#guitargear — Public Fediverse posts
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Forget the fire and flames, Sweetwater just dropped an exclusive, stealthy Black Satin version of Herman Li’s PRS SE Chleo you won’t find anywhere else
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Ball-ends through the tuners? Meet the Steadfast Stopbar, the Les Paul tailpiece that strings your guitar backwards
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.guitarworld.com/gear/electric-guitars/steadfast-stopbar
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Just finished mapping this out. Singing Julie July by AJ EVERYDAY. The verses are catchy. Try this melody out. Play along:
https://chordyes.com/chord/aj-everyday-julie-july
#guitartone #guitargear #american #hiphop #storytelling #malevocalist #dark
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What happened to Syd Barrett’s Mirror Disc Telecaster? “Even if it were discovered today it would be very difficult to verify as actually being the Pink Floyd founder’s guitar”
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The surprising history of the first-ever signature guitars, from custom builds for teachers to high-profile artists
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.guitarworld.com/gear/guitars/the-history-of-signature-guitars
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Get Early Van Halen Tone Free with Eye Scream Man
Get early Van Halen tone free with Eye Scream Man, a new amp sim plugin by Glenn Fricker that captures EVH's legendary brown sound—no subscription
https://guitarbomb.com/blog/early-van-halen-tone-free-eye/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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Get Early Van Halen Tone Free with Eye Scream Man
Get early Van Halen tone free with Eye Scream Man, a new amp sim plugin by Glenn Fricker that captures EVH's legendary brown sound—no subscription
https://guitarbomb.com/blog/early-van-halen-tone-free-eye/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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Get Early Van Halen Tone Free with Eye Scream Man
Get early Van Halen tone free with Eye Scream Man, a new amp sim plugin by Glenn Fricker that captures EVH's legendary brown sound—no subscription
https://guitarbomb.com/blog/early-van-halen-tone-free-eye/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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Get Early Van Halen Tone Free with Eye Scream Man
Get early Van Halen tone free with Eye Scream Man, a new amp sim plugin by Glenn Fricker that captures EVH's legendary brown sound—no subscription
https://guitarbomb.com/blog/early-van-halen-tone-free-eye/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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Get Early Van Halen Tone Free with Eye Scream Man
Get early Van Halen tone free with Eye Scream Man, a new amp sim plugin by Glenn Fricker that captures EVH's legendary brown sound—no subscription
https://guitarbomb.com/blog/early-van-halen-tone-free-eye/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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Painted the pick guard for my husband's electric guitar to show our cat Danny, and his toy fish.
Primed with acrylic gesso, painted with Posca paint markers, sealed with glossy acrylic varnish. My husband has been playing on it for three weeks now and the painting looks perfect, so I expect it to be durable.
May be some of my proudest work to date!
#art #artistsOfMastodon #guitar #guitarGear #decoration #painting #markers #paintMarkers #AcrylicPainting
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Painted the pick guard for my husband's electric guitar to show our cat Danny, and his toy fish.
Primed with acrylic gesso, painted with Posca paint markers, sealed with glossy acrylic varnish. My husband has been playing on it for three weeks now and the painting looks perfect, so I expect it to be durable.
May be some of my proudest work to date!
#art #artistsOfMastodon #guitar #guitarGear #decoration #painting #markers #paintMarkers #AcrylicPainting
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Painted the pick guard for my husband's electric guitar to show our cat Danny, and his toy fish.
Primed with acrylic gesso, painted with Posca paint markers, sealed with glossy acrylic varnish. My husband has been playing on it for three weeks now and the painting looks perfect, so I expect it to be durable.
May be some of my proudest work to date!
#art #artistsOfMastodon #guitar #guitarGear #decoration #painting #markers #paintMarkers #AcrylicPainting
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Painted the pick guard for my husband's electric guitar to show our cat Danny, and his toy fish.
Primed with acrylic gesso, painted with Posca paint markers, sealed with glossy acrylic varnish. My husband has been playing on it for three weeks now and the painting looks perfect, so I expect it to be durable.
May be some of my proudest work to date!
#art #artistsOfMastodon #guitar #guitarGear #decoration #painting #markers #paintMarkers #AcrylicPainting
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Painted the pick guard for my husband's electric guitar to show our cat Danny, and his toy fish.
Primed with acrylic gesso, painted with Posca paint markers, sealed with glossy acrylic varnish. My husband has been playing on it for three weeks now and the painting looks perfect, so I expect it to be durable.
May be some of my proudest work to date!
#art #artistsOfMastodon #guitar #guitarGear #decoration #painting #markers #paintMarkers #AcrylicPainting
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Load NAM A2 on Strich Pipe Tones: Quick Guide
Load NAM A2 amp profiles on your Strich Pipe Tones in 4 steps.
https://guitarbomb.com/blog/load-nam-a2-strich-pipe-tones/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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Load NAM A2 on Strich Pipe Tones: Quick Guide
Load NAM A2 amp profiles on your Strich Pipe Tones in 4 steps.
https://guitarbomb.com/blog/load-nam-a2-strich-pipe-tones/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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Load NAM A2 on Strich Pipe Tones: Quick Guide
Load NAM A2 amp profiles on your Strich Pipe Tones in 4 steps.
https://guitarbomb.com/blog/load-nam-a2-strich-pipe-tones/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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Load NAM A2 on Strich Pipe Tones: Quick Guide
Load NAM A2 amp profiles on your Strich Pipe Tones in 4 steps.
https://guitarbomb.com/blog/load-nam-a2-strich-pipe-tones/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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BluGuitar AMPX Officially Launching at Guitar Summit 2026
BluGuitar AMPX officially launches September 2026 at Guitar Summit.
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BluGuitar AMPX Officially Launching at Guitar Summit 2026
BluGuitar AMPX officially launches September 2026 at Guitar Summit.
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BluGuitar AMPX Officially Launching at Guitar Summit 2026
BluGuitar AMPX officially launches September 2026 at Guitar Summit.
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BluGuitar AMPX Officially Launching at Guitar Summit 2026
BluGuitar AMPX officially launches September 2026 at Guitar Summit.
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BluGuitar AMPX Officially Launching at Guitar Summit 2026
BluGuitar AMPX officially launches September 2026 at Guitar Summit.
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My pick of the best guitar gear launched this week: a meet and greet with Billy Gibbons, the modeler we've all been waiting for, and a Butterscotch Blonde wristwatch
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.guitarworld.com/gear/guitar-world-gear-round-up-wc-aug-31-2026
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Blackstar BEAM App Adds Free Moises Stem Tech
Blackstar's BEAM app adds free Moises stem separation, letting you isolate guitar, mute vocals, and customize song mixes in real time.
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Blackstar BEAM App Adds Free Moises Stem Tech
Blackstar's BEAM app adds free Moises stem separation, letting you isolate guitar, mute vocals, and customize song mixes in real time.
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Blackstar BEAM App Adds Free Moises Stem Tech
Blackstar's BEAM app adds free Moises stem separation, letting you isolate guitar, mute vocals, and customize song mixes in real time.
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Blackstar BEAM App Adds Free Moises Stem Tech
Blackstar's BEAM app adds free Moises stem separation, letting you isolate guitar, mute vocals, and customize song mixes in real time.
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Turned out to be exactly what I wanted! Great sounding wah, clean or into gain, easy push to activate, nice bright LEDs. Can customize to tone down the resonant spike, and switch wah to a warmer freq range. Great taper in both wah and volume modes. Nice grippy surface, super solid build, lightweight. And does midi expression! Sleeper MVP pedal...
#GearSquad #guitar #GuitarEffects #GuitarPedals #GuitarGear https://fosstodon.org/@samvarma/116101043619755142
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https://www.gotorola.com/255078/ 【無料AI vs 実機】Neural Amp Modeler（NAM）は本物アンプをどこまで再現できる？ #AIAmp #AIModelling #AIアンプ #AIモデリング #AmpCapture #AmpSimulator #Entertainment #FreeAI #guitar #GuitarComparison #GuitarGear #GuitarTone #MetalRiff #NAM #NeuralAmpModeler #ProGuitarist #RealAmp #SoundComparison #アンプシミュレーター #エンタメ #ガチ比較 #ギター #ギター機材 #ギター比較 #キャプチャー #プロギタリスト #メタルリフ #佐々木久美 #実機アンプ #無料AI #音作り
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https://www.gotorola.com/255078/ 【無料AI vs 実機】Neural Amp Modeler（NAM）は本物アンプをどこまで再現できる？ #AIAmp #AIModelling #AIアンプ #AIモデリング #AmpCapture #AmpSimulator #Entertainment #FreeAI #guitar #GuitarComparison #GuitarGear #GuitarTone #MetalRiff #NAM #NeuralAmpModeler #ProGuitarist #RealAmp #SoundComparison #アンプシミュレーター #エンタメ #ガチ比較 #ギター #ギター機材 #ギター比較 #キャプチャー #プロギタリスト #メタルリフ #佐々木久美 #実機アンプ #無料AI #音作り
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https://www.gotorola.com/255078/ 【無料AI vs 実機】Neural Amp Modeler（NAM）は本物アンプをどこまで再現できる？ #AIAmp #AIModelling #AIアンプ #AIモデリング #AmpCapture #AmpSimulator #Entertainment #FreeAI #guitar #GuitarComparison #GuitarGear #GuitarTone #MetalRiff #NAM #NeuralAmpModeler #ProGuitarist #RealAmp #SoundComparison #アンプシミュレーター #エンタメ #ガチ比較 #ギター #ギター機材 #ギター比較 #キャプチャー #プロギタリスト #メタルリフ #佐々木久美 #実機アンプ #無料AI #音作り
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https://www.gotorola.com/255078/ 【無料AI vs 実機】Neural Amp Modeler（NAM）は本物アンプをどこまで再現できる？ #AIAmp #AIModelling #AIアンプ #AIモデリング #AmpCapture #AmpSimulator #Entertainment #FreeAI #guitar #GuitarComparison #GuitarGear #GuitarTone #MetalRiff #NAM #NeuralAmpModeler #ProGuitarist #RealAmp #SoundComparison #アンプシミュレーター #エンタメ #ガチ比較 #ギター #ギター機材 #ギター比較 #キャプチャー #プロギタリスト #メタルリフ #佐々木久美 #実機アンプ #無料AI #音作り
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Boss
When I was a kid and starting to become obsessed with guitar gear, there weren’t a lot of options around. My local music stores carried pedals from DoD and Boss for the most part. You could find occasional Ibanez, MXR, or Electro Harmonix pedals, but for the most part it was DoD and Boss. The few pedals I owned were DoD. Every time I took a Boss pedal for a test drive I was massively underwhelmed. Those music store visits back in the late 1980’s lead to a lifetime of not liking Boss gear. To this day I have never owned a Boss pedal because I have never played through one that I liked. The closest I’ve come is a Keeley pedal (the Super Phat Mod) which is a modified version of a Boss Blues Driver pedal. I like the Keeley pedal, but I don’t love it (unlike my Keeley D&M Drive which I absolutely adore).
I have never consciously boycotted Boss, I just never wanted anything they sold…
Until now.
A few years ago a couple of companies released super sophisticated amp load boxes. Universal Audio put out the Ox, which seems like the greatest thing since sliced bread. Unfortunately you can almost buy a car with the amount of money you need to shell out for an Ox.* Boss released a similar item called the Tube Amp Expander. The reviews I watched made the thing look pretty amazing, though maybe not quite as amazing as the Ox. The price was similar though and I never gave it a second thought.
Not long ago Boss released a new product. It’s a smaller version of the Tube Amp Expander. It’s called the Tube Amp Expander Core. It has all of the functionality I would want but at a much lower price. Granted, $700 is a ton of money for something like this (in my book, at least) and I don’t know if that price is before or after the orange shit clown’s Japanese tariffs. It is a low enough cost to make me consider it, but probably still too high to actually pull the trigger. It would be really cool to be able to run a direct signal out of my Fender Deluxe Reverb and into my Audio Interface, or even directly into my Macintosh.
…….it’s Boss though…. if I tried one out, history dictates that I would be disappointed. Still…….. oh the places I could go with a box like that. We’ll have to see how the economy holds up in the near future. There’s a really good chance the orange shit clown could collapse the whole country which would take the decision to blow $700 on a reactive load box out of my hands, you know?
Anyway, here’s a video that I can drool over as I watch it over and over again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyZYV6swW-c
*Slight exaggeration
#amplifiers #attenuator #boss #Guitar #GuitarGear #TubeAmp #tubeAmpExpander #tubeAmpExpanderCore
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Nothing to Say
I’m down to the final minutes of my lunch break on this fine Friday afternoon. I am pretty exhausted from a lack of sleep over the past… month(s) but I’m hanging in there. I had some Purdue Popcorn chicken and some peanuts and some sugar free Hershey bites for lunch. I really want a drink of water but I still have to wait the better part of an hour before I am clear to drink anything. That’s a gastric bypass patient thing. If you know, you know.
Fed Ex delivered a package today. I am not home to get it, but it contains a new guitar pedal. If I read the amazon shipping notes correctly, it’s a compressor pedal. The first I’ve ever purchased. I have this weird idea of using cleaner guitar sounds for this year’s RPM Challenge in February and a compressor will be a part of that. I bought an MXR Dyna Comp because it’s super simple and it will let me squash my clean signal down to a delightfully mushy… mush. There are two more pedals coming over the weekend. One is a Flanger, the other is an Amp Sim. I don’t have room on my pedal board for any of these kiddos and I don’t have open slots on my power brick… so I am going to need to get creative, I think. It should be fun. I don’t think I bought a single guitar pedal during all of 2024. I know I bought a couple of microphones for band practices that haven’t actually happened yet, but no pedals.
There are a lot of tentative plans for the weekend. We may be messing with our living room and we may be going to some stores for research purposes. I hope to spend some time wandering around town taking pictures with my new/possibly antique (though probably not) camera. I got a gift card for the sugar free bakery in Salem, NH for xmas. I haven’t bought anything from them in about a month, but now I am definitely going back and getting some cookies. Good stuff.
What else… I thought there was something else… One of our cars is going to get a break job. That wasn’t the thing that I am forgetting though… am I going to go shopping for a new iPhone? That’s definitely on the to-do list before we go to Florida at the end of the month, but is it this weekend? I don’t know.
I have to start practicing the guitar. The band is hoping to reconvene (hopefully for real this time) at some point after this weekend. I need to get ready for that. Which guitar should I bring to the first practice? Probably the Les Paul Standard that my wife got me for my 50th birthday in 2021. I really dig that guitar.
I know I had something else I wanted to write about but it has slipped my brain entirely. Don’t get old, kids. This is what happens to you when you get old. Stay young for as long as you can. Unless you’re already old like me in which case… sorry, folks. We had a good run, I’m sure.
#absentMinded #age #breakJob #breaks #Car #carMaintenance #carRepairs #food #Guitar #GuitarGear #GuitarPedals #homeDecore #homeDesign #homeImprovement #LivingRoom #livingRoomFurniture #lunch #Memory #Music #old #oldAge #plans #redesign #sometimers #toDoList #weekendPlans
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It has been a pretty quiet day at work today (JINX!) apart from my brief stomach rebellion. I have 32 minutes to go until I can punch out for the day. I am starting to day dream about the weekend a little.
Music. I recorded a vocal track for one song on Thursday. I have a couple more songs that could do with some car music vocals. I have to practice for Sunday’s band rehearsal as well. I have nine songs to brush up on. I don’t know if we have a working PA system or not, but I did pick up a replacement for my dead Shure SM58 microphone. If our old, dinky little PA still works I’ll take it for a test drive. My Vox AC15 amp is in the rehearsal room along with my great big use-with-the-band pedal board. It’ll be nice to visit with my sweet RYRA The Klone overdrive pedal again.
I suddenly find myself in the middle of a whole bunch of TV shows. The X-Files epic rewatch continues, and we’re in season seven which means the quality is taking a steady nose dive. Uh oh. Only a few episodes to go until we reach the two season mostly-Mulder-free stretch. Yikes. I have a new episode of Star Trek Discovery (Disco) to watch. I have a new episode of Manhunt to watch. I have 6-7 episodes of Fallout left. I’ve watched the first two. I didn’t expect it to be so… goofy. I never played the video game so I really didn’t know what to expect. Silliness was not on my menu though. I like the show so far even though I don’t really know what’s happening yet. I’m caught up on Star Wars The Bad Batch. There are only a few more episodes left and I am thinking about rewatching the whole final season. I don’t know. There’s so much else to watch. I’m in the middle of Ripley on Netflix too. It’s pretty twisted. I never read the book or saw the movie so this one is all new to me too. I am enjoying it in a sick and twisted kinda way.
What else is going on? I am hoping to spend some quality time hanging out with my wife, of course. That’s the best part of the weekend. She mentioned she’s going to have to work a lot, which is a bummer, but we’ll make time. I hope to cook for her now and then. Lunches and maybe dinners? We use one of those dinner delivery service things. You know, where they send you all of the ingredients and a recipe with (somewhat) detailed instructions and you prepare the meal yourself. We are supposed to get a delivery today. I like it best when we cook those together. I find that both less stressful and generally enjoyable. Mostly. Some of them are still stressful even when we gang up on them. Does everyone think they are stressful or is it just us?
I did not promise myself that I would avoid the sugar free bakery in Salem, NH this week… so when I go out to do errands… yeah, I am probably going to buy some cookies there. I can stop any time, really. I promise I can stop any time. Totally.
Okay. 20 minutes until quitting time. I haven’t had anything to eat in two hours and 56 minutes and my stomach is starting to ask me why it’s empty. Three hours is usually how long it takes for my stomach to wake up after a meal. We’re pretty much right on target. Here’s hoping I don’t mess up with my snack on the drive home. A repeat of The Foamies… in the car… yeah, that would be annoying. I keep a spit up cup in the car, though I have never used it. Here’s hoping we keep the streak alive!
TMI?
https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/04/12/friday-23/
#CoverBand #diet #Dinnerly #fallout #Family #gastricBypass #gastricBypassRecovery #gastricBypassSideEffects #Guitar #GuitarGear #Jen #lizardfish #loveOfMyLife #manhunt #mealPrep #Music #myWife #qualityTime #ripley #spouse #StarTrek #StarWars #sugarFreeBakery #Television #theFoamies #theXFiles #togetherTime #wife
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A few years ago I went on a journey down the guitar strings rabbit hole, looking for a new brand of strings to play. I eventually settled on one (Stringjoy) and have never looked back.
I think it’s time for a similar voyage, this time searching for new picks. Silly, right? Picks… those little tiny things. How can they make that much of a difference? Well, trust me… they make an epically huge difference.
I put a post on the /guitar subreddit today asking for suggestions. I’ve had over 20 responses in the last hour or so. So many ideas. So many things to try. So epically epic of a journey to undertake.
Bring it on, brothers and sisters!
https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/01/18/the-guitar-pick-journey/
#downTheRabbitHole #Guitar #guitarAccessories #GuitarGear #guitarPicks #guitarPlectrums #journey #picks #plectrum #rabbitHole #voyage
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I have two things I want to comment on that refer to members of Rush.
First, I watched the second episode of Are Bass Players Human Too this morning before work. It focused on Robert Trujillo of Metallica. I knew nothing about this guy as I’m not much of a metal fan, never mind a Metallica fan. I saw them in 1989 when Jason Newsted was their bass player. I guess Robert Trujillo played for Ozzy Osbourne back in the 90’s. I saw Ozzy in the 90’s but Geezer Butler was playing bass at that time. I guess I sort of missed him twice then? Not really.
Anyway, Robert Trujillo is the current owner of Jaco Pastorius’ Fender Jazz bass. The one he ripped the frets out of to turn it into a fretless bass (but what did he put into the gaps? How did that work?). Watching Geddy Lee play Jaco’s bass, even if just for a few seconds, was something that I did not realize I needed in my life. It was a quietly magical moment.
On a side note, Metallica’s bass player owns Jaco Pastorius’ bass, which to many is the holy grail of electric bass guitars, and Metallica’s guitar player, Kirk Hammett, owns Peter Green/Gary Moore’s 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard, which to many (including me*) is the holy grail of electric guitars. How did that happen? Does Metallica’s drummer own Keith Moon’s kit or anything? That would be too weird for my tiny brain to process.
Anyway, on to Alex Lifeson. I mentioned yesterday that Lerxst has released an overdrive pedal. It’s called By Tor. The first write up I read said that it had two channels that shared drive and tone controls. I don’t think that’s the case. I think one channel is just a volume boost and only has a level control. The other channel is an overdrive which has level, gain, and tone controls. That makes more sense.
Check out this demo from (the youtube legend) Andy from Reverb. I started watching this last night but had to shut it off before I finished. I’m posting it here so that I won’t forget to watch the rest of it later tonight.
*Peter Green’s Les Paul is probably my definition of The Guitar Holy Grail. The only guitar that might challenge for that tile would be Eric Clapton’s 1960 Les Paul Standard that is generally known as The Beano Burst. It was stolen in 1966 and has never resurfaced. I’m sure it’s out there somewhere, but unless some collector gives it back to Clapton we will probably never see it again. The reason it might not supersede Greeny is simply that I prefer the spec of a 1959 Les Paul Standard to the spec of a 1960. The neck is supposed to be thicker on 1959’s. By that logic I would probably prefer 1958’s to 1959’s as the neck is supposed to be even thicker on 1958’s. How’s that for cork sniffing? A little too much, maybe? Nope. It’s never too much.
https://robertjames1971.blog/2023/12/07/two-rush-items-to-note/
#AlexLifeson #areBassPlayersHumanToo #beano #beanoBurst #classicGuitars #geddyLee #GibsonLesPaul #gibsonLesPaulStandard #greeny #Guitar #GuitarGear #GuitarPedals #heavyMetal #legendaryGuitars #Lerxst #metal #metallica #mojotone #Music #overdrivePedals #Rock #Rush #thrash #thrashMetal #vintageGuitars