The Messenger

This is an excellent video of Mark, Don and Mel. Mark was playing the Messenger guitar at this time. Fantastic stuff!




The original Messenger guitar was developed 40 years ago in California by a small company named Musicraft and is now best known as the guitar of choice by Mark Farner (Grand Funk Railroad) in the early 1970′s. Messenger guitars were built in San Francisco and then Astoria, OR from 1967-1968. Features an aluminum alloy tuning fork neck extending through the thin-line hollowbody. This model is a stereo guitar. Messenger also made a guitar with a built-in fuzztone called a Tone-Messer, a bass guitar, and a line of large amplifiers.