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Ain'tGotNoPokemon wrote:I remember McGuinn using one in the Seventies a little.

We had an RRF thread in the Byrds sector a few years back

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Here is Roger's Lone Star band in 1973 with the Lightshow
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Thanks for the photos, Paul! I'd only seen them in the occasional vintage guitar book.

jingle_jangle wrote:New SS conversions in front, original in back:







New SS conversion in action:

Whoa, very very nice!

A Ludwig Vistalite "Tivoli" drum kit would have given the Lightshow boys a run for their money !

not sure wrote:A Ludwig Vistalite "Tivoli" drum kit would have given the Lightshow boys a run for their money !

Yeah, but on the 331LS the lights respond to what's being played; if only the Tivoli did that!

I have joined the Vintage Lightshow club (thanks to Collin, who I've gotten a few of my super cool Vintage Ricks from)

Danotron wrote:I have joined the Vintage Lightshow club (thanks to Collin, who I've gotten a few of my super cool Vintage Ricks from)

NICE

I'm a bass player and am so jealous!! I want a lightshow bass so bad! Even when the lights are off they look cool.

It's an odd thing... when I see basses with front facing LED's on the fingerboard I roll my eyes and think to myself "wow, you really have a need to be noticed don't you?!" I find them awful, ego fueled, and tasteless... but somehow the LS guitars don't have the same affect on me. I just think they are kitchy, cool, charming and innocently psychedelic... and I WANT ONE!! Strange how fine a line it is..(insert Spinal Tap joke here). I'm not sure I understand the difference, but I know it's there!

Paul W., if you read this please don't think I'm pestering you in yet another forum topic.... but.... um... er...

please please please.... please make a 4003 LS someday .... someday soonish?

Ok, I'll give it a rest... for a bit

Keef wrote:Even when the lights are off they look cool.

I always thought so too. Plus, no two are alike.

I think Oyama's 4005LS is still for sale? $30k I believe?

Keef wrote:Paul W., if you read this please don't think I'm pestering you in yet another forum topic.... but.... um... er...

please please please.... please make a 4003 LS someday .... someday soonish?

Ok, I'll give it a rest... for a bit

PW isn't going to just make one, someone is going to have to commission one from him. Go for it!

This would certainly quicken the process. I started on one to use as a prototype, but it got sidetracked into this:





Because I scored lots of black hardware and wanted to build a fretless.

[quote="jingle_jangle"]This would certainly quicken the process.

That begs the question, how much?

8mileshigh wrote:I think Oyama's 4005LS is still for sale? $30k I believe?

I missed this the first time through... While it would be a dream to have one of the 5, I'll have to pass on this one.
Hmmm.. although if I bought it for $30,000 maybe I could make it pay for itself by taking it on a world tour.... Only $100 a ticket to sit in a darkened tent and listen to me play bass lines from all your favorite love songs!

One of my dream guitars. Love seeing them together!