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Sloan wrote:man, i wish they would put neck binding on these things. would fucking rule.

robroe wrote: and me being a skater fag my whole life.

paul_ wrote:

Sloan wrote:man, i wish they would put neck binding on these things. would fucking rule.

+1

Wish they weren't so reluctant to bind reissue specials. Looks perfect.

paul_ wrote:I'd like to make it clear I wasn't knocking the guitar. After buying my Standard and playing it for 6 years I switched to a P90 Junior, which was like seeing the light, and now I have torturous dreams about SC Specials as a result and am pretty jealous, etc...

“So listen to this,� Sylvain says, launching into the Thunders yarn. “We were doing well and finally convinced our managers to give us a budget to buy new guitars for me and Johnny. They said, ‘Okay, Johnny Thunders — he’s the lead guitar player so he gets a bigger budget: $800. Sylvain is only the rhythm guitar player’ — which is bullshit, because I taught Johnny how to play guitar, but that’s another story — so I only get $300 for my budget.

“Because I only have $300 I get that Yellow TV model and Johnny buys a Black Beauty at Dan Armstrong’s. Fast forward a little. We have a rehearsal scheduled, and before anybody else gets there I go in with the TV Model and plug it into a Marshall combo and, since I was by myself, turned it way up. If there’s one thing I’ve discovered it’s that nothing sounds better than a Gibson plugged into a Marshall. So I’m playing power chords, Chuck Berry solos, Keith Richards leads, and it sounds amazing. Johnny walks in, takes one look at my guitar and says, ‘I’ll trade you right now!’ So that’s how I got the Black Beauty and he got the TV model that are on the cover of our second album, Too Much Too Soon. And from then on, that model was his guitar."

And, according to Sylvain, another trade he made, swapping Malcolm McLaren a white Les Paul Custom for a plane ticket to England, helped launch the Sex Pistols.

“This happened when then band was really down,� Sylvain relates. “We had no money again and half of us were junkies. Just before the band broke up, Malcolm, who I’d met through my interest in the rag business (i.e., the fashion world), became our personal manager. He was a friend and a big fan of the Dolls, and Malcolm and his girlfriend owned a clothes shop called SEX on King’s Road in London. He said that if I gave him my white Les Paul Custom — it sounded so beautiful; it was a ’73 or ’74 with P-90 pickups and it had a sticker of a pin-up girl on it, which I did with a lot of my guitars — he would mail me back a plane ticket and build a new band around me in England.

“Well, the ticket never came, but he did mail my mother — because he couldn’t find my address — a seven-page handwritten letter that’s now in the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame telling me he’d found this kid Johnny who hung out at his shop and couldn’t really sing but was better than Johansen so he could be the singer and all this stuff. Somehow, it never happened, and when I saw the Sex Pistols there was my white Les Paul with the pin-up sticker being played by Steve Jones. And that became his thing, the guitar with the pin-up girl — which was really my thing. But that’s the way things happen. It’s crazy sometimes.

westtexasred wrote:

paul_ wrote:I'd like to make it clear I wasn't knocking the guitar. After buying my Standard and playing it for 6 years I switched to a P90 Junior, which was like seeing the light, and now I have torturous dreams about SC Specials as a result and am pretty jealous, etc...

Thanks,I wasn't offended. I love Les Paul Specials and Juniors too. Some day I'd like to get a double cut Les Paul Junior in TV Yellow Like Johnny Thunders. My college roommate used to be Johnny's manager after he left the Dolls.

robroe wrote:why would you buy a gutiar played by some dude that is ripping off Deftones ?


i don't even like Deftones. they are a BMX band. and me being a skater fag my whole life hates BMX kids and thier shitty drop C bullshit deftones.