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I don't know what the hell happened to Gibson's finishes. The honeyburst used to be a nice golden brown, now it's a washed out pinkish orange? And the last time I saw a run of Nashville lemonbursts I wanted to puke: clear coat with a yellow burst. The fuck? Gibson saves their nice finishes for...

I have a 91 Standard, and it has a truly beautiful top, back and fingerboard. Not at all heavy and very resonant. It was a Yamano pick.

I'm of two minds. Sometimes I buy a guitar knowing what pickups I want in it, typically if I'm aiming at a specific theme - my newest acquisition, a black 70s Greco LP Standard was bought with the EMG 81/85 set in mind, because with the maple neck I was looking to nail a vintage Zakk vibe. In...

According to Ozzy, the lawsuit was about Tony owning Black Sabbath instead of it being split four ways between the original members. Ozzy's argument was that Tony was reduced to playing in clubs until the reunion in 1997, which dramatically improved the status and value of the brand. So...

They could have used it in the 2000s, Tony still owned the name and Ozzy didn't try to sue for it until after Dio had died. They changed the band name because they had just done six tours with the Ozzy lineup and didn't want fans to be confused. It was the right thing to do. Sabbath with Dio...

Man the contrast between the Dio songs and the Ozzy songs is crazy, he nailed his own stuff and straight up butchered Ozzy's tunes. Dropping all the Ozzy songs from the set when they reunited in the 2000s was the smartest thing they could've done.

I have Morley's 20/20 Wah Lock, it's the best of both worlds. Switchless wah action with a fixed wah on a footswitch.

Love Les Pauls. I own five of them. One Epiphone, one Edwards, one Bacchus, one Greco, one Gibson. The Gibson is the big boy of the group but it's a very special guitar. Do I love Gibson? I think they do some corny shit. And I'm a tinkerer, I don't mix great with high dollar gear.

Nailing down the Flying High solo right now.

I find their branding is pretty crap too (hilarious given how much emphasis Larry puts on his trademarked product names). Like, they offer the 36th Anniversary PAF, the PAF Pro, the PAF Master, the PAF 59 and the PAF 57. None of these names are indicative of what the differences between the...

Lucky for them Ozzy turned out to be a great frontman then.

Except no, the SOTD concert video is from the Diary of a Madman tour, featuring a set comprised mostly of Randy's songs. The SOTD album was recorded months later at the Ritz, a one-off pair of shows featuring only Sabbath songs, as a "fuck you" to Sabbath. The album was planned while Randy was...

I have three 81/85 sets, it's a classic for a reason. I also love their SA single coils. EMG's active tone controls are awesome too. I've got the SPC mid boost and AB220 volume boost in my Strat with Lace Sensor pickups, and I can get some seriously raunchy tones out of it. I dig EMG's...

The SOTD show that aired on MTV had nothing to do with the live album.

How about the real "lost" Ozzy tapes from that time? as compared to the final release