The smile of a good deal!

Take a good look at this mans face, (if you can get past the legs). That smile is the smile of some good deals. I can tell you that he was offered 100.000 Skr for one of his swirled Ibanez uv´s not long ago.

And he turned it down with that same smile.

Then you know you have done a good deal!

The photo is a bit old but he promised me some new ones, with that smile on his face!

Tanks Stefan for always making me geek out a little bit more than usual..

Ibanez uv 77 mc

I met a friend from Sthlm in town yesterday. We walked to the local music shop, and from out of nowhere he just bought the brand new Ibanez universe 77 multi color re issue. 100 made, 1 for Sweden and the price tag says about 8000 dollars.. And it will arrive in June!
Now thats the way to go. Just love it when people spend a lot of bread on guitars, it makes me feel i little more sane. He´s a great guy and has got a wicked, and then i mean WICKED collection of Ibanez Uv guitars. About 20 Swirled and maybe 20 more. And thats just the 7 stringed Vai guitars. For the regulars, I wont even go there...

And check this...

I found this in town today

Actually three of them! Only 86 made for the entire world. The local music shop. M.U.G have Nr 50, 73 and 78. Nr 78 had the most stunning birds eye i have ever seen. Almost too much. These photos are from the web. The ones at M.U.G had even more birds eye. If you have the chance, check them out at the FUZZ guitar show in Gothenburg this weekend. I will be there.

And thats it!

Sold my last Gibson the other day. It was a nice custom shop guitar but i never really fell in love. Like it is with new Gibsons in my world. Not even a custom shop Gibson made it thru and into my heart!
Now you must understand that i say this because i really think they put out garbage. You see, i know these things. I have probably owned around 25-30 different ones since i started. Great guitars some of them. Let me tell you:
My 1959 les paul junior double cutaway was a monster of tone. Miss it much and sold it for 14000 skr and thats stupid but i needed the money at the time.
My Firebird is great, it´s from early 90´s. (Sorry forgot this one, i do still have a Gibson after all.)
All les paul classics (about 10) have been good guitars. But not perfect. All 335´s been horrible, just one have had something to deliver. It was from ´66.
See a pattern?

So try this one for size, The best guitar i have ever owned, played, tone, feeling, everything, was my old Tom Murphy Les paul ´59 copy that he made when he did not work for Gibson. He made 3 total. I had the one Noel Gallagher used on stage with The Who at Royal Albert hall.
Now thats a Les Paul.
This only my opinion so dont take it to seriously.
If you wanna see some weird and wonderful guitars, and some from my collection. check this.
       guitarz.blogspot.com/

Until we meet again.....

Appetite for destruction

From Ed..

This is from edroman.com

March 2010

Gibson Recently came out with The Slash"Appetite For Destruction Guitar" 

It struck me incredibly funny that Gibson actually attempted to copy a guitar that was originally a copy of a Gibson. Anyone who is even mildly aware of early Slash recordings knows that those guitars were not Les Paul's. In fact the first one & the three following were built by Max Baranella & Chris Derrig respectively.
These 2 Luthiers gained an underground following so incredible that used Max guitars are going for $15,000.00 when in fact there is nothing super special about them except that they use better woods & Components than Gibson .
Currently Used Japanese Navigators, Edward's, Burny's, Tokai's & Madores are selling for more than Gibsons.

There are currently at least 5 luthiers in the Los Angeles area that I personally know of that are building these guitars for prices exceeding $13,000.00. The really amazing thing is that people are actually buying them.
No wonder Gibson finally came out with the "Appetite For Destruction Guitar" .I am watching and waiting to see if even more people will fall for Gibson's latest marketing ploy.

Hamer blitz

My Hamer Blitz from 1983...

Another small step

Another small step in the right direction for my solo project. Hate to call it a "project" really. But it will work for now.
Good meeting the other day regarding  a possible sign with a major company. Same goes for the producer/engineer. And maybe even the studio for recording it the "real" way. have to wait and see there though.
But even if I get turned down at the end I will make this "project"  a reality anyway.
I would be very pleased to be playing for you guys again if I get the chance.
More songs have been written and they turned out great. I am happy to finally see the red line through some of the songs and it is starting to shape into an album. Sort of!
One thing I have to dig into is my vocals. It´s not easy, I´ll tell you!
But after all, I have been in the same band with the best of them all for ten years, and i would be stupid if i didn´t pick up anything from Jocke after all these years. And I am married to an equally great singer. So this would be of some help I suppose.
Well you tell me!
the Silv