The Stormcock Community

The new look Stormcock Community that Paul has just set up now uses a photo he took of Roy's current 2007 guitar instead of a Stormcock, which is the reason for this post.

This photo taken at De'barras in Clonakilty this summer was the only picture I had come across at one of the gigs in Roy's last tour till he gets writing some new material for a new CD... (so it could be a while before see Roy live again) that possibly showed something that identified the make of the guitar he was playing.

At an earlier gig in the tour that I was at in Glasgow, Roy said that a local guitar maker had given him a new guitar that very day and he was going to do something that he had never done in his career before and that was play a new guitar at a gig without having tried it out first!

With Mistlethrush/Paul's photo I tried everything I could think of to use in Photoshop to extract some hint as to the name on the label but just couldn't suss enough of it out. If only real life was like CSI where you can invent pixels where there aren't any :)

What I came up with is

Fres•ma...

So I took a stab in the dark and had a google for Freshman guitars (which I had never heard of) and came up with these links....

Freshman Guitars

Freshman Guitars Wiki

It turns out Freshman Guitars are based in East Kilbride not far from Glasgow. Roy is listed on the Wikipedia page as one the artists who uses their guitars but I'm having trouble getting Freshman's webpage listing the artists who have their guitars, to load. So I contacted Freshman Guitars and they confirmed that they gave him a FA400JCE Freshman

So thanks to Paul we have managed to solve the conundrum that has been bugging me since that Glasgow gig.