One of the ugliest guitars I have seen in a long time

[HarlowTheFish]

Come on … nothing beats the wangcaster for the category of the ugliest guitar out there:

Sook, pardon my long absence but, was mention of the WC not an automatic ban back in the day? You're lucky Zai isn't here to see this

IDK if it is, but it should be - knowingly subjecting your fellow OSGers to this should be criminal.

[Fiddy]

I have a vintage wangcaster that's experiencing some sag. It's a 45 year old unit. So no surprise there.

[sookwinder]

while Zai's away the sook will play ….

[Larry Mal]

I guess I forgot to mention that this guitar, and the other ones they make, have some kind of hokey backstory to them.

"A car crash of a guitar body made from numerous pieces of American Alder. Remember, some things are more than the sum of their parts, just like Brandon’s 35 second song “Riot In My Brain” with its inspired use of police sirens, dogs barking and an exploding jet engine."

This guitar was supposed to have been owned by "Brandon Hicks":

As soon as he learnt to walk, Brandon Hicks displayed a frightening talent for destruction; burning down the family condo age 5, breaking too many bones to keep count and even shattering his front teeth trying to catch a speeding baseball in his mouth. Having exhausted the patience of his parents and small town residents of Bone Lake, Wisconsin, teenager Hicks was exiled in 1977 and left to travel across America. Drifting from state to state, more wrecking ball than tumbleweed, Hicks eventually found his spiritual home in Times Square, New York, 1979. Hicks worked a ticket booth at the Wide Eye Peep Show by day and played with his band FistMeetsFace at night. After only a few explosive shows, FistMeetsFace became the must see act on the New York punk scene where each performance would include a smashed guitar, a puddle of blood and, following the after show party, another broken heart.

There's other ones, too:

At age 17, Bill Downey started his career in the US Navy deep in the bowels of the USS America Supercarrier as a boiler technician. Over the decades and through numerous conflicts, the Vietnam War (1955 to 1973), the Lebanon Crisis (1983), the Persian Gulf War (1990 to 1991), Downey rose to the rank of Chief Engineer. Dedicating his whole life to the Navy meant forfeiting the chance to start a family, but Downey was not alone in this world - his faithful companion was a white electric guitar which he won in a gambling den in Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam in 1963. As well as being a slick guitar player, Downey was also an avid collector of sailor tattoos, getting himself inked at every major port. When he finally ran out of space on his body, Downey used his trusty electric guitar to provide extra real estate. “My guitar’s been with me so long, it’s part of me now. If my ship ever sinks, that guitar will either be a paddle or a float.” In 1996 the USS America was decommissioned, which led Downey to retire and settle on land for the first time in his life where he formed blues funk band, “Howlin’ Albatross”.

It's all so stupid. This has all the credibility of the bio cards that used to come with GI Joe figurines or a My Little Pony doll.

I hate guitar culture.

[Flurko]

I honestly thought this was another Larry creative writing masterpiece, but then I clicked on the link.
I think I will put down my guitar and learn another instrument. The hurdy-gurdy has a silly name but no silly 'culture', that might do.

[countertext]

This thread is giving me the old deja vú. I could swear I’ve seen Larry’s post and responded to it before. That’s not a joke, I mean I really think we’ve been in this thread before.

[Fiddy]

This thread is giving me the old deja vú. I could swear I’ve seen Larry’s post and responded to it before. That’s not a joke, I mean I really think we’ve been in this thread before.

You and me both..

[andy_tchp]

You have.

It was lost in the database crash/restore in mid October.

[countertext]

You have.

It was lost in the database crash/restore in mid October.

I totally forgot about that.

[Fiddy]

You have.

It was lost in the database crash/restore in mid October.

I totally forgot about that.

Yes, but why is it only happening in this thread?