Musicman - 80's Guitar?

[tvanveen]

Was thumbing through the October issue of Total Guitar, and saw an article on Bowling for Soup. Probably would have read it, but noticed one of the guitarists was playing an Axis, so I checked it out.

To quote -

"Even though he writes most of the bands songs on his Ibanez acoustic, or an old fender strat, he uses the most 80's of guitars, the Musicman, for live purposes."

Huh? I don't even know what that means...who in the 80's used Musicman? When I think of the 80's I think pointy.

Discuss.

 

[OrangeChannel]

Most of his 80's guitars comma the musicman....I'm taking it that he meant he uses his 80's axes and the MM live. I don't really dig the band too much.

 

[PurpleSport]

Welcome back, TV, haven't seen ya in a while....whereya been? I put in a last-minute bid on your AL recently but wasn't as fast on the trigger that nite as I usually am, otherwise I'da had it.... Saw your new one in the other thread and it looks tres cool...

I wouldn't be surprised at all if some of the writers for Total Guitar are kids in their 20s, making anything prior to the 90s prehistoric in their eyes. My girlfriend works in the same building as the company that used to own Guitar World, and I gather from her they were a young lot on average, so it wouldn't surprise me if the TG crew demographic was the same.

Saw BFS live on some daytime talk show several weeks ago, their singer/guitarist had an Axis with a Texas flag graphic on it...that the same one in the article?

I agree with OC...I thought the song was a novelty myself and wasn't impressed either. Thought the same thing when I saw the video a few days later on VH-1. I thought the subtler 80s references in Fountains Of Wayne's "Stacy's Mom" video were far cooler...