The quiet, introspective Eve shows off the Thalia Zedek Band’s impressive musical range. Zedek made her name playing her singular brand of ear-splitting, dissonant lead guitar with Come, Uzi and Live Skull, outfits known for their fierce approach to performing and recording. Her music with the Thalia Zedek Band may not be as loud, but it has the same level of emotional intensity that’s always been her trademark. Zedek will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our new feature on her.
Zedek: Hagstrom is my favorite guitar manufacturer, and I currently own and play two black Hagstrom 1s thanks to my friend, the amazing musician, Chris Grier (R.I.P.). He called me and told me that he had found my first black Hagstrom’s twin sister at the music shop down the street from him in Brooklyn, and I jumped on the next bus to NYC from Boston and adopted it and brought it home. They have a lot of shiny plastic and “pleather” parts on them for show because Hagstrom started out building accordions, and I guess they still had a lot of old accordion parts laying around. But their necks are slender and strong, and the tone is clear and deep. I once saw a full hollow-body Hagstrom that I fell in love with, and I couldn’t afford it, so I told my friend Tully who was looking for a guitar to buy it so that I could visit with it. She went to the store and fell in love with it as well and bought it on the spot. My friend moved away a long time ago, and we lost touch, but I still wonder about that beautiful Hag and Tully and if she still plays it.
