I Found This Crazy Guitar on Craigslist! | Trade Tuesday S2 E5 | Electra MPC Outlaw X710

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Episode Guide:
0:19 - The Story
1:02 - My Experience with Electra
2:09 - Electra History (Initial Look + Cleaning)
5:06 - Inside Look / Specs
11:14 - Built-In Effects
14:58 - Tone Talk
18:53 - Effects Demo
23:10 - Dirty Tones
24:37 - Final Thoughts
26:07 - Blacklight Test
27:26 - Case
28:29 - How to Trade Me

In today's episode, I show you guy my AMAZING local find of an Electra MPC Outlaw X710 model. I had never seen one of these until my wife messaged me that this one had just shown up on facebook for her. I knew I had to be quick to secure this one for trade Tuesday! It just fit in our budget of $120 and was a steal at that price! It has potentially 3 repairs and needed a bit of a fixing up, but I got is mostly playable and I had a great time with this one. I'd love to keep this quirky thing! It is so fancy~

This is an Electra MPC Outlaw X710 model. The brand name Electra existed from 1970-1984 and was used mainly on Matsumoku-made Japanese imported guitars for the store St. Louis Music. This new branding replaced the store's old line up called Apollo. The first instrument made in 1970 was a copy of the Dan Armstrong lucite bodied guitar and many copy-cat bolt-on neck designs followed soon after. In the mid-70s things started to expand with more models being introduced. Pre-1978 Electras will actually have a headstock similar to that of a Gibson, but were later changed to a wave/fan shape due to legal troubles. The company produced many Les Paul, SG, 335, some explorer/flying V shapes and other designs in its history before being rebranded Electra-Westone in 1984 and then later that year just Westone retiring the Electra name. This brand was recently revived in 2013 for guitars being built by Ben Chafin and Mick Donner in Tamp Florida, USA.

Within this line up of guitars existed the MPCs, which this guitar is a member of. MPC stands for Modular Powered Circuit. What this means is they have built-in effects that you can load into the guitar by placing a cart in the backside. The available effects for purchase were Phase Shifter, Dynamic Fuzz, Treble/Bass Boost, Tank Tone, Overdrive, Filter Follower, Auto Wah, Tube Sound, Octave Box, Flanger, Frog Nose and Compressor. Two could be place in the guitar at a time and used independently or at the same time, powered by a 9v battery.

This body style within the line up was named the Outlaw after the band. It is a neck-through body design with a double cutaway and a signature covered and uncovered pickup look. There were also 335, Explorer and Les Paul MPC Styles available that were promoted by famous musicians such as Leslie West, Rick Derringer, Peter Frampton, ELO, Allen Collings and Chris Squire.

While many people wrote these off as gimmick guitars back in the day, these are some of the most valuable models Electra produced on the second-hand market.


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