Yeah, it is.
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It were a drummer who told me that joke, too!
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They get loads of unfair shit leveled at them, and its actually the hardest job in a band!!!
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If volume is an issue you could buy an attenuator. They’re expensive but you can run an amp flat out with them and still have the volume at sociable level (if there is such a thing)
Gotta get me one of these one day…one day. Its a Parker Midi Fly, which will take a synth, to blend with distortion and get the most otherwordly tones possible. Only problem is they are so rare and quite pricey. I’ll take a green one, but this hardwood will do, not being too picky.
My mates got a Parker Fly. One hell of a guitar. Probably the most sensitive / lightest feeling guitar I’ve ever seen / dabbled with. His happens to be green 
They have this extremely modern look and feel to them which might not appeal to all.
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Yeah I have heard you have to have a go first, but his is green too, you heartless bastard 
Reeves Gabrels did it to me!
he he. Just sayin.
Lightest touch was all it needed. It also meant you had to be really precise with your playing.
Ha, yeah but never knew they were that light. I heard the fretboard takes some getting used to, as its carbon fibre and offers less resistance. Di Marzio humbuckers as standard !! Now where is that P90 Jazzmaster…I agree with your general point, what we think we want often is not actually so. Its like being English…
Yeah it’s also a very precise tone if you get my meaning. They are kind of perfect in every way, too perfect for many I feel. There’s this ultra precision thing to them, as if they were designed and built by a robot as the ultimate guitar that you’d see in Buck Rogers or something. It’s almost as if they’re too clinical, too perfect, which I suspect is why you don’t see many around.
Thats it, Id heard Parker invested a lot in science before constructing it. You might have put me off here, its mainly the aesthetic of it and the fact it can take a synth. Trouble is there are not many guitars that can take a midi synth and guitar tone at the same time.
They’re really good, no doubt about that but an acquired taste is probably the best way of looking at it. That tech side, precision, and perfection is my mate all over so it was no surprise he has one. If Apple did a guitar it would be a Parker Fly (with a camera fitted)
Personally, I’d be drooling over a beaten up 59 Les Paul or 50’s / 60’s Strat or Telecaster more that than, in exactly the same way I don’t like Apple or mobile phones.
the wood finish one looks good though
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Yep, what you dont know though is I rate 1. Outside by Bowie as the greatest album of all time, and Reeves had his Fly out all over it. Not pissing, not that. Ive never heard such beautiful atonality in guitar playing; its so good never mind play it, its enough to work out how he gets the sounds he does. Well worth a listen, but repeated plays are necessary, but we begin and end with an acquired taste.
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We do. Yeah the tone from one is also that same super accurate, precise feel to it and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. Other than, if I picked one up it would sound absolutely awful.
This is the concern you have now seeded in me; being a ‘feel’ player! 
Well I was kind of saying that the Parker is probably the guitar a brain surgeon would use.
Me, I’m “Wreck it Ralph” by comparison.
I think, you’ll be fine unless you like to go full Pete Townsend on it.
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Its a great analogy actually. They are about £2.5 to £3k I think. I just want my tone to sound fucked up; suppose there are other ways! An Ibanez Jet King
Now you have opened a sore, never ever will or have rated the Who. Think Daltry was a great front man but I really dont get them.
Same really. Some decent tunes but otherwise I’m a bit lost with them. Townsend is one hell of a guitarist though, if he could keep the instrument in one piece.
They are expensive but you could easily spend double that on something else if you really wanted to. They are a premium instrument.
Wasn’t there a pick up thingy you could add to a guitar, wire it in and basically go full synth with it? Cant remember who made it now.
Roland/Boss I reckon, didnt Fripp use it?
That would be both more sensible and accessible. But probably as expensive as I’d need a guitar to bastardise, some expensive luthery to boot. Whereas I already have the ultimate synth brain, the Moog Voyager Reissue!! Suppose I could just adapt and existing guitar and buy a midi pick up, for about £150 and maybe for fitting it the same price.
I did have a synth pedal but sold it, because they dont track very well at all. Treble strings hardly come through evenly compared to the wound strings.
Roland, that was it. Came across it as a guitar I was looking at had one fitted.
As soon as I saw that you could make your guitar sound like a piano I bolted. Not for me. I don’t mind effects but if I want a piano sound I’ll play a piano. Plus I hate those 80’s synth pop group thing that went one. Grunge was a massive relief when it happened.