Here´s a video that demonstrates why the guitar world would be a lot simpler place if it wasn´t run by over-bearing gear nerds and elitist journos, such as ourselves.
Chris Pontius (of Jackass party-boy-fame) was at NAMM for some reason and Fender caught him on film delivering up various wisdom nuggets about their new custom shop Cabronita range.
For instance, (at 1.55) “If you play a pink guitar, you´re rarely gonna be sleeping alone. You´re rarely gonna be sleeping with the same girl.”
“He sings on all our stuff. You hear him on AC/DC, Bryan Adams, Shania’s stuff. He has the best voice in the room”: Phil Collen says Mutt Lange is an ace vocalist who can nail it in one take – and it’s the same with guitar
"I've been doing this since like the mid-'70s and I never showed anybody: Scott Gorham on revealing his hidden artistic talent and his new plans for the first Thin Lizzy song he ever wrote with Phil Lynott
Watch Marcus King turn in an intimate solo performance of Hero on the “Barn Burst” 1960 Gibson Les Paul Standard – a holy grail vintage guitar literally found in a barn
