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”: […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Was chatting on Facebook about women feeling victimized by Barbie and unrealistic body images, crap like that. Victimized? By a piece of plastic? Talk about your first world problems! But then again, I would say that, because I kinda did look like Barbie when I was 18-20, in fact I […]
Well, I think I mentioned before about my dear Gibson ES-135 that I named Jeff (despite my jokey post about naming all of my guitars, it only stuck with this one). And that he needed a tuning head fixed or replaced and the same with his toggle switch. I’d been […]
Realized I’ve actually managed to do a shitload of writing in the last week or so. Now if only some of these chunks lined up into full songs. Oh well. Of course, the dumb thing is that I have one album fully written and two-thirds-finished in terms of recording, another […]
Forgot to post last week as I was getting organized for CiTR’s FunDrive and my show during it. Anyway, here’s a few tunes I’ve been listening to over the last couple weeks: Kill City Kids: “It’s A Baby”: I think I forgot to post this when it was released a […]
Kyria Abrahams on women who must draw attention to their womanliness in unrelated endeavors. Funny/bitchy sidenote #1: since taking up guitar and starting to hang around with hard rock dudes (and, to a lesser extent, hipsters), I almost never get the “OMG, you’re a girl and you do XYZ!” nonsense […]