Off Topic EBMM Albert Lee, USSR model...

[ZeRaskolnikoff]

Friends, I believe that this electric guitar called "Odessa" was the EBMM's exclusive communistic model for the Soviet Union...

What really sucks though is that USA version lacks the quality of the Soviet model. They put cheap black plastic covers on the pickups and avoid installing tremolos... Please note that on American "step-down" model they also cheaped out on the headstock by making it shorter...

The Image of Soviet Lee is taken from here Ñîâåòñêèå ãèòàðû: Êîíòåíò / Êàòåãîðèÿ / Ãèòàðû ýëåêòðè÷åñêèå

 

[Big Poppa]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Caviar and Vodka for you!

 

[ZeRaskolnikoff]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Caviar and Vodka for you!

You MUST remember that you guys used to but both things in the case of the new guitar... Not like nowadays - a piece of cloth and tremolo arm... Good old times...

 

[paranoid70]

When I saw Rush on the Presto tour, I bought the tour book. Alex Lifeson tells this story about how he goes to this Soviet music store and buys an amp called a Krummy. This was after passing up on some other weird guitars. He takes it home, solders the AC plug into place and then burns his house down. It was a funny story.

 

[ZeRaskolnikoff]

When I saw Rush on the Presto tour, I bought the tour book. Alex Lifeson tells this story about how he goes to this Soviet music store and buys an amp called a Krummy. This was after passing up on some other weird guitars. He takes it home, solders the AC plug into place and then burns his house down. It was a funny story.

Man, there was a lot of weird stuff in Soviet music stores ) The gear was designed by engineers, not musicians... And a regular person would never be able to buy a US made guitar on an amp just because 1. they never sold them 2. a Strat' or an LP on the black market would be worth about 10 average salaries of a school teacher or an engineer )) One of the most famous Russian artist who gain the fame and wealth in late 70's once told the story during his interview about how he bought an LP in 1980 and he showed up for TV broadcast with it. The guys in gray suits saw him and offered him a choice: "play with the domestic guitar or find another career"... And that was the guy who's vinyls were played in each Soviet home ))

 

[threeminutesboy]

talking about another era ahahah great thread

 

[bazxkr]

Mind you they did forget to put the headstock signature on the USSR version....

'Albert Leeski'

Have to ask comrade Albert if he is willing to play it


Cheers
Baz

 

[ZeRaskolnikoff]

Mind you they did forget to put the headstock signature on the USSR version....

'Albert Leeski'

Have to ask comrade Albert if he is willing to play it


Cheers
Baz

That should have been "Albert Leeyev" )) "Альберт Лиев" ))

 

[leftyguitarblue]

"In Soviet Russia, guitar plays YOU."

 

[ZeRaskolnikoff]

"In Soviet Russia, guitar plays YOU."

More so, it's watching you

 

[travs]

Ivan Jakinoff is a blues shredder from the western shoars of the Kamchaka peninsula. the guy plays only SLO-town built rigs.

 

[adouglas]

Wow. Just... wow.

A DIN jack? What for?

Didn't they use phone plugs in the Worker's Paradise? Those things always smacked of sturdy Soviet engineering to me.

I can't even begin to imagine what all those rocker switches do.

I'm digging the pinstriped, beveled and burst-finished pickguard, though.

 

[ZeRaskolnikoff]

Wow. Just... wow.

A DIN jack? What for?

Didn't they use phone plugs in the Worker's Paradise? Those things always smacked of sturdy Soviet engineering to me.

I can't even begin to imagine what all those rocker switches do.

I'm digging the pinstriped, beveled and burst-finished pickguard, though.

Believe it or not but most of Soviet guitars had the DIN jacks )) The pickguard is made of plexiglas. The switches are still a mystery even to Russians - we have a joke that "they are controls for country's nuclear weapons" or "even the best mega-guitarist in the world doesn't know what the switches are for"... Actually, sometimes they would integrate a fuzz or a phaser into guitar. In this case three switches are for pickups "and the fourth doesn't work", as owner says... Here's some more picks of this guitar on this site... Quite interesting Ñîâåòñêèå ãèòàðû: Êîíòåíò / Ãèòàðû ýëåêòðè÷åñêèå / «Îäåññà»