Dan wrote:
> I saw her in Minneapolis on the S&L tour, and as I recall, she had 3? > identical blond colored fat hollow-body guitars that were very similar (if > not identical) to the one(s) I'd seen Pat Metheny play numerous times > (including this concert). The guitar on ebay is sunburst (but otherwise > similar). Okay, I located my incredibly bad dub of this video, and sure > enough, she is playing 2? different blond guitars (at least one is an > Ibanez, which is what the one on ebay is). Got that? So she had, by my > reckoning, at least four similar guitars, maybe many more. Did she have > one for every one of her distinct tunings? > Well, my commercial copy of the "S&L" video shows her using blond guitars all the way up to "Black Crow", where she uses a sunburst version. I could not quickly discern how many such blond guitars there were. However, Metheny's guitar was definitely a Gibson, and hers were Ibanez. (I believe I recall that this video was culled from more than one performance on the tour in California). After that, I believe that the sunburst made additional appearances in the video, and there are scenes showing the transfer to her of one guitar to another (via one of her "roadies", I gather, who I assume must have tuned it). I had not thought of the possibility of one guitar for each tuning. Hmmm. That would take some of the chance (of a poor re-tuning job) out of it. Does anyone know if these (Ibanez Benson's) were relatively inexpensive guitars ? They sounded fine with Joni playing them, but perhaps she just liked them because of the fretboard, or their weight, or the semiacoustic wide body sound ? Bobsart
