Who has seen one of these before?

benvall · September 2013

Anyone?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Brian-eastwood-bender-distortercaster-/121173442314?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item1c367fff0a

mike_l · September 2013

Yep, seen one, thought they looked shite then, and haven't changed my opinion.

frankus · September 2013

me - in sonic blue.

ThePrettyDamned · September 2013

I remember in an old guitarist magazine there was a guy with an enormous collection of guitars which were ugly. Most of them were deemed unplayable, too, despite coming from "boutique" guys, including a green metallic manson that he reckons is one of the worst guitars ever.

The point is, he had about 3 of these things.

GuitarMonkey · September 2013

I've seen them when Brian has taken them to shows. The bodies are moulded from fibreglass.

ROOG · September 2013

First time for me, eek!

p90fool · September 2013

There used to be one in The Rock Shop in Shrewsbury years ago. It's just one of those "waste ten seconds of my life looking at it and move on" guitars.
Little more than a shop sign really.

vasselmeyer · September 2013

I played one at Brian's when I went to pick up a guitar he'd refretted for me. It plays like a normal Strat except at the top end of the fingerboard. However, it's ungainly when you have it on a strap. It's way more a visual prop than a serious guitar.

jaygtr · September 2013

I haven't seen one before, and I'd happily never see one again :-?

stevebrum · September 2013

The used asking price is obscene - how much did these monstrosities retail at new I wonder...

bertie · September 2013

me a few years ago....................... somewhere

blueskunk · September 2013

Iv seen a few actually one at Brians and another in a shop. Plays like a strat and sounds like one.

[Deleted User] · September 2013

Guitar Player (long gone Rochdale shop) had one - they were very close to where Brian is based. Never bothered trying it....

benvall · September 2013

Blimey, I've never seen one that's why I asked. I'm surprised how many people have seen these.

Ianpdq · September 2013

There was one in the window in Electric ladyland in old market street Bristol

[Deleted User] · September 2013

benvall;30873" said:
Blimey, I've never seen one that's why I asked. I'm surprised how many people have seen these.

It may be that we've all seen the same one! Someone buys it, realises the error of their ways and moves it on again....

stonevibe · September 2013

Those things keep cropping up.

Bit of a can we build it? yes we can! How the hell am I going to sell this????

or worse

Shit!!!! What did I just buy?

benvall · September 2013

@stonevibe yeah drunk ebaying isn't a good idea

SidNewton · September 2013

World Guitars had a sonic blue one recently. Horrible looking thing.

Van_Hayden · September 2013

How about a dual electric acoustic?

http://www.brianeastwoodguitars.co.uk/dual.html

dogload · September 2013

Van_Hayden said:

How about a dual electric acoustic?

http://www.brianeastwoodguitars.co.uk/dual.html

Oh FFS! That's silly.

axisus · September 2013

Yeah, seen them before. They are amusing but hideous.

DLM · September 2013

One of the chaps who was a fairly regular poster on MR had one. His handle may have been JohnnyPlectrum, or maybe I'm misremembering. Anyway, he wondered about selling it a number of times and I have to say I think it'd be a super thing to wheel out for a couple of numbers on a gig!
It's fair to say that I have GAS for it.

I've also seen one in the flesh at a guitar show in Leeds in 1996, and being played on German MTV by a guitarist backing up one of the guys from Die Ärzte's solo act.

blueskunk · September 2013

richardhomer;30817" said:
Guitar Player (long gone Rochdale shop) had one - they were very close to where Brian is based. Never bothered trying it....

Wow that must have been ages ago, im guessing before dr rock?

blueskunk · September 2013

I know some of Brians guitars are tripped out but hes a one off true guitar craftsman shidoshi master , he built a strat for a hendrix guy i know, it was more than awesome. He can build whatever you want from solidbodys to jazzboxes and owt in between

[Deleted User] · September 2013

blueskunk;31185" said:
Wow that must have been ages ago, im guessing before dr rock?

They over-lapped. I first went to Guitar Player in about 1981 - I'm not not sure exactly when it opened. It closed in 1992.

I felt like there'd been a death in the family. It was a great shop.

Pyroman · September 2013

Looks like something someone left on the dashboard of the car on a hot, sunny Arizona day...

Yuck.

Double yuck on the asking price...

blueskunk · September 2013

richardhomer;31201" said:
[quote="blueskunk;31185"]Wow that must have been ages ago, im guessing before dr rock?

They over-lapped. I first went to Guitar Player in about 1981 - I'm not not sure exactly when it opened. It closed in 1992.

I felt like there'd been a death in the family. It was a great shop.[/quote]

Yeah wee bit before my time Richard can only ever remeber it being Dr Rock. U local to the area mate?

fretmeister · September 2013

Bass version.

Bender Collision

mike_l · September 2013

Van_Hayden said:

How about a dual electric acoustic?

http://www.brianeastwoodguitars.co.uk/dual.html

That reminds me of Lindsay Buckingham's guitar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=p8Ojjn35kP8

viz · September 2013

Looks like the sort of guitar Goofy would play. I want to like it and I think I would admire anyone who actually played it - I think it would suit Chevy Chase or someone - but it's just a bit TOO gross.

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