My NFS Favourite Things

Here are a few of my favourite things.   Things I will probably never part with...unless of course, you tempt me with trade fodder that i cannot possibly resist :-)

Although, I have been selling off a great deal of my gear recently, I still have tons of old pedals, guitars and amps.

I traded my way into most of my stuff or i could never have afforded it.  In the band, I mostly used a fairly beat '65 SG Jr. with an old gibson humbucker routed into the front and the original P90 in the back which now belongs to Ron Posner (X-Con Ron) from legendary Hardcore band, MDC.  I also have a Yamaha SBG3000 (black w/gold metalflake) similar to Jake Burns from Stiff Little Fingers!!!, an Ibanez AS-200, a Tokai Tele, and a Custom-Made Hammertone (by the Guitar Clinic) Tele.  Last but not least, I have a great Washburn ES-335 copy which was my first guitar.  These particular guitars, prior to the headstock shape being changed were really good guitars.

I have a bunch of great custom-made instruments made by Todd Hawes.  He does lots of custom finish work and i try to buy everything of his that comes up for sale.   He makes killer stuff.  He redid an old yamaha semi-hollow that was trashed.   It turned out amazing. Todd makes guitars from scratch, but often takes bit and pieces of oldies and reconstructs them into really hip creations. 

I thought it was pretty cool of Z.Vex to offer these limited edition fuzz factory pedals in a auction with the proceeds benefiting families who lost loved ones in the Sept. 11 tragedy.  So, I bid as high as I could and crossed my fingers.  I was pretty glad to have won as it was a good way to contribute and I got a neat new toy as well.

Check out this killer rehousing of a MXR Sustainer pedal (Courtesy of my good bud, Ian from KWC and Snailface).  Spinal Tap Rulez!!!

...and another from the same culprit.  This time the MXR PreAmp pedal.