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Dead Moon. Poison Idea.

Beans, seasoned with salt I borrowed from a McDonalds. Still living the dream...

Bill Bailey - "Love song". Natch, you should buy the dvd before you Youtube it! If you haven't - Youtube it. You will. God, I love Bill. Some of the UK folks on here may remember him as "Manny" from "Black Books".

Today: Guns N' Roses - My Michelle. Check out the "how to play..." vid on Youtube. What Izzy does on the intro isn't rocket science, but I still went, how did you come up with that?! You were in your early twenties and on everything illicit on the planet. How did you even find the time...? Skinny Puppy - Love in vein. Very "uneven" band, but this one is Ogre and co distilled. Sixx A.M. - Pray for me. That's Ashba, right? Wonder who wrote the riff. Awesome. Pinch - unmixed taps. Wonderful player and person. Exceptionally well-endowed.

Personally I don't, or att least like to think I don't! I was thinking more of someone who buys his or her first guitar ever. Sure, they could download the manual... but not the truss rod wrench. Plus, it reflects badly on the brand if people get different stuff when they buy the guitar model, IMHO. Just my 2 cents.

I'm guessing many stores sell Epi's to people who buy one as their first guitar. So I guess some stores feel they can get away with it, and do. I understand the boxes take up space, but at least put the swag bags aside and hand them out with each guitar. No manual and no wrench is, IMHO, unacceptable.

Ghost - or Ghost B.C. to the Americans, for copyright reasons. Twin Gibby RDs, custom paint jobs (you can't really tell, though...). YouTube links: Ghost playing the Main Square Fest in France: (Thing I noticed: first time I watched this, when I saw Alpha handing over his RD to his tech at 06:05, I went "are you NUTS?!" You don't let a guitar like that out of your SIGHT!! ) Nameless Ghoul on his RD: Ghost covering Roky Erickson's "If you have ghosts" on Aussie TV: "Year Zero", promo video. Listen to the very basic but oh-so-effective solo at 02:55. You may have to rewind for reasons that will become clear, though: Great interview: Let's have one more live-in-the-studio-song. Listen to the RDs in the intro. That - right there - is why I love Gibsons: A little kid interviewing the same guy - pretty cool, actually!: Stoked on "Infestissumam" (believe you me - that album will be up there with the early Sabbath stuff on charts in 50 years' time), and looking forward to the new one.

My V, too, had that POWERFUL vanilla smell. I'm sad to say it's starting to go away. Gibson needs to look into making it a perfume. "For the sophisticated lady hoping to land a guy who won't leave the house two weeks after NGD, because he's busy smelling his guitar"