You Can’t E̶A̶T̶ Play Just One
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Yes, it’s another one for Thomas…Griggs that is.
Actually, who could ever resist? Once you have gigged with an Anderson Guitar there is no going back.
As we detailed in Guitar Tales from April 8, 2020, Thomas Griggs is a gigging musician. Since that time, “Griggs” has been gigging his Seafoam Green, Icon—Swamp Ash body with an SSH pickup layout—super versatile.
But now it is time…time for something different and yet the same…and yet different:
An Icon, this time in Shoreline Gold—Alder body with 3 vintage single coils.
A Florida resident, the gigs are going again. The band all shows up wearing masks—like they are safely incognito. No one really knows if it is them for sure, or not.
It may go something like this:
“Who is that masked band and who’s the man with the guitar? He’s really good. Wait…you can tell if you look closely…playing that cool, In-Distress Ande…it must be Griggs who’s gigging.”
But really, this is what Thomas had to say about his new Shoreline, Anderson Icon:
“It opened up a whole new world of sound and playing for me. I have been gigging the whole time since I got it. This is really a gigging axe.”
“My first Icon, the Seafoam Green, was an SSH pickup layout and I can rely on the humbucker to, as I said last time, soar over the band. The humbucker is full and loud and dominant.”
“On the new Shoreline Gold, it has an Alder body and 3 single coils. Single coil pickups, to me, seem to have more tone. It is like my guitar has “big boy tone”—exactly what I have been looking for.”
“What is interesting is that the single coil pickups in the neck and middle positions of both guitars are the same—VA7—but the Shoreline, probably because of its Alder body, is punchier and rounder sounding.”
“The Swamp Ash of the Seafoam Green Icon is really nice too. It has more bottom end but with an open middle—less midrange. The singles don’t have as much punch on the Seafoam as they do on the Shoreline—the Shoreline’s single tone is bigger.”
“Each guitar has its own personality. Neither is better or worse than the other. Both are just unique individuals, and both really amazing. Love ‘em.“
“The way I run the 3 single, Icon is through some kind of boost-type pedal all the time, like a Wampler Tom Quayle Dual Fusion Overdrive Pedal or a Pedal Pawn Fuzz or the The Duellist by Kingtone. I roll the guitar’s volume down for clean and up for overdriven clean and beyond. And then into the front of a BadCat Club 40.”
“What more can I say? Anderson Awesomeness!”
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