Chris "Klondike" Masuak
04-07-2008, 07:28 AM
Fellows,
Everyone's first choice!
Guitarist: Idries Eagle-Masuak
Age: 5
Guitar of choice: Robin Ranger
Dad: Chris "Klondike" Masuak (Radio Birdman, The Hitmen, Klondike's North 40)
Fellows,
Seriously, Iddy picks this up and plays it all the time.
I've had this "Vintage" Robin Ranger since about 1988. It's a stone cold bugger to play...heavier than bugshit and a fat, solid neck that I can hardly wrap my little hands around.
But, it sounds like nothing else on the planet. It's the most "particular and articulate" guitar I own. It's scarey how naked it makes me feel...everything I play is out there totally bare-assed. An unforgiving strumpet.
Amazing! I really love it.
It used to have PJ Marx pickups in it but using metal picks, I shred anything that's not sealed. It has Texas Specials in it now, which really does the wood justice.
Anyway, I took a custom painted Gibson Deluxe into your Houston dealership back in '88, hoping to do a trade on a Strat. I was recording with Deniz Tek (from Radio Birdman)...helping him record his first solo album after a decade of retirement, and I wasn't getting the sound I needed.
The shop guy said (and I quote), "I'd like to see you in a Robin". He insisted that I try out this Ranger made for the NAMM show in the studio. He'd consider trading for the Gibson and a wad of cash. No negotiation.
After I'd recorded the album and got a sense of what the guitar could do (and despite my aching fingers) I said, half joking..."Nope, I'm not giving it back. Keep the Gibson".
He was so flabbergasted I got away with it.
My win. I use it on everything. I still fight the bugger. But it's beginning to grow on me.
Thanks guys,
Chris “Klondike” Masuak
Australia
(The reclusive Masuak carries one of Australian Rock n’ Roll’s proudest pedigrees, citing membership in Radio Birdman, The Hitmen, The New Christs, The Screaming Tribesmen, The Juke Savages, and most recently, Klondike's North 40.
“Klondike almost single-handedly kept the flame burning throughout the last decades of the Twentieth Century, at a time when his guitar heroes had retired, were languishing in jail, had been blown into clouds of pink matter, or had been otherwise heinously indisposed.
The “work horse” of Radio Birdman was coaxed out of seclusion for that band’s somewhat reluctant, explosively remarkable “return” in 1996. So began a strange and perilous journey to revisit and redefine those qualities that originally engaged, fascinated, and filled him with a singular enthusiasm and passion for all things guitar.” (Lenny Flotski, Vicious Kitten, 2000
Masuak has been kicking out the jams since 1975 and has been recently inducted into the Australin Music Hall of Fame."}
Recent releases (07/08):
Radio Birdman Zeno Beach Crying Sun
The Hitmen Hitmen
It Is What It Is Savage/Shock
Klondike's North 40 The Straight Path I94
http://www.myspace.com/masuak
http://blog.myspace.com/masuak
http://www.myspace.com/hitmendtk
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Everyone's first choice!
Guitarist: Idries Eagle-Masuak
Age: 5
Guitar of choice: Robin Ranger
Dad: Chris "Klondike" Masuak (Radio Birdman, The Hitmen, Klondike's North 40)
Fellows,
Seriously, Iddy picks this up and plays it all the time.
I've had this "Vintage" Robin Ranger since about 1988. It's a stone cold bugger to play...heavier than bugshit and a fat, solid neck that I can hardly wrap my little hands around.
But, it sounds like nothing else on the planet. It's the most "particular and articulate" guitar I own. It's scarey how naked it makes me feel...everything I play is out there totally bare-assed. An unforgiving strumpet.
Amazing! I really love it.
It used to have PJ Marx pickups in it but using metal picks, I shred anything that's not sealed. It has Texas Specials in it now, which really does the wood justice.
Anyway, I took a custom painted Gibson Deluxe into your Houston dealership back in '88, hoping to do a trade on a Strat. I was recording with Deniz Tek (from Radio Birdman)...helping him record his first solo album after a decade of retirement, and I wasn't getting the sound I needed.
The shop guy said (and I quote), "I'd like to see you in a Robin". He insisted that I try out this Ranger made for the NAMM show in the studio. He'd consider trading for the Gibson and a wad of cash. No negotiation.
After I'd recorded the album and got a sense of what the guitar could do (and despite my aching fingers) I said, half joking..."Nope, I'm not giving it back. Keep the Gibson".
He was so flabbergasted I got away with it.
My win. I use it on everything. I still fight the bugger. But it's beginning to grow on me.
Thanks guys,
Chris “Klondike” Masuak
Australia
(The reclusive Masuak carries one of Australian Rock n’ Roll’s proudest pedigrees, citing membership in Radio Birdman, The Hitmen, The New Christs, The Screaming Tribesmen, The Juke Savages, and most recently, Klondike's North 40.
“Klondike almost single-handedly kept the flame burning throughout the last decades of the Twentieth Century, at a time when his guitar heroes had retired, were languishing in jail, had been blown into clouds of pink matter, or had been otherwise heinously indisposed.
The “work horse” of Radio Birdman was coaxed out of seclusion for that band’s somewhat reluctant, explosively remarkable “return” in 1996. So began a strange and perilous journey to revisit and redefine those qualities that originally engaged, fascinated, and filled him with a singular enthusiasm and passion for all things guitar.” (Lenny Flotski, Vicious Kitten, 2000
Masuak has been kicking out the jams since 1975 and has been recently inducted into the Australin Music Hall of Fame."}
Recent releases (07/08):
Radio Birdman Zeno Beach Crying Sun
The Hitmen Hitmen
It Is What It Is Savage/Shock
Klondike's North 40 The Straight Path I94
http://www.myspace.com/masuak
http://blog.myspace.com/masuak
http://www.myspace.com/hitmendtk
<img> (http://s263.photobucket.com/albums/ii153/chrisboyking/?action=view&current=RockGrommet.jpg)