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06-08-2010, 09:42 AM
|  | Giver of GAS
Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | | Melancon Guitars @ Rocket Music!!
Here's another geetar post that might be of interest to you guys. We've just started carrying Gerard Melancon's guitars, and these things are unbelievably gorgeous. Danny tells me they play great, too, but I can't really tell (dang skinny strings!!).
Gerard makes basses, too, and based on this new arrival (a Melancon Custom Artist T), I might just have to order one to give it a try.   
Last edited by RocketMusic : 06-08-2010 at 10:26 AM.
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06-08-2010, 09:49 AM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | | ...them Cajun boys know a thing or two 'bout makin' them geetars...
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06-08-2010, 10:01 AM
|  | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | Very nice Tele!  |
06-08-2010, 03:57 PM
|  | Well, Ahoy Paloi | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Cape Cod, MA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Darkstrike  Very nice Tele! | +1 DS- Great looking guitar and I especially love the look sans pick guard. Much better. "You had me at matching headstock" |
06-08-2010, 04:04 PM
| | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Bipslapper +1 DS- Great looking guitar and I especially love the look sans pick guard. Much better. "You had me at matching headstock" | I was just gonna say "All its short of being the perfect Tele is a coil cut on that humbucker."
Decided to check the specs first, bam! Push-pull tone pot for the coil cut!  |
08-10-2010, 01:39 PM
| | Giver of GAS
Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | | |
08-10-2010, 01:43 PM
| | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | Nice, the pickguard almost has a thinline flow to it.... (you know I love that style,  )
The Bigsby is just OTT awesomeness! |
08-10-2010, 02:34 PM
| | Giver of GAS
Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | | It's chambered, too. This thing is the t*tties. |
08-10-2010, 02:40 PM
| | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | Oh my, oh my, oh my, chambered too! 
I really wish I could play these dang things.... |
08-10-2010, 02:54 PM
| | Giver of GAS
Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | | Yeah, right? Every now and then a guitar comes in and really makes me wish I could play them worth a ding dong... this is definitely one of those... |
08-10-2010, 03:10 PM
| | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | | Must hurt when it's right in front of you! |
08-10-2010, 03:12 PM
| | Giver of GAS
Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | Eh, at least I can hand it to Danny and hear what it SHOULD sound like  |
08-10-2010, 03:18 PM
| | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by RocketMusic Eh, at least I can hand it to Danny and hear what it SHOULD sound like | Nice nice! 
"You know Danny, you really could do with a Tele, and a Gretsch, round out your gear, and would fit the band's sound great......
Imagine, if you could have the best of both combined in one axe.........
Oh look, this lovely Melancon that arrived today! " |
08-10-2010, 03:26 PM
| | Giver of GAS
Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | | Too funny - Danny just sold his G&L tele, which was his main axe in his honky tonk/rockabilly band (3 Minute Lovin'). He picked up a Gretsch a couple months ago, and that's all he plays in that band now. But he's itching for a Tuttle tele now... |
08-10-2010, 03:29 PM
| | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | And who can blame him, they look great too! |
08-11-2010, 09:40 AM
|  | Providing the Lowend for the High One | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Bonaire, GA (near Macon) | |
Wow! Nice looking guitars!
Check the flame on the back of that neck & that Bigsby tailpiece/tremello is just killer too! I didn't know that they were still manufacturing those bad boys! |
08-11-2010, 09:50 AM
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Endorsing artist:see profile/Current Setup | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: CHICAGO,IL. | | | I met Gerard years ago. And I had the chance to play a few of his basses. They were well crafted, played great and sounded super nice.
Gerard really is passionate about his art and it really does come across extremely well in his instruments. |
08-11-2010, 11:28 AM
| | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JOME77 Wow! Nice looking guitars!
Check the flame on the back of that neck & that Bigsby tailpiece/tremello is just killer too! I didn't know that they were still manufacturing those bad boys! | Yup, them Bigsby's are killer, would love one for a bass, like they done for the Gretsch White Falcon bass. |
08-12-2010, 10:20 AM
| | Giver of GAS
Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | | |
08-12-2010, 10:30 AM
| | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by RocketMusic Jeez, here's another fun guitar. It's a Suhr, not a Melancon (sorry for going OT). And it's the polar opposite of the previous guitar. | Yup, polar opposite, but they'd make an almighty tag team, I'd bet!
Like a Roscoe and a Lull Jazz(or Roscoe Jazz, soon enough!  )
Man, you guys get all the best toys for guitar and bass!
I shudder to think about what you guys would be stocking, if you chose to take up drum gear... | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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