Things I miss… (many pictures)
As pay day approaches and so I can afford to visit my hometown, see friends and family, grab a few things, like my guitars which I am missing with such intensity at the moment it is practically unbearable.
I got my first guitar when I was 17 for Christmas, it is a Squier Stratocaster by Fender in Sunburst. I still have it, though it has day glo pink strings on it at the moment because we were quirky back in the old band days. I got a few more guitars over the years including a Fender acoustic which Rosie knocked over and broke less than a day old, several hundred pounds down the pan there. There was a Les Paul copy, I bought myself the Jackson and made it all hardcore metaaaaaalllll!!!!
This was the first guitar I ever had!
Then this is the Jackson Superstrat with Inverted headstock and genuiiiiinnneee floyd rose trem. I added the lady decal. The guys at the guitar store thought it looked a beast, considering they spend their lives around guitars worth thousands, this was a very big compliment.
Then when I was 21 I was given some vouchers, quite a lot of money in vouchers and went to Manchester with Stevie and walked right into Dawsons and went, That one, and that case.
The Hagstrom Viking Deluxe and Gator Flight Case. You can buy 2nd hand cars for less than her, it’s not the most flattering picture of her but she is made of flamed maple… flamed maple, it’s literally all I have ever wanted in a guitar. The neck is hard maple too, it’s topped with an ebony fretboard inlaid with pearl. Literally everything I really wanted.
She is hollowbodied too for that sexy tonal depth. If you sit her on your knee and strum, she resonates against you, it tingles. She may be as wide as a barn door but look at the curves. You get her sitting just right and start playing and you won’t need a rampant rabbit! This guitar is sex! Plain and simple.
This is Stevie playing her in our old band room. I miss that old drum kit, we had two, because we were awesome! We also had 5 huge 100watt amps, a 1000watt PA system, keyboard, fridge, freezer, cooker, kitchen, toilets and meeting area all to ourselves. Situated 150 yards from University and 300 yards from Shauns parents house. Convenient! Stevie used to manage us.
This is Shaun who used to play lead guitar on the fretless bass, which was sexy. That thing weighed nothing and had a tone like kapoooowwww!
This is me trying to sing, since I was the vocalist and rhythm guitarist. I used to write all the instruments and lyrics. Then pitch it to the guys and girl, we had a few drummers like Spinal Tap haha which went me, Stevie, Katie, Danny and the Charlie.
This is Matty, he played Bass for us. What a guy!
Perhaps the most embarrassing piece of photoshop work ever!
I miss the band. I miss playing my guitars. I miss writing awful songs. They had the worst cheesiest titles in the history of ever! Heck, Shaun chose the band name, Deathly Hearts Of Glory. We drew from a hat, we’re lucky, the other choice was 5 string kramer with reverse headstock.
I wrote such classics as "Virginity In Fear" "Thirsting for the dark" "A raven amidst the angels" and "The Emo Song" about such relevant, real world, modern day topics like Countess Bathory and sex and emos. Granted the Emo song had people stopping me in the city center and asking for copies of it and such. I was invited to perform places.
I’ll hush you with a lullaby and put the world to sleep
An angel in the waking world, A devil in the sheets
A sinner with a day job, there is evil those eyes
And in your loins a temple to a host of drunken lies,
If I were praying at that altar would you dare to look my way
Whilst I commit blasphemies in those hips that hold such sway
If i were preaching false sermons just to drink truth from your cup
Would you take my words as gospel or would you even give a fuck?
That was some of A raven amidst the angels. It was about a girl who I knew who used to model for me. One day she came into the bar where I drank dressed in a UV fur bikini and handcuffed herself to me and said "You’re mine tonight" now most guys, having an alt model does this to you in front of your entire collection of friends would have been a dream come true. However, wanting to be remembered as the guy who had the chance to and didn’t sleep with "S" hoping I would earn her respect and that of my friends I made my excuses and left. Went to the cinema with AJ and Stevie. Then wrote a song about the sex I could of had and chatting women up etc. Interestingly Rob and I from my first band wrote a song about bar skanks called She’s gotta be clean, it was a 12 bar bluesy number!
She’s gotta be clean *riff* you know what I mean *riff*
I didn’t sleep with S and that night she met the guy who got her pregnant. She lives in Ireland now with her son. Awwww.
She’s just a girl that says that I am the one, but the kid is not my son…
I’m struggling to remember the Bathory lyrics, maybe i’ll post them some other time. Give you all a rest. I tried to do a video entry but as my ha
rd drive is failing the video and audio where completely out of sync and choppy so it was pointless. Completely.
On a plus though, I get to see Miro and the chaps on Saturday-Wednesday including a day in London and a football match, my third one ever! Wigan Vs Stoke which apparently is an important game as if Wigan win and Aston Villa lose then Wigan get out of the relegation zone with a handful of matches to go.
So I am very excited about that and feeling positive. Which is good as I usually only write when I am in a bad mood to clear my head so yeah, this is good.
I hope I get the job on Thursday. It would mean the world if I do and wouldn’t be the end of it if I didn’t. I just have to remember one simple thing.
(S)aint x