Best guitar for lighted cigarettes?

Subject: Best guitar for lighted cigarettes?
From: The Shambles
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 04:45 AM

Not too sure who first started the idea that fitting a lighted cigarette in a guitar made the playing better - but the concept that this was a cool example to follow did become fashionable ay one time. As a young and impressionable non-smoking guitar player I was even tempted to take-up smoking to enable me to play like some of my heroes.

Pleased to see that the practice appears to be less fashionable today...........Or does it?

What are the best guitar makes for this and has anyone ever custom made one with a special holder?

Or is trying to squeeze the lighted cigarette between the strings - without burning your hands and the building down - part of the mystique?

Subject: RE: Best guitar for lighted cigarettes?
From: treewind
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 05:05 AM

I've got a 1-row melodeon with a cigarette holder on it.
(It used to belong to Pete Coe. 'nuff said...)

Since many folk clubs are non-smoking now, I don't think the cigarette-on-a-guitar tradition is in good shape to make a dramatic comeback. Like you, I certainly hope not.

But . . . I'm just wondering what other irrational quirks of behaviour have replaced it in the folk world. We don't have the other old clichés like Arran sweaters either, and not so many pewter tankards. But what newer habits or accoutrements are de rigueur for a 21st century folkie?

Bottles of designer water?
Expensive melodeons?
Electronic tuners? (Ah! THAT's what you put where that ciggy used to be...)

Anahata

Subject: RE: Best guitar for lighted cigarettes?
From: Dead Horse
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 05:23 AM

Drinks holders on mic stand, CD holder on mic stand, sheet music holder on mic stand, fiddle bow holder on mic stand, even bloody mic on mic stand!
It is not a good idea to place lighted cigarette under the strings of your guitar, rather attach said glowing article to spare bit of wire sticking out of the "sharp end" of your instrument. Thats why the end of the string curls, to better facilitate this. The way the cigarette sways and wobbles to the beat can be quite mesmerising and will distract the audience from an otherwise mediocre performance.
Wearing really dark glasses on an unlighted stage can produce the same effect, especially if you continually teeter near the edge so as to appear about to fall off into the audience.
But do try not to wave the cigarette too close to other band members if they resemble the front line of ZZ Top!

Subject: RE: Best guitar for lighted cigarettes?
From: erinmaidin
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 07:30 AM

ah sure...isn't it much better that the guitar smoke the fag rather than the player?

Subject: RE: Best guitar for lighted cigarettes?
From: Splott Man
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 07:38 AM

You could try a nicotine patch. It looks best on the scratch plate.
A left-handed cutaway has all sorts of uses for a right-hander (&v.v.), you could even rest your pint there (they haven't banned drinking in pubs yet, have they?).

Subject: RE: Best guitar for lighted cigarettes?
From: GUEST,Redhorse at work
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 08:29 AM

Alternatively follow Josh White's example and put the lighted cigarette behind your ear. Being bald helps.

nick

Subject: RE: Best guitar for lighted cigarettes?
From: GUEST,Chief Chaos
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 02:24 PM

If your gonna hang a cigarette on your guitar beware of getting any pic too close. The new ones are mostly plastic but the old ones (not sure when or if they stopped)are made of cellulonitrate just like the old films. They can and will go up.

Subject: RE: Best guitar for lighted cigarettes?
From: Mark Ross
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 03:50 PM

I used to do that, but lately I've been smoking a pipe and it's sort of awkward, I mean, where can I stuff the stem? Don't even think it!

Mark Ross

Subject: RE: Best guitar for lighted cigarettes?
From: Pete_Standing
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 06:59 PM

Sometimes I stick my hat on the headstock.

Subject: RE: Best guitar for lighted cigarettes?
From: Ned Ludd
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 07:09 PM

Cigars are just as much of a problem as pipes! although if you practice the right kind of drawl you can get away with keeping a pipe in whilst singing...

Subject: RE: Best guitar for lighted cigarettes?
From: Gurney
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 07:23 PM

A friend of mine from long ago was, or had been, a fingernail biter, and when he started playing fingerstyle, he used artificial fingernails. For economy, he used beauty products made of (possibly) acrylic, which is flammable, or inflammable,(isn't english wonderful?)and whilst lighting up onstage (how cool) managed to set one alight. The memory of him trying to remove it stays with me to this day.
Rivetting. Ruined his beer, too.
The end-of-the-string style came after the between-the-string style, as I remember, when we started smoking filter-tips. For our health's sake.

Subject: RE: Best guitar for lighted cigarettes?
From: number 6
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 10:43 PM

A Martin .... any Martin

sIx

Subject: RE: Best guitar for lighted cigarettes?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 28 Oct 05 - 07:03 AM

I could think of one - and where I'd like to put the lighted cig...

Subject: RE: Best guitar for lighted cigarettes?
From: Cool Beans
Date: 28 Oct 05 - 11:05 AM

Don't do it. I did when I was young and less intelligent. I've got a burn mark on the headstock of my 1962 D-28 to prove it. Just say no.

Subject: RE: Best guitar for lighted cigarettes?
From: GLoux
Date: 28 Oct 05 - 11:12 AM

The best guitar for lighted cigarettes is like Cool Beans'...one that already has a burn mark on it. That way the value won't get diminished any more...

-Greg

Subject: RE: Best guitar for lighted cigarettes?
From: Dead Horse
Date: 29 Oct 05 - 08:01 AM

Mebbe the one Hendrix used to play?

Subject: RE: Best guitar for lighted cigarettes?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 29 Oct 05 - 08:19 AM

That has been restored. It was mentioned on the Aussie TV Guitar Show. One of the guys at the concert took it home, and years later his son dug it out of the hall cupboard and got it restored. Can't see the burn marks - shame really!