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"More than four years after federal agents first raided the Gibson Guitar factory in Nashville, the company is striking back with a new guitar featuring wood seized during those government raids.

The new Government Series II Les Paul guitar – produced in “government tan” color – features actual rosewood that was seized by the federal government during two raids in Nashville."

Some of you may recall my posts regarding this matter. Why is it so easy to harass a productive guitar company and not a parasitic racketeering TBTF bank.

WB7: If they ask: Can he play it? The answer is yes!

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Mon, 02/03/2014 - 20:58 | 4398256 Lumberjack
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Zildjian must be shitting their pants.... Where did the metal come from?

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 14:26 | 4396352 blindman
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Allman Brothers-'Please Call Home'-1970
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwoBAl6S0pU&list=RD1gDhR1R3S0s

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 15:16 | 4396639 Moon Pie
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Great call....here's one for Janet Yellen:  "Stand Back"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qme1iE5smc

Also, as a bonus-multiplier:  "Got No Shadow"(Banking) - Little Feat 1972.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTn0S21CxYI

 

Two of the most underrated bands ever, in my mind.  Even without Skydog. 

 

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 16:32 | 4397035 blindman
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The Allman Brothers - Old Friend
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjSHqy-mPxQ&list=RD1gDhR1R3S0s
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no shadow, i could really cry.

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 16:29 | 4397015 blindman
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no shadow, stand back !
Willy Deville - It's So Easy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y02pZKHFHaQ
.
Easy To Slip by Little Feat (1972)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAtYCDKWrvA
.
"do they really exist at all?"
musical question for the day.

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 15:18 | 4396660 chunga
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Turn for the Worst - The Bottle Rockets

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-n7vv2Av60

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 16:22 | 4396986 blindman
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nice and thanks, i love this song and it reminds me of
this question i have always had in the back of my mind.
why would people listen to the "blues" voluntarily and enjoy it?
here i speculate that there is a reason and it is because their/our
normal state of mind is even worse and less coherent than them blues,
there is a sweetness there.
that is, the culture that loves the blues is alienated by
itself and finds refuge there, in the blues, "my old friend, the blues",
steve earl.
and more.
here, the same tune from the record.
Turn For The Worse [LP Version]/LP Version
by The Bottle Rockets
http://grooveshark.com/#!/search/song?q=The+Bottle+Rockets+Turn+For+The+Worse
.
the vocal is clearer.
.
the thing is the voice of the people is, basically, law. all the voluntary
compliance that makes bullshit law appear to be law is nothing compared
to the voice of the people and refusal by the people to comply and
or demands of the people to act! of course the people must have providence
and principle at their side or behind them or they are doomed.
.
thanks again and best to ya!
.
Steve Earle - my old friend the blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdTvDQnCqrg
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bonus tracks ....
Muddy Waters Live, 1976
http://www.wwoz.org/blog/233472

Tue, 02/04/2014 - 11:17 | 4400067 chunga
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I've got the studio release and it does sound better. +1 on the Steve Earl...he's worked with Iris.

Iris is awesome. Here she is with Emmylou doing "Our Town".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghVAH_WX-9I

The Blues? I'm not sure but sometimes it gets me rowdy! Since I started teaching myself to play guitar I've got a new appreciation for musicians. Never mind the contortions with the hands (damned Barre chords lol) what goes on in the brain is incredible. I sat down with a buddy a while ago; he was playing his old Ibanez 12 string and singing. I had my strat going and man, it's not easy staying focused. Some day I'll get a new guitar but I've got to have the Bigsby vibrato. So far I can't get the growl out of the strat (P90 pickups) that Neil get's out of "Old Black".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB5bGDPJakE  - Down By The River Live (pretty easy to play actually)

Favorite Guitarist? Frank Zappa of course! (Nearly impossible to play...for me) 

Tue, 02/04/2014 - 18:41 | 4401839 blindman
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyVuHAskeUg
Humbuckers vs P90 Pickups
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thought you might appreciate this one.

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 13:21 | 4396117 Husk-Erzulie
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http://harmony.demont.net/jjcale.php

:-o  Hey now, guitar threads might be almost as fun as gold threads on ye olde ZH ...

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 13:49 | 4396222 williambanzai7
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There are many musicians on this site.

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 11:59 | 4395823 Miles Kendig
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Will, are you going to have a little fun and offer custom color options .. like the venerable seafoam green?

http://www.milspeccoating.com/Federal-Standard-595-Colors-s/41.htm

http://www.alternatewars.com/BBOW/Colors/US_Army_Combat_Colors.htm

Cheers

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 11:08 | 4395633 Lmo Mutton
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"hxxx shit man, I got to get me one of those!"

This is what I said. But then I saw that they are just plain tan. Wtfo??

I want one with all the graffiti.

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 11:35 | 4395741 williambanzai7
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I likethis one better than the tan model as well. This is more nefarious looking.

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 11:45 | 4395779 1100-TACTICAL-12
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I'd buy that but, " They did'nt build that "...

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 11:00 | 4395603 BGO
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"Why is it so easy to harass a productive guitar company and not a parasitic racketeering TBTF bank."

 

The owner of Gibson is a member of the tribe so any special priviledges tribe membership may have afforded him can be ruled out. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that Nashville has a towering bright shiny chrome statue of Nathan Beford prominently displayed near its city center. That, and the fact that Henry J apparently has trouble telling the truth. 

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 10:36 | 4395516 tip e. canoe
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"this guitar kills fascists" - woody

did they make an acoustic model?

rosewood resonates so wonderfully

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 09:51 | 4395394 shovelhead
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Needs an old school Bigsby bar for FED's 'truth-bending' in regards to the 'reasons' for the confiscations.

Are those custom wound 'bumfucker' PU's?

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 10:11 | 4395448 shovelhead
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BTW:

Nice touch with the 'Wish You Were Here' dirty deal handshake.

Kind of sums the story up.

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 10:03 | 4395439 Eahudimac
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Bumfucker PUs. LOL

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 10:12 | 4395453 williambanzai7
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Taser Machine Heads and a GW Bridge.

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 09:56 | 4395424 cro_maat
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WB - Does the Illuminti knob dial up more darkness or send signals to the Fed to print moar.

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 09:39 | 4395383 blindman
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did dylan really do a chrysler commercial
for the super toke? or did i dream that?
(they make the beer and the watches,
we make your car damn it?) .
new / old global orders coming in /thru.
anyway, it was probably a clone or
a robot

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 12:22 | 4395909 SamAdams
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Right on, the beacon of the free world was playing loud on all commercials. Must have felt a need for reinforcement.

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 09:34 | 4395374 blindman
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that is a nice package there wb7.
seems like gibson made the perfect
template for an artist to some
visual and sonic combat.
.
we the sheeple signature
seizure model, well done!

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 08:38 | 4395317 toadold
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I couldn't get anyone interested in my "Krugman"  electric guitar. No matter how you fingered it, it would only produce one note at max volume. 

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 09:37 | 4395382 Temporalist
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Krugman's amplifier does not go to 11 because that is clearly not high enough, although he won't say how high is high enough, so the knob (on the amp not Krugman) just has an infinity symbol.

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 12:38 | 4395957 Emergency Ward
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Krugman's amp goes loud enough to break windows.

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 10:07 | 4395443 Eahudimac
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Or the knob never stops twisting, until the speaker blows. 

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 08:01 | 4395277 caShOnlY
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From your statement in the Les Paul comment, I thought you were going to do an eagle with a drone in its talons.

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 08:21 | 4395295 williambanzai7
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I almost put a drone on this one but decided there should be a separate drone the Fed model

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 07:57 | 4395271 nmewn
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Love how you've accessorized it! ;-)

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 10:11 | 4395449 williambanzai7
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The difference between "OK that's yet another nice Les Paul" and "holy shit man, I got to get me one of those!"

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 02:07 | 4395031 dow jones 20000
Mon, 02/03/2014 - 03:20 | 4395090 Squid-puppets a...
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it has a built in device that electrocutes the user when 'Rage against the machine' riffs are played

Sun, 02/02/2014 - 23:59 | 4394848 ShakaZulu
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Alan Parsons Project

I am the eye in the sky
Looking at you
I can read your mind
I am the maker of rules
Dealing with fools
I can cheat you blind
And I don't need to see any more
To know that
I can read your mind, I can read your mind

Sun, 02/02/2014 - 23:19 | 4394781 williambanzai7
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In fact, if there is a luthier in the audience who wants to collaborate, please raise your hand.

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 09:22 | 4395359 kurt
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Hobby shops have transfer decal inkjet printable paper. Print them, spray with clear coat, water transfer. The only troublesome part is scaling the image so it prints as you intend. The eyes on the pearl inlays would have to be etched then darkened with a special preparation (to be durable).  You'd then clear coat the entire body but not the fretboard.

Dr. Banzai there are decal makers on ebay. There are people who make special cut vinyl transfer stick ons.

A whole set of stickers with your images would go viral like Andre the Giant... they'd certainly end up on thousands of guitars.

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 11:36 | 4395749 williambanzai7
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They can do evil eye fret markers. I have dice markers on my Gibsoin/Epi Flame Kat.

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 20:57 | 4398259 Late onset ADHD
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Ha... I knewed you was a player. sonic iconoclast, visual iconoclast... same thing.

 

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 10:37 | 4395525 tip e. canoe
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+1 for the stickers idea

been sayin that for years

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 11:37 | 4395752 williambanzai7
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But you have to put a finish over the decals in order for it to look right. 

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 14:09 | 4396284 cougar_w
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Sounds like a Banksy.

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 10:12 | 4395434 williambanzai7
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After I did this I thought to myself, man this would be very very hard to walk past in an instrument store. I know there are people out there who could do a first class job with this.

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 12:16 | 4395880 SamAdams
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"If they ask"... I hope they do as you are likely to draw many views to their site. However, the fact that they did not adorn with any dissent suggests they are laying low.

Nice design though and you are correct, many (ie Megadeath) would not pass this by without adding it to the stable.

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 01:00 | 4394910 Late onset ADHD
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wb7... I have a buddy in LA LA Land that is a player and a collector... just gave him a heads up over the phone. He's a big fan of your work, however I don't know if he is a lurker or has posting account. He may call me later when he sees this. I know he has a Les Paul or two laying around. Maybe it works out.

Best to have this done after market to an existing instrument... you wouldn't be able to explain this to Henry J. He wouldn't "get it"

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 08:28 | 4395303 Uncle Remus
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Wait, he's named after a car?

 

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 01:32 | 4394987 williambanzai7
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It's a great theme for a guitar.

You are right, he probably would not get it.

But they have the story to go with it. Why not do something that really nails it. 

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 12:56 | 4396025 john39
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these guys would probably buy one:

http://youtu.be/BogCiu-luHM

"red hot bin laden"

Mon, 02/03/2014 - 15:07 | 4396590 TheGoldMyth
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Nice link john39
Heres mine, Maybe production of special Les Pauls will kick off some more muso's like this....

Flo Whites "Money Bomb"

 

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