Yeah I know I could just google about them, but I figure somebody on here has one, or had one, or knows all about them rather than wading thru a bunch of dead links and old ebay adds... Anyway on to the pix:
The Hohner. It had about 11-ty million finish cracks all over it, and the headstock looked like it was angled towards the strings-the opposite of "tilt back" headstocks, if that makes sense. It seemed to play OK, from what I could tell. It was pretty cool looking. I would have gotten more pix but the store guy came over and asked why I was photographing it (oops)
Obviously it was fretless, but had the cool marker inlays at the top of the neck. I've never actually played a fretless, and I sounded as bad on it as I thought I would
THe Ohagan:
I'm a sucker for neck-thru instruments, I just love the way they look. Despite that it looks like something I should have right under my chin, playing "Level 42" songs on it...
I thought it was really cool, if kinda out of style now. Of course I didn't have the $800 they wanted for it. It was kinda heavy, which I'm sure is because of the construction.
So if "shreddy" guitars are coming back in, (and they made more NR Thunderbirds, not that I could afford those, either) does that mean that EARLY 80's stuff will get popular again? Like pre-hair-band era gear?