I Found This Crazy Guitar on Craigslist! | Trade Tuesday S2 E5 | Electra MPC Outlaw X710
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Episode Guide:
0:19 - The Story
1:02 - My Experience with Electra
2:09 - Electra History (Initial Look + Cleaning)
5:06 - Inside Look / Specs
11:14 - Built-In Effects
14:58 - Tone Talk
18:53 - Effects Demo
23:10 - Dirty Tones
24:37 - Final Thoughts
26:07 - Blacklight Test
27:26 - Case
28:29 - How to Trade Me
In today's episode, I show you guy my AMAZING local find of an Electra MPC Outlaw X710 model. I had never seen one of these until my wife messaged me that this one had just shown up on facebook for her. I knew I had to be quick to secure this one for trade Tuesday! It just fit in our budget of $120 and was a steal at that price! It has potentially 3 repairs and needed a bit of a fixing up, but I got is mostly playable and I had a great time with this one. I'd love to keep this quirky thing! It is so fancy~
This is an Electra MPC Outlaw X710 model. The brand name Electra existed from 1970-1984 and was used mainly on Matsumoku-made Japanese imported guitars for the store St. Louis Music. This new branding replaced the store's old line up called Apollo. The first instrument made in 1970 was a copy of the Dan Armstrong lucite bodied guitar and many copy-cat bolt-on neck designs followed soon after. In the mid-70s things started to expand with more models being introduced. Pre-1978 Electras will actually have a headstock similar to that of a Gibson, but were later changed to a wave/fan shape due to legal troubles. The company produced many Les Paul, SG, 335, some explorer/flying V shapes and other designs in its history before being rebranded Electra-Westone in 1984 and then later that year just Westone retiring the Electra name. This brand was recently revived in 2013 for guitars being built by Ben Chafin and Mick Donner in Tamp Florida, USA.
Within this line up of guitars existed the MPCs, which this guitar is a member of. MPC stands for Modular Powered Circuit. What this means is they have built-in effects that you can load into the guitar by placing a cart in the backside. The available effects for purchase were Phase Shifter, Dynamic Fuzz, Treble/Bass Boost, Tank Tone, Overdrive, Filter Follower, Auto Wah, Tube Sound, Octave Box, Flanger, Frog Nose and Compressor. Two could be place in the guitar at a time and used independently or at the same time, powered by a 9v battery.
This body style within the line up was named the Outlaw after the band. It is a neck-through body design with a double cutaway and a signature covered and uncovered pickup look. There were also 335, Explorer and Les Paul MPC Styles available that were promoted by famous musicians such as Leslie West, Rick Derringer, Peter Frampton, ELO, Allen Collings and Chris Squire.
While many people wrote these off as gimmick guitars back in the day, these are some of the most valuable models Electra produced on the second-hand market.
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0:19 - The Story
1:02 - My Experience with Electra
2:09 - Electra History (Initial Look + Cleaning)
5:06 - Inside Look / Specs
11:14 - Built-In Effects
14:58 - Tone Talk
18:53 - Effects Demo
23:10 - Dirty Tones
24:37 - Final Thoughts
26:07 - Blacklight Test
27:26 - Case
28:29 - How to Trade Me
Idk what to say but I'm a huge fan. Do you think you could do more amp videos?
Does your wife play musical instruments too?
Those effects sound surprisingly good, was expecting complete rubbish!
Wow what a great guitar tech
I don't think I would sell that guitar or trade it.
The neck broke when the owner tripped over his platform shoes
LOL!
Do yourself a favor: KEEP IT! It is one you will always pull out to show houseguests, and easy to justify as a keeper to Mrs.Trogly because of the low cost. Trust me, when your 60 you will be glad you still have it. Plus, it's value will increase exponentially, especially if you can obtain all the effects plug-ins over the years. Very unique, not bad sound either.
Plus the Mrs helped in your discovery! This guy is onto something! She’s a keeper ( the guitar... I mean the wife!)!!!
eh doubt it
LOL! Those are literal "plug-ins".
It sounds like a broken squier bullet lol, effects are pretty garbage too
I totally agree! I would love to listen to the other effect devices! The names are fascinating by themselves! That guitar is totally incredible, one of a kind. And like you said, if she had all the other effect devices, that guitar would be worth a lot of money, I think.
Electra Fun Fact:
The 150k pots were only to be used in the effects pot positions. However, some Electra MPC's were produced with all 4 pots being the 150k value. Some even had 50k pots in the volume and tone positions! As you could imagine, this sounded way too dark, exactly as the guitar in this video! To fix this problem, Electra offered a "Supercharger" kit which consisted of two 500k pots for use on the volume and tone positions, capacitors, a wiring schematic, and stickers to put on the knobs to show everyone that you had "supercharged" your guitar! Most just made use of the pots and disregarded the rest. With the 500k pots installed, these guitars really came to life, sounding very open and dynamic! Truly a complete transformation. I love my "supercharged" Outlaw, it's one of the best sounding instruments that I own. Sweet tone and sustain for days.
My friend John Thornburg runs the Electra website. He is THE expert on these. I've sold him several of them over the years.
@@stanknugget Not trying to start any beef but i'm genuinely curious why you feel this way
Man, you know a company is really dedicated to copying Gibson when it's got a headstock break.
Maybe this one isn't a Matsumoku - I didn't know one COULD break their guitars.
I've been told that this model was made by Terada, not Matsumoku.
The MIJ guitars from the lawsuit times are usually incredible I've got A Greco 🍒 cherry sunburst Costom loaded with GIBSON humbuckers that's as good as any Gibson I've ever seen! The Tokis the IBENEZ the Aria dead on copy's are just UNBELIEVABLEY great!!!! And still a bargain for what they are!!!!!
Do you know why Gibson headstocks break? It's because of the angle of the headstock, historically 17°. It makes the end of the headstock lower than the guitar body. So if you drop the guitar the tip of the headstock takes the full force of the fall. Gibson tried reducing the headstock angle to cure that and the traditionalists lost their minds forcing them to go back. Adding the volute reinforces that area and usually cures the problem. This is the first guitar with a volute that I've seen broken. But again, traditionalists lost their minds and Gibson was forced to remove the volute. (Not that you can't find Gibsons with volutes, but they are typically frowned upon even by people who complain about headstock breaks. LOL)
A lot of people complain about different traditional design choices by Gibson. But it's their customers, not the people complaining on the internet who don't buy their guitars, that makes them retain those features. Gibson customers don't want ANYTHING changed from the originals. You hear people complain that they don't use the same formula in the lacquer as they used to. Even though they can't for environmental reasons. Then you have people who don't think any of that matters. Those people are not typically Gibson customers anyway. Gibson did more to hurt their brand by trying to cater to them and have gone back to traditional construction for the bulk of their classic designs. It must be hard to be a Gibson engineer when if you change anything people stop buying their guitars.
Welcome to 1970's Japan builds. They are spectacular...
Ikr
Initially I thought somehow you'd got hold of my Electra but nope, I got mine in '75. I did sell in Ohio though, Dundee, Ohio.
When I was 15 in 1978 my Dad bought me the Electra X910, the Explorer model. It was my first electric guitar. It is now the most rare of the Electras. Anyhow, after I had it for a year or so, the strap lock came off the front and it fell and broke the head stock off. I had it repaired but it was never the same. I wish I still had it now though.. Anyways, nice find Trogly! Nice review as always.
Not nice to mess with your older viewers like this Mr.Trogly! I just assumed my internal calendar was off and it was actually Tuesday instead of Wednesday like I thought! Lol.
Man, that is a cool guitar! When you was first showing it I thought it was going to sound like a piece of cheap Western Auto style junk guitar, but it actually sounds decent AND the effects work as they should. You should hang on to this for your own personal collection that one day might be worth millions for kids!
In 1983 I worked as a movie theater usher one summer to save up for my first electric guitar ... it was a brand-new Electra The Paul copy with the Gumby headstock for $220. I also found a matching 60W early Crate amp used back when they had the wooden crate cabinet design. Served me well for a number of years till I got a real job and bought an early G&L S-500 to replace it. Nice player, and of course MIJ!
Love oddballs
Me too, I would have picked this one up in a second for that price.
These are great. I've had several les paul types over the years. I've kept my favorite black one with phaser, power overdrive, filter follower, and treble bass. Very usable effects and great playing and sounding guitars! Fantastic deal Austin.
Brass nut is stock.
Hey, a few things about your electra! Pickups are humbuckers and I am glad you didn't open them up - they probably would have been destroyed if you did. the broken FX paddle switch can be picked up at radio shack (will probably have to order online) and is an exact replacement and cheap if they still have them (if not, contact me). Yes the brass nut was standard. The 150K pots are only the two rear ones, the front two (Master Volume and Tone) should be 500K pots. Occasionally some were shipped with 50K pots by mistake. This was an easy mistake to make because the numbers on the Pots look very close to the same between 50K and 500K and If yours are 50K, put some import 500Ks (like Alpha or Bournes) for the Volume and Tone and it will sound much better and less rolled off and compressed. Never mess with the 150K pots, as they are required for the FX and they are very difficult to find replacements because they are a non-standard value. The flanger module may have some caps failing due to old age, they do weird things (noises) when they are on their way out. It is common to have to replace the electrolytic capacitors in 40 year old effects - it is the same way with pedals that old too. The extra hole in the back with the piece of cloth is for a spare 9v battery. The numbers stamped on that cloth usually are the date of the guitar. The brass "sustain block" for the bridge was for sustain and tone but also to give strength because of the cutout for the FX modules behind it made for a thinner piece of wood in that area. That particular electra was likely not Matsumoku - but more likely Terada or Kasuga - no problem though because they were excellent Japanese brands too. Electra used those until by around 83 they were nearly all Matsumoku. Earlier on a lot of us thought they all were Matsumoku, but we later found out that was not the case. The magnaflux pickups may have been made by Maxon in Japan or possibly another similar Japanese pickup maker. The Matsumoku model Electras had MMK pickups, and they were usually much hotter. There is a vintage electra page with a lot of information online as well as a facebook group. Good luck! Enjoy!
If you are interested in a trade for a real matsumoku electra please let me know. I have a lot of other stuff too. I also have a nice little upgraded combo tube amp. The Electra would go to to a good home and get fixed properly. I'd be interested in the electra, case, modules.
Oh wow! Bryan, Ohio is not that far away from us. We're in Monclova, Ohio. It's west of Toledo and Maumee. It's good to know that someone I'm subscribed to is nearby.
$120... break be damned. Score! I love my Electras. My first was and remains the maple necked LP style you skipped when a kid. But I have never encounter one of these in the flesh. Yep, pretty sweet.
I'm a collector of this brand. Started with a 1976 Les Paul sunburst when I was 18 (I'm 22 now). The Electra burst is just as good as my Gibson, I LOVE that guitar.. My second one was a 76 Les Paul "Omega" (Copy of he black beauty with the 5 way switch like this one here. No MPC on mine. This was the same model given to Jeff Lynne of ELO.) My most recent is the Dan Armstrong Lucite copy. That one was a bit of a project. Needed a partial re-fret and replaced the formica pickguard. These guitars are incredible, I've yet to play a bad one.
I have a Workingman. Love it!!!
That thing even sounds chunky! Extra chunky!! That's really cool. Sucg a rad design. One of the coolest oddities you've found so far. And it looks sick!
Weird, the "Tick" body looks way cooler now than it did back in the old days. Probably because of strat and lp overload... Nice score!
Matsumoku guitars (Aria, Vantage, Westone, Electra, and others) are world-class quality guitars. I've owned many Aria and Vantages.
Hell yeah. Old guitarist had a Aria explorer. The pickups kinda sucked, but it was a well built guitar.
I have a ‘74 Electra MPC X330, one of the Les Paul copies. Don’t have any modules for it though. I got it probably 22 years ago. It’s beat all to hell but I’ve always loved it
I have one too. I bought it brand-new in a music store in St Louis. Back when the salesmen wore suits and ties like used-car salesman. Of course they took advantage of me a kid with$500 wanting to buy a Gibson and was steered to the Electra .
@@brucebaker18 lol a gibson for 500?
Man that guitar is cool!! The built in effects are amazing. Especially the flange Im impressed. This guitar embodies 70s psychedelic rock
Reminds me of what Ovation was doing with electrics back in the 70’s/80’s with that neck and brass nut. Check out the Ovation UKii. Great guitars!
*There's two solid body Ovations on my guitar bucket list. One is a bass, the Ovation Magnum. One of the coolest designed basses out there, I don't know if I would play it a lot because the ones I've tried have all been really heavy like most '70s stuff.*
*The second one is a guitar, the Ovation Ultra GP! I fell in love with it when I saw Josh Homme play on one back in the Kyuss days. Sadly those are rare and really expensive so I haven't even seen one in person.*
Thanks for making me aware! I wonder why those ones are so rare. My UKii is a 1980 and I fell in love at first sight. They don’t make em like they used to. I’ve seen and played a Magnum bass at my local vintage shop. Those are very cool as well!
@@knedy I'd love to have a Breadwinner or Deacon some day!
@@knedy Blues for the Red Sun - in my top 10...maybe 5 - cheers!
I can't believe how much 70's that guitar has put into it... It pretty much only lacks a crochet tabletop placed over it!
It's great to see somebody actually enjoying these instruments with a real passion
1:10 - that covered, external stairway on the right side of that building is so cool to me for some reason... I don't know why.
You just gave me a"green grass and high tides forever" flashback. I remember electra ads with the Outlaws, but live you didn't see them playing them. I like em looks like you found a cool and unique one.👍
I see a lot of elements taken from late 70s Yamaha SG models. The brass sustain block the bridge is mounted into, the neck-thru mahogany body, and the brass nut are all features that were on most variations of the Yamaha SG. They're really nice instruments if you ever take a look at them
I remember seeing ad's for these in the 70's or early 80's in guitar magazines.
I’ve been wanting one of those outlaws forever. Those 70s-80’s style Electra guitars were amazing. Used to have the lawsuit version late 70’s les Paul, insanely awesome guitar. Great find
Great guitars, Japanese guitars from this era are excellent, Electra, Aria, Westbury and many more, the build quality is top notch...
the guitar brand that i have the most of is aria and every aria i have played, new or old, cheap or expensive, they have all been great
DUDE! Your LOVE for the instrument is not only obvious, IT'S CONTAGIOUS!
I used to have the Les Paul MPC in 1982. Definitely one of those "WHAT WAS I THINKING" trades that I made when I traded it for an Ibanez IC100BK Iceman...
OUCH! Anyway, thanks for bringing back those treasured memories...
Keep fighting the good fight and keep the interesting and informative posts coming!
God bless and take care...
Guitar player in my space rock noise improv duo had the les paul version. The built in fx are cool an all but just as a guitar it was quite awesome. It did have sustain to spare. Great tone, and very versatile. Klurp, wherever you are i hope you are still doing incredible stuff with your Electra MPC.
The cutting board era of guitar, body's that were glued together with no matching wood sections, awesome guitar thanks for posting.
Think you might want to keep this one. Find all the nintendo cartridges lol fx. But wow what an oddity. The flanger almost has that VH unchained tone to it.
But seriously you should keep this and possibly restore the neck break.
This could be the 1st of a new series "Trogly's Odditys"
If I recall, Yamaha were the first to incorporate a brass 'sustain plate/block' embedded beneath the bridge on their SG2000 series. I loved this idea and back in 1980, I had made in Devonport Royal Dockyard (where they build warships and refit submarines...) a similar, but considerably larger, sustan block, made from phosphor bronze. Which was first fitted to my Flying V and later incorporated into my Burns Flyte. Yes, it does *sustain.*
Modular electronics were all the rage back in the 70/80s. The UK guitar company Shergold used the system on their 'Modulator' series.
THis is a very nice guitar - right up my brain pipe. Certainly *quirky* in all the right areas and sounds well cool.
Great video. I like learning about guitars I’ve never known about.
every time i watch your videos i cant help but say "god i love this guy" you're just so rad like i cant believe how wholesome and yet funny you are.
You should keep it! That guitar is awesome!!! It'll be in safe hands🎸🍯⚡
Awesome find bud!
This seems like a keeper just for the "check this out" factor when a friend visits. It's a great "exemplar."
What a find that was. Good luck with the sale. Someone need to give that a good home.
Thats quit a find there. Dont put it down anywhere, someone may grab it. Have fun with it
I owned a 730 that I got in Columbus Ohio back around 1978 or 79. The store was selling a combination Electra guitar with an original Crate Amp - back when the Crate was made with rough pine and it looked like a wooden crate. The guitar was a solidly built instrument that caused this young Air Force guy to go in debt from buying batteries for the cartridges. Eventually it disappeared when my youngest son got a hold of it. It now sits on a stand somewhere in Pennsylvania.
Ohio too, Delaware county! I only find old stuff like that at the older pawn shops or garage sales. Nice find!
The extra cavity in the effects routing is to keep a spare battery in case one dies. I have the Outlaw Bass from 1979
I love that you referenced video games with this axe! You've brought two if my loves together :) great video as always!
Very cool! The knob u said is the volume for the flanger is the manual like on an MXR flanger, so it’s not really an input it changes the effect. Crazy how it all still works!
I bought one of these brand new when they first came out. I had a Les Paul version of the MPC. Serial number 15! I had quite a few of the modules. Some of them had dials on them like yours do. Others were just solid epoxy potted blocks with no adjustment and just a sticker on them telling what the effect was. As I recall, they came in different colors depending on what the effect was. Your find brings back memories! Cool! (I remember Peter Frampton used to plug these guitars)
3:33. I know I said this before, but I still love the fact it have the little Les Paul pee wee... absolutely awesome!
I was given an Electra Endorser by a friend. It truly is a master crafted instrument.
It’s a very...unique shape but that guitar is super cool otherwise! The NES-cartridge effects, natural finish and my favorite part - the tortoiseshell binding! Very cool guitar!
*Electra are terrific guitars! You will have no problem getting this traded/sold. There's a big community dedicated for them, and I believe I read about someone making reproduction effect boxes for it.*
Thanks for the history. I have a 84' Westone/Electra Phoenix, It's been packed away for years. Was my first electric, so held on to it for that reason alone. Never knew much about it, so this help shed some light on the company's history. ty... I pulled it out and looked at, then put it back in its case before the urge to clean it up and restring it took place. I didn't want my other guitars to get jealous. You have neat specimen there. nice.
Shows they aren't that special though if it sits in a case with old strings and doesn't get played.
I've got an Ibanez from about '76 that I rewired for series/parallel, in/out of phase around 1980. I guess it really was quite the thing back then, if these fairly high-end guitars came that way. I couldn't remember why I did it as an 18 or 19 year old. Hearing those tones really brings me back, and motivates me to get that thing back into playable condition. Thanks for the time-warp, good choice of riffs😃
I played with a guy in Toledo who had an Electra, unfortunately I don’t remember the model but that aside from that it was one of the best guitars I’ve ever played. The action was excellent and played like butter. I’ve always been interested to know if their all like that or it was just that particular guitar.
Mine has excellent action. Although I probably took some of the value away by putting classic Seymour Dunkins in it. It also made the guitar some way better.
I picked one up Saturday that came with 6 efx and a broken headstock! I have repaired a few and I'm in the middle of repair( giving it the old college try) this one has the "Gumby Head" Les Paul dark flame maple style" Vulcan" is the name.I actually did the deal fir the hidden gem of the Peavy 100watt combo amp.I'm glad I remembered this video!!! If your intetested maybe we can work out a trade?
This brings me back to when I first started playing. I remember the Electra adverts in Guitar Player but never saw one in a guitar store.
I’ve got an X330 w/3 modules - picked it up unseen from an unclaimed storage auction for a song. The guy that lost to me was thrilled to learn that it wasn’t a Gibson - I was thrilled to learn it was an Electra! Fantasized about having one ever since seeing a write up in Guitar Player as teen, when they were new.
I ditched the rotary switch for a standard toggle. Also replaced the scratchy pots w/500k’s. Somebody previously replaced the neck PU with an old DiMarzio - not sure what’s in the bridge, but it’s a fantastic player!
Oldest brother had likely still has an Electra in the 70s likely around 77 that was in all aspects almost an exact copy of a Les Paul. Had a sunburst finish similar headstock normal type pickups and tone and volume similarly placed. Oh and the inlays were almost the same.
Is not the purpose of a case to protect the instrument in transit
We finally get to see your wife's face lol you got a great wife she is keeper because she supports your guitar addiction to go out her way and spot like that!! something that is definitely marriage material
I grew up in Defiance, Ohio! I live in California now in a town with the highest concentration of musicians per person as anywhere in the United States. I see dozens and dozens of guitars go up for sale every day on Craigslist.
They were right about Brass giving you sustain. I love that about old guitars because you can get brass parts on them. They stopped doing it because Bryce got so expensive to manufacturers so pot metal became the standard on cheap guitars
For the fret out you were experiencing, a high fret can be hammered back in with a rubber-handled screwdriver or similar device with a cloth or something similar to protect the fretboard. Had to do that on my Samick that had some high frets in the upper register. As always be relatively gentle but if it is indeed a high fret this usually fixes it.
I had a Electra in the 80’s, LP body & heavy but it played so good.
Sounds really cool. Harkens back to when I started playing and those effects were still all the rage.
This is the first long video of yours that I have ever watched. That is too cool!
Just a quick hello I started playing guitar a Zim Gar with old univox amp when I was a kid in Bryan, Ohio. Every one was playing there when I was a kid. Finally got an Electra when I lived in Michigan but it kept eating up batteries. Maybe because I didn't put it down. That was back in mid 60's and 70's. Two places I remember is Brownies and an old club upstairs over a store or car repair shop like I said back in the sixties. The club was called The Attic I would sneak in to watch the bands since I was only 13. My have to come to Bryan again when I go to Sweetwater in Ft Wayne. Keep rocking the vids I have to watch them more.
So I had to look up Bryan on google maps. Your not that far away from Fort Wayne. Ever road trip to Sweetwater just for kicks?
...Oh, I grew up in Ohio. Vermilion. Live near Rochester NY for a long time now.
twinsmm1 he’s talked about Sweetwater being local and going there in other videos
Fort Wayne here, too.
This is an awesome guitar. Kinda falls into my passion and love for the whole 80s theme of attempting to shove bleeding edge tech into each and every product they could, even though many times it was obvious they hadn't worked the kinks out yet. The cars of the era would be another good example, specifically Nissan/Datsun and their Digi-dashes and talking car computers. It didn't always work at the time, much less so would many of the features work today, but these tech injections are something I love.
Really, REALLY wish I could find another Effector Explorer... Had one in high school for a very, very short time. All the effects worked (somehow), but the guitar itself was extremely rough...
Just FYI...the cloth ribbon you thought was to help open the back panel is actually to assist you in removing the spare battery that goes into the slot with the ribbon. That was a bug thing back in the day for electronic devices. Most had a cloth ribbon to help you get your batteries out. Really enjoy your channel !!! And I really like the guitar....awesome sounds all in one...no pedals.needed. !!
Buddy of mine gave me a LP style MPC with 3 of the carts in the early 2ks. Fun great playing guitar. Wish I never got rid of it.
That Dan Armstrong copy was just too cool
My first nice guitar was an Electra Vulcan (like a Les Paul with a small double cut-away on the top). I got it new about 1979. The finish was an exceptionally beautiful black and grey sort of tiger stripe pattern (I forget what they called it), and it was a dream to play. It came with phase shifter and fuzz modules. The phaser sounded really nice but the fuzz was kinda nasty. Really nice well built guitar. I loved it, but in '83 I traded it out for a Gibson ES-335 because I was a Rush fan. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Wow , never heard of or seen these before . Very cool ! I owned a Japanese '83 Westone Raider I bass , and a friend of mine still has the Westone guitar his parents bought him in the mid 80's which is super playable to this day .
Wow. My first guitar was an Electra Explorer, sparkle light blue, Anchorage, Alaska, circa 1981. 🤘- Kevin Venture
PS, it had none of this fancy stuff but was beautiful. If I can find a picture of it, I will try to find a way to share it with you and everyone. 🤘❤️
Wow, that was just incredibly cool! I'm a geezer, and I've never seen anything like this; of course, I freely admit to kinda being glued to Strats and Teles. An imaginative design in every way, with a number of really nice sounds. That one's a keeper, Trogly, even with the shit repair job on the head stock. Fair warning though, anything that takes those damn 9 volt batteries will eat 'em pretty quickly. Just as well, the effects sound bloody awful most of the time, unless they're turned way down. Loved the simple bridge design, and the unusual variation of the 5-way switch.
I bought one of these, new. My first good guitar, though I sold it long ago. That looks exactly like mine.
Maybe it is yours!
I don’t think so. I’ve seen 8t show up from time to time locally though it could have made it elsewhere.
My first electric was a wine red Les Paul MPC 320. It has the open book headstock and the original case. Overdrive and Phase are onboard.
I was thinking of selling it, but after seeing your video, I'll probably just get it repaired. It was knocked off a stand and the toggles were bent. The angle makes the switches look quite stylish, but they'll certainly snap if bent back.
All sweet outlaw sounds good on nice as well dirty! And awesome pick up for the guitar! Thank you dude
I had the black Les Paul version of that Electra back in the 70s, it was awesome, first experience with effects back then, I bought it used for $500, came with a case and 6 modules : treble bass expander, power overdrive, tank tone, phase shifter, octave splitter, and fuzz I think, loved it, miss it.
That is a very cool guitar! Never seen one before. Thanks!
I may have to try 150 pot's on my twin humbucker to darken it a bit. I loved the sound and it's a testimony of the quality of Japanese guitars especially back in the day....everything still works, including the modules.
Great grab and thanks for sharing.
Great guitar. My first guitar teacher had An Electra MPC Outlaw. Columbus, Ohio 1979-1981.
I'm just reading this, but didn't the String Shoppe on the OSU campus sell Electra guitars?
Very cool. Nice find!
Hey Austin,I really enjoyed this show.I am looking at neck thru Electra's to sell.There is an Aria guitar that is a neck thru semi-hollow body ,that was made in the eighties. Keep doing shows like this it is very educational to the guitar buying public.
I absolutely love those abalone inlays!!!! Especially that first fret one
Back in the mid 70's I bought a new Electra MPC I don't remember the model # but it was a cherry burst LP copy. I only had 1 module for it, the music store threw it in. (I'm sure I probably paid for it). It was an OK guitar. The really funny thing is I traded a great guitar in for it. The one that got away ya know. Always wished I had it back. It was Vox 9 string. Similar to a 12 string but without the octave strings on 4, 5 & 6. It was teardrop shaped kind of a green burst with a Maple neck. It had 3 single coils set up like a Strat with a 5 pos switch. It also had a mute and a Bigsby style tremolo. It was a great guitar from the early 60's. I also had a very loud 125 watt Concert Kasino with a 4-12 cab. All that mattered when I was 15 was how loud it was. I knocked the ceramic tile off the bathroom wall in my parents house. I mowed a lot of lawns to get that Vox and Kasino.
Reminds me the "Shergold modulator" british guitars and basses of the 70's, with different effects modules you could insert directly as control panels on the front, great guitars too, used by Michael Rutherford of Genesis for instance.
I actually had a les paul Electra in the late 70s.I had 3 mods w/it.the auto wha,fuzz,and flanger.it was fun to play with but weighed a ton but I was young and didn't mind at the time.it played well and really liked the fretboard.very comfortable.I think I liked the peace sign logo the most!
Was watching the vid and heard you lived in Bryan . I grew up there, my mother still lives there. I live in Wauseon now
You’re right, not much on Craigslist here locally
Love my Electra’s. I am a fan of their Phoenix models from around 80. Strat style with a SG touch.
I have a Workingman with some Gibson pickups lol. It’s a beast and a go-to when you need one.
Yeah man! I have an '82 Phoenix X130 that has been around the block. A beat to hell relic that plays like an absolute dream. Brass bridge, brass saddles, brass nut, Duncan 59's. Neck is nice and worn in and silky smooth. It is my #2 and second only to my AmDlx Strat. The Phoenix guitars are badass machines.
I have one myself,it's cool.
I have a mid 80s model. I think they only came in red.
No, the "card" size of the cartridge looks more like Atari cartridges. That guitar actually sounds good, the effects sound usable and actually sound like recorded artists like deep purple or someone.
The pickup routes look cleaner than most high end gibson and fenders
My first "real" guitar was an Electra LP copy, and I had several other models over the year. My favorite was a strat-style H/S/S. Wonderful instrument, and Westone made the same model for quite a while and I had some of those too. Great guitars for the budget-minded, back in the day.
I bought this exact guitar for $75 dollars at a pawn shop (1995 - before pawn shops used ebay to price everything). Still have guitar, but mine does not have any head-stock damage.
Phase shifter and Flanger, two very utilized effect for that 1977-81 time period. Sweet tones in this baby. I only remember seeing the brand advertised in my brother's GUITAR PLAYER magazines of the era, I never knew anyone to stock them. I guess stores were afraid to take the risk, maybe because by 1981-82, Fender brought out the Squire line.
Only one I’ve ever saw was in the 90’s. It was a firebird type bass. It was a log. And beautiful!!
An intelligent and knowledgeable analysis - well done.
I have the X-120 Leslie West model. It's a great guitar, simple styling but very well designed and quality built. I keep buying new guitars in an effort to find something great that's unique and innovative but at the end of the day the Electra MPC is the most innovative and well designed guitar I've found so far. It's kinda funny that it was made 40+ years ago cause we haven't seen much innovation in guitar design since.