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What's this TCC Gakki? I feel like a drug addict who hears he's been missing out.

Link? :p

And is there a place online where I can find the Greco 1977 catalog? I've used the links below for other guitars, but they don't have Greco in 1977.

http://www.yamaha.co.jp/product/guitar/archive/
http://brochures.yokochou.com/en_index.html
 
BrazenPicker said:
Here's another tempting one, by the way. Greco Jeff Beck strat, highest model:

http://page12.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/p204510752
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Surely Jeff Beck never used a Strat like that or specified what should go into that guitar?
 
When I was in Japan in March I saw a poster somewhere in a guitar shop in Ochanomizu that he had done a concert in Tokyo (must have been 1977 or 1978) where he had played that guitar (those mods) and it seems to have caught on. I think I remember even Schecter (may have been another brand) having some new ones with the same electronics on Digimart. I'm not sure about the specifics, but I think basically every pickup has an on/off switch. There was also a SE-500JB / 600 /700. 800 is the highest. In the other link I posted up here, if you go to the Greco catalog of that time you can see them.
 
If a weak-willed person with more money than sense were to ask you which one to buy, what would you say?

http://page12.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/p204510752
http://www.digimart.net/inst_detail.do?instrument_id=DS00955527
 
BrazenPicker said:
If a weak-willed person with more money than sense were to ask you which one to buy, what would you say?

http://page12.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/p204510752
http://www.digimart.net/inst_detail.do?instrument_id=DS00955527
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I know nothing about Grecos, but I did get a chance, last week, to play a Strat-like-object which had 3 x 3 position switches for each pickup. 5 minutes playing this just confirmed to me what an awful way it is to drive a Strat - a bit like trying to steer your car using a pc games joystick thingy! So I would avoid anything with this method of pickup selection as it would drive me mad inside an hour!

So I would buy the other one, which is still gorgeous, despite the rather strange scratchplate.
 
I'd like the white/rosewood one better if it was a bit more wrinkly. Looks like it needs a bit of nice relicing. I'm no expert on grecos but lvery late 70s and early 80s on most makes seem to be the best.

The only 77 catolgues I can find are here there's a pic of the SE1000 but no spec's, all japanese & most of the other 77 links are broken.

http://translate.googleusercontent....le.com&usg=ALkJrhgPHruBXkljAOo_nTz5ol3h4vCoBA
 
I agree with Mike about the non-conventional controls on that one but it'd be a fairly cheap mod to add a nice scratch-plate and new knobs/pots etc.
 
BrazenPicker said:
And is there a place online where I can find the Greco 1977 catalog?
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DaveWW said:
The only 77 catolgues I can find are here there's a pic of the SE1000 but no spec's, all japanese & most of the other 77 links are broken.
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I have a subscription on Vintaxe.com for a month for my Burny research project. You can find the 1977 Greco catalog there.
There's a SE1200 (N/T/S); white pickguard black pups, probably DiMarzios which cost 18.000.
The SE1000 (N/T/S) has the strange brushed metal pickguard with PU119 pups which cost 10.000.
And the SE800 (N/T/S), white pickguard, white PU100 pups at 8.000 yen.
Can't read japanese so don't know further specs.
 
stratman323 said:
Very nice. I can't see any sign of a Floyd Rose though. :eek:
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Thanks Mike, i thought one might have been installed, maybe it was just some sort of locking head nut coz of the screw holes in the headstock. Im not into floyd rose anymore :D too many dive bomb noises and slack string noises....and no music sound 8)
I'm over shredding noises.....best left to lightening fingers...i'll just play music instead. :wink:
 
Thanks for that info. I think I'll leave those two strats alone (for now) since I bought two other guitars yesterday. For what it's worth I've posted it on another thread not to derail this one here.

http://www.tokaiforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=136902#136902

Any other Yamaha SG lovers here?
 
Today another "Jeff Beck" strat sighting, Fender Japan this time:

http://www.digimart.net/inst_detail.do?instrument_id=DS01083734

Hmmm, and as I decided to look further I found this:

Fender USA:
http://www.digimart.net/inst_detail.do?instrument_id=DS00976991

Aria:
http://www.digimart.net/inst_detail.do?instrument_id=DS00313745

Schecter:
http://minkara.carview.co.jp/userid/367523/blog/17532486/
 
JB was a big time modder of guitars, ever seen his Telegib? I'm willing to believe that he used a Strat with that control set up at some point over the years. If the Japanese want to keep issuing it as a special Strat model, well why not, eh?

I've seen other Japanese makes with similar controls, such as Moon, so I'm guessing there's a few players over there who appreciate the different layout.

He has a current Fender Signature Strat that looks pretty normal except for the flatter radius and bigger frets.
 
It just seems dishonest to have a Signature guitar made that you rarely (or never) play in public. With Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, Jimmie Vaughan, B.B. King & many others, if you go to see them live it's likely that they will play their Sig. model for most of the set. Same with Beck - he'll play his Fender US Sig. Strat. So what relevance do the other guitars have?

I just don't get it.
 
Some Japanese makers still produce a Telegib as well, and I got no problem with that because I want the Telegib to be present in this world.

It's probably the same with the JB Strat with the two knobs and toggle switches - some players want that configuration, so they might as well keep making it.
Actually, I don't see how they could call it anything else seeing as JB came up with the original idea?

Does Clapton ever play his Gibson ES-335 Special Edition?
What about the Hendrix Flying V, I'm certain Jimi doesn't play that anymore... :lol:
 

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