Gary reeder custom guns mods#

For many years even people who knew him fairly well, roadies that toured with the band, his proteges, nobody knew exactly what make or model this tremolo was. It is likely he got it really cheap or maybe even free, but for whatever reason, that's beside the point. One of the components of the 'Allen Collins' sound, was a certain off the wall very obscure German made tremolo that he installed on this old Firebird.

Gary reeder custom guns mods#

Doesn't have anything to do with this revolver, but it's along the same lines and maybe it will help some of you understand that it isn't about practicality at all, it's about something that is just cool, and that coolness alone gives it value that cannot be measured in dollars.Īllen Collins, the Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist, played a Gibson Firebird guitar with some different mods done to it that gave him 'his' sound that you hear on all their classic records. Drag cars, surfboards, guitars, art, written composition, there are so many things that scratch an invisible itch and I think the Reeder custom is reaching that part of the OP. Without this 6th sense of appreciation for the out of the ordinary because it's unique, we'd have never had a tenth of the stuff that makes our culture what it is. It's really about a value you cannot possibly try and rationalize with a calculator.