Disturber

Happy birthday!

One of the regretfully sold. This one had awesome tone, the only guitar with a JB in the bridge I had that sounded good. It was rather heavy and had a neck on the thin side, so I sold it. Stupid me. It was great.

Hamericas Vector. (I'm going to pay some japanese ninjas to snag it for me.) And Robins Zanders Hamer rickenbacker style guitar would be cool, or any of Rick Nielsens crazy creations.

I really like the original Wilkinson tele bridge. It's got great coupling as each saddle is screwed tightly to the basplate = better sustain. It works like a "sustainblock tele bridge" It might have a bit more oomph to it compared to a traditional tele bridge, not as thin and perhaps a tad less spank. But I'd say it's less ice picky and it works great for more modern tele sounds, great for slightly overdriven rock and a little warmer clean sounds. Just what I like. But If you are a traditional honky country tele picker and want that thinner vintage clean tele sound - then a traditional design with brass sadles might sound different and more in that style. I don't chicken pick, so this is not what I'm after. My guess is that the reason Wilkinson does not produce these bridges anymore has more to do with the fact that people choose with their eyes and not with their ears when they buy eqipment. The bottom line is that a more traditional design on their bridges sells more product - so they changed the design.

MINISTRY. Boy, did they put on a GREAT show. Iggy Pop - Blah Blah Blah tour. Damn the Iguana could be a full blown punk Sinatra in his heydays. The Cramps and The Red Hot Chilipeppers - Seing Lux Interiours and Fleas dicks on stage was entertaining, in a weird kinda way. Not pretty sure I want to do it again though. The Jesus & Mary Chain - just a few gigs before they broke up. Fists were in the air, never felt such tension on stag. Faith No More - Last tour with that ugly bearded guitarplayer. Insults were flying on stage, fists in the air. The The Jesus & Mary Chain and Faith No More shows were, so to speak, entertaining in a way they probably were not supposed to be. But anger and tension on stage can be pretty damn exiting to watch.

I guess mine will be the RAYGUN "lite". LOL! I remember watching the Thompson Twins w/ SS on Live Aid over & over just to see the guitar. It looked black on the VHS. Heres Thomson Twin at live aid w. Steve (comes in at the end)

Had one. Sold it. It's a heavy beast and the pots were noisy. Soundwise I could never really dial it in right, no matter what tube I threw in there.

I have a VHS tape with Phils last TV-interview ever. From Sky-channel, a Uk channel back in the mid 80's. It's a damn sorry sight to see, he´s got shades on the whole time and he's pretty swollen up. They talk about why his then new band Grand Slam could not get a record deal, and that Lizzy will probably get together again at some point. Sad stuff indeed...

Now I am scared. There are to many idiots out there, clearly.

You can always use a sharpie. Oh, never mind

Yes, another super talented Swedish guitarplayer. He is a bit more sophisticated than Yngive But it would be cool to hear them play a fuga on the same stage. My friend, who's a photographer, took some nice portraits of Göran a few years back.

Sending Viking healing chants your way. Going out to Adelsö - Birka territory, where the Vikings roamed, this weekend. Will send the Gods of Valhalla your way. Hang in there

Ice Cream Man? Sorry.No need to apologize. I'm cranking it right now and it sounds pretty f**kin' strong to me! Word. I've been listening to VH1 solid for the past month and a half. It never gets old. My tops are: 1. VH1 2. Fair Warning 3. VH II 4. Wimmin n' Chillun First 5. 1984 6. Diver Down Those are the only VH albums I'm aware of. Were there really others? I 2nd that order. And NO, there where no other real VH albums after that. Some of the guys however later made some 80's work out music with that guy Sammy. I think they made a shit load from it.

The only thing I have against PRS are that their designs are almost always butt ugly. 1) The shape of their headstocks look like ass. 2) The body design is comfortable, but to many Nu Metal guitarists used them in the 90-s. I don't see myself ever owning a guitar that is associated with Fred Durst. 3) Their neck heels (on the ones I've tried) have been huge compared to my Hamer´s, (which have the best neck heel design on the market). 4) They have birds on the fretboards. To me that is new age. I am not a new age guy. I am not even religious. But I think that is a big reason I don't like them. Birds, makes me laugh. If an inlays should be anything else than a dot or a block it should be a Toni Iomi upside down cross, dragons, Homer Simpsons face, Poes ass.. anything but birds and dolphins. New age sucks!!!

What you have done here is just fantastic!! I wish I had your talent in wood work. That guitar was not only saved from savage abuse, it now looks better than before

They are (still) a damn great band. And they've recorded som absolutely killer guitartones during their career. The King of goth! Back to silly bands with good names. How 'bout Carter the unstoppable sex machine (from the UK).

It looks like he is playing sinners swing with Van Halen, I could be wrong, but I doubt it

Hamer Standards are the most well balanced and comfortable guitars there is to play. I was surprised when I first tried one, they are quite different from the Gi*son Explorers, thicker body, better (smaller) neck joint, etc. I bought a Vector just before christmas and was really dissapointed at the feeling of a Vee. Really uncomfortable and neck heavy, it could not bond with the guitar at all. It was sad as it sounded great and had a super comfortable neck. But it had to go, vee's are not for me.

Newer Wilkisons briges can apparently be used as substitute, (use search function and search for Wilkinson to see if you can find out more). What is wrong with the bridge he has? Perhaps it's easy to fix? Personally I really like the original Wilkinson bridge on the T51's. It's got a great snap and tele bite to it as the saddles are screwed tight separarately, which gives great coupling that increases tone.

And some heroin, forgot about that. Both Phil and Scott had trouble with the sweet stuff.

Def Leppard - Work it Out - Slang Rush - Far Cry - Snakes and Arrows Bob Marley - Rastaman live up - Confrontation! ZZ Top - Alley Gator - Mescalero Jack Of Gill -Strawberry Gashes - Clear Hearts Grey Flowers Patchy_and_powerman - Sleng_Teng_AKA_Killing_Ting_Riddim-(Promo) - We Cant Stop Depeche Mode - Nothing - Music For The Masses Kiss - Within - Box set, disc five Gov't Mule - Trying not to fall - The Deepest End CD2 Chris Cornell - You Know My Name - James Bond Soundtrack Casion Royale

Live and Dangerous is a good place to start, as stated above. Other classic albums are Jailbreak, Bad reputation, Black Rose, Johnny the Fox etc. Their last album Thunder and Lightning is more of a heavy metal album than the bands other releases. It is harder and with more agressive guitarwork by John Sykes. It's very 80s. Personally I don't hold it as one of the bands best releases. Start with the albums above and if you like them work your way through the bands entire catalgue. For that classic Lizzy guitartone: Marshall amps, Les Paul guitars, a wah wah here and there. Scott Gorham played almost all guitars on the Bad Reputation album, one of the albums which has their best recorded guitartone put on tape (together with Live & Dangerous). He used a bunch of Marshall 2104 combos for the leads. He also used one combo live on stage together with some Marshall stacks, and the rythm guitars was played through the stacks, and the leads through the combo. That is how he got that open airy lead tone. Classic!

That is awesome! Love that headstock. BTW, a lot of people on the gear page whine about the normal Hamer headstock, I don't get it, I like that one too. rob The normal Hamer headstock is an awsome simple rock n roll design. It just cool. I think those who don't like it are into Celine Dion or something.

I found this one (the same that is laying on the pavement in CMatthes post) in Finland three, four years ago. I don't have a clue how it ended up there. It's a 24 fret archtoped Sunburst monster with Dan Armstrong headstock. I just recently got it back from my guitar tech and the set up is just killer, it sounds amazing. If you have any background info on this guitar from Sam Moss store please share! Did he call these ones electraglides as well? To describe the tone of this one I'll quote Jol when he speaks about the earthen maple guitars "..a jangly pop-rock or R&B machine!"