Articles by Martin Cilia

About Martin Cilia
Martin is an Australian guitarist and vintage guitar collector. Apart from his solo work he is a member of The Atlantics, Dave Warner’s From the Suburbs, Mental As Anything and is currently the lead guitarist in The Radiators.
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Vintage Guitar Scene

Vintage Guitar Scene: 1961 Fender Bass VI

April 17, 2018 Martin Cilia
1961 Fender Bass VI (Serial Number 70174)

Original Sixties Fender Bass VI’s are not very common here in Australia. I found this one in a guitar shop on Coogee Bay Road (not far from where I was living) and the shop’s owner had just returned from the US with this instrument.

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Food & Lifestyle Scene

Video Scene: End of Summer from Going to Kaleponi

February 8, 2018 Martin Cilia
Growing up in Perth, especially in the 80s (when I was in my 20s), was a time of growth. In fact Western Australia was known as the “State of Excitement”. There was Alan Bond, of America’s Cup fame (whose front lawn I use to park my ford panel van on when visiting his next door neighbour), Lang Hancock, and all the corporate types.

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Vintage Guitar Scene

Vintage Guitar Scene: 1962 Gibson ES-175D

February 6, 2018 Martin Cilia
I’d been quietly looking for one of these guitars for years and was very happy to find this one. It’s a great sounding and playing Gibson ES-175D which was made late 1961/early 1962.  It has 2 excellent sounding PAF pickups and is from what is considered the holy grail period of 175s.

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Vintage Guitar Scene

Vintage Guitar Scene: 1962 Gibson J-200N – Blonde

January 18, 2018 Martin Cilia
I was always in awe of Gibson J200 guitars. I first saw and heard the one that was used on The Shadows version of Apache. That guitar was borrowed from Cliff Richard. Bruce Welch from The Shadows played the great sounding rhythm guitar on Apache  (it was also used on other Shadows & Cliff Richard recordings). Cliff’s guitar has a sunburst finish.

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Food & Lifestyle Scene

Video Scene: Makua Beach

December 8, 2017 Martin Cilia
The Makua Beach video was shot on location at Makua Beach (hence the song title) in Hawaii by master underwater videographer Ray Hollowell in 2011. We wanted to capture the feel of Hawaii in both the music and the vision. We think that was achieved.

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