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David Gilmour Signature Strat

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Sep 24, 2008 12:23 p.m. audiodrome:

I was just checking this new guitar out on the Fender website and I couldn't help but notice that it has a '50s style neck with a small headstock and "spaghetti" logo. I always considered his "signature" black Strat to have a late '60s large headstock with the large logo. I realize that the new neck was added in the late '70s and that's the way it currently looks, but they should have made two versions available. In my mind, that guitar always had the big headstock. I don't consider the later version as much a "signature" guitar as the earlier version, but that's just my opinion.
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Sep 24, 2008 12:43 p.m. Pseudo Man:

I hardly think you need to start adding different headstock options to one particular strat, especially one so pricy. What dealer would carry two dave gilmour strats in the hope that they would get two customers wanting a different one each?

I don't consider David Gilmour or Strats to be worth this much attention, but that's just my opinion.
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Sep 24, 2008 12:49 p.m. mark t:

Man, bashing Gilmour, Pseudo? That ain't right.

There's another thread on Gilmour strats around here too, so that's two threads....well worth the attention, IMO.
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Sep 24, 2008 12:56 p.m. bonedaddy:

I'm with Pseudo Man on this. I'm not a huge Pink Floyd fan, nor a huge Gilmour fan. Good player, no doubt, but I don't see the point in it. Any strat could be a David Gilmour strat...Just stick a Seymour Duncan in the bridge, chop off a couple inches of the trem arm and rewire the switch (IMHO).

Ever notice that Clapton always sounds like Clapton, regardless which strat he's playing? Bingo....(same with SRV, Hank Marvin, Knopfler, etc...)

FWIW, I didn't even bother looking at the price because I'm sure it's completely unreasonable. I've had a few strats, and my current strat is a '50th' anniversary strat made in Mexico. It's got the most sustain of any strat I've ever played, and the anodized pickguard gives it just a tweak of "plink" in the sound. I had an American standard that was a dog, and 3 times the price
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Sep 24, 2008 1:13 p.m. Walter Broes:

Yawn!!!!!
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Sep 24, 2008 1:16 p.m. mark t:

Oh man, now WB is in there?

I agree on the cost, bonedaddy. I said in the other thread that i was planning on just partsing one together, and doing the wiring/chopping the trem arm, just for a strat to play that didn't cost a fortune. the MSRP on the Gilmour is friggin' ridiculous, IMO.
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Sep 24, 2008 1:19 p.m. Pseudo Man:

Walter, when you come up with some way to share your guilds with the rest of us, we can stop this endless discussion of less guitars and all be friends. But until then you'll just have to humour us.
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Sep 24, 2008 1:23 p.m. Walter Broes:

Pseudo Man, my yawn was agreeing with your post!! Except for that first record (Piper,...), I think watching paint dry is infinitely more entertaining than anything Floyd/Gilmour related!
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Sep 24, 2008 1:25 p.m. Pseudo Man:

Ah, well i had a chance to get sycophantic all over your guilds anyway.
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Sep 24, 2008 1:25 p.m. mark t:

I suppose if your idea of entertainment is watching somebody stoned out of their mind smack the strings on an Esquire, Barrett-era Floyd would be better.

Just kidding, I like Piper as well.
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Sep 24, 2008 1:31 p.m. Walter Broes:

Mark, I'm probably the worst age/generation to like Floyd, can't stomach it. I'm not trying to troll on this thread though, sorry.

Fender and Gibson should consider calling their custom shops or limited editions "boomer shop" though!
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Sep 24, 2008 1:33 p.m. mark t:

Hehe...for sure. And no worries, WB, it's all music, as far as I'm concerned, never held judgment against somebody for liking or not liking a particular band or style.

(And only the boomers will be able to afford these $$$)
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Sep 24, 2008 2:13 p.m. Pappy:

I think it's pretty entertainign seeing who Fender pulls out of their hat for these models. The usual suspects of SRV and Clapton are kind of given, but SRV's Lenny? That's reaching, IMO, no matter how great it is. Jeff Beck is a monster musician, but everyone I talk to always says "who?" And now David Gilmour? I'm very excited to see who they'll pull out next.
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Sep 24, 2008 3:07 p.m. audiodrome:

I really couldn't care less, but I just thought it was strange to see this guitar after hearing about it and having it look different than I remembered. I personally think it's funny how '70s Strats are now considered collectable vintage guitars. I saw a 1976 Strat at my local guitar center for $6000! I wish I had hung onto my '72 and '78 Strats! My '72 looked just like Gilmour's Strat in its original state, and that's what got me thinking about this.
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Sep 24, 2008 3:43 p.m. ronny:

Love Him or not You must admit he has a great ear and tone /control.
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Sep 24, 2008 4:15 p.m. Walter Broes:

I don't know, I don't love him, and I don't hear the "great ear", I hear guitar tones that I really, really don't like at all.
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Sep 24, 2008 4:18 p.m. Beatles6120:

DG

The Answers
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Sep 24, 2008 4:41 p.m. DangerousMan:

So with Pseudo Man and Walter Broes on this one. Pink Floyd are bafflingly vapid. And, I really don't hear anything that interesting in Gilmour's guitar tone either. As for the guitar - it's laughable. I love Fender gear but this is really stretching it... the list is $4800 for this thing - of course you could have $800 off the price if you DON'T want Fender to take a belt sander to the guitar before they sell it to you. I don't know...
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Sep 24, 2008 4:44 p.m. Walter Broes:

Dangerousman said: I love Fender gear but this is really stretching it... the list is $4800 for this thing - of course you could have $800 off the price if you DON'T want Fender to take a belt sander to the guitar before they sell it to you. I dont' know...
Thing is, didn't Gilmour play 57 reissue strats? That's what my ancient strat book said, anyway. I guess an early 80's RI strat with a custom set of pickups would probably get you closer to the guitar he was actually playing, at a third or a fourth of the price......
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Sep 24, 2008 4:49 p.m. bonedaddy:

Sadly, the video confirms what I think we already know... It didn't really answer much for me.
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Sep 24, 2008 5:10 p.m. Proteus:

I like Gilmour; his tone is serviceable and sometimes quite lovely. His phrasing is purdurn good, and he has an economical way of making the most of slow lyrical parts.

I used to think he was pretty melodic, but when I really listen, I find there's not much there but a few oft-repeated gestures, motifs, and melodic fragments.

Still, he's musical, evocative, and effective in the kind of atmospheric industrial-pastoral folk-apocalypse soundscapes the band does.

I have no interest in his signature Strat...or anyone else's so far either.

Baby boomers just have money, that's all. We are they.

At least we did till last week.
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Sep 24, 2008 5:16 p.m. bonedaddy:

yeah, it's not that I dislike Gilmour, it's just that I don't find anything all that compelling about his tone or lickology....
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Sep 24, 2008 5:20 p.m. The Shetland:

signature strats kind of bore me anyway, with the exception of the SRV strat they all look like MIMs to me...i have no opinion on David Gilmour one way or the other...
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Sep 24, 2008 6:52 p.m. Timthom62:

I've been a Gilmour fan for over 30 years and occasionally play in a Pink Floyd tribute band and even I'm not salivating over this one. Besides, like audiodrome noted, I tend to think of Gilmour's "Signature" Strat as the version from the '70s with the large headstock anyway.
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Sep 24, 2008 8:13 p.m. Pappy:

Proteus and Shetland, please do everything you can to try a Jimmie Vaughan strat. It's the only one I've ever played and liked.

And it was made in Mexico.