Before I received this guitar from somebody in Hawaii I had never heard of Raines guitars. The eBay listing didn’t mention a brand name and the headstock logo is impossible to read unless you are really close. After I had fiddled around with the Schecter Blackjack 7 for a while and had fallen in love…

  This is a custom guitar! Although it wasn’t build for me. As a matter of fact this freak of an instrument was supposed to die in a fire! In the mid 1970s my friend Lothar Landenberger (who was and still is one hell of a classical guitarist, played bass in my first fusion band…

  If buying a new guitar is like buying a new car then that would explain this one. Another Ibanez. Brand-loyalty. It must have been late 1979 when Manfred Brietzke and I started an acoustic guitar duo – later to become a trio via the inclusion of Ulli Fischer.   As is so often the…