Tonika:The Soviet Telecaster

[octagon]

Check out the guitars on this webpage:

Electro-guitars of the USSR

[longhouse]

Oh my, those are some kind of ugly. Hints of Fender, Ovation, Burns, and Eko all in one Eastern Bloc nightmare package. Blech!

Guess I'm a stodgy old purist.

[kiramdear]

Hoping for mass let-out of most advanced electro-guitar musical tools at comrades in decadent Western market. (Translation: Those are hot! I'd buy 'em all.)

[kiramdear]

I think he's playing an Elgava in this vid. That's my favorite from that page.

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Just to re-iterate what I already said, these Russians are having too much fun.

[octagon]

Oh my, those are some kind of ugly. Hints of Fender, Ovation, Burns, and Eko all in one Eastern Bloc nightmare package. Blech

You are wrong comrade.These electro guitars are a reflection of socialist realism.

[sowhat]

Just to re-iterate what I already said, these Russians are having too much fun.

There's no such thing as too much fun. It's just sometimes "fun" goes so much beyond the limits that it ceases being funny and becomes ugly. But Soviet guitars are not the case.

[longhouse]

Hey they make a 4001abe too!

[weemac]

only real punks would play them .

Gosh that says so much!

Eden.

[goofyfoot]

Yeah, but they look so funky Brian

Definitely, très funky, abstract-looking. It grows on me.

[octagon]

I found another Tonika vid.