sergiodeblanc
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What kind of knucklehead would relic a guitar?
You don't have ANY mirrors in your house???
They age the nuts too! Do they make them look like saggy elbow skin!!There are actual companies out there you can send your sparkley new guitar to for aging. It's nuts.
You don't have ANY mirrors in your house???
God, you've seen me... why would I?
They age the nuts too! Do they make them look like saggy elbow skin!!
I largely agree with you for most cases & audiences.
My counter-experience (as a guitar-y person) was seeing G'n'R last week. Slash and Richard Fortus are both amazing (I would argue that Fortus is more technically sound - you could hear tight sweep picking from him at points). However, Slash's guitars mostly all looked roadworn to varying degrees where some of Fortus' custom-mades looked clearly relic'd (and in my mind 'try-hard'). While it didn't affect my appreciation of the music, I did make aesthetic judgements of the 'show'.
On a related note, Axl definitely looks the most relic'd of the band. Duff gets a little craggy, Slash doesn't seem to age much.
Is any of that aesthetic judgement based on your prior knowledge of slash's guitars? I'm not disagreeing with you I'm just playing the cynic to see if it changes anything: I mean, most people know that slash only uses the same les Pauls over and over. I've never heard of him playing anything but genuinely old stuff. Maybe some new ones from Gibson here and there but not relic'ed. Whereas fortus (never heard of him but just looked at a bunch of pictures) looks like he uses a ton of different guitars. Probably doesn't use anything enough to get a medium/heavy relic look.
Again, not disagreeing, just playing a little devil's advocate. If you didn't necessarily know the history of either guitarist/their guitars, would you be able to make that judgement?
Or just buy Ernie BallsIt only works if they’re very rusty/corroded. Leave ‘em outside for a few months, then sell ‘em at a premium.
All good, man.
I honestly didn't think about how old Slash's were. It was mostly just glaring with Fortus'.
Slash did seem to be playing a new, minty sig Firebird a little (see other places for commentary on if this is a cash grab by big G). Interestingly, his old BC Riches didn't seem too beat up.
I have never in my life gone without a screen protector and an iphone case
I have a case, but not a screen protector.
Living dangerously is a thrill a minute.
Just saw a music video of a kind of emo-inspired young "rapper" who recently passed away.
He had a relic'd iphone in the video haha. It definitely added to the rockstar, realistic, grungy feel of the video.
I have never in my life gone without a screen protector and an iphone case, I realize now that makes me kind of a f***in' type-A nerd. I had buddies who had cracked phones for years at a time.
update: the love interest in the video also has a relic'd phone
not me...What kind of knucklehead would relic a guitar?