NBD - '84 Hamer Blitz

[Highlander]

I might have pics of him playing that...

[uwe]

It was his live weapon of choice for the latter half of the 70ies/early 80ies, you didn't see him with his TBird anymore. That only got resurrected much later. The Hamer ended up with truss rod issues and was sold to some fan.

[Highlander]

Saw them a number of times during that era...

[uwe]

They have a 32-disc retrospective due. For those of us who just can't get enough of harmony guitars in seconds, major and minor thirds, quarters, diminished and undiminished fifths, major and minor sixths, major and minor sevenths and octaves. 

[Highlander]

Time-out...!

[gearHed289]

So Paul Hamer was here in my office yesterday, and he was nice enough to sign the inside of my control cavity cover. Very cool guy with some good stories!

[westen44]

Nice signature. 

[Dave W]

Very cool. Is he in a music-related business at all these days?

[Highlander]

V

[wellREDman]

That is sort of the budget version of what the Def Leppard guy played, Rick Savage, right?

I never know what to do when a thread throws up a band I worked with, tell the story and seem like I'm being big headed, or just scroll on and maybe not have shared something that one of you might have found interesting ...

[westen44]

I never know what to do when a thread throws up a band I worked with, tell the story and seem like I'm being big headed, or just scroll on and maybe not have shared something that one of you might have found interesting ...

I would say whatever I felt might be relevant.  Besides that, several people here have told about direct encounters with famous musicians.  Usually, something like that is valuable to someone at least. 

[gearHed289]

Very cool. Is he in a music-related business at all these days?

He's been making these really funky guitars under the name "H". We're doing 2 cases for those, and 1 for a guitar shaped like the subject of this thread. 

[gearHed289]

I never know what to do when a thread throws up a band I worked with, tell the story and seem like I'm being big headed, or just scroll on and maybe not have shared something that one of you might have found interesting ...

Spill it! 

[Dave W]

Good to know that he's back in the guitar business. I don't know about that headstock angle though!

[Highlander]

Sort of lute-like...