Hey, I haven't bought a BC Rich guitar in well over a year now, have seriously cut down on my hair spray habit, and the only hair-metal show I've attended all year was Vince Neil/Quiet Riot/Slaughter.
Hair metal shows? Not that many over the years, since I was raising the kidlets and doing the domestic thing during the heyday of the genre.
Other shows this year? Probably thirty - ranging from Clay Aiken to Bob Dylan to Three Days Grace to Ian Hunter to Staind and Nickelback. Goo Goo Dolls and Lifehouse are Sunday (Fluff needs a break after the floods this week, so she's coming up from Findlay tonight and wants to see the GGD - it's the least I can do). Velvet Revolver with Alice in Chains next week, and Donny Osmond and Frankie Valli in the first couple of weeks of September. It's been a pretty well-rounded year for me on the concert circuit.
I think I still have five BCRs, but I rarely play them anymore - 95% of the time, I'm using either my Strat (the Showmaster one, not the HM model) or my PRS. I bought a horrible Tele copy and I'm seriously considering making an exemption to my vow to never smash a guitar, because the garbage is the only thing it's fit for.
I have a serious case of lust going for an Alvarez twelve-string, but the budget just isn't allowing it. *sigh*
I meant hair metal shows this year ... it could be that you hit 100% of them ...
My arsenal has gotten kinda silly.
Acoustics The stage instruments Tak dreadnought Seagull Parlor Fender 12
The stay at home/studio instruments Martin DM (currently retired while it gets some problems solved) Quatro 10 string Pink Flying V Uke A cheapo mando An ancient Harmony archtop that is currently unplayable
Electrics Two Squier Teles, one with two single coils and one with a humbucker in the front and a single coil in the back Squier P-Bass custom A Rick 12 on loan which I have to give back dammit
Nah, this is Detroit. There will always be an audience for hair metal here.
I feel your pain on the Rick 12. I borrowed one back in the very early Eighties, and it had an unbelievable neck on it. I've yet to play another one like it, and like you, I hated having to return it to its owner.
I swore that I wouldn't buy any more guitars this year, and so far, I've kept that vow - but I did pick up a Roland GR-33 guitar synth. I'm currently using a GK3 pickup on the PRS to control it, but I'm saving up for a Brian Moore with a MIDI interface built in. Pi has a Godin with pretty much the same MIDI arrangement, but I didn't like the neck much.
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Silly rabbit.
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I'm better now, thanks for asking.
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I just bought my second Tele ... it's got a humbucker up front ... sounds sweet in the middle position
And has for that being the only hair-metal show you have attended all year, how many others have there been ???
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Other shows this year? Probably thirty - ranging from Clay Aiken to Bob Dylan to Three Days Grace to Ian Hunter to Staind and Nickelback. Goo Goo Dolls and Lifehouse are Sunday (Fluff needs a break after the floods this week, so she's coming up from Findlay tonight and wants to see the GGD - it's the least I can do). Velvet Revolver with Alice in Chains next week, and Donny Osmond and Frankie Valli in the first couple of weeks of September. It's been a pretty well-rounded year for me on the concert circuit.
I think I still have five BCRs, but I rarely play them anymore - 95% of the time, I'm using either my Strat (the Showmaster one, not the HM model) or my PRS. I bought a horrible Tele copy and I'm seriously considering making an exemption to my vow to never smash a guitar, because the garbage is the only thing it's fit for.
I have a serious case of lust going for an Alvarez twelve-string, but the budget just isn't allowing it. *sigh*
Re: I'm better now, thanks for asking.
My arsenal has gotten kinda silly.
Acoustics
The stage instruments
Tak dreadnought
Seagull Parlor
Fender 12
The stay at home/studio instruments
Martin DM (currently retired while it gets some problems solved)
Quatro 10 string
Pink Flying V Uke
A cheapo mando
An ancient Harmony archtop that is currently unplayable
Electrics
Two Squier Teles, one with two single coils and one with a humbucker in the front and a single coil in the back
Squier P-Bass custom
A Rick 12 on loan which I have to give back dammit
Re: I'm better now, thanks for asking.
I feel your pain on the Rick 12. I borrowed one back in the very early Eighties, and it had an unbelievable neck on it. I've yet to play another one like it, and like you, I hated having to return it to its owner.
I swore that I wouldn't buy any more guitars this year, and so far, I've kept that vow - but I did pick up a Roland GR-33 guitar synth. I'm currently using a GK3 pickup on the PRS to control it, but I'm saving up for a Brian Moore with a MIDI interface built in. Pi has a Godin with pretty much the same MIDI arrangement, but I didn't like the neck much.