Guild Starfire I Bass reviewWe have seen this with superlative electric guitars like the Aristocrat and indeed the Starfire models, but here we have a Starfire bass that transposes that hollowbodied ...

All Starfire variants carried Dynasonics until Guild, too, introduced its own version of humbuckers – the virtually mini-humbucking sized ‘Anti Hum pickups’, as they were called – in 1963.

• Guild Starfire II Okay, it is mostly hollow, so feedback can be an issue, but get it right, hit a clean boost into the front-end of a Fender-style amp and the thing damn near takes off. Glorious. • ...

During the episode, Horne discussed his new bass, a Guild Starfire that was modded by Alembic in the style of Phil Lesh’s famous Guild/Alembic bass. The two also discussed Horne’s new solo EP.