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Sean was my guitar teacher when he was 19.

He could play nearly 20 notes per second at that point. Did it rub off? Well, my personal best is about 3 notes per second ...

It was only cool to shred at 20 nps in the 80's...which is where Langcaster should have stopped production.

For that "ballsy" sound:

Sean came to my house once. He could indeed play very fast. Lost touch with him over the years, but did see him busking on Vulcan Lane in the mid-90s. In a kilt. Much like this:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA9KDWcV_aw[/youtube]

Hot_Grits wrote:Sean came to my house once. He could indeed play very fast. Lost touch with him over the years, but did see him busking on Vulcan Lane in the mid-90s. In a kilt. Much like this:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA9KDWcV_aw[/youtube]

Reminds me of michael angelo............

His solo stuff sounds terribly generic.

Also I laugh at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mB2yjSU ... re=related

He says he was mocking it, but I doubt he was at the time! The obvious promotion of his sight reading software is a bit cringeworthy, I can definitely see how he fits in with Wangcaster

I don't own a Langcaster, but to set the record straight, there are NO Chinese copies of Langcaster guitars (sorry to bust your bubble). No other wood or crafty process can duplicate the grain of swamp kauri wood. Each Langcaster guitar took a few months to build, and less than a handful or so exist. YouTube has a few documentaries on the luthier and the Kauri wood extraction, and guitar build. They are not made any more as the owner/builder retired from the craft. They are true works of art. I wish I had one.

Geeetarr wrote:I don't own a Langcaster, but to set the record straight, there are NO Chinese copies of Langcaster guitars (sorry to bust your bubble). No other wood or crafty process can duplicate the grain of swamp kauri wood. Each Langcaster guitar took a few months to build, and less than a handful or so exist. YouTube has a few documentaries on the luthier and the Kauri wood extraction, and guitar build. They are not made any more as the owner/builder retired from the craft. They are true works of art. I wish I had one.

Good to know. I know for myself it was all the rumours of chinese production that put me off getting one. If i'm paying premium prices for a butt ugly guitar, I expect it to be locally made and keeping Kiwis in jobs.

Geeetarr wrote:I don't own a Langcaster, but to set the record straight, there are NO Chinese copies of Langcaster guitars (sorry to bust your bubble). No other wood or crafty process can duplicate the grain of swamp kauri wood. Each Langcaster guitar took a few months to build, and less than a handful or so exist. YouTube has a few documentaries on the luthier and the Kauri wood extraction, and guitar build. They are not made any more as the owner/builder retired from the craft. They are true works of art. I wish I had one.

Timely response.

Geeetarr wrote:I don't own a Langcaster, but to set the record straight, there are NO Chinese copies of Langcaster guitars (sorry to bust your bubble). No other wood or crafty process can duplicate the grain of swamp kauri wood. Each Langcaster guitar took a few months to build, and less than a handful or so exist. YouTube has a few documentaries on the luthier and the Kauri wood extraction, and guitar build. They are not made any more as the owner/builder retired from the craft. They are true works of art. I wish I had one.

Yeah the hand made ones, but he did sell some shit which he put his logo too, dude thats not good. Not the kauri ones, but the others that were going out the door with langcaster pickups. Jem ripoffs IIRC and others.

Sad to hear he's retired and I wish him well though!

Bg wrote:

Geeetarr wrote:I don't own a Langcaster, but to set the record straight, there are NO Chinese copies of Langcaster guitars (sorry to bust your bubble). No other wood or crafty process can duplicate the grain of swamp kauri wood. Each Langcaster guitar took a few months to build, and less than a handful or so exist. YouTube has a few documentaries on the luthier and the Kauri wood extraction, and guitar build. They are not made any more as the owner/builder retired from the craft. They are true works of art. I wish I had one.

Yeah the hand made ones, but he did sell some shit which he put his logo too, dude thats not good. Not the kauri ones, but the others that were going out the door with langcaster pickups. Jem ripoffs IIRC and others.

Sad to hear he's retired and I wish him well though!

Yep jem copies, in white and black, along with the odd sunburst strat. Amusingly, when he was peddling the aforesaid lower models, he maintained that the toan came from his proprietary pickups, and that they could transform any guitar.

Geeetarr wrote:I don't own a Langcaster, but to set the record straight, there are NO Chinese copies of Langcaster guitars (sorry to bust your bubble). No other wood or crafty process can duplicate the grain of swamp kauri wood. Each Langcaster guitar took a few months to build, and less than a handful or so exist. YouTube has a few documentaries on the luthier and the Kauri wood extraction, and guitar build. They are not made any more as the owner/builder retired from the craft. They are true works of art. I wish I had one.

Hi Joh!

NZRS-Dave wrote:Jan Akkerman is the guitar player out of Hocus Pocus I think ... shown here in 1973

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpV5InLw52U[/youtube]

And yes, he's awesome

Focus was the band ( Dutch). Hocus Pocus, the track

And we're concerned about an 8 year old bubble because...??

I played a guitar with his pickups in once. Ice pick sprang to mind.