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John Butler and Jaykco

Patrick — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:28:56 +0000

Right before Bonnaroo 2010, John Butler and his band played Kansas City. We had the pleasure of hanging out with them and part of his road crew before they put on a killer show and Crossroads KC. Nice guys all, humble and talented.

we were thrilled when John picked up a strap from us.

The photo here is from Bonnaroo taken by Shantel Mitchell for NPR . To see more great shots of The John Butler Trio please go to Shantel’s photo stream on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/59175639@N00/ .

Jaykco Does Texas

Patrick — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:08:58 +0000

We were back in Texas again, this time for the granddaddy of all vintage guitar shows, The Dallas International Guitar Festival.

Another satisfied customer rocking a “Salmon Doreena” on a rather sweet ’59 Les Paul Standard.

How much of tube geek are you?

Until then check out this shot of the King from Sid’s Diner in El Reno, Oklahoma. Mmmm mmmm Goooood.

We had a great time down in Texas for SXSW. We even got a chance to meet one of our all time heroes, James Burton. Here he is with Caspar Rawls displaying the 2 Jaykco straps they picked up. I hope they use them. The man was as humble and as gracious as could be. It was the highlight of the trip for us.

We also got to meet another hero of ours: Eddie Shaw from the great sixties band The Monks.

On the way down we stopped in the town of West, Texas and had some wonderful Kolaches. They didn’t last long enough to get photographed but here’s the proof:

We also had some time to hang out with the locals out by Caddo Creek on our off day.

Neko Case wearing Jaykco

Patrick — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:50:24 +0000

Many months ago our guerrilla marketing department attempted to get a strap to Neko Case. We had assumed that they failed until we came across this photo this morning. Neko’s music is a favorite around Jaykco and we are absolutely thrilled that she is wearing our strap.

Thanks to Mike Pollock for sharing the photo, you can see more of his work here : 50showsat50.blogspot.com.

Beacon Theatre in New York City on Monday, 11/16/09.

Midwest Music Foundation Apocalypse Meow 2009 Guitar Winner

Patrick — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:53:16 +0000

We donated some straps to the Music Music Foundation this year for their fundraiser.

Clearly this guitar could not be in better hands.

Apocalypse Meow is an annual benefit put on by the Nonproft Midwest Music Foundation for a Musicians Health Care Fund.

To learn more about Apocalypse Meow, please visit http://www.apocalypsemeow.net

Midwest Music Foundation

http://www.midwestmusicfound.org

Some Vintage Ace and Bobby Lee guitar straps from our collection

Patrick — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:23:48 +0000

At Jaykco we are collectors of things. Before we started making straps because we couldn’t find the ones we wanted, we had a very large collection of cool vintage stuff. From time to time we will post some photos of straps from our collection.

LET IT BE KNOWN THAT WE ARE INTERESTED IN PICKING UP SOME EARLY “BUILT BY WENDY” STRAPS. So if you have any that are for sale or trade drop us a line at patrick@jaykco.com .

This one is a favorite of mine that we just traded for with the guys up at Solid body guitars in Minneapolis. It is a “Bobby Lee No Mishap Guitar Strap”.

This one is a pretty cool vintage Ace that we got a few years back from our good friends at Midwestern Music in Kansas City:

This next one has long been a favorite and only recently came off of my white ’62 Jaguar. I think it says “cordoba” on it.

If you have any cool shots of your favorite vintage straps, please post them here.

Phoenix on The Tonight Show with Conan O’brien perfroming 1901

Patrick — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:12:47 +0000

We were on national TV again with Phoenix. It never gets old to see our stuff on TV. Deck is playing our “Casey Jones 1″. Not sure who he is: he’s the one with the cool strap, duh! OK he’s the bass player with the cool strap.

Liam Finn and E-J

Patrick — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:32:30 +0000

While Wilco was in town, we also had the Pleasure of meeting Liam Finn and E-J, who were out on the road with Wilco for a spell. Our good friend sent Scott Spy snapped this shot of Liam wearing a “Casey Jones 1″. Dig the “Thriller” jacket that Liam picked up that afternoon at the River Market in Kansas City.

You can check out Liam’s music here:

http://www.myspace.com/theliamfinn

and E-J here:

http://www.myspace.com/59218038

We are waiting for a cool shot of E-J using her “Toasty Dragonfly” on her autoharp.

Wilco meets Jaykco at the Crossroads in Kansas City

Patrick — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:59:26 +0000

On October 6th Wilco came back to the Crossroads in Kansas City to play to a capacity crowd of around three thousand and they picked up some Jaykco straps at The Midwestern Musical Company while they were there!!

As you may or may not know, the gentlemen in Wilco have excellent taste in guitars and guitar straps. They wear some of the coolest straps out there. Some of them are vintage, some are made by our competitors and a handful of the straps worn by Tweedy and Kline are killer cool vintage straps by “Built By Wendy”, and now some them are made by us!

We were lucky enough to catch up with Nels Cline, John Stirratt and Pat Sansone when they popped into our friends guitar store, Midwestern Music. Glenn did pick up a cymbal while he was there but that’s not such a big deal for us.

John informed us that he prefers to wear vintage straps from the sixties and seventies. Nels and Pat however are into the new stuff and both picked up some Jaykco.

We have seen Pat wearing his “Double Blue and White Snowflake” on his Telecaster:

Nels has been seen wearing his “Red China Girl” on his ’69 Inca Silver Jaguar, we sadly do not have a cool photo of it yet. Nels was a fun a guy to talk to about guitars and pedals. He is a gear geek through and through. To the point that he gave us a walk through of his guitars and pedal board. This was easily the highlight of our summer! Did you know that one of his Jazzmasters was a present from Mike Watt and has “Watt” carved into the back of the neck. I wished i’d gotten a photo of it. Instead you will just have get by with this shot of Nels’ pedal board:

Nels also showed us the killer cool mastery bridges he is using on his Jags and Jazzmasters. Please check out www.masterybridge.com for more info.

Lastly one of the straps that Nels purchased, a “Sandy Dragonfly” has been seen on one of Jeff Tweedy’s acoustics (THANKS NELS!!!):

All photos of Wilco by Traci Brothers.

We were on national television, again!

Patrick — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:21:34 +0000

When the band Phoenix was in Kansas City this summer we had a chance to catch up with them and show them a few guitar straps.

Laurent decided to purchase one as a present for Deck. He choose a “Casey Jones 1″. Luckily for us the band played the Jimmy Kimmel show two nights later. Our strap was there on the stage on Deck’s bass, but alas he did not use it during “Lisztomania” the single that the were working off their new release “Wolfgang Amadeus Pheonix”

We at Jaykco have been huge fans of Phoenix since 2000 when they released “United” so we were even more excited to see Deck still using his strap last week on the Late Late Show. Being on TV never gets old for us. It’s always a thrill!