The Duesenberg Alliance Series Joe Walsh boasts numerous details and appointments that are deeply connected to the style and history of its legendary namesake. The Alliance Series Joe Walsh sports a laminated spruce top, laminated flamed maple back and sides, and a solid center block to safeguard against unwanted feedback. You'll appreciate the incredible playing comfort afforded by this semi-hollowbody electric guitar's extra-slim semi-hollow design, which is impeccably matched with an easy-playing Medium "D"-shaped maple neck and an elaborately Plek'd Indian rosewood fingerboard. This guitar is designed to bring out the best in any amp you plug it into, thanks to the one-two punch provided by its Duesenberg LittleToaster and SingleTwin Mini pickups. Duesenberg Z-Tuners and a steel saddle bridge offer rock-solid stability, and the Radiator vibrato really lets your creativity soar. This instrument is replete with custom appointments, which include fingerboard inlays that spell Joe's name in Morse code, a Tibetan Knot graphic between the pickups, and mixed nickel and gold hardware. The Alliance Series Joe Walsh also includes a fetching PUR lacquer finish and Duesenberg's trademark geometrical 3-stepped styling.
Players searching for a guitar that will bring out the best sonic qualities of their amplifier will delight in the Duesenberg Alliance Series Joe Walsh's responsive, transparent sound. At the bridge, this semi-hollowbody electric guitar sports a LittleToaster mini humbucker with an extremely open tone and plenty of ear-grabbing sparkle. At the neck, you'll find a noise-canceling SingleTwin Mini with a split-coil design for a classic rock tone that sounds amazing in any musical situation. The Alliance Series Joe Walsh includes global volume and tone knobs, along with a 3-way pickup selector.
The Alliance Series Joe Walsh guitar's extra-slim body shape gives you both semi-hollow tone and solidbody-esque comfort. Meanwhile, its solid center block ensures maximum sustain with minimum feedback. The Alliance Series Joe Walsh sports an easy-playing one-piece Medium "D"-shaped maple neck and a compound-radius Indian rosewood fingerboard with 22 jumbo-sized frets. Furthermore, this premium electric guitar was subjected to Duesenberg's elaborate Plek treatment, netting you unbelievably consistent fret levels for comfortably low action with zero fret buzz.
Founded by German guitar designer Dieter Gölsdorf in 1989, Duesenberg guitars represent a multinational mixing pot of American art deco aesthetics, hot-rod heritage, and exacting German engineering. Duesenberg’s utterly distinctive instruments — affectionately dubbed “Doozys” by their adherents — gleam with proprietary parts and pickups that merge the daring appointments of the early electric guitar age with the pinpoint precision of modern manufacturing excellence. From the iconic Starplayer semi-hollow guitars to basses, lap steels, and beyond, every Duesenberg that Music Experience carries embodies consummate artisanship. Fittingly, this unerring dedication has attracted more than a few luminaries, including the likes of Bob Dylan, Joe Walsh, Mike Campbell, John Mayer, and Tom Bukovac. For the musician who demands superlative performance, idiosyncratic innovation, and master-level musical detail in equal measure, only a Doozy will do.
What’s not to like about sitting in a hotel room with Mr. Joe Walsh and talk guitars? Seriously though, meeting Joe was a real privilege. The result of our collaboration is a truly unique instrument directly fitted to Joe’s needs but made for everyone. The Joe Walsh Alliance Series features numerous different details connected to Joe’s style or history. The fretboard inlays spell his name in morsecode, referencing his passion for radio operation and the Tibetan Knot between both pickups is a symbol of very personal meaning to Joe which he also carries as a tattoo.
Our smooth Z-tuners are located on the elegant, black headstock. These tuners not only work extremely precisely, but also allow the sharp string ends to be hidden in the tuner shaft so that they cannot damage your case, gig bag or your fingertips. Lifetime maintenance-free guaranteed!
A pleked fretboard guarantees perfectly level frets. This is the basis for our fret polishing and setup work all done by hand that eventually makes our instruments play like nothing you have ever played before.
The LittleToaster mini-humbucker and SingleTwin Mini noiseless singlecoil deliver an extremely open, responsive and transparent tone. They are one of the most curious combinations in the Duesenberg lineup. A Duesenberg LittleToaster pickup delivers transparent treble tone in the bridge position and the state-of-the-art noise-cancelling Duesenberg SingleTwin Mini gives clear classic neck sounds in any situation. These were a requirement from Joe himself. Being a serious guitarhead himself, he also likes to mess around with the hardware of his guitars, often resulting in weird hardware finish mixes. So for this reason the hardware of the Alliance Joe Walsh is a mix of nickel and gold.
The Duesenberg Radiator Tremola is the evolution of our own vibrato system design. It keeps everything that you love about about our original Diamond Deluxe Vibrato and delivers it in a new and exciting design. Of course we added custom gold accents on the vibrato for Joe's personal model. Buttery smooth action, reliable tuning stability and string changes that are a breeze are just the main aspects of our unique vibrato design. Heavy duty needle and nylon bearings give you the highly responsive Duesenberg feel when using the vibrato arm. The arm itself can be turned freely for 360° and can be adjusted to your preferred angle and length. The strings are simply guided through the holes in the bar underneath the arm-axis and can be lead to the tuners without any hassle.
The Joe Walsh Alliance Series features an unusual extra slim semi-hollow construction. Besides the unique semi-hollow tone, this makes the guitar handle more like a thin solid-body.
You will find the geometrical three steps in almost every part on our instruments, from the curves on the headstock to the shape of the output jack. Most of our hardware is Nickel finished. When compared to regular Chrome finishes, Nickel has a beautiful warm and elegant sheen and ages naturally over time. It's the way things were done before Chrome became the standard. If you don't want the hardware on your instrument to age, we recommend regular cleaning.
A good suitcase is always more stable than its contents. Curtain up for the Duesenberg Custom Line series of cases! Indestructible like a flight case, classically cut to shape, built from high-quality materials and designed to withstand most realistic and unrealistic adversities. You can throw this case in the trunk of your car, in the luggage compartment of a train or in the hold of an airplane without having to give it or its contents another thought. The Duesenberg Custom Line Case is included with the purchase of this instrument.
| Body Type | Semi-hollowbody |
|---|---|
| Body Shape | Alliance Series Joe Walsh |
| Left-/Right-handed | Right-handed |
| Number of Strings | 6 |
| Body Material | Laminated Maple |
| Top Material | Laminated Spruce |
| Body Finish | PUR lacquer |
| Color | Gold Burst |
| Neck Material | 1-piece Maple |
| Neck Shape | Medium "D" |
| Radius | 12"-14" Compound |
| Fingerboard Material | Indian Rosewood |
| Fingerboard Inlay | Morse Code Inlays |
| Number of Frets | 22 Jumbo |
| Scale Length | 25.5" |
| Nut Width | 1.673" |
| Nut Material | Synthetic Bone |
| Bridge/Tailpiece | Duesenberg Steel Saddle Bridge, Diamond Radiator Tremola |
| Tuners | Duesenberg Z-Tuners |
| Neck Pickup | Duesenberg SingleTwin Mini Single-coil |
| Bridge Pickup | Duesenberg LittleToaster Humbucker |
| Controls | 1 x volume, 1 x tone |
| Switching | 3-way blade |
| Strings | Duesenberg Custom, .010-.050 |
| Case/Gig Bag | Hardshell Case |
| Manufacturer Part Number | DAC-JW-GB |
