Post by newey on Mar 22, 2014 20:44:39 GMT -5
Just back from a week in Ft. Myers, FL- my wife and I usually take an annual "spring break" form the winter weather. While I was down in Ft. Myers, I caught Mike Imbusciani and his band, playing a set at Bert's, a waterfront shrimp-and-clam joint on Big Pine Island.
Long-timers may recall that I posted about Mike back in 2011, when he was 14 years old. He's now 17, and still going strong, better than ever in fact:
The previous thread sort of devolved into people posting ever-younger musicians on video, until the question of in vitro prodigies was broached. Then Mike joined, posting as "jilaw50", and promoting his material and discussing his equipment.
guitarnuts2.proboards.com/thread/5830/kid-future?page=2
During a set break, Mike and I had a discussion about his stage rig, which is pretty straightforward. He has 3 guitars onstage: a Schecter Hellfire with 3 mini-HBs which is unplugged as a spare. Plugged in, through an A-B switch, are a Gretsch Brian Setzer Sig model, and his main axe, a highly-modified Squier Strat HSS with Duncan pickups, locking tuners and a modded trem. He plays through a blonde Twin Reverb RI. His board consists of the A-B switch, a volume pedal, a Morley wah, a couple of distortions, plus a separate vocal processor.
In that thread, I told Mike I would have to come and see him the next time I was in SW Florida, so I fulfilled that, although several years intervened.
The show was great, the band was tight and in fine form.
Long-timers may recall that I posted about Mike back in 2011, when he was 14 years old. He's now 17, and still going strong, better than ever in fact:
The previous thread sort of devolved into people posting ever-younger musicians on video, until the question of in vitro prodigies was broached. Then Mike joined, posting as "jilaw50", and promoting his material and discussing his equipment.
guitarnuts2.proboards.com/thread/5830/kid-future?page=2
During a set break, Mike and I had a discussion about his stage rig, which is pretty straightforward. He has 3 guitars onstage: a Schecter Hellfire with 3 mini-HBs which is unplugged as a spare. Plugged in, through an A-B switch, are a Gretsch Brian Setzer Sig model, and his main axe, a highly-modified Squier Strat HSS with Duncan pickups, locking tuners and a modded trem. He plays through a blonde Twin Reverb RI. His board consists of the A-B switch, a volume pedal, a Morley wah, a couple of distortions, plus a separate vocal processor.
In that thread, I told Mike I would have to come and see him the next time I was in SW Florida, so I fulfilled that, although several years intervened.
The show was great, the band was tight and in fine form.
Good tune, too. 
