what the hell kind of guitar was Rick Nielsen playing on the Colbert Report yesterday?

Rick Nielsen playing his Rick Nielsen-shaped guitar

It’s yellow, it’s big, and it’s got the word “Truthiness” painted on it, along with a picture of Stephen.  How cool is Rick Nielsen?  I think he’s got a contract with Hamer or something, so it’s probably some custom Hamer job – Rick says jump, Hamer hops to it.  The body style kind of looks Airline-ish, although I think that, due to my current fascination with all things Eastwood, everything looks like an Airline to me (it’s sort of like drunk goggles, only with guitars).

Here’s a free download of the episode – the clip of just Cheap Trick isn’t up on YouTube yet.  If you don’t want to sit through the entire episode, go to about the 20:40 mark – Rick and Robin Zander play over the closing credits.  I got all squishy kind of excited when they came on.  Cheap Trick = luv.

footnote/shameless pandering: it was really awesome hearing D.B. Ferguson, founder of seminal Colbert fanblog NoFactZone, speak at blogger conference WordCamp this past weekend.  I want to be lik e her someday.  hooray for successful girl bloggers!