Don Mock plays double-neck synth-guitar

[JG92987]

Or Is It Huey Lewis's I Want A New Drug

[JG92987]

Don Mock Is An Innovator And A Legend, Listen As He Improvises Over Ghostbusters

[xangoned]

I know Don is a great scale hydroplane builder too!

[AtmosMusic]

Don Mock is a genuine bad-ass.

Nice guy too.

[kevinm4435]

hahahahaha

[GaryNull]

ghost busters? wtf

[hgatjens]

This setup is for sale on Ebay right now.

[guitarjd]

I think the guts of the guitar had all the synth pickup hardware installed in the body. but i don;t remember what kind of patch cords he had, just the setup- but remember this was 1980( the time his album Mock One came out). I'm sure his setup has DRAMATICALLY evolved since then.

[ichisatori]

having trouble replyinghere this is a test. mb i'll be back with more

oberheim must be on other neck. patch 2000 has no midi (pre 83).

you are right.

[ichisatori]

please delete my redundant posts.

[ichisatori]

it's an ampeg patch 2000.

[trachypithecus]

Any idea how he gets that synth tone, or what his setup is like? I've been searching for something like this for over a year now! Any info as to where I could get a guitar like this, or how it works, would be immensely appreciated!!

[guitarjd]

Ii went to GIT when Don was there.. it's a Lane Moller double neck with touch sensitive frets so, as you can see, you don;t need a pick- synth modules are his old Oberheim synth modules with 2 volume pedals, one for filter sweep the other for volume- pitch bender is on the guitar a you can see on the video. John

[ichisatori]

except, that i think the guitar mounted control, in tis case, is the res sweep... not pitch bend.

[guitarjd]

not unless he modified it since I was in school in 1980( he's had that guitar that long) he used to use a volume pedal for the res sweep- the lever is to bend the strings since the frets have a mechanism to make them touch sensitive. Don used to use a Hagstrom Swede before that with synth pickups before Lane made that guitar....

[ichisatori]

having trouble replying here this is a test. mb i'll be back with more

oberheim must be on other neck. patch 2000 has no midi (pre 83).

you are right, bend and vib.

[guitarjd]

actually, the other neck is just straight guitar. AS I remember, the Oberheim module was hooked up to the guitar and then routed to the amp. So the custom neck for the synth(only suited because of the touch sensative frets) is only for the synth, and the other neck has regular pickups and is played like a guitar.

[ichisatori]

i had a link to don on forum talking about it, but i lost if after not being able to post on youtube over the last however long, sorry. it's out there somewhere.

dod you see the patch 200O? recognize the pedals?

what year did you see don?

[guitarjd]

I went to GIT in 1980-1981. Don had just( i think) gotten it...

The pedals used to control the volume and the filter as I remember were just 2 De Armond style volume pedals. For the filter, he would just step on it and that would open up the filter, heel down would close it. The other pedal was used just as a straight volume pedal....

[ichisatori]

without midi that won't work, midi appeared in 83.

ir is possible that he someone hardwire it, but doubtful --especially since the ob would not interpret all e or all b strings to a guitar tuning. need the interface to pass tha.

i have a modified GM70 for that.

[guitarjd]

Guitar is a Lane Moller double neck with touch sensitive frets, synth module is an old Oberheim, with 2 volume pedals, one for the filter one for volume. pitch bender is on the guitar...

John

[hgatjens]

Man, what great playing and a spectacular guitar