Diabolus in Musica

Interesting article on the BBC about the Devil’s Interval, otherwise known as the tritone. It’s cool that Black Sabbath was mentioned, but come on, you have an article about the tritone and no mention of Hendrix’s Purple Haze?

Wagner’s music rocks, by the way, even if he was said to be an unpleasant individual.

New Love

Picked up this darling just a couple of days ago, courtesy the government of Singapore.

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Its an Ibanez SZ320. The photo fails to do it justice.

Posing it in front of my other treasure, the CD collection. Fell in love with the tone and feel when I tried it, was a no brainer. The intonation was just about perfect off the shelf, and I did not need to adjust the action. It has a set neck, string-though-body design, mahogany body and neck, rosewood fingerboard… and the bridge is a thing of beauty. Sustains forever. Aaaaaaa… you could go and have a bite and… aaaaaaaaa… you’d still be hearing that one.

Oh my ex-guitar, you have served me well, but your hardware is corroding, the frets are worn out, and your knobs and pickup toggle and other bits are falling off. And Marty Friedman endorses my new love. I’m sorry but it wasn’t even a contest…

Now all I need is an amp that goes up to eleven.

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This is my blog.

I am:

  • much too serious about music, a matter of life and death; or, as a friend puts it, the characters in High Fidelity reminds him of me
  • a geek. I tweak my PCs till they run just so, and spend time keeping my MAME collection up to date
  • somewhat socially dysfunctional
  • single

Ladies, the line starts to the left, no shoving.