Hey everybody,
I'm back again. Regarding the travel guitar I've searched all through the web to find it... actually I was at the point to give it up. To be honest I've never seen so much ugly guitars at one place.
But! Finally we've got it! Thanks Pab for the quest.
14. Pignose PGG 100:
This guitar has a built-in-amp and that's why it's ideal for traveling/outside playing. Also, a humbucking pickup serves a tone similar to the Maranello's and so it's ideal to CR. You can adjust volume with a knob determining the guitar's name:
The funny thing it's definetely cheap so if you want a guitar CR plays too, don't bother yourself with stupid things like a Fender...
This little one costs only $330.
But now back to 'big' guitars.
15. Hofner 173 (1962 Vintage)
As previously written, Hofner GmbH is also a manufacturer of cheap replica guitars. In fact those guitars aren't real replicas but individuals similar to an already existing brand guitar; in look and in sound as well.
Though this is like a Ferrari and a VW... both of them have engines and four wheels and we call them both a car but they're definetely not the same and not even close.
The sound of Hofners are rough, buzzy and not that clear, but they're pretty cheap that's why ideal for beginners. To be honest if you have ever listened to a high-school-band's performance in the gym hall Friday night, you know it doesn't make any difference. Those guys don't have to buy a Fender or even a Squier because when the mixing is poor (all instruments on the same level) and everything's echoing there's not much difference between a cheap and an expensive guitar.
You might remember how much Hofner kind of replicas existing if you look back to the latest tour's set decoration... all those Stratocaster, Telecaster, Gretsch and Gibson lookalikes were Hofners.
This particular one is of a Telecaster-style; closer to the Thinline model in construction. Remember, the Thinline works with a pair of humbuckers; this Hofner has three of them so its sound comes from somewhere deep if you know what I mean. Like a V8 engine.
This model is a real vintage and its manifacturing has been stopped long ago, I wonder how CR took hands on it.
Anyway, he used it on Blue Guitars, too, but mainly on the latest earbook. Actually this is the guitar appears on the cover; besides the 'Hofner-Stratocaster' in Robert's hand and the Violin-bass in Colin's:
Well, I've put a lot of pictures in this post so here's another I'd missed in my Violin Bass post:
Do you notice CR's art studio is pretty messy??
Sooo... the fact is no guitars are left. I do hope you enjoyed this all as I did so very much.
I might be able to figure out some other things regarding Chris Rea's guitars and post them here... or I might be not. Who knows?
Thanks again for your support; it's been a great time and so much fun.
Chris