a perfect boat guitar...

Sensible Simplicity makes some sense, a four year old who's going to have some issues with authority, and fixing stupid, they say, is never easy...

I like Line 6 amps... They make some very cool modeling amps that allow the player, at a touch of a button, to change his amp sound from say a Marshall stack to an old Fender and pretty much anything in between.

Kinda like magic...

For awhile, Line 6 has also been making guitars that do the same thing... You want your guitar to sound like a Les Paul, a Strat, or a Telecaster it's simply a matter of turning a knob. If you need it to sound like an acoustic, resophonic, or a twelve-string they've got that covered as well and all told the Variax has 28 separate guitar models in its "chip".

Even more interesting from where I sit, is the fact that the Variax also allows for different tunings without the need to retune the guitar to various open tunings... You need to play slide on a song and want an E7 tuning.... Turn a knob! Is that cool or what?

Actually it does sound too good to be true but a while back on Anguilla I saw that Jimmy Buffett's guitar player was using an early model Variax and kicking some serious butt in the process... You might want to check it out on Buffett's Live in Anguilla DVD.


Listening to Buffett as it happens

So it goes...