So I have my new-to-me 1986 Gibson ES-175. It’s pretty damn sweet, and while I originally planned to get a black one—what can I say, I like everything to color-coordinate easily—I ended up with an alpine white one that’s pretty much identical to one once played by Izzy Stradlin. And […]
Monthly Archives: October 2013
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Obsessed with this track at the moment: Aerosmith – “Darkness”: Imperfectly perfect. Human music, not robot crap. So fucking sick of presets. Preset drums. Preset synth patches. Fuck your backing tracks too. Gimme music made for human ears by human beings. Give me something with a soul and emotion. Let […]
So, with the Guns N Roses love of my youth now coming back with a vengeance, and being that I live in the twilight zone, I’ve started having some interesting freak coincidences coming up. There’s the vintage 1980s Gibson ES-175, virtually identical to one of the many GnR guitars from […]
Noticed something I never noticed before tonight: in the shot of Izzy Stradlin from the cover of GNR Lies, he’s got his pick between his thumb and forefinger and his cigarette between the middle and ring fingers. Talk about efficiency, or at least 80% efficiency. (And at least it’s not […]