Reliced Amps

wmthor · Post by **wmthor** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 8:43 am

What are the marketing people going to think next?

If you own a Relic® Stratocaster or Telecaster then you've GOT to have a Tortured Tweed®!!
The "Tortured Tweed®" line is one of our brand new, hand-wired amplifiers and speaker combinations that are housed in a hand distressed tweed cabinet.

ken_j · Post by **ken_j** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 9:15 am

I have seen the Fender tweeds with cigarette burns and rings from a sweaty beer on them but this take it to a whole new level. I can hear my wife now if I were to bring that into the living room where my Boogie currently resides.

cjj · Post by **cjj** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 9:34 am

Grey · Post by **Grey** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 9:57 am

I can't say I would ever want to own one, but I actaully dig the way these look. I like them way more than 'reliced' guitars.

JakeK · Post by **JakeK** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:19 pm

I want a Townshend-relic'd Marshall plexi stack!

paologregorio · Post by **paologregorio** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:29 pm

Eww, no lice for my amps!

No, re-lice-ing them either after I've killed the initial lice infestation with the bug spray-thats just mean!

These ding dongs who like to "relic" musical instruments and things; not only have they created the odious-pre-worn, ready made instrument concept, they've also seriously taken a wrong and twisted turn with the construction of neologisms in the English language. . . .

rickenbrother · Post by **rickenbrother** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:32 pm

Anyone wanna buy a relicked car? I've got couple I can sell ya. Probably find several more. I hope you can afford them!

paologregorio · Post by **paologregorio** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:43 pm

rickenbrother wrote:Anyone wanna buy a relicked car? I've got couple I can sell ya. Probably find several more. I hope you can afford them!

No kidding.

Evidently I've taken the completely wrong track by buying and using covers on all of my amps, keeping them clean, and doing the same for all of my cased guitars. . . I'm going to start throwing both down flights of stairs between shows, then sell them all for huge megabucks on EBay, then use the profits to buy more stuff and repeat the process. . .

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:56 pm

Re-liced, Richard?

Relic'd. Jake?

Thanks, Joey!

8mileshigher · Post by **8mileshigher** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 4:03 pm

paologregorio wrote:Eww, no lice for my amps!

No, re-lice-ing them either after I've killed the initial lice infestation with the bug spray-thats just mean!

Pretty funny !!!

JakeK · Post by **JakeK** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 4:44 pm

jingle_jangle wrote:Relic'd. Jake?

I just spell it as I've seen on various websites. Is there a correct way to spell it?

paologregorio · Post by **paologregorio** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 4:57 pm

JakeK wrote:
jingle_jangle wrote:Relic'd. Jake?
I just spell it as I've seen on various websites. Is there a correct way to spell it?

Not really. That's one of the things that's just completely wrong about the whole concept!

"reliced"-looks like a second installment of a lice infestation
"relic'd"-looks like a possessive form gone wrong.
"Relicked"-lollipop or ice cream cone anyone? (no offense, Joey) Gee, I hope the first licker didn't have mono. . .

Maybe it should be reliqued. .. nah, even worse; people would think it's a misspelling of something to do with liquor.

There was a perfectly acceptable and well-used word composed of an existing, correct, and uncontroversial spelling, that existed before everyone started talking about lice and licking; "distressed," as in "distressed finish," used in giving refinished cabinetry an antique look. It's the same process and I constantly wonder how all of the confusing constructions of "relic" "-iced," "-ic'd," "-icked"and unfortunately wound themselves into descriptions of this process, given that there was already a perfectly acceptable word already in existence. I believe the word is also used to describe clothing given similar treatment, though by slightly different means.

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 7:08 pm

Relicked.

Like the past tense of any other verb ending in a "C".
Try these on for size:

Mimic, frolic, panic, picnic, traffic.

Do we say, "he paniced" or, "They trafficed in narcotics"?

The only reason "relicked" looks weird to anyone is that the use of "relic" as an active verb is so recent, and so often quoted by semi-literate guitar builders...

Grey · Post by **Grey** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 8:26 pm

Does the spelling really matter? Even if it's incorrect the implication is obvious, and everyone knows what someone is referring to when they say 'relic'.
I don't particularly care for it, and quite frankly prefer all my 'relicking' to be done naturally. That having been said, I see no reason to mock something that other people enjoy at no detrement to myself, if that's what they like. Rickenbacker enthusaists should be no strangers to getting 'picked on' for the quirky traits of our guitars and basses that we love, which many people can't stand. This whole 'relicking' bandwagon is getting a bit silly.

cjj · Post by **cjj** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 9:21 pm

No, spelling doesn't matter... however you spell it, it's a silly idea...

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