Category Archives: Guitars

Live performance video

Here we perform live near Portland, Oregon. Tom plays bass guitar while Conrad plays guitar and controls percussion with a foot pedal. The song “Day in Tokyo” is from our Flying Guitars CD album. We sound like a full band although we are compact, and our volume is adjustable to the occasion.

Tom and Conrad perform in Vancouver WA.

Telstar Guitar Rocks

What’s special? Combining chords with notes, abundant twangy vibrato, gorgeous reverb tone, new arrangement including original intro and ending. These complex chords usually go with jazz, but here they add energy.

Unsolicited comments posted by other guitarists: “Your exploding it with chords and reverb and vibrato is so fulfilling. Nailed it, amazing job!” “Who would have thought Telstar sounds so good as a guitar piece!” “A beautiful piece of music, and beautifully played may I say. Telstar had an unbelievable uplifting quality.”

The Steinberger USA guitar sports an aftermarket vibrato bridge with exceptional responsivity and tuning stability. What happened to the guitar’s headstock? It’s orbiting the Earth!

Super splashy “Waterfall” original

Conrad performs Waterfall in a new recording with extra-high levels of splashy reverb. Tom recorded bass guitar. We’ve heard a lot of enthusiasm about this recording and its unusual aspects. The intensity of splashy reverb is high yet the notes are mellow and clear. The vibrato whammies and string bends are unusually intense but fit perfectly. Finally, the guitar is a Steinberger USA, virtually never used for twangy music but Conrad modified it.

You may wonder about the absence of a headstock on the guitar. Virtues include a straight path for the strings and shorter string length; these help keep the guitar in tune. The guitar is more compact and its case is smaller and lighter, both simplifying transportation. Finally, replacing a set of strings is faster, taking about 5 minutes instead of 25 for a strat guitar.

Two new Insanitizers videos on YouTube

Solving the Puzzle video on YouTube

Ghost Surfers video on YouTube

In both videos Conrad plays a Goya Rangemaster archtop guitar through a Traynor tube amplifier (visible in lower left corner of screen). “Solving the Puzzle” is a different performance of the same song on our “Flying Guitars” and “Guitar Adventures” albums. This is our only recording of “Ghost Surfers.”