I decided the best tribute I could offer Jim Marshall would be to go down to the basement in my rock and roll sweater and my poorly fitting rock and roll pants and my SUPER ROCK AND ROLL SLIPPERS and plug my Les Paul straight into my Marshall half-stack and play some rock and fucking roll.
So here’s me playing Go! from FMGreen’s 3-2-1 Go! EP.
Volume at 5… turned up to 11 at the end just to make sure the residents of the neighboring county could hear me clearly.
(Side note… the mic on the iPhone is impressively resilient. The SPL meter in front of me was registering 120+dB the entire time.)
First recording session for The Ripper. Great direct tone from this thing.
After playing her for a week, it’s official: she’s a keeper and officially the newest member of my ever-expanding family.
It’s not enough to know that the body of your old guitar is made of spruce and maple: What’s the bridge made of? If it’s ebony, do you have the paperwork to show when and where that wood was harvested and when and where it was made into a bridge? Is the nut holding the strings at the guitar’s headstock bone, or could it be ivory? “Even if you have no knowledge—despite Herculean efforts to obtain it—that some piece of your guitar, no matter how small, was obtained illegally, you lose your guitar forever,” Prof. Thomas has written. “Oh, and you’ll be fined $250 for that false (or missing) information in your Lacey Act Import Declaration.”
This is just insane.
Listen. I’m all for environmental protection, but there are far more important things that our justice department needs to be worrying about than whether or not the bridge on my vintage Wandré guitar was illegally harvested when it was built in Italy in the 1950s.
nothingnear:
There’s a kind of statement spoken here.
I’m only reblogging this because I’m not sure that my bandmates are angry enough with me lately and the fact that I mostly agree with Gibson’s ad should serve to increase that anger. I gotta keep them on their toes, you know?
(via bucketbd)
In My Element (by steelopus)
Day 3 of the Victory! Sessions is complete. We started Saturday at 10am and continued working until 1am on Sunday - a ridiculously long day, but it was worth it as drums and bass are now done and I’ve progressed through about one half of my guitar work.
Sunday will be another long one, with the remainder of the guitar in the morning and vocals to follow. As we’ve done the past few days, we’ll be live on Ustream all day with multiple-cameras and a full audio mix speeding out from ProTools, so you’ll hear the real deal as we’re working.
Self Portrait With Guitar (by Steelopus)
I never get tired of posting this self portrait. I think it’s one of the best shots I’ve ever taken.
This is the accompanying haiku:
Holding a guitar
true happiness is always
at my fingertips.
As Slash prepares for the arrival of his star-studded solo album, due in April, in a new interview with GQ magazine the guitarist revealed he has turned down tens of millions of dollars to reunite with Guns N’ Roses. “I can’t remember exact numbers, but [the offers have been] excessive,” he said. “Seven, eight-digit kinds of things.”
- via Gibson.com (emphasis mine)
My bold prediction: Slash’s forthcoming solo album will eventually outsell Chinese Democracy.
I’d never make that bet, but I think it’s certainly possible over the course of a few years.
Armed and ready for battle.
Stephen Lopez
