Chords for Rick Miller of Southern Culture On The Skids Talks About His Danelectro

Hi everybody, it's Rick from Southern Culture on the Skids.
I hope everybody is doing well and healthy.
I hope we've had some time off.
And I thought I would make a video about my guitar.
Because so many people ask me about my Dan Electra.
It's like, Rick, man, how does that thing, how does it even play?
It looks like such a piece of junk.
It's like covered in gunk and bunk and all kinds of stuff.
But it's actually my favorite all-time guitar.
All-time.
I've had so many different guitars.
But the Dan Electra plays and sounds the best of all of them.
Don't ask me why, I don't know. _
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_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ I have it right here and I'm going to show it to you.
So there [N] it is.
And yeah, it's pretty beat up, I gotta say, right?
_ This started out life as a _ 3011, I think it was.
A single pickup.
It just had this one pickup right here in the neck position.
Now, I played it like that for quite a while, but after a while I really wanted something a little more ballsy on the bridge.
Or I could use a bridge sound.
So this is a Lindy Fralin P90.
Lindy's a friend of mine.
We go way, way back.
And he makes the best P90s.
I love them.
Used to be black, but you can see it's really a cream one underneath, right? _
I still have the original bridge.
I've replaced this rosewood a few times because it does get worn out.
And it'll notch out on some of these strings and stuff and start to buzz a little bit.
This is the second pickguard it's had.
It's held on with a little bit of duct tape just for security.
These little [D#] screws tend to rust out over time from all the sweat and [D#] stuff.
_ Knobs have fallen off at various times and this is just some cheap replacement, I think.
I don't even know what it went to.
I think that might be original, though.
Rat Fink sticker used to look a lot better, but it kind of got worn off.
The switches have been replaced, I don't know how many times.
And it works.
This pickup [F] works, but it's obviously much _ less output than this one.
And it's kind of gone downhill recently.
It's quite weak.
But if I put it in the middle position, it still acts _ as_
it'll put it out of phase.
So I can get a little more of a kind of chicken picking sound between these two.
It still works, but maybe I have to step on a boost pedal or something to get it kind of [F#] up to where this one was.
But this is so loud right here.
This is a great pickup.
It's the best.
It is so loud. _ _
It's been refretted about two or maybe two times. _
It probably needs a refret relatively soon.
I replaced the skate key tuners with just some Kluson, I don't know, [F] knockoffs of some sort.
[N] And I replaced the aluminum nut.
It wore down after a while.
I used to have to take matchbooks.
I would take parts of matchbook covers and I would stick them underneath the notches in the nut to keep the strings from buzzing.
I did that for quite a while.
If you've ever seen me, they had some little fuzzy things up here.
That's what it was.
But actually, this has a relatively new bone nut on it because I did have the frets dressed.
The fretboard is really flat.
It's so flat.
It's almost concave, but I love it.
It just plays so good and the action is so good.
I don't know.
It's just an awesome guitar.
I have lots of Dan Electros too.
I used to play a bronze 2 pickup one, but it didn't have the P90.
I did have a single cutaway with a P90, but this is just my favorite.
I don't know what it is.
Something about them.
You can't imitate cheap, right?
They don't make Masonite like they used to.
People also ask me, they go, well, Rick, how come you never clean it?
I'm kind of scared to clean it because it might fall apart.
I think some of this Spoogey stuff kind of holds it all together.
Not only that, but it's about the tone, right?
It's about the tone.
I mean, you know, have some of that _ _ stuff on top, man.
It's got to make it sound better, right?
You know, sound better.
This Dan Electro has been through quite a bit, but probably the greatest existential threat to this guitar is [D#] my dog. _ _ _
_ Because as you can see, the patina on this is a little bit of, _ a little bit of meat, a little bit of banana pudding, and a little bit of chicken grease, most likely, right?
And those are three of my dog's favorite things.
So I really have to keep this out of the house because the dog keeps trying to eat it.
[C#] But, but anyway, you know, he's a good dog though.
He really is.
Has good taste in guitars, just like his owner.
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[C#m] I'll have a [A] few more videos [B] probably down the road [C#m] here talking about some of my favorite guitars [A] because I do have some [B] odd ones that [E] I've used, [C#m] played [A] live, going [B] way, way back, like Magnetones and Supros [C#] and Nationals and all that kind of [E] stuff.
I remember [G#m] I've always kind of had a taste for [E] different types of guitars, though I have a lot of [A] Gibsons and Fenders and [B] things like that.
[E] But [C#] I remember asking Link Wray, we play with him, and I asked him, I said, Link, man, how come you played those Dan Electros, man?
And he [A] said, man, those things had a sound.
He goes, man, [E] nothing sounded like them.
You [C#m] know, it's like everybody [E] had a Gibson, everybody had a Fender.
[A] Those Dan Electros, man, that was my [F#m] own sound.
So I took it to [E] heart. _
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