i have an old, much loved guitar (parker pm20) that i want to put eight (or at least seven) string gauge strings on and tune to something deadly like g standard or something.
I missed this! I always used to want a Parker Fly because you could switch to acoustic, but I love my battered and quirky Les Paul. It has 18 years
I can't wait till it gets to 40 and is even more battered and quirky. Each dent tells a story (of my clumsiness)!
I used to play with 8 gauge strings but I prefer super super heavy ones because it's a real effort to bend them. I don't like it when I can bend strings too much, it makes everything go noodly.
A pure noise album? Imma get all up in this. What's Rust Never Sleeps like? I've always liked the sound of the title but never took the plunge.
I've never heard it though (disclaimer)! Only the live album it was taken from, which was also good but very very long. Rust Never Sleeps is his response to punk. All of his albums have so much context. I am going to lecture now. So he was originally a 60s hippie troubadour, then did some early 70s barbarian / garage rock stuff and then had a big hit with another country/hippie troubadour thing. Then decided he didn't want to be famous and went off on a tour and releasing albums slagging off the hippie dream and the death of America. Then people started dying around him, so he recorded Tonight's the Night which the record company didn't want to release because it was too bleak. Zuma (the one you've got) was his "comeback" after that where he became a bit more accessible again. He had a couple of records in the mid 70s - late 70s (it was that time when 1/2 records a year was normal) which did OK but then after punk started he decided that all of the 70s rock dinosaurs were done for and out of touch...
...so Rust Never Sleeps is his response to that, it's dedicated to Johnny Rotten - one side is acoustic stuff where he reflects on his life, man, up to that point. The other side is really raw Neil Young-style barbarian rock. It's a great rekkid. Works best on vinyl, of course! Then it made him popular with the punks, so he decided to go off on one again and went off into new wave and a synth album which he recorded for his son who has cerebral palsy. His whole career is like that, it just goes from one place to another depending on what he feels like. Don't forget his 2009 concept album about electric cars! Or his tribute-to-Kurt Cobain album! (or of course) his supermassive album where Pearl Jam were his backing band.
Sorry. <3 Neil Young. When everyone was like "yeah, man, Dylan." "oo, man, yeah" I was just like HE MAKES BIG NOISE AAAHRUHGOAGHAERIP!!J!
Oh - and you've heard "Let's Impeach The President", right? about George Bush ? With a 100-piece choir?
