Hot _Grits
Buttery Toneologist
Re: The Well XVIX: Hot Grits says it's too drunk to be this early...
Haha 3's, I knew you'd bring it...
-As a rule, I like stuff. I definitely like my stuff. Sometimes I like other people's stuff. Occasionally, other people let me touch their stuff. But it's best to ask first as not everyone wants you to touch their stuff.
-For me, it's the Kramer baretta with a maple fingerboard. That's the guitar I lusted after as a kid. JB in the bridge.
Cumin Gouda from the Puhoi cheese shop, about 45mins north of Auckland.
It appears to be very much alive, judging by the amount of dudes playing like that nowadays. I guess there's always going to be kids who want to play fast and accurate, yet not too adventurously, which is what i tend to hear when I hear young shred dudes. Shred guitar has kind of congealed into a fairly strict thing, whereas back in the 80s there was a real sense that the players were trying for new sounds and ways of playing. I'd really like to hear a new player come along and really play some cool, fluid stuff straight off the cuff, as all the stuff I hear is like someone charting a graph.
The Wangcaster takes a hell of a beating (pun intended)
I'm tending to go with the narhwhal, even though I don't actually know what one is. As fun as the Manowar tattoo would be for a month, it may possibly lose cultural significance over time...
On a weeknight at home? -one or two.
before going onstage -never more than four. Usually seven or eight is the 'too drunk to pluck' plateau for me.
After a gig, or out on the tiles: As many as desired. I never get fall-down blackout, vomity drunk, but I do tend to pile it on if I'm out in the great New Zealand tradition of binge drinking. These days it's mostly gigs where I do that, though. Gigging has ruined me a bit for being a punter at bars...
Well, my heavy rock band does have nicknames: each of us is named after the Sabbath album of our birthyear. Our drummer is 'The sabotage baby', our bass player is 'Mr technical ecstasy', the singer is 'the paranoid master of reality' and I'm 'Sutcliffe bloody Sutcliffe'.
In that band I'm also known as 'The Squirter'. In my other band I'm known as 'Vegas'.
For tracking with my band this week I'd love a really nice SG special with p90s.
For me personally in general, I'd love a red ES345 like Freddie King used to play.
If it was more a 'priceless, wildest dreams guitar' thing, I'd go for Ed's original frankenstein.
Wow! -I feel like my life has definitely been enriched by your sharing that. That is just out-of-god****-sight!
While we're on the topic, I'll see you and raise you with this:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Kcy3gwwxat4
-not surprisingly, that was the brainchild of an Australian.
-Luckily I don't have photographic evidence of what that term means to me. But let me suggest that as a rule, it's best not to mix a friday night out with large amounts of alcohol, Miles Davis' *****es Brew, a Liverpool FC scarf and a sexual asphyxiac visitor from out of town if you want your new Christian flatmate to not move out the following afternoon.
Haha 3's, I knew you'd bring it...
-As a rule, I like stuff. I definitely like my stuff. Sometimes I like other people's stuff. Occasionally, other people let me touch their stuff. But it's best to ask first as not everyone wants you to touch their stuff.
-For me, it's the Kramer baretta with a maple fingerboard. That's the guitar I lusted after as a kid. JB in the bridge.
Cumin Gouda from the Puhoi cheese shop, about 45mins north of Auckland.
It appears to be very much alive, judging by the amount of dudes playing like that nowadays. I guess there's always going to be kids who want to play fast and accurate, yet not too adventurously, which is what i tend to hear when I hear young shred dudes. Shred guitar has kind of congealed into a fairly strict thing, whereas back in the 80s there was a real sense that the players were trying for new sounds and ways of playing. I'd really like to hear a new player come along and really play some cool, fluid stuff straight off the cuff, as all the stuff I hear is like someone charting a graph.
The Wangcaster takes a hell of a beating (pun intended)
I'm tending to go with the narhwhal, even though I don't actually know what one is. As fun as the Manowar tattoo would be for a month, it may possibly lose cultural significance over time...
On a weeknight at home? -one or two.
before going onstage -never more than four. Usually seven or eight is the 'too drunk to pluck' plateau for me.
After a gig, or out on the tiles: As many as desired. I never get fall-down blackout, vomity drunk, but I do tend to pile it on if I'm out in the great New Zealand tradition of binge drinking. These days it's mostly gigs where I do that, though. Gigging has ruined me a bit for being a punter at bars...
Well, my heavy rock band does have nicknames: each of us is named after the Sabbath album of our birthyear. Our drummer is 'The sabotage baby', our bass player is 'Mr technical ecstasy', the singer is 'the paranoid master of reality' and I'm 'Sutcliffe bloody Sutcliffe'.
In that band I'm also known as 'The Squirter'. In my other band I'm known as 'Vegas'.
For tracking with my band this week I'd love a really nice SG special with p90s.
For me personally in general, I'd love a red ES345 like Freddie King used to play.
If it was more a 'priceless, wildest dreams guitar' thing, I'd go for Ed's original frankenstein.
Wow! -I feel like my life has definitely been enriched by your sharing that. That is just out-of-god****-sight!
While we're on the topic, I'll see you and raise you with this:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Kcy3gwwxat4
-not surprisingly, that was the brainchild of an Australian.
-Luckily I don't have photographic evidence of what that term means to me. But let me suggest that as a rule, it's best not to mix a friday night out with large amounts of alcohol, Miles Davis' *****es Brew, a Liverpool FC scarf and a sexual asphyxiac visitor from out of town if you want your new Christian flatmate to not move out the following afternoon.
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