Above: many are familiar with “The Chiquita,” the ‘original (banana shaped/coloured) travel guitar’; less well-known is The Nomad 3X, a les-paul-jr-styled, full-scale guitar with a built-in-amp; it promises to operate from AC, DC, or 12 volt power. Okay… Anyhow, for previous HONDO coverage on PS dot com, click here… oh, and you prolly aughta click here, too…
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in a film that is so spot on with its use of various instruments, the chiquita in ‘rock and roll creation’:
http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/237534/This-Is-Spinal-Tap-Movie-Clip-Rock-n-Roll-Creation.html
yellow chiquita is played by marty mcfly in back to the future, in doc emmett browns lab thru what would probably be an 80 inch speaker, there’s “a slight possibility of overload” apparently