So now what?

Since we're home from the road for awhile (forever, if we don't get a good tour soon...) I've decided to turn this into a blog about guitars and/or photography, whichever occurs on any given day.

In Canada I picked up a 1980s Japanese hollowbody, sort of a Gibson ES knockoff EXCEPT it is completely hollow instead of having a block running down the center. It sounds amazing, but it feeds back at anything above low volume. Apparently that is why Gibson made the first ES-335.

It plays great, has a rosewood neck and a Bigsby style bridge that somebody filled in with resin and a tiny metallic crest of a snake and the initials "WS". So far I've played it through three amps, and a little Princeton 12" sounded the best, turned up loud.

Trying it out in Detroit (before this show Jason nicknamed it "Kamikaze" for obvious reasons. He was on-point. I'm also wearing a hat.)


After my tuners exploded in Chicago I traded the cheap and awful Planet Waves tuner for another Boss TU-2. My last TU-2 exploded but at least it lasted a year.

I'm also thinking about a few other changes... namely swapping my 410 Deville for something like a 15" Deluxe or a 2x12" Dual Reverb, as well as finding a different overdrive pedal. Maybe the Ibanez Tube Screamer that everyone always talks about.

Experimenting is expensive!