well i for one am ashamed to see her playing a damn
Strat O Maxter..or whatever thay call those things..
I heard those things are from Texas...and you know
what they say about THAT..!! Dang Donnah thats the first time I believe I cussed on your porch..
I apologize..
Now I'm off to set this gal up on a higher road of
guitar enlightenment...Speaking of...

Did you happen to catch Elliot Easton and the New Cars on the late late show last night ? Todd Rundgren is their frontman now. EE was showing off his new Signature SG from Gibson...a strat..of all things..

They're catching a lock of flak for being the Cars minus all the good stuff.
EE rates a sig? How's that?

is that the chick from Fanny, the all girl band?

eliot easton gets a signature SG because he's a guitar geek, known amongst guitar geeks and Gibson says so, i reckon.

Yep, you got it, Richie. It's June Millington of Fanny, the first all-girl rock band signed to an album contract by a major label. Her sister Jean played bass, and eventually married David Bowie's guitarist Earl Slick. The Millington sisters were originally from the Philippines.
My brother came and got me to watch them on TV when I was a kid, so I could see girls rockin' out.

http://www.boyd.harris.btinternet.co.uk/f000.htm

From June's Wikipedia entry:
David Bowie wrote the following about Fanny in Rolling Stone Magazine - 12/29/99: "One of the most important female bands in American rock has been buried without a trace. And that is Fanny. They were one of the finest fucking rock bands of their time, in about 1973. They were extraordinary: They wrote everything, they played like motherfuckers, they were just colossal and wonderful, and nobody's ever mentioned them. They're as important as anybody else who's ever been, ever; it just wasn't their time. Revivify Fanny. And I will feel that my work is done."

You know more about EE than I do. It never trickled down to me that he was any big whoop on a guitar. I don't hear anything astounding about his playing in their records.

EE is famous for doing 'stuff' that can't be replicated. On one of the Cars tunes, he
taped all but one string down, plugged direct into the mixing board, adjusted the volume so that if he
stood with one foot on a stool, and the other up on
the board, and aimed it at the speaker, it would
feedback constantly..then he just played the one
string..

I guess Gibson has had so much fun ($$$$) with signature series fiddles, they can't wait till someone qualifies.
The Hendrix family just authorized 500 only psychedelic 'Flying V's' that he toured Europe
with (he painted the V with fingernail polish) everyone of them painted exactly the same...

There are 3-4 on the Bay now with a slight markup
from cost..by dealer/collectors

The DA's are what uproared the collectors..because
there were only supposed to be 300 (complete with
Duane's name in frets on the back placed there by
Twiggs) but they started showing up overseas.

oops, Henry forgot to mention the 15 or so promised to Japanese and such..one guy in Tokyo
has three of them.

Mac Yasuda?

I dont think so, Donnah...

I was wrong in another post *eyiii* there were only
55 produced and numbered by Gibson, the rest 10-15,
were labeled 'prototype' and sold overseas

here is the link, can you read Ja[panese^ ?

http://www.geocities.jp/e08120/DA/da.html

somebody spent some bread

The first photo is obviously the real thing..

here is the translated version

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.geocities.jp%2Fe08120%2FDA%2Fda.html&langpair=ja%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8