Eastwood Devo Bob 1 Signature La Baye 2X4 Owned by Jeff Tweedy of Wilco Solid Body Electric Guitar (2015)
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Eastwood Devo Bob 1 Signature La Baye 2X4 Owned by Jeff Tweedy of Wilco Model Solid Body Electric Guitar (2015), made in China, black finish, mahogany body, maple neck with rosewood fingerboard, original black tolex hard shell case.
Here's a delightfully zany guitar formerly owned by a delightfully zany guitarist, Mr. Jeff Tweedy of Wilco. Originally a quick flash in the pan in 1967, La Baye guitars were the brainchild of one Dan Helland, a guitar teacher in Green Bay, Wisconsin. To Helland the body of an electric guitar was unimportant, no more than a block of wood with a neck. The (perhaps slightly tongue-in-cheek) concept of the La Bay 2X4 came to Helland around 1965 when he was working at a local music store chain. The La Baye might have slid into oddball history if not for a long association with Ohio surrealists Devo, who saw in the 2X4 a guitar already "devolved" to fit their aesthetic without use of a saw!
Devo's Bob Mothersbaugh has employed several original La Bayes since the late '70s and is responsible for this Eastwood re-issue of the somewhat infamous but rare (only about 45 originally made) instrument. Lovers of vintage guitars will certainly recognize Eastwood's modern factory-made "vintage tribute" instruments styled after rare, prohibitively expensive, or otherwise wacky relics of the past. This example has a black lacquered mahogany body and maple Fender-esque neck as the original with a rosewood fingerboard. It features a genuine modern Bigsby vibrato rather than the random quasi-Bigsby long arm vibrato of the original.
Twin tone and volume controls are still mounted laterally on the top if the body, but Bob 1 suggested one rather practical change to the position of the 2-way pickup selector. It is also mounted on the top of the body rather than on the bottom by the output jack, the original questionable La Baye placement right in the path of the player's knee. The original La Baye's "Sensi-Tone" single coil pickups are replaced here by a standard P-90 style pickup. Overall, this is a fun if not exact replica of a rather hard to find fretted curiosity, a better player at least than the original!
Overall length is 43 1/4 in. (109.9 cm.), 4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm.) across at the widest point, and 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm.) in depth, measured at side of rim. Scale length is 24 3/4 in. (629 mm.). Width of nut is 1 5/8 in. (41 mm.).
This 2X4 comes to us in like-new condition from the Wilco loft showing very few signs of use. It is all original from the finish to the electronics to the unscathed frets and all other hardware. This guitar comes in a well-kept original Eastwood hardshell case with special Devo art and the Wilco Loft markings on the bottom edge; inside the case lives all the case candy from Eastwood, their certificate of authenticity, and our own certificate of authenticity from the Wilco Loft validating the provenance of this piece. Overall Excellent Condition.
Here's a delightfully zany guitar formerly owned by a delightfully zany guitarist, Mr. Jeff Tweedy of Wilco. Originally a quick flash in the pan in 1967, La Baye guitars were the brainchild of one Dan Helland, a guitar teacher in Green Bay, Wisconsin. To Helland the body of an electric guitar was unimportant, no more than a block of wood with a neck. The (perhaps slightly tongue-in-cheek) concept of the La Bay 2X4 came to Helland around 1965 when he was working at a local music store chain. The La Baye might have slid into oddball history if not for a long association with Ohio surrealists Devo, who saw in the 2X4 a guitar already "devolved" to fit their aesthetic without use of a saw!
Devo's Bob Mothersbaugh has employed several original La Bayes since the late '70s and is responsible for this Eastwood re-issue of the somewhat infamous but rare (only about 45 originally made) instrument. Lovers of vintage guitars will certainly recognize Eastwood's modern factory-made "vintage tribute" instruments styled after rare, prohibitively expensive, or otherwise wacky relics of the past. This example has a black lacquered mahogany body and maple Fender-esque neck as the original with a rosewood fingerboard. It features a genuine modern Bigsby vibrato rather than the random quasi-Bigsby long arm vibrato of the original.
Twin tone and volume controls are still mounted laterally on the top if the body, but Bob 1 suggested one rather practical change to the position of the 2-way pickup selector. It is also mounted on the top of the body rather than on the bottom by the output jack, the original questionable La Baye placement right in the path of the player's knee. The original La Baye's "Sensi-Tone" single coil pickups are replaced here by a standard P-90 style pickup. Overall, this is a fun if not exact replica of a rather hard to find fretted curiosity, a better player at least than the original!
Overall length is 43 1/4 in. (109.9 cm.), 4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm.) across at the widest point, and 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm.) in depth, measured at side of rim. Scale length is 24 3/4 in. (629 mm.). Width of nut is 1 5/8 in. (41 mm.).
This 2X4 comes to us in like-new condition from the Wilco loft showing very few signs of use. It is all original from the finish to the electronics to the unscathed frets and all other hardware. This guitar comes in a well-kept original Eastwood hardshell case with special Devo art and the Wilco Loft markings on the bottom edge; inside the case lives all the case candy from Eastwood, their certificate of authenticity, and our own certificate of authenticity from the Wilco Loft validating the provenance of this piece. Overall Excellent Condition.