JuanCarlosVejar Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 I know some of you guys enjoy U2 . Gretsch is relaunching the Irish Falcon =) : http://www.gretschguitars.com/products/index.php?partno=2411409846 it looks really sweet and from the live clips I've heard is sounds great JC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParlourMan Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 No matter how much I love Gretsches(and I really do) I could never own this one due to how much I can't stand that little dwarf Bono maggot... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Isaac Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 I do not like it, so it will not be joining my other Falcons. Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motherofpearl Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 Love it but I'm with parlor man!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvguit Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 That thing is GORGEOUS. OO lala. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mojorule Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 Well I don't share PM's total aversion to Bono, though I do understand it, and I think he should have retired in 1991 (truly nothing worthwhile since Achtung Baby - not even Zooropa - and he's lost his voice and looks, which makes true rock stardom a bit out of his league now). I also think Gretsches are great looking and sounding guitars, and while a G-brand Chet Atkins or Lou Reed's Velvets-era Country Gent would be more my style, I am definitely always impressed by a White or Black Falcon, including the Edge's double-cut white one. But I never liked Bono's green Gretsch in the first place. Eye-catching, but not pretty. Not a nice colour. At least not on a Gretsch. Not then, and not now. So I'm a bit the other way round - I could just about live with the Bono association, say on that rather nice, well-aged, grainy early '60s ES335 he ponced around with in Rattle and Hum. But I couldn't buy an emerald green Gretsch. A Brian Jones smoke green Anniversary maybe - ostensibly a worse green, but infinitely cooler on a Gretsch. But not this dark, gloomy green. And what's with the tailpiece? If you have to have a Gretsch with no Bigsby, at least have that solid looking Brian Jones tailpiece with a nice G, not this naff goldy looking chain thing. And the slogan? Bono's worst rhyme since 'For the Reverend Martin Luther King/Sing'. More fitting if this were the Commitments model. Miss for me, I'm afraid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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