Steve wants his guitar to light up like a 50’s UFO!
Steve and Evelyn from the Highland Hot Club came down from Inverness at the weekend for a blistering series of gigs and dropped by to see how the Spaceship was getting on. Me and Steve spent the Sunday afternoon in the workshop where we did a bit of work on the drawing to fill in a few of the missing details like the finger-rest, tail-piece and headstock. The black parts of the art deco style designs will be ebony and the rest blue azurite which should look amazing.
During the conversation he casually murmured something about blue LED’s inside the guitar. He has a microphone which lights up blue, so he wants the guitar to match! Shouldn’t be a problem but I’ll have to look into that…I know blue LED’s have been hard to get in the past but I checked and they seem to be readily available nowadays. I will probably mount the watch batteries and a on/off micro-switch for this under the finger-rest. Not sure how I’ll mount the LED’s inside but I’ll work something out…
While he was here Steve showed me some of the three note chords he uses in the ‘Hot Club’ style…I learned that Am6 is also D7, D9 and F#dim and Adim and Cdim…Amazing… 6 chords in three notes…Now I am really confused!