Like my buddy Lee Greenwood, I'm Proud to be an American!
Call me an idiot ... go ahead, everybody does, I can take
it. Or, maybe just maybe I’m a dad gum
optimist that still believes in the future of the American Dream. The missus and I just bought a new house, and
we haven’t even officially put the old one on the market yet, either. So, you see, we really are crazy! We’ve entered the dangerous territory of
officially owning two houses; by my count that’s one too many (anyone want a nice
house with a studio in the Nashville
area? I can hook ya up). The old place has a full-fledged commercial
recording studio, and it’s a very nice little house. The problem is that this place is all about
ME, the new house will be all about my wife, Kim. It’s time for her to get a little of what
makes her tick. I have a confession to
make, as much as I love my guitars, amps, microphones and so on, I love my wife
more. We’re expecting our second child
soon, and we’re gonna have a great life in the new place! Look out, I’m gonna quote Lee Greenwood now:
My main axe garners a lot of questions and
double-takes. I’ve begun referring to it
as my FrankenStrat. I’ve been inflicted
with the need to hot rod guitars since before I could grow hair under my
armpits. My first guitar surgery was
done in my middle-school days. Armed with a rusty old screw driver, a hammer, a
kitchen knife, and a two dollar Radio Shack soldering Iron, I proceeded to
install Dimarzio Super Distortion pickups (complete with phase reverse
switches) in me and my buddy David Ellefson’s cheapo Hondo strat-style
guitars. Some of you may know of Dave,
since he went on to co-found the metal band Megadeth, but that’s a story for
another day! I know I’m not alone; plenty
share in my affliction and have torn into perfectly good guitars only to do a
little tweaking under the hood. Let’s
talk about my 4 pickup frankenStrat...
WGS customers are a very cool bunch, and you have some seriously
cool and extremely varied taste in amps, too! Since we
launched this new website, and of course this exceedingly exquisite blog, we
have received a few really great questions concerning speaker choices. We really care about you, and we always endeavor
to provide the guidance you need as you maneuver down the path of your individual tone quest. Some of the questions are so
darn good that it would be a shame not to share them, in hopes that others of
you out there will benefit from being included in the conversation. So, here are a few email conversations I’ve
recently had with black-belt level tone-seekers. Okay, let’s get right to the good stuff.
