my axis and my esp

[shreder75]

 

[thindave]

... and your socks...



That's the classic Axis - I like it...

 

[Jimi D]

I love that Axis - it's just what an Axis should be!

The Lynch screaming skull ESP's a little too flash for me, but I bet it's a nice playing guitar...

Thanks for the pic!

 

[shreder75]

thindave--yes..my socks...like underwear, I always make sure to have a fresh pair of these puppies on =D

Jimi--well, I'm a bit of a lynch fan so I HAD to have it..heheh...it plays pretty good...not quite as easy on the fingers as the buttery axis neck, but I dig it...hard to beleive they're both the same scale neck actually!

 

[nobozos]

I saw Lynch at a guitar clinic at my local music store about three years ago. He was playing some wierd techno/industrial style **** he had been working on at the time. He was really cool though. He showed up for the clinic even though he had food poisoning and had the screaming ****s all day. Says alot about the guy in my opinion. He was playing an ESP, but I noticed it had a clamp thing on the headstock. I found out later that clamp thing was called a Fat Finger. It is supposed to add resonance and sustain to the guitar by adding mass to the headstock. According to physics, I guess it makes sense, but I couldn't fit one on the headstock of my Axis, so I scrapped the idea.

I expected Lynch to shred a bit more than he did. I don't know if it was because he was feeling under the weather or what, but his clinic wasn't really too impressive. He used a lot of trem gimmicks and pinch harmonics, but I didn't see a lot of real impressive licks. I remember walking out of there thinking, "What would he sound like on a Les Paul with no trem?" I didn't really think too much of it though, because he was such a cool guy to meet and talk to. Really down to earth.

 

[shreder75]

it's funny you should say that..I was thinking something along similar lines recently..

I've been listening to the lynch pilson album the past week or so...I really love the songs..but there's something about the lead playing that doesn't quite sit right with me

he doesn't seem to go for 'licks' anymore..it's alotta stacatto phrasing..single notes as I like to call it (no runs in other words or licks per sey), with a ton of harmonics...

I'm not saying a player shouldn't evolve or anything....that's not what I mean at all..but it's as if his style's totally changed..almost as if he doesn't knwo where to go with the leads...

make sense?

I saw Lynch at a guitar clinic at my local music store about three years ago. He was playing some wierd techno/industrial style **** he had been working on at the time. He was really cool though. He showed up for the clinic even though he had food poisoning and had the screaming ****s all day. Says alot about the guy in my opinion. He was playing an ESP, but I noticed it had a clamp thing on the headstock. I found out later that clamp thing was called a Fat Finger. It is supposed to add resonance and sustain to the guitar by adding mass to the headstock. According to physics, I guess it makes sense, but I couldn't fit one on the headstock of my Axis, so I scrapped the idea.

I expected Lynch to shred a bit more than he did. I don't know if it was because he was feeling under the weather or what, but his clinic wasn't really too impressive. He used a lot of trem gimmicks and pinch harmonics, but I didn't see a lot of real impressive licks. I remember walking out of there thinking, "What would he sound like on a Les Paul with no trem?" I didn't really think too much of it though, because he was such a cool guy to meet and talk to. Really down to earth.

 

[nobozos]

Yeah, that sounds right. I guess the analogy I would use is that it was like listening to someone play all of Van Halen's gimmick trem riffs and harmonic cliche's without any of the real meat. Instead of using those gimmicks between the shred, he was just using the gimmicks.

I don't know why he chose to play that way, I know what the guy can do, and he is just not playing up to his potential. It was almost like he was not even trying.

 

[shreder75]

the fact that you said he did alotta trem tricks..thta's just bizarre..he was NEVER one to use the trem very much..very very odd!

 

[SGMan88]

The Axis is classic...the ESP is out there. Great guitars!!!

 

[shreder75]

thanks SG! =)