Other Tokai clones included recreations of Gibson's Les Paul, ES-series semis, Flying V and Explorer. But there is no band on this list who exemplifies the ideal of using affordable guitars for artistic endeavor more than Sonic Youth. Kawai revived the Teisco brand in the early 1990s. WeвЂ™ve also seen Moore play a Silvertone post-Sonic Youth. Overall, this is a great opportunity to acquire a very good looking Vintage 60s Hy-Lo Teisco semi-hollow body guitar. The company was acquired by Kawai in 1967, with the Teisco. In 1956 the name was changed to вЂNippon Ompa Kogyo CoвЂ™. The company was originally called вЂAoi Onpa KenkyujoвЂ™ (roughly: Hollyhock Soundwave or Electricity Laboratories).

Some of the most notable budget-centric guitars that saw action included Lee RanaldoвЂ™s pink Fernandes Strat copy, the East German Musima Eterna that Moore and Gordon both played. Teisco was founded in 1946 by guitarist Atswo Kaneko, and electrical engineer Doryu Matsuda. Of course, as with the vintage Silvertones and pawnshop Harmony holdovers, success inflates the prices and the now ubiquitous presence of the Fender offset is in no small part down to Sonic YouthвЂ™s influence on the wider alt-rock culture. ThatвЂ™s partly why Jazzmasters and Mustangs entered the picture they were cheap. ThatвЂ™s why the gear theft of вЂ™99 was so debilitating. Guitars: Fernandes FST Strat copy, Fernandes Native Pro, Hopf Telstar Standard, Musima EternaД«ecause of the many alternate tunings they used on a song-to-song basis, Sonic Youth needed guitars and lots of them, so they were not set up to tour without loading some cheaper guitars onto the boat. (Image credit: Jim Steinfeldt/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

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