Tommy's New Toy
Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 7:29 amhttp://www.tommyshaw.com/notes/notes_eng.htm
August 15, 2007
Dear Friends,
Taylor put this new guitar in my hands in New York City on August 12 at a vdeo shoot in the home office of Guitar Magazine and last night at Jones Beach I played it on stage for the first time. It's so new it has not even been given a proper name yet.
I had the chance to play it and get familiar with it while video-taping a promo for a future Guitar World DVD and within minutes it felt like an old friend. I played it through the new 4-Channel Marshall Amplifier head and a Marshall 4X4 cabinet and liked the way it sounded but it wasn't until I plugged it into my own Marshall rig at the venue in Long Island a few minutes before doors opened to the public and heard it through the massive PA we're using on this tour with Def Leppard and Foreigner that I realized just how incredible this instrument is.
My guitar tech, Jimmy Johnson skipped dinner to do swap out the strap pegs with strap locks and give it a once over so that I could play it right away. I started the show with it, played it on "Blue Collar Man"--killer. "Grand Illusion"--excellent! I switched to another guitar for "Too Much Time" and by accident one of the the other band's tech's had forgotten to switch off a wireless pack that was on the same frequency so when Jimmy switched on the different pack to make the change there was that horrible squeal that only comes from two transmitters being on the same frequency at the same time, so he brought the new Taylor back for a third song! It sounded so good on the solo, especially that long sustained note at the end, I was sad to take the guitar off to play "Fooling Yourself."
As you probably noticed, I love my classic electric guitars--Gibsons, Fenders and my PRS. But this new guitar, aside from being a work of art esthetically, sounds so good it's all I can think about today. I woke up this morning wanting to get my hands on it and am going to have to wait because I'm in New York and it's in New Jersey where we play tonight.
Our friends at Taylor Guitars knew what the stakes were, getting into the solid body electric guitar market, and they have stepped up to the plate ready to play. This guitar is a home run.
TS
August 15, 2007
Dear Friends,
Taylor put this new guitar in my hands in New York City on August 12 at a vdeo shoot in the home office of Guitar Magazine and last night at Jones Beach I played it on stage for the first time. It's so new it has not even been given a proper name yet.
I had the chance to play it and get familiar with it while video-taping a promo for a future Guitar World DVD and within minutes it felt like an old friend. I played it through the new 4-Channel Marshall Amplifier head and a Marshall 4X4 cabinet and liked the way it sounded but it wasn't until I plugged it into my own Marshall rig at the venue in Long Island a few minutes before doors opened to the public and heard it through the massive PA we're using on this tour with Def Leppard and Foreigner that I realized just how incredible this instrument is.
My guitar tech, Jimmy Johnson skipped dinner to do swap out the strap pegs with strap locks and give it a once over so that I could play it right away. I started the show with it, played it on "Blue Collar Man"--killer. "Grand Illusion"--excellent! I switched to another guitar for "Too Much Time" and by accident one of the the other band's tech's had forgotten to switch off a wireless pack that was on the same frequency so when Jimmy switched on the different pack to make the change there was that horrible squeal that only comes from two transmitters being on the same frequency at the same time, so he brought the new Taylor back for a third song! It sounded so good on the solo, especially that long sustained note at the end, I was sad to take the guitar off to play "Fooling Yourself."
As you probably noticed, I love my classic electric guitars--Gibsons, Fenders and my PRS. But this new guitar, aside from being a work of art esthetically, sounds so good it's all I can think about today. I woke up this morning wanting to get my hands on it and am going to have to wait because I'm in New York and it's in New Jersey where we play tonight.
Our friends at Taylor Guitars knew what the stakes were, getting into the solid body electric guitar market, and they have stepped up to the plate ready to play. This guitar is a home run.
TS
Hahahaha Froy, that's so 5 and so you......thanks for the shakes! 
