Sunday 21 February 2010

Leona's Groovy Guitars

After a while of making a handful of little Amps, a couple of Fuzz Boxes and generally not getting very far in the production stakes, we felt it was time to slow things down.

Stress is a killer after all.

So instead of making things that only take a couple of hours last a few weeks, we thought we could really stretch it out by making some other things that are generally known to take quite a while.

We figured we could probably retire on those.

So Leona's Groovy Guitars were born with a spark in the eye, and despite a demur cast-down-gaze, they were destined to have a pumping, funking, grooving-and-a-moving beat in their heart, and a dress sense that would make some pimp-envying-gangsta-rapper blush.

Leona's Groovy Guitars were born then, with a simple idea - we would take parts of guitars and then build something new from them.

We'd add a twist or two of our own and generally make something unique that is cool to play and more to the point stunning to look at.

We wanted art, not discussions like:
'Can-I-have-a-Cherry-Sunburst-I-Really-Like-The-Cherry-Ones-With-The-Stripes-Like-Gibson-do-but-can-it-be-a-bit-cheaper'.

We wanted Paisley, and Velvet not wood stain and Nitrocellulose.

We wanted glamour and sex appeal, head-turning-tongue-hanging looks with  voice to die for.

We wanted sex-on-a-stick and the sound of an angel one minute, yet a heaving banshee next.

We called them Leona after some wench we met once and not any famous person you may have heard of.

We called them groovy because, let's face  it, they bleedin' are.

We made The Paisley One as our first ever Leona's Groovy Guitar.

I think that may be known as setting your stall out.

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