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Soviet Guitar - No, Comrade, No!
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I'm watching...but nothing is happening...
The desire to make music transcends boundaries, borders. That those Soviet builders went to the extremes they had to is heroic if not qualitative. Imitation = flattery? We can look at those instruments and flatter ourselves that we are so much better, or we can look at them and marvel at their ingenuity despite all odds. If we were in their shoes, could we have done better?
In Russia, guitar builds you.
In Russia, guitar builds you.
You could always go with this...
If you read the Reverb article on the subject that I posted a link to, you'd be amazed that anything got built at all, and that the builders had any point of reference, considering the state of lockdown they were in. Additionally, in spite of all the more wack designs(some of which are just brilliant in a dadaist manner), if you scroll down through all the examples, there are some other pretty hip designs, maybe not entirely thought out, but getting there. Alot of the Ruskie stuff isn't any crazier than the Japanese cheapo's of the times, which seem to be just as much of an influence as Euro/US models. Build quality? When you're using components from 1940's military electronics and barbed wire for frets, whaddya gonna do?
If you read the Reverb article on the subject that I posted a link to, you'd be amazed that anything got built at all, and that the builders had any point of reference, considering the state of lockdown they were in. Additionally, in spite of all the more wack designs(some of which are just brilliant in a dadaist manner), if you scroll down through all the examples, there are some other pretty hip designs, maybe not entirely thought out, but getting there. Alot of the Ruskie stuff isn't any crazier than the Japanese cheapo's of the times, which seem to be just as much of an influence as Euro/US models. Build quality? When you're using components from 1940's military electronics and barbed wire for frets, whaddya gonna do?
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Yet, as Jamro217 noted, not too far off from this...
Which I always thought looked like a Ricky left out in the sun to melt. I actually had one in the 80's, not bad. The neck was a little too skinny for my taste, body was ergonomic but could have been thought out better aesthetically, but I'd bet they were wanting to avoid a nasty letter from RIC. I'm more partial to the JS-2(I've got two of the short scale, looking for a long), what the Gibson EB3 should have been.
For a second there I thought that was the fabled Hammersmith K-4 that has never been seen in the wild
Once upon a time I worked with some Ukrainians & they were quite irked by the fact that "comrade" gets thrown around in U.S. films, because they don't actually use that term.
It was about on par with how much the Japanese are irked by the way people in the West pronounce *karaoke.
*not carry-okie, but kara-okay
It was about on par with how much the Japanese are irked by the way people in the West pronounce *karaoke.
*not carry-okie, but kara-okay
Yes, Tovarishch was more commonly used, if I'm not mistaken (basically means friend)
My understanding is that “comrade” has Communist Party overtones, therefore less appropriate in post-Soviet Russia. Maybe someone can confirm or deny that.
Stolen by moose and squirrel, no doubt.
This thread made me flash on this little nugget from the golden era of Top-40 novelty recordings; sure, the humor hasn't aged well, but it was clever nonetheless(for at least a week or two)...
Yeah, yeah, ya had to have been there. The Four Treasons, yer killin' me...
Yeah, yeah, ya had to have been there. The Four Treasons, yer killin' me...
It took me forever to track this down. This was from a cartoon called "The Puffy Ami Yumi Show" which was about the Japanese band Puffy Ami Yumi (band is just called "Puffy" in Japan, but P-diddy with his 800 names made them add to it to avoid confusion)
Anyway, the show usually had a very brief live action bit at the beginning and end. My daughter loved this show when she was little and this bit cracked me up when I first saw it.
That was probably way too much background info, but "step 1" is what I'm referring to.
Loved those girls! Huge 60’s pop influence, but with a big ELO production sound. Keyboardist Roger Manning(Jellyfish, Beck, Cheap Trick)worked with them a lot.
