EASTWOOD GUITARS
WARREN ELLIS SIGNATURE TENOR
BY CHARLES SAUFLEY
No one would ever accuse Warren Ellis of being an average guitarist. In fact,
Ellis—who is best known as a highly animated violinist, bouzouki slinger, maraca shaker,
and all-around multi-instrumentalist for Nick
Cave and the Bad Seeds, Grinderman, and the
Dirty Three—might take offense if you called
him a guitarist at all.
As a member of Grinderman, Cave’s most
straight-ahead and hard-rocking project
in years, Ellis has thrashed at both Fender
Musicmasters and Fender electric mandolins. Doubtless, it was a love of these two
instruments—plus a dose of Ellis’ irreverent,
free, and Frankenstein-ian musical sensibili-ties—that led him to develop his signature
Eastwood. The result is a most uncommon
electric 4-string tenor electric that not only
suits Eastwood’s reputation for embracing
oddball instruments and Ellis’ unorthodox
approach to guitar, but also opens sonic frontiers typically ignored by 6-string acolytes.
Kluson-style tuners
1 5/16" nut
Single-coil
blade pickup
Telecaster-style
adjustable saddles
