so you know you're a fainboi when...

[311boogieman]

you know the drill. I have several to share


What's yours?



This is my 1970 MacGreggor 'air master'.

Common to the 'Carousel' line. Scale length = undetermined. 20 maybe. Frets are almost invisible like. You can play 3 to 13 string just adjust your picking. Tuning doesn't matter. I customized it based my idol. If you look closely you can see that I stripped the neck down diligently and then put some custom inlays on it. Then I carefully installed what luthiers refer to as 'the gum wrapper pickup'. Wicked. You can also see the standard 110 outlet platelet. Best bridge ever. I originally designed that based around Eddie's variac solution - but I never really plugged into that aspect.

Anyway, here you go. My mom and dad wanted me to join the tennis team. I obviously opted for something different. This is what kicked off my gear habit. And the cradle will rock!

ooops. I forgot to complete the drill: You know you're a fanboi when you make an air guitar based on Eddie Van Halen's Frankenstein.

 

[napalmdeath]

You know you're a fanboi when every other thread is about Jake E Lee. Personally, I don't get the hype. Never did anything for me. As far as Ozzy replacements, I much prefer Gus G.

 

[MrDowntown]

That racket might worth some coin...

anyways...

Whilst i don't have pics...
when in middle school/jr high maybe (about 7th/8th grade)....baseball practice, my bud (at that time) and I drew 6 lines/strings atop our right arms, in class, including "the nut" where the wrist bone pokes out...ya'know where i'm talking about, and fret wire. anyway, we'd stand in the outfield and practice fretting different chords, and progressions...barre chording the shit out Scorpion songs and Crue.. and imitating the distorted glory of what was the early years of hair metal i guess... 82-83ish Coach would rag our ass...make us run for goofing off and shit... god i miss those days sometimes.

 

[Racerxrated]

That's awesome....striping the racket..lol

My parents had me take tennis lessons too...hated it....ended up taking up golf as a teenager...that and football were my two sports growing up.

 

[MrDowntown]

...you still play golf Racer?

 

[nigelpkay]

In late 80’s high school, I had a black leather jacket with tassles, tight black pants, and white (!) leather boots in an effort to look like Yngwie! The rest of the getup was pretty typical 80’s metal look, but the white boots... haha, I wanted to look like him from the You Don’t Remember video. I got a lot of comments about them, usually good ones from girls lol but now looking back

 

[japetus]

...when you are still trying to go for "Eddie's tone" and spending thousands over the years, for a tone that he doesn't even use anymore.

 

[311boogieman]

Good stuff guys....keep 'em coming while I'm gone this weekend


Admittedly, my Frankyracket started its life as Paul Stanley's Iceman because he was my first rock idol if you will. I wanted to be him. Me any my buddies would jump around the living room each pretending to be a different character. Jumping off the couch doing windmills with that racket lol.

oh the days...

 

[Racerxrated]

...you still play golf Racer?

Not as much as I used to...I was competitive in HS and into college, and till I was 30...then life got too busy..

 

[rottingcorpse]

When you love both a favorite guitarist and cats.... Yeah,I ordered this.

https://www.khdkelectronics.com/product ... aranormal/

 

[romanianreaper]

You know you're a fanboy when you and your friend, both obsessed with Warren DeMartini in 1985, paint your country guitar with F-holes that you got as a 10 year old, into Warren's "Crossed Swords" guitar. LOL. Oh, and you start wearing eyeliner and shopping for scarves in the women's section because you want to look like him in the "You're in Love" video.

 

[stratjacket]

I was such an early Queensryche fanboi that when I finally got to see them in concert in around 1985, they could have come out on stage and took a big shit right in the middle and I would have been there screaming "Look at that form!! Arch in the back is perfect and everything!!"

 

[Emg77]

I was such an early Queensryche fanboi that when I finally got to see them in concert in around 1985, they could have come out on stage and took a big shit right in the middle and I would have been there screaming "Look at that form!! Arch in the back is perfect and everything!!"

Hilarious !

 

[skoora]

I was such an early Queensryche fanboi that when I finally got to see them in concert in around 1985, they could have come out on stage and took a big shit right in the middle and I would have been there screaming "Look at that form!! Arch in the back is perfect and everything!!"

Hilarious !

I hear from the fans though that shit's never been the same since Degarmo left.....

 

[stratjacket]

I was such an early Queensryche fanboi that when I finally got to see them in concert in around 1985, they could have come out on stage and took a big shit right in the middle and I would have been there screaming "Look at that form!! Arch in the back is perfect and everything!!"

Hilarious !

I hear from the fans though that shit's never been the same since Degarmo left.....

That’s so true.

 

[Fordman65]

you get the band's emblem below tattooed on your shoulder and defend their albums Load and Reload, clamming they're still the same band they were 20 years earlier

True Story.
Mind you I still really like those albums.

 

[romanianreaper]

you get the band's emblem below tattooed on your shoulder and defend their albums Load and Reload, clamming they're still the same band they were 20 years earlier

I actually like Reload but when Load came out, I thought I was going to end up in a straijacket ramming into the padded walls.

I still think a part of my soul is still there in my old house, at the location where I opened up the Load CD booklet and saw the pics of my band in fur coats, eyeliner, and short hair for the first time. If there was ever a time I was going to become both deaf and mute, it was after that moment. LOL

 

[311boogieman]

As some of you may have figured out I'm a pretty big fan of the band 311.

So you know you're a fanboi when...

 

[stratjacket]

As some of you may have figured out I'm a pretty big fan of the band 311.

So you know you're a fanboi when...

WOW, that's dedication. I saw them in concert about 7 or 8 years ago with The Offspring. Great show, cloud of smoke.

 

[romanianreaper]

As some of you may have figured out I'm a pretty big fan of the band 311.

So you know you're a fanboi when...

That is dedication man!! I was stationed in Omaha back in the 90s, and I remember how we were all proud something came out of there musically. Then Slipknot came out of Iowa next door.