Posts from May 2013

A guitar described as being "offset" refers to the guitar body and literally means the upper and lower halves of the body are offset from each other. With the and for example, you can see that the body "leans forward"; this is altogether different from the Stratocaster or Telecaster.

"Clacky pick" = the now-classic ("351" refers to the shape), although it doesn't have to be made by Fender specifically. The picks in the photo by the way are from the 1990s that a friend sent me, found at a flea market which is why they're all scratched up.

There are times when I butt heads with people online concerning guitar snobbery, mainly because I play and champion the cheap axes over the expensive ones. I have been told both by snotty kids and snobby adults to "play a real guitar" many, many times. Of course, they don't know I own not one but […]

Some stuff concerning music scenes and styles are timeless, while others get dated, stay dated and never return. One of those "never-return" eras is that oh-so brief period in the very-early 1990s where metal ruled the day. And the best example of this is the video of Nothing Else Matters by Metallica because it basically […]

Something I didn't even realize until just recently is after all this time, I own the two most popular guitar shapes in existence, that being the and the shapes. That doesn't mean anything, but it feels kinda cool. So anyway, here's how my 'yellow brigade' guitars have fared out.