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A 12 Neck Guitar Yoshihiko Satoh you say?

May 11, 2010 By: Chris Category: Custom Made Guitars, Equipment, My Experiences, guitars 6 COMMENTS →

So we have a picture here of some guy playing a 12 neck guitar and one of the instrument in question sitting on a very custom made guitar stand. Yes you heard me correctly, a 12 neck guitar. Once I saw this thing I new that I had to do a post and show you right away.

12 neck guitar

As it turns out this is some of Yoshihiko Satoh’s conceptual artwork that was displayed and actually won the 2002 Kirin Art Award Grand Prix prize. It is really something to behold. The thing that got my mind going was that if you look really close to the guitar whammy/wammy bars in the top picture, all of them are not in the same position. Then if you focus your attention to the picture below, all of the tail pieces are not the same. This made me think that it’s real … or is it?

12 neck guitar on its stand

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Jim Dunlop’s new MAX GRIP Guitar Pick

May 07, 2010 By: Chris Category: Equipment No COMMENTS →

Jim Dunlop has just released the new MAX GRIP Standard and the MAX PICK Jazz III guitar pick. These two are something that I will definitely go out and pick up to take home for a test drive when practicing later today.

Jim Dunlop MAX GRIP standard guitar pick

Jim Dunlop MAX GRIP standard

I personally use the Jim Dunlop 1 mm Nylon Standard guitar pick when I play. I find that this pick is the only one that I can hold on to when I play, due to the fact that I tend to perspire a lot while preforming. While playing live at a bar in front of some spot lights, my fingers start sweating like a black dog laying out in the hot summer sun.

Jim Dunlop Max Grip Jazz III guitar pick

Jim Dunlop Max Grip Jazz III

At first glance MAX GRIP has a molded gripping surface that is carefully concocted to provide the guitarist an incomparable non-slip guitar pick surface. It looks like it’s made for all you speed pickers (I’m certainly not one of them) and hard strummers (that’s me) out there that demand extreme precision and stamina, without losing control of their pick. I remember one time performing with this guy and I lost my pick on stage when we were playing Whole Hearted by Extreme. It was both embarrassing and frustrating for me at that time so from then onwards, I use the Jim Jim Dunlop 1 mm Nylon Standard.

Has anyone out there checked this thing out? If you have one, would you recommend it to other players?

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A gift from a volunteer at work!

May 01, 2010 By: Chris Category: Equipment, General, Home and Lifestyle, My Experiences, The Neighborhood, guitars 2 COMMENTS →

I got a gift from a volunteer at work quite a while ago for Christmas present! She was cleaning out her house during a renovation at home and she didn’t know what to do with it, so she knew I’d get a kick out of it. It was a great gift and I just wanted to show you.

It’s a blow up guitar and I let some kids who are having difficulties coping when they wake up from an operation and it really works. At another time, she gave me a really neat pack of Guitar Picks for my birthday, she thought that I’d love it and I sure did!

funny blow up guitar

Thanx Connie!

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