After more than three years of playing the guitar, I finally set up a decent pedal-board. I might sound super-noob to some, but I'm damn proud of it. Haha. Setup wise, it's pretty simple. It's just an Ibanez LU20 tuner to a Vox V847A Wah finally to a BOSS Blues Driver modded by Randolf. That blank space at the bottom left is reserved for something else, most probably a vibe pedal. I guess I've been listening to too much Hendrix.
That day I went over to Errik's house for him to mess around/test drive my setup I realized that there were annoying "pop" sounds when the tuner AND wah are switched on and off. daaang.
On the way home, I was standing up and was blocking some aunty's view from the TV Mobile screen. She became a real biggoty bitch and YELLED at me "SIAO TEE AH! WO YAO KAN TIAN SHE (kid, I want to watch the TV)."
Sure, I was blocking her from watching the OH SO AMAZING show Little Nonya. But for Pete's sake. Just tap my shoulder and tell me nicely. Basket, have to yell and create a scene and make me like a bad guy. Man, what a C-word... And by that, I mean crabby-old-lady.
So, being the nice guy I usually am (yeah, I said it, what what?) I went "aunty, relax, relax" and moved aside. But two to three stops down the road, Karma kicked in and a huge bunch of people boarded the bus and totally obscured her from the screen. Heh heh heh. Suck on that, bitch! That was a feeling unlike any other.
Anyways, in other news, I procured probably the most jaw dropping guitar ever in my collection: A Fender Deluxe Nashville Telecaster. It all started with a day out to help Sathish find a cheap and good capo. After we got that, we proceeded to Ranking Sports.
For almost half an hour, I couldn't test the damn guitar because the sales guy decided to give some guitar teacher was helping a bunch of kids and their mom select a good guitar priority. Basket... so we stand there like morons... But despite the pretty-much shitty customer service, it was fruitful in the end.
I always wanted a Telecaster since I played Kenneth's one a few years back. I wanted one even more last year because I wanted to do up a Telecaster project, so what I did was order a few parts such as the bridge and tuners from guitarfetish.com through Vincent. However, the procurement of the Body and Neck was a real pain. I contacted several distributors of Mighty Mite parts but they all turned a deaf ear on me. So I gave up my Tele project despite paying more than $100 for the parts... The bastards...
So what better way to make up for that by buying an off-the-shelf Fender Telecaster. There was one that really caught my eye on musiciansfriend.com called the Nashville Telecaster. It had three pickups instead of two and was available in a blonde-like shade similar to the legendary '52 Butterscotch Blonde Blackguard Tele... and one just happened to be hanging at Ranking Sports.
I seriously did not expect to buy my guitar that day. First off, the color was more orangey than blonde as the picture stated on the web. Next, I wasn't quite open to the three-pickup configuration. However, upon plugging in, that all changed my mind. Even through a cheap Smarvo amp, it sounded so good. Sathish too was like "woaah!" I put down $1004. $999 for the tele and $5 for a pack of D'addarios.
Now I might be $1000 poorer. But I think at the same time, I'm 1000 times happier. Heh heh heh.
