WILLIAM BENTON: Well, I'm William Benton of the Louisville-based band Lucky Pineapple. I play one of two guitars in that band.

This is one of the newer Danelectro reissues, some early '60s model that I've been wracking my brain trying to remember what it is. [SOUNDS LIKE] I would always hear them stories when I was younger and I always thought they were cool, and then they were good enough to reissue them and make them affordable.

I found this online on eBay where someone would trade them in three or four of them brand new to a music store, and I think I got it for 250, brand new. Still I have no idea what they got for it; they were trading it on an amp or something.

When I look for a guitar, I always like twang, and I always kind of -- When I first started playing guitar, I started on bass, and then when I moved over to guitar, I always liked kind of surf sounds, I was like lo-fi things whether it be -- I listen to a lot of '60s music and Link Wray and stuff like that, but I also still like jazz and everything, and I always found that this lipstick always kind of have a -- I don't know, it's also with a lo-fi. I mean there's a lo-fi element but I always kind of -- there's a boldness to it that I kind of like.

With me, I kind of like the fact that if I must choose two main guitars, there's this which, you know, it's light, it's [WILLIAM BENTON TAPS ON DANO '63's BODY] pretty hollow, it has that sort of sound where sometimes I have to kind of beat the hell out to get the sound that I want through an amp and stuff. Sometimes, it's just, you know, the natural acoustics of it I like a lot, but if forces something different out that you're not accustomed to on a regular guitar. The other guitar I use is a Jazzmaster, which is really a heavy, solid guitar so it's probably the opposite of what most people look for in guitars. I kind of like being put off sometimes. I like picking up a guitar and playing something on it, and sometimes it doesn't make immediate sense to me, and there's, you know, I've heard people say before, people like Eric Clapton can pick up any guitar and immediately it's Eric Clapton, and you know he can make it work. I hate to say this: I'm not as good as Eric Clapton, and when I pick up a guitar, it's -- there's some time in there. I have to sort of digest it like.

PATRICK OGLE: So you like the Danelectro in essence because it makes it hard on you a little bit.

WILLIAM BENTON: Oh yeah. There's a little bit of labor involved. Everything from the way harmonics sound on it to the way tones ring out, even unplugged like just sort of playing chord based songs, folky stuff, '60s stuff, you know, just unplugged, it can inspire some different ideas. I think they're great guitars. The older and the older ones are, you know, obviously no exception to even where, they're better than some expensive guitars in my opinion.