Pittsburgh Guitars Staff

Mark 
 

John 

 Mark

 John

Favorite guitar: All of `em
Favorite amp: Fender
Favorite color: Blue
Hobbies: Hiking, camping (out of a hotel room), playing, gigging, etc., etc., etc.
Musical influences: Anything before 1980 (excluding disco)
TV influences: NYPD Blue (always wanted to be a detective)
Humor influences: 3 Stooges, Archie Bunker
Alcohol influences: 80 proof or more
First gig: 6th grade talent show
Weirdest gig: 6th grade talent show
Likes: Smell of an old vintage guitar case
Dislikes: Monday mornings
Favorite Beatle: George Martin

Sorry girls, he's taken!

Favorite guitar: Rickenbacker 360/12V64-fireglo
Favorite amp: Vox AC-30
Favorite color: Sunburst
Hobbies: Writing songs & recording, golfing with fun people
Musical influences:
Beatles, The Jam, Neil Finn, Zeppelin, XTC, Yardbirds, The Church, Miles Davis
TV influences:
The Monkees, Twin Peaks, Monty Python's Flying Circus
Humor influences:
Austin Powers, Kramer, Peter Sellers, Stooges, early Jerry Lewis
Alcohol influences: Beer, wine, gin & tonic w/lime
First gig: Carrick High Talent Show--I played a Pittsburgh Guitars `76 Les Paul through an Ampeg V4 full stack. Thought that it would be cool to turn the amp to 10. I was wrong....
Weirdest gig: For one reason or another, just about every time that I played the Electric Banana
Likes: Outer space, wings & beer with Jody, Las Vegas, looking at guitars, albums
Dislikes: Terrorists, New York Rangers, hydraulic equipment
Favorite Beatle: Lennon


carl grefenstette 
 

Scott 

 Carl

 Scott
Favorite Guitars: 1952 Tele, 1954 D-18, 1962 Silvertone Danelectro
Favorite Amp:
The Vox Super Beatle. Sure, it's impossible to move, but it has style and elegance.
Favorite Color:
The tobacco sunburst on a 1961 ES-335
Hobbies:
My life is one big hobby
Musical Influences:
The Kinks, for the spirit; NRBQ, for the pure love of music; and JPG&R for showing us how it's done
TV Influences:
Shindig, the usual classic sitcoms, David E. Kelley
Humor Influences:
Steve Martin, the early days
Alcohol Influences:
heavily influenced by Betsy Gerson
First Gig:
Baldwin-Whitehall Shopping Center parking lot
Weirdest Gig:
The Flashcats... 3AM... the Northside... Gay & Transvestite Party
Likes:
Music, comedy, sex (the order varies)
Dislikes:
Evil
Favorite Beatle:
1964-65 Beatle
Favorite guitar: 1955 Martin 000-18
Favorite amp: It's acoustic
Hobbies: Antiques, womens
Musical influences: Beatles, Beach Boys, Eagles, Mountain, Jethro Tull...
TV influences: Drew Carey, Seinfeld
Humor influences: Monty Python
Alcohol influences: Beer
First gig:
Kane K of C Hall (1969-$80.00!)
Weirdest gig: Franklin, PA--next door to the Mayor's house, you know...
Likes: Pretty girls and guitars
Dislikes:
Wasted time
Favorite Beatle: Paulie

Wagner 
 

john purse 

 Wagner

 John
Favorite Guitar: A Vintage Les Stratotelly made by Martin Reed Smith & Wesson
Favorite Amp: By far a Farshall Tweed made by Voxpeg & distributed by...or anything else that's totally fried....
Favorite Color: The redish-orange a tube glows right before it blows your amp to hell... the blue's kinda nice too....
Hobbies: Fishing, traveling, carousing
Musical Influences: All music has violated me one way or another...even with the lights on!!
TV Influences: Woody, Scooby, Daffy Duck, & This Old House...oh yeah, Perry Mason, the old black & white series. It had so little sound track you could play guitar to it. Della Street was a babe too...
Humor Influences: The staff & customers at Pittsburgh Guitars...
Alcohol Influences:I know too many drunks to list here...
First Gig: Some special care center..I can't remember where--I wasn't driving...
Weirdest Gig: Same...Ever do Ironman in front of people on meds? NEVER MIND....
Likes: Spiritual things, big cars, slow women, fast motorcycles, a good storm, & a good movie (okay, amps too)
Dislikes: Bad sounding amps & Pittsburgh weather
Favorite Beatle:
The famous one
Favorite guitar: The ones that have strings on them
Favorite amp: The kind that have speakers in them
Favorite color: Blue, no red....aahhhh!
Hobbies: Fishing with dynamite
Musical influences: Music?
TV influences:
F Troop, Gomer Pyle, Mr. Ed
Humor influences:
Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce
Alcohol influences: Makers Mark, Jameson
First gig: Grade School Spring Festival
Weirdest gig: Grand opening of an Amoco station in Homestead
Likes: What's not to like?
Favorite Beatle: Ringo



Sam
 

Rich

 Sam

 Rich
Favorite guitar: Collings MF-5 Mandolin
Favorite amp: Has to have 2 things: tubes, & the ability to fit in the trunk of a Honda Civic
Favorite color: Black
Hobbies: Collecting music
Musical influences: Punk rock
TV influences: The Monkees
Humor influences: The Marx Brothers, Monty Python
Alcohol influences: My favorite beer is cold & free
First gig: The Electric Banana in 1980, opening for Car sickness
Weirdest gig: Any time I've played a wedding
Favorite Beatle: John, George, & Ringo
Favorite guitar: Fender Stratocaster
Favorite amp: Fender Deluxe Reverb
Favorite car part: Fender
Favorite color: Sunburst
Hobbies: Thank God I play guitar
Musical influences:
Dixie Dugan, Cliff Spratt,Chet, Les, The Venures, B. B. King, Jimi, Jimmy, Johnny A., Mike Dugan, and many more
TV influences:
Cpt. Video, Honeymooners, Lucy, Ed Sullivan, Shindig, Hullabaloo
Humor influences:
Ssteve Martin, Richard Pryor, Myron Cohen, Wanda Sykes, Rodney
Alcohol influences: All my bad decisions
First gig: Dutch Club in Overbrook
Weirdest gig: As young lads who didn't drive yet, we took 2 taxis to the gig; one for us, one for the gear
Likes: Cool people, weiner dogs
Dislikes: Intolerance
Favorite Beatle: What is this, a witch hunt?


 Rick
 

Rick

 Rick

 Betsy
Favorite guitar: Never met one I didn't like
Favorite amp: Any Fender Reverb amp
Favorite color: Plaid
Hobbies: Reading, old movies, repairing guitars (it gives Scott something to do...)
Musical influences: `50s R&B, `60s rock
TV influences: `50s and `60s sitcoms, Monty Python
Humor influences: Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Red Foxx, John Cleese
Alcohol influences: Mark
First gig: My friend's 12th birthday party--I played drums because the real drummer was sick
Weirdest gig: Playing Go-Gos songs in a blues bar (and they liked it!)
Likes: Order
Dislikes: Disorder
Favorite Beatle: George--his hooks made the songs
Favorite guitar: Martins!
Favorite amp: One with just a couple knobs. And reverb.
Favorite color: Natural
Hobbies: Trying to find time to play guitar
Musical influences: The Beatles, The Monkees, The Everly Brothers, The Flashcats, The Sophisticated Ladies
TV influences: The Match Game
Humor influences: Life
Alcohol influences: My dad
First gig: I sang "Ragtime Cowboy Joe" at a talent show at Pleasant Hills Elementary School
Weirdest gig: It was in a country bar...
Likes: 3-part harmony
Dislikes: People who don't use their turn signal
Favorite Beatle: Ringo

 

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