GRETSCH WHITE FALCON FRUSCIANTE TV

John Frusciante’s playing style is inspired by great guitarists like Jimmy Page and Jimi Hendrix, but he is a very experimental musician and multi-instrumentalist who likes to use many effects and try new approaches in his style. However, both John and Red Hot Chili Peppers could not release any successful albums or tracks during the period, which led John to rejoin the band in 2019. John Frusciante left the band once again in 2009 to try his chances in his solo career one more time. With Anthony Kiedis’ amazing vocals, Chad Smith’s effective drumming, and Flea’s funky bass, along with John Frusciante’s passionate guitar solos and riffs, Red Hot Chili Peppers became one of the greatest rock bands in history. They recorded Californication in 1999, By the Way in 2002, and Stadium Arcadium in 2006, which were the most successful albums of the band. In 1997, he rejoined the band, which started the golden age of Red Hot Chili Peppers. However, John left the band in 1992 and started pursuing his solo career, which did not go well as he was struggling with heroin addiction. With him, the band recorded some of the breakthrough tunes like Blood Sugar Sex Magik in 1991.

John Frusciante joined Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1988 after the former guitarist of the band died. The Red Hot Chili Pepper lead guitarist is celebrated with his simple yet effective and emotional playing style, his tone that pushes the limits with many effects, and his natural and organic melodic intention.

Note that this is not the cheaper ‘Players Edition’ model, or the GTR version, but the full-on, no-expense-spared, 59 ‘Vintage Select’ White Falcon, complete with deluxe hardshell case and paperwork, and bonus tooled leather Gretsch strap.John Frusciante is one of the most influential guitarists of all time with his passionate guitar playing style. This is truly a guitar designed from the ground up, to do it all! On the tech side, as well as regular 3-way switching and tone/volume controls, the Falcon’s additional 3-way Master Tone Switch tosses high frequency roll-off and pickups “wide open” into the mix. Other outstanding White Falcon features included the famous ‘Space Control’ bridge, the genuine Bigsby B6, a bone nut, Ebony board, (with a near flat, 12” radius), medium-jumbo frets… oh, and nitro lacquer finish and all gold-plated hardware. The combination of the arched, laminated Maple body and interior trestle braces, cloned straight off the legendary 1959 model, gives the guitar an acoustic spring, that nothing else can match! With the unbelievably dynamic sounding FilterTrons fed through Gretsch’s own specially developed ‘Squeezebox’ paper-in-oil capacitors, for the most astonishing, velvety smooth highs, it’s no surprise whatsoever that the big names all come calling.

GRETSCH WHITE FALCON FRUSCIANTE TV

One of the sexiest, most luxurious guitars in the entire guitar universe! This is the no-expense-spared '59 Vintage Select’ model - with Bigsby and TV Jones FilterTrons. Over the years some great names have been associated with the White Falcon: in the fifties, jazz guitarist Mary Osborne in the sixties, Roy Orbison Steve Marriott of the Small Faces then myriad big names from the seventies onwards, including Stephen Stills and Neil Young, Jack White, John Frusciante, Malcolm Young, Brian Setzer, Don Felder of the Eagles, James Hetfield, Joe Strummer, Martin Gore of Depeche Mode, Marco Pirroni, (Bow Wow Wow / Adam & The Ants), and Chris Cheney of the Living End. With its big 17” Maple body – arched front and back – fully bound in gold sparkle, (originally courtesy of the company’s drumkit production line), the White Falcon stood out from just about everything else on the market. The Gretsch 59 ‘Vintage Select’ incarnation of the famous White Falcon is one of those guitars.įirst shown off at the NAMM industry trade show of July, 1954, purely as an example of what the company’s acclaimed luthiers were capable of, Gretsch called it The Guitar Of The Future! The White Falcon was so well received at the NAMM show that Gretsch had no choice but to put it into production, with the first instruments arriving in stores the following year – as the most expensive model in the entire Gretsch catalogue. It is a thing of rare glory when one of the big guitar names reissues one of their famous models – and does it so incredibly well that players and reviewers alike line up to get their hands on one.

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