I bravely resisted the temptation of plugging it in and treating it with some sweet rock’n’roll, because I feared that hearing it as it is might provide me with second thoughts.
I bought it with the Fernandes Sustainer system in mind, and that meant I had to do things to it that I never thought I would do to any guitar.
For that job I went to see my friend Bjørn, a skilled woodcutting machinist. Watching him work on the guitar with sawdust flying around, was a nerve wrecking experience. Bjørn however, is very good at what he is doing, and he did a beautiful job.
At first glance, Bjørn thought the body was made of some kind of plywood, but after having worked on it for a few seconds it was clear that it was made of solid basswood. After a few minutes the head of the workshop entered the room and said 'It smells like you're working with basswood'. I was quite impressed by that.
I did the wireing and soldering myself, which was no big deal after I figured out how to read the scematics. Figuring that out, was a big deal. All I need to do now is to put new strings on and plug it in...
It has only been a few weeks since the release of the 'Cloudberries', and now I can present 'The Trench' - The fourth and final video from the 'Anyway' album.
The song 'The Trench' is about explorers Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard who as the only two persons ever reached the bottom of the Challenger Deep, the deepest spot in the oceans.
The video on the other hand features Jesper H. Petersen as a businessman delivering some really bad news to a board played by Camilla Haastrup, Tonny Jørgensen, Thomas Hansen and Rasmus Jørgensen.
The idea for this video came after having seen pictures of fighting in the Korean parliament.