TAGG – ISSUE 12 flipbook
Flick through the TAGG issue 12 flipbook including Melbourne’s live music gig guide for November 15 – 30, 1979!
TAGG time capsule
TAGG – ISSUE 12. TAGG The Alternative Gig Guide is Australia’s original street press.
In this time capsule series revisit the Melbourne live music scene of 1979 – 1980.
Gig guide for November 15 – 30, 1979.
TAGG – ISSUE 12 – Table of contents:
4. Music maker – Jeremy Fiebeger
8. Guitar builder – Ian Noyce
12. Dr Pepper – The Slugs
15. Rock lobster – Notes on the South Coast
22. Venue views – Universal Workshop
34-35. TAGG issue 12 minifold – The Sneakers
36. Venue locations
42. Gig review – The Aliens
52. Special feature – Street Angel
54. How to be an R&R star – part 7
TAGG – ISSUE 12 excerpt…
Guitar builder Ian Noyce SHARK
Ian Noyce has been building guitars for eight years. He makes a full range of instruments, both acoustic and electric. His workshop is located at Mount Clear, Ballarat. Ian is a musician and plays bass in a Ballarat band ‘Electric Fence’.
The latest Noyce guitar is the ‘Shark’. Maurice Keegan, from the Sneakers, Brendon Mason (Madder Lake) and Ian worked three to four months on the conception, design and construction. Thwey wanted the guitar to have the feel and vibe of the old Les Paul Juniors, L series Fender Stratocasters and the S.G. Gibsons. but with a contemporary design, spot-on electrics and retaining the clean simple sound of the oldies.
The prototypes were built, and later minor alterations made to these. The guitar was given a warmer, alive feel and looks by carving the body more distinctively, moving away from the basic circular shape. Much to their surprise, the new shape even appealed to the Country and Western guitarists.
The neck is carved from choice mahogany with a plank construction (meaning neck is all in one piece and becomes the central column, two pieces of wood being attached either side to make the body.) A truss road runs through the neck to the first pickup cavity and is adjustable from there…
