srsly

I got the urge to play again but found my old Ibanez RG220 was pretty badly damaged. I guess moisture got to it and rusted out a lot of the bridge hardware and apparently destroyed one of the pickups. It wasn’t worth the cost to repair it since I’m pretty sure I only paid $250-300 for it 10 years ago. Instead I went and found my sound. I thought that to get the early/mid-90s fuzz/crunch I needed an alder bodied, rosewood necked, Made In the USA Strat. Turns out that’s not the case, rather, it mostly isn’t. The one I found, and then a week later went back and got after trying out a handful of much more expensive alder/rosewood USA and Mexican made Strats turned out to be a basswood bodied, maple necked, made in Japan Strat. I didn’t like the way the rosewood fretboards felt and to be honest I really kind of did want a brighter sound from the guitar. It can easily be warmed up with an amp or other means. I’ve found the syllabus from a guitar class I took in college and I’m going back through it to get back in the swing of things. I have to say I missed it.