Men at Work: “High Wire”: Woke up with this one in my head once or twice this week. Not sure if I’ve ever seen the video before, must have at some point. Guns n Roses: “Mama Kin”: Live at the Ritz in 1988. Latest song I’m working on in […]
Monthly Archives: April 2014
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![Georgia Satellites live [YouTube screenshot]](https://maqlu.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/georgiasatellitesliveblog.jpg)
No info on where and when this show took place, but the poster thinks it may have been at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark, 1988-ish.
Got the call yesterday that my ES-135 (Jeff) was now all better and ready for pickup from Rufus Guitar Shop, couldn’t get there yesterday so I popped by there today to get it. New frets are installed, and now it’s much easier to play, basically as easy on the action […]
Live at the Electric Ballroom in 1990. Sadly, only audio with still pictures, but it’s better than nothing. Kill City Dragons was the band Billy G. Bang was in before Shooting Gallery, one of Andy McCoy’s post-Hanoi Rocks projects. Their album Shooting Gallery remains one of my all-time favorites, probably […]
Tax day in Yankeeland. My condolences, guys. Try to remember today’s pain next time you go in to vote, eh? Anyway, here’s a few of the songs that have been banging around my brain and my iPod this week… Ramones: “I Wanna Be Sedated”: New York Dolls: “Bad Girl”: […]
Had a gut feeling that I would be calling this Gibson 1980 Les Paul Custom “Keith,” but I knew for sure once I got my hands on him. He’s alpine white but aged to a cream… Well, actually, he’s almost lemon yellow in parts, and alpine white only on his […]
Further to a thought I mentioned in passing at the end of yesterday’s post about the creep who was hanging around my car and tried to get in it when I came out late Friday night. Now, I have spoken to the police a couple times this morning in more […]
Checking my tracking information, and my new [to me anyway] 1980 Les Paul Custom shall be arriving some time tomorrow via FedEx. Pics and gushing when it does. The .5 would be that I’m supposed to get Jeff [my 1997 Gibson ES-135] back from the repair shop sometime this week […]
So last night I’m coming out to my car at 2:20am. I’m parked on a main street, half a block down the sidewalk from the door to the jam space. A few feet away from my car I see a guy leaned up in the doorway of another studio, doesn’t […]
![Velvet Revolver live [YouTube screenshot]](https://maqlu.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/vrliveblog.jpg)
Live at the Rock am Ring Festival, no year given but hey, not exactly a wide spread there as to when it could have been.
Well, first off, it’s apparently Izzy Stradlin’s birthday today. So, let’s start off with not one but two tracks from my favorite leggy brunet guitarist that I’ve never met: Izzy Stradlin: “Old Hat”: A little silly with some of the visuals, but hey, I’m much too lazy to make my […]
‘Twas a fairly lazy and unproductive day and night until the last hour, when I came up with 3 verses for a new song (loosely inspired by Johnny Thunders and other musical brunets). Then, in trying to figure out a chorus for that, I came up with an entirely different […]
Shortly after writing my previous rant about Barbie and Ken, I found a Ken-sized Gibson Les Paul Custom toy on eBay: Barbie seems more interested. Or at least she seems to be reaching for something other than Ken’s wallet this time. (Side note: I just bought a 1980 Les Paul […]
Johnny Thunders: “Little Bit of Whore”: Still on that Johnny Thunders kick, and was specifically giggling over this one with a friend of mine. Also cool that he takes his shots at the Kennedys, which in New York at that time was probably far more out there than when the […]