Stratisfear wrote:
My brother once bought an eye-gouging Hohner Marlin and he put talc on the back of the neck, claiming it reduced all that finish-friction. Which it did. For about ten minutes. Then you ended up with gunge. And you needed to apply more. And then more. When I subsequently inherited this guitar for a while (my eyes are still OK, thanks) I kept it au naturel. It sounds like one of those practices that creates a vicious cycle.
I suppose it depends on how many roadies you have. If you're John Mayer or The Edge you can sprinkle pretty much anything on your guitar and your roadies will take it from you at the end of the song and wipe it down. Maybe even pre-sprinkle it.
Thompson doesn't take a lot of guitars with him. Solo shows (I've seen three) he has a single guitar available. When I've seen him do the talc thing it's once in the set - and he plays long sets. Every time I see footage of Beck that's younger than about 20 years he seems to be playing that off-white Strat so maybe he's not changing guitars every 5 minutes either.
