Stephen Lopez
Bridge Over Troubled Water (by Steelopus)
Sometimes I take photos. December, 2007.
One of my favorites.
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.)
Well done, Google.
Long live Les Paul.
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.
This is my Epiphone Les Paul Junior Double Cut. Of my three main guitars, it’s the one I play the least frequently.
But I have a feeling it’s going to be my secret weapon while recording Victory! next weekend.
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.
RIP
Armed and ready for battle.
My Les Paul Army.
(l to r)
- Epiphone Les Paul Junior DC - TV Yellow(1998)
- Epiphone Les Paul Bass - Sunburst (2005)
- Gibson Les Paul Studio - Wine Red (1992)
- Gibson Les Paul Standard - Desert Burst (2005)
![The world’s first eight-track recording machine, built by Ampex in the mid-1950s per Les Paul’s specs, is among the artifacts in Paul’s recording studio, […] (via)](http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/steelopus/162201953/1/tumblr_kobv8nOFKw1qzrzrr)
The world’s first eight-track recording machine, built by Ampex in the mid-1950s per Les Paul’s specs, is among the artifacts in Paul’s recording studio, […] (via)
Never forget.
No, seriously. Never forget this man.
I hope when Les gets to heaven he kicks Leo Fender square in the nuts.
GCPOYT. 1992. 12 years old.
Before there was Photoshop, there was manually cutting out pictures of yourself and sticky-tacking them onto pictures of Axl Rose.
