I like audio stuff. It's not a listening room it's my living room. I put on records on the turntables as soon I get home. Been buying records since a long time, before it was fashionable and expensive. Decades of buying makes a lot of records in the end. I bought a lot when it was cheap, 25...
It will take about 3 months to start getting the hang of it if you keep at it every day. I think you could get to reasonable speed within a year or two depending on your commitment. Zakk Wylde two-note per strings runs are still hard to play (for me) after years of practicing. The guy is really...
Good news is broken ribs is minor injury with no risk of serious consequences of any kind. Bad news is it's gonna hurt like hell for awhile and then it can (not always) hurt less but for a long time. Friend of mine broke ribs while biking and the last pain remains took three years to completely...
For info, I bought a trans-ebony (nice M2M finish) Axcess Custom for $4K two years ago in a store in Cali. It was a new model, advertised as used, I guess because they were selling below MAP price. $7.3K is almost double that !
The parking lot concert is totally awesome. Seen him live earlier this year, he's still incredible, no matter what the haters say. My favorite guitarist right now ! Of course, I like also Holdsworth, Greg Howe, Nuno, Malmsteen etc. but they are either dead or old or inactive. Zakk is still a...
Saw them live at the Melkweg in Amsterdam in 1997, high as a kite. One of my most metal memories. We were strolling aimlessly around the city center with my girlfriend, smoking doobies after doobies all afternoon when, by total chance, I saw a poster on a wall announcing the concert that very...
I think Gibson did some R8/R9/R0 with contoured neck heel about 10 years ago. I've seen some for sale on Reverb. No Floyd though.
That said, I've got an Access myself and it's my #1 right now.