very tasty things with a JM that he views as being a good tool for cutting through the mix.

[Squareball]

Can't find any pics of him playing an offset right now but, EDWYN COLLINS always!!! He had a pair of Jazzmasters in Orange Juice, plus a Fender XII, and later on had Musicmaster and Duo-Sonic. There's some great clips of him in the "Dada With Juice" video tearing into his blue Jazzmaster, "Bridge" especially.

Love the way he used to play, his attitude was so right. Great taste in guitars too. Might have to have an OJ night now...

+1 for Edwyn and agree with what you say about his style.
He has a great vintage guitar collection and his most famous is a 60's Burns Nu-sonic (he even named his first band the nu sonics)
When i saw the video of Bridge though, i wanted that LPB Jazzmaster so bad!...i'd never seen a matching headstock before!
http://youtu.be/_q3TiwBBDmc

Without hijacking the thread here is an interview with him at his studio which gives Jack White a run for his (vintage equipment) money!...theres a pic of some of his guitars and in the corner is the Fender XII...
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jan11/a ... ollins.htm

[DotDash]

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[benji]

The guy who got me interested in offsets was Robert Smith....

The guy who kept me interested was Kevin Shields.

[peanutbutter&pickles]

Scout Niblett.......suhwoooon


First time posting, long time lurker......hi mom! (no not my mom)

Wait do 'Stangs count as offsets?

[dougk]

Ofcourse I'm biased.

Sadly Mike's no longer with us

I apologize for these questions, but I am sincere and really do want to know.

Why are you biased?

Who is in the photo? I am not aware of him and would like to check out his music.

Is your connection with him the guitar? That thing is beautiful. Thanks.

Michael Burks. He was a blues guitar player that was just a monster player and an even bigger human being. Just the absolute nicest guy on the planet (his entire band too) who started playing my guitars very early in my career. The Show of Strength album is almost entirely the guitar on the cover.


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[cyclopean]

rowland s. howard

he's why i bought my jaguar

[ChelseaFC]

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This guy, because in 1991, his band was the most exciting thing I had ever seen!

[SadFuzz]

I saw the video for 10:15 Saturday Night when I was 11. I saw the BBC4 doc about guitar with Kevin Shields. I found Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr. Last year I found RSH/The Birthday Party.

From seeing all this cool music so young, it's been ingrained in my head that offsets are superior to any other guitar.

If I picked one player though, it would have to be Kevin Shields. I had only been playing for 3 years or so when I saw that on TV and it blew my mind. I'm a lot better at guitar now and still love mbv. The melodies are so beautiful and effortless, it transcends music and becomes emotion.

[Maggieo]

Dead heat, after re-listening to Marquee Moon, Tom Verlaine and Nels Cline.

[F15hface]

Joff Oddie


Courtney Barnett

[SadFuzz]

Joff and Courtney are both amazing. I've been playing the he'll out of Charity from Tell Me How You Really Feel.

[timtam]

My offset interest was generated in the late 1970's with Verlaine, Robert Smith and Rowland Howard. Never got to see Verlaine live (I guess there's still hope there), but saw Smith (early Cure) and Howard (Birthday Party) live then. Kind of lost interest in new music from the early 1980's and beyond, so I largely missed a lot of interesting offset players that I'm finally starting to get into, as result of sites like OSG ... Moore and Renaldo, Cobain, Shields, Cline, Mascis. Can't say I really like any of them, in terms of favourite 'go to' music (that's still Television, early Cure, Joy Division, Banshees, Magazine). But as Rowland was in the Birthday Party .... interesting from the point of view of just how far you can push a guitar.

[marqueemoon]

Tom Verlaine no question, but it was Adam Franklin who inspired my first JM purchase.

[jesterpunk68]

It is going to have to be the musicians who got me interested in playing guitar in the first place and interested in offsets specifically.


Kurt Cobain got me interested in playing guitar in the first place in the early 90s when Smells Like Teen Spirit first came out





Then Lee and Thurston from Sonic Youth got me interested in what you could do with offsets.



And of course one of my all time favorite offset players Nels Cline