I’m not sure what the deal is here, but I was walking down the street across from Penn Station the other day and saw this dude playing a gigantic guitar. He wasn’t actually being attacked by it, but me and many others were struck by its ridiculous size. The guy was playing real music on this thing. I think at the time he was doing an improvisation around the Star Spangled Banner or something…
It’s funny to think of the mad scientist mind that decided it would be a good idea to create a super-size guitar and make it entirely playable, although unwieldy, for a normal rocker dude. It sounded like, well, an electric guitar, though the lower strings had this huge deep open-string vibrating tone going on, kind of like how you can tell pretty much instantly when the low E on a guitar is in dropped D…
I hope this guy is making some nice spare change with his freak-show guitar. Props my man. It must be a total pain to carry to gigs. Or bring on the subway.