Roddy Frame

The pearl-encrusted D-45 joins a small stable of cool guitars - including the famous '80s trademark all-gold Gibson ES-295 - but this time around Frame found freedom by limiting his options to just three: the Martin, a late-'50s/early-'60s bamboo and copper-coloured Gretsch Country Club and a stock '54 Telecaster, the last two directed through a Vox AC30.

"I bought a couple of nice guitars," explains Roddy, "and I don't want to waste them! My right-hand style was always this terrible hotchpotch of plectrum and fingers, but now I've got the ultimate acoustic - a Martin D-45 - and I'm learning fingerpicking properly. I never realised Chet Atkins stuff was so complicated - but when you've got a great guitar, it makes you want to do it justice. I do a wicked version of Freight Train..."

The pearl-encrusted D-45 joins a small stable of cool guitars - including the famous '80s trademark all-gold Gibson ES-295 - but this time around Frame found freedom by limiting his options to just three: the Martin, a late-'50s/early-'60s bamboo and copper-coloured Gretsch Country Club and a stock '54 Telecaster, the last two directed through a Vox AC30.

**Corey: * Roddy, greetings from No. California......what kind of guitars and amps did you use on the recording of HLHR......and what is your favorite Bob Dylan song?

*RODDY: * Masano acoustics, Gibson 175, Fender Twin, Roland jc 120, and I love "Every Grain Of Sand" by Dylan.

Aztec Camera's Slow Build from Musician, November 1990 by Scott Isler

On Stray's title cut he played an Ovation stereo six-string,

His Ovation Guitars are also mentioned here:

http://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/aztec-camera/6408

Aztec Camera's Slow Build from Musician, November 1990 by Scott Isler

On Stray's title cut he played an Ovation stereo six-string, on the ballad "Over My Head" his red Gibson 355 - the very same one, trivia fans, Rick Derringer apparently used on the McCoys' "Hang on Sloopy." For amplification Frame boasts that he has "the loudest Marshall 100-watt head that has ever been invented."

The pearl-encrusted D-45 joins a small stable of cool guitars - including the famous '80s trademark all-gold Gibson ES-295 - but this time around Frame found freedom by limiting his options to just three: the Martin, a late-'50s/early-'60s bamboo and copper-coloured Gretsch Country Club and a stock '54 Telecaster, the last two directed through a Vox AC30.

Aztec Camera's Slow Build from Musician, November 1990 by Scott Isler

Framework

Roddy Frame tries to have it both ways: Most of the time he uses a 1959 cream- colored Stratocaster. Since his favorite guitar shape is a Telecaster, though, he also has a modified Schecter Tele with three Seymour Duncan Strat pickups for an out-of-phase sound "but it's not quite the same."

Aztec Camera's Slow Build from Musician, November 1990 by Scott Isler

Since his favorite guitar shape is a Telecaster, though, he also has a modified Schecter Tele with three Seymour Duncan Strat pickups for an out-of-phase sound "but it's not quite the same."

ONE TWO: Do you prefer semis for your electric sounds?

FRAME: Yeah, I always play them, I really like them — although I do have an old Gibson Melody Maker. I had a Gibson 175 before the Scotty Moore, but I smashed it up when we were in Europe. There were lots of hippies at the gig.

AZTEC CAMERA UK pop group with Roddy Frame about 1985. Photo Stephen Woodd - Image ID: BX61XW

Photo shows Roddy using a Gibson Chet Atkins CE Classical electric