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Weird Guitar of the Day @weirdguita.rs · 28/09/2026

ESP THE ALFEE Signature Angel Classic Junior

I've posted a few guitars that ESP made for The Alfee's guitarist Toshihiko Takamizawa (Takamiy), and here's another one. This one is the most normal of the bunch, which is saying something.

The ESP THE ALFEE Signature Angel Classic Junior has a shape that's inspired by a Les Paul, but has went through some rather creative surgery. It's got an asymmetrical waistline, and the cutaway horn has been moved all the way back to where your leg would rest if you played this sitting down. The body also has The Alfee inlaid on it, as well as one of Takamiy's other angel-inspired guitars, making this the only instance I can think of where a guitar's inlaid onto a totally different one.

This guitar's got two humbuckers, and they're controlled by a volume knob and a 3-way switch. It's also got a Floyd Rose trem. The neck has angel inlays and is topped by a curly 4/2 headstock. (Ignore the black things on either side of the headstock; those are from a guitar stand.)

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Weird Guitar of the Day @weirdguita.rs · 16/09/2026

BC RIch Warlock Body Art Collection "The Fly"

The BC Rich Warlock is a very angular metal guitar with a double cutaway body that's got a big V cut out of the end, leaving two asymmetrical points. It's got a humbucker in the bridge that's controlled by a volume knob, a 24-fret neck, and a 3/3 headstock that's just as pointy as the rest of the body.

Speaking of the body, this guitar is part of the Body Art collection, and has a fairly realistic top-down picture of a fly that takes up the whole body.

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Scone Mason @sconemason.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Weird guitars are the best

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✨️Angel Facts✨️ @angelic.style · 15/09/2026

its been a minute since i said this so i gotta remind yall: strat shape guitars are boring and overplayed, please make ANY other shape, the body shape does not affect the sound of an electric guitar so you can literally do anything i cant believe we're stuck on a design from the fucking 50s

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Weird Guitar of the Day @weirdguita.rs · 13/09/2026

Fender Rhinestone Stratocaster prototype

In 1975, Ivor Arbiter (the UK's Fender distributor at the time) asked sculptor Jon Douglas to make "a non-boring Strat". Now, if you look at just the hardware specs, this is basically the same as any other Strat that came out of the factory in 1975 (three single coils, one volume and two tone controls, 5-way blade switch, maple neck with rosewood fretboard and big 70s headstock). The body is a whole different story, though.

The body of this Strat is made out of a fiberglass core that's been covered in cold cast bronze. Feathery curls stand out from the body, with the longest one running from the bridge all the way down the top horn. The guitar has also been studded with white rhinestones, giving it its name.

Six guitars were made in this original run, but only two survived a fire at the Fender store where they were located. Another 50 were scheduled to be made in the 1980s, but Douglas died halfway through the run.

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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 03/09/2026

The latest episode of A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs is now up! Hanna-Barbera! Danny Hutton! The Monkees! David Gates of Bread! It can only be the family-friendly adventures of that wacky Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band!

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Song 186: “Frownland” by Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band

This episode is on “Frownland” by Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, and is the third part of a trilogy following the episodes on the GTOs and Frank Zappa. Click the full post to rea…

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Johnny Cash and Louis Armstrong performing a song about how police are shit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nost...

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LOUIS ARMSTRONG & JOHNNY CASH, Blue Yodel No. 9, 1970 | THE JAZZ LIBRARY

YouTube video by The Jazz Library

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A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs @500songspodcast.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

One banana, two banana…a brand new bonus episode just dropped! 💥 Andrew’s twenty-minute deep-dive into The Tra La La Song is now available exclusively for backers 🍌🎶 Not on Patreon yet? Sign up and listen today: www.patreon.com/AndrewHickey...

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Weird Guitar of the Day @weirdguita.rs · 19/08/2026

Oriolo "Felix The Rock" Takamiy Signature

A few days ago, I posted a custom ESP guitar that was made for The Alfee's guitarist Toshihiko Takamizawa (aka Takamiy). ESP wasn't the only company that made guitars for him, though.

Here's a solidbody electric that was made for him by Oriolo. It's shaped like beloved cartoon character Felix the Cat with angel wings (Takamiy's signature). It looks like he's standing behind some sore of red shield (the pickguard). His right arm is holding onto it, and his left arm is stretched out (forming the guitar's neck) and pointing at something with his left hand (the headstock).

The guitar has two humbuckers, and they're controlled by a volume knob in his left foot and a 3-way switch in his right foot. It has a Floyd Rose trem, and Oriolo is written below it. Takamiy has his name inlaid on the fretboard in large capital letters. The headstock is painted to look like a pointing hand, and it's split 6/2 even though the guitar only has 6 strings. Maybe the extra 2 tuners on the bottom can be used if you don't have strings that are long enough to reach the last 2 tuners on the top? I really don't know.

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