Incoming Goodies!!!

So here goes the first one!
Sitting pretty on a couple of Saul Koll guitars...one sold literally the first day I received it. Despite having been at this for the past 3 years now sometimes the speed of these sales / the intensity of people's appreciation for these fine pieces of contemporary luthiery still manages to amaze me and make me feel all warm 'n' fuzzy.
Then today someone else wrote, out of northern EU, asking for the remaining Koll Tornado - talk about taking Europe by storm (haha).

in the meantime I'm getting a precious new Nik Huber Dolphin delivered to Italy, along with Nik Huber's personal Dolphin Jr. Bigtime italian pro wants to try one out with an even bigger italian singer w/ int'l recognition (heck - even Nik has heard of him!).

Separately, Gitarre und Bass (the german mag) is putting a Soloway Swan through it's paces... fingers crossed...

Curio: I actually played a '59 Gibson Les Paul in Milano, Italy about one month ago. Thing is, these days, with all those Custom Shop and Historic reissues, not to mention the Tom Murphy relics, and Max replicas, you never really know what you're holding, see? Is it the Real Deal? Is it a very beautiful replica of the same? When I was younger there were only "real" ones or "modern equivalents". Non of this ambiguous as-good-as-the-original stuff! ;-)))

Thx for reading!

Uncle GroOve

Saul Koll Guitars - In Europe!

File under Alt.Jazz.Fusion...
Very crisp and open bridge and middle positions...let Frisell shine through those ambiguous no-3rd cluster chords. Switch to the neck for some Wes inspired octave phrasing, coated in a smoky, woody vibe. Bend your way through nu.jazz microtonal runs with the Skyway trem... . Originally built for guit-extra-terrestrial David Torn (www.davidtorn.net) - there's nothing else like this on the face of this galaxy!



This one is pure rock'n'roll with a twist. Fullerton and Kalamazoo meet down Louisiana way. Short scale, maple set neck, coupled with a greasy, grind-y bridge p.up (think tele on steroids) and a warm and woody neck P90. Go from buttery bloos (neck) to finger pickin' alt-country-americana rock in the mid position, to right hand Honky-Tonk Wimmin' heavyness in the bridge position. This is what it's all about.
Like a Johnny Depp in Willy Wonka - strip away the dandy outfit, reveal them tatoos ;-) ...