Ran across Fogarty playing Centerfield with a baseball bat guitar- http://youtube.com/watch?v=pvyMwXBkvF4
As far as I can see, no tuners at the headstock, but the thing looks like it is wired up, so is this just some crowd pleaser or what? I'd hate to think that he would do that or somebody would bother to put Strat pups and neck on something that couldn't actually be played.
==bigsby==
Love Fogerty, hate that guitar, hate hate HATE that song.
Alright, cause i'm bored, and did some digging....the bat was made by Geoff Richardson, and another fella named Kubicki. Richardson says this....
" The Bat-guitar was made by Geoff Richardson and Phil Kubicki for the Zombie Tour. At that time, Fogerty was using several custom guitars made by Kubicki along with other guitars modified by Hideo Kamimoto, a great luthier. You can hear the Kubickis on the CENTERFIELD and ZOMBIE releases. The Bat-guitar has no peg head, the string tuning is done at the bridge, just like Steinberger guitars. Bat-guitar has 3 Seyour Duncan pickups and a shortened neck, I'm not sure of the scale but it is missing quite a few high end frets."
Here's a screen cap from the dvd, the best i could get.....
Cool video and guitar. Thanks.
You don't tune it, you just wait for the right... pitch. 
That's baaaaaaddddddddddd......
or you could tune it to the base...
or you could use it for slide
You could also use it for swing.
play it on your hits. especially on the catch-y ones.
Sounds foul to me.
And man is THAT thing out in left field.
I hear there's also a version that has steroid output.
Dubkitty said: play it on your hits. especially on the catch-y ones.It's got a limited range though. Only good for infield pop hits.
It also comes with a free baseball cap(o).
(okay, that one was bad. A bit of a stretch... and it's not even the 7th inning!)
Don't forget, you have to use pine tar on it instead of Finger-Ease too!
I wonder if they dug out under the pickups.
Prot, I don't think that would be safe.
You guys are all horrible, you're driving me batty.
I'm so sorry for that one.
You can't really knock it, it did get him a hit single.
Yeah, it was a hit, but it didn't go platinum or... diamond.
awk, I didn't foresee that I would bring out the Pun Patrol! But I appreciate the serious info along with the pathetic puns. More importantly, I'm glad to know that Fogerty was not just using a prop, I've always respected him a lot.
So I guess this makes me the "closer" for the thread? Sorry, couldn't help it.
==bigsby==
Thank you, bigsby, for mercifully creating the third out for the punfest. Boy, this thread started out so innocently and went bad so quickly!
Yeah, it's a "relief" it's over.
Seems only right... The classic
