When it comes to catalog guitars few people were farther ahead of the curve in terms of their cool factor than David Lindley. It seems David has been playing these things most of his career. I could only imagine what his collection looks like and what a hoot it would be to sort through it and all it's oddities. David was the one who provided Ry Cooder with the gold foil pickup that balances out his Coodercaster.
This is Lindley's 2nd record with his band El Rayo-X. The front and back of the album cover are full of funky old guitars. Lindley was just looking for different sounds so he would scour the pawn shops trying to find something that didn't just sound like another Strat or Les Paul. On the front cover he is pictured with a late 50's Barney Kessel Kay Guitar with the Kelvinator headstock. His bass player and guitar player(Jorge Calderon and Bernie Larsen) are holding Airline Map bass and electric guitars with National branding on the headstock.
Here's a partial list of the guitars of the guitars that can be seen on the album... which by the way is a fun listen!!
Kay Barney Kessel
Airline Map bass and electric guitar
Danelectro Longhorn guitar
Teisco 6 string baritone/bass guitar
Danelectro Doubleneck
Silvertone 1457 or 1448 guitar( can only see the back of it so you can't tell if it is the single or double pickup model)
Its really impressive to think that this album came out in 1982. No one was playing these guitars back then.
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