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#1691 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Gibson Introduces New Slash Signature Rossa Corsa Les Paul guitar » 703 weeks ago
Will probably sell in stores for about $1800
Msrps are always way high
#1692 Re: The Sunset Strip » The NINE INCH NAILS Thread » 703 weeks ago
Nice...some folks may get to see that nin/gnr tour they used to drool over
#1693 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Gibson Introduces New Slash Signature Rossa Corsa Les Paul guitar » 703 weeks ago
this is like the 5th or 6th different slash signature gibson guitar since 2008 
#1694 Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Gibson Introduces New Slash Signature Rossa Corsa Les Paul guitar » 703 weeks ago
- Neemo
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Gibson Introduces Slash Signature Rossa Corsa Les Paul New guitar is finished in Racing Red 03-May-13

Gibson says that the forthcoming Slash Signature Rossa Corsa Les Paul blends timeless specs with Slash-approved features and fine points all dressed in a brand new finish: Rossa Corsa--or "racing red." Gibson tells us that this luscious, deep-red transparent finish in hand-sprayed nitrocellulose lacquer beautifully shows off the guitar's Grade-AAA flamed maple top, while letting the tonewood breath to enhance a rich, deep, resonant tone. Commemorative details include a distinctive Slash graphic on the headstock, echoed in a silkscreen on the included black Gibson USA hardshell case. The guitar also features a pair of Seymour Duncan Slash Signature humbucking pickups, a TonePros Tune-o-matic bridge and stopbar tailpiece. Here's more details in Gibson's own words...
Body and Neck The Slash Signature Rossa Corsa Les Paul is built on a foundation of the same traditional tonewood combination that helped to make the Les Paul Standard legendary when it first arrived six decades ago. A carved solid Grade-AAA figured maple top lends bite and articulation to the sound, while a select mahogany back--treated with Gibson's traditional weight relief to increase playing comfort and enhance resonance--contributes superb warmth and depth. A solid, quarter-sawn mahogany neck is glued in and carved in the fast '60s SlimTaper profile that Slash prefers, and topped with a Grade-A rosewood fingerboard featuring 22 medium-jumbo frets and traditional trapezoid inlays. Both the body top and fingerboard are bound in vintage cream; to avoid concealing any of this luscious Rossa Corsa finish, the guitar carries no pickguard.
Pickups and Electronics Slash--always particular about pickup tone--has teamed up with Seymour Duncan™ to produce the Slash Signature® humbuckers to his precise requirements. These are made in the image of the hallowed Gibson PAF humbuckers of the late 1950s, with genuine Alnico II magnets, but with a few extra turns of wire for a richer, throatier tone in the neck position and plenty of crunch and wail in the bridge. They are wired in the traditional four-knob control complement with three-way selector switch, and include "orange drop" tone capacitors on the tone pots.
Hardware A high-quality TonePros™ set including a Tune-o-matic bridge and lightweight aluminum stopbar tailpiece ensure solid sustain and precise intonation, while a set of vintage-style tuners retains a traditional look at the headstock. Strap locks ensure that your Slash Signature Rossa Corsa Les Paul stays secure throughout the most rockin' performance you can throw at it.
Cases and Extras The Slash Signature Rossa Corsa Les Paul comes protected in a plush-lined Gibson USA hardshell case with black exterior and Slash artwork silkscreen. It includes an owner's manual and adjustment literature, and Gibson's Limited Lifetime Warranty, and 24/7/365 Customer Service.
Features
Mahogany body with carved solid grade-AAA maple top Mahogany neck with '60s SlimTaper profile Rosewood fingerboard with traditional trapezoid inlays Seymour Duncan™ pickups in the neck and bridge positions Orange drop tone capacitors Vintage-style tuners with 14:1 ratio
Pricing and Availability:
$2,665 msrp
#1695 Re: Guns N' Roses » Sweet Child O' Mine in a Johnson and Johson commerical. » 703 weeks ago
Would that have required some type of authorisation/licensing?
I dunno, isn't there some type of 30 second rule or something? In any case j&j is a massive company...I'm sure it would be a drop in the bucket for them
#1696 Re: Guns N' Roses » New Bumblefoot Interview » 703 weeks ago
Jo Schüftan of Horns Up Rocks! conducted an interview with GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal on the "black carpet" at the fifth annual Revolver Golden Gods awards on May 2 at Club Nokia in downtown Los Angeles, California. You can now watch the chat below.
Will the current version of GUNS N' ROSES ever make a new album? If Thal has any say in the matter, the answer is yes. Although the group has a few shows coming up, Thal told Rolling Stone that there is music ready to go for a follow-up to 2008's "Chinese Democracy". He explained, "There's a lot of stuff, it's just a question of all of us organizing. We're still doing shows, and I think once we clear our schedule and focus more on new music, it'll happen. We just have little things on the back burner, just waiting for the right time for us to organize and make something new out of it. Hopefully we can make more music — that's what it's about."
According to The Pulse Of Radio, Thal believes that the group's fans want to hear something new from GUNS too, saying, "They want new music, and we can do it. It's not that we're done. I'm not ready for that. We need to keep making music. We have a great band that's ready to do it and can do it well."
Any chances of a new album, of course, depend on frontman Axl Rose. It took Rose 13 years to finish "Chinese Democracy", burning through hundreds of thousands of dollars, multiple producers, every last remaining original member of the group and a few replacements before he was done.
The finished product got mixed reviews and was a relative flop, moving less than one million copies in the U.S.
But Rose remains an enigma. He has not spoken about making a new album in any of his rare interviews, still insists on going onstage late, and skipped out on GUNS' induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2012.
Keyboardist Dizzy Reed, not an original member of GUNS but a 20-year veteran of the group, told The Pulse Of Radio that unpredictability has always been part of being in the band. "The volatility is definitely still there, especially for me, because I've seen a lot," he said. "It keeps you on your toes for sure. I just show up every night as prepared as possible to do my job, and anything else that happens is out of my control. There's really no way to truly deal with that."
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More from bumble....he's saying new music when live commitments are done
#1697 Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » its so easy and other lies to be made into a movie » 703 weeks ago
- Neemo
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Duff McKagan’s 2011 autobiography, “It’s So Easy (And Other Lies)”, is being made into a full-length documentary feature film.
Written and directed by Christopher Duddy ("Cougar Club"), the documentary will feature exclusive rare archive footage of Duff’s early days with original Guns N’ Roses members Slash, Steven Adler, Izzy Stradlin and Axl Rose, as well as later members Gilby Clarke and Matt Sorum, and contemporaries Mike McCready (Pearl Jam), Krist Novoselic (Nirvana), Nikki Sixx (Motley Crue) and much more.
The project began production this past March by filming one of Duff's book readings at the Moore Theatre in Seattle, and recent performances with his bands Walking Papers and Loaded. The film will contain rare archive footage from Marc Canter, who filmed all the early footage of Guns N’ Roses behind the scenes and performances, as well as an ultimate collector's soundtrack for the fans.
The worldwide distribution rights for “It’s So Easy (And Other Lies)” have been picked up by Vision Films. No planned release schedule has been revealed at this time.
#1698 Re: The Garden » hamilton ontario man abducted selling truck online » 703 weeks ago
Police are seeking more suspects in the slaying of Tim Bosma, the Hamilton man who was the subject of an intense search after he went missing after taking two men on a road test in the truck he was selling.
Det. Sgt. Matt Kavanagh of the Hamilton police told a news conference Tuesday afternoon that Bosma's remains had been found and were “burned beyond recognition.”
Police say they believe he was killed on the night he disappeared, but did not yet know exactly how he died or where.
"I don't know the motive at this time," Kavanagh said.
Bosma, 32, from the Hamilton community of Ancaster, went missing more than a week ago after he accompanied two men on a test drive of the truck he had posted for sale on Kijiji. Now, police are zeroing in on a farm near Cambridge, Ont., that they believe is linked to Bosma's death and searching for a second vehicle that followed the truck on the test drive.
READ MORE: Tim Bosma dead, mourning begins At a press conference Tuesday afternoon, police said they intend to charge Dellen Millard, 27, of Toronto, with first-degree murder on Wednesday. Millard was initially charged with forcible confinement and theft over $5,000 after being arrested on Saturday.
Kavanagh wouldn't say if Millard is co-operating with police, and told reporters that police are still searching for at least two more suspects.
“Video evidence that we've now recovered shows that when Mr. Bosma's vehicle left his residence, there was a second vehicle following,” Kavanagh said. “We do not yet know how many people were in that second vehicle. Right now we're looking at at least three, possibly more.”
Kavanagh said police have not identified the other suspects, and that there is a concern for public safety.
“Certainly there is a fear of that,” Kavanagh said. “Look what he did the first time to Mr. Bosma. So yes, there is a fear. We're doing everything we can to identify this person and get him under arrest.”
Investigation shifts to Kitchener-Waterloo
The investigation is now focused on a farm near Cambridge, Ont., owned by the Millard family. The Hamilton police forensic unit has set up a large tent at the rear of the property. Police are bringing buckets of material, possibly soil, outside the tent where they are passing it through large sifting screens, like the type used in archeological digs.
Other officers continue to search the property on foot. The property is partially a plowed field, and partially a wooded, swampy area.
A neighbour who requested anonymity told CBC News he had given police a photograph of what he called an incinerator on a trailer that he saw on the site on Friday. He said the place where police have set up a tent is one of the locations where he saw the incinerator. Police were asked about the mobile incinerator but would not comment.
Kavanagh said officers are currently executing a search warrant at the Millard Air hangar in Kitchener-Waterloo. “There are several vehicles in there, as well as planes,” Kavanagh said. “I'm not sure what operation he's doing in there. We plan to call in experts from our auto squad to have a look at the vehicles in there.”
Kavanagh said 120 officers are working on the case on a daily basis. He had originally stated that the attack on Bosma was “targeted,” but Hamilton police later clarified that to mean Bosma's truck was targeted.
“I think it's a terrible crime and that's why there's so much media attention,” Kavanagh said. “This affects us all. It affects the entire community. It affects me as well.”
'Agony indescribable'
Bosma's family and friends, as well as those who did not know him but hoped for his safe return, have begun to grieve their loss. The administrators of a Facebook group posted this message Tuesday morning:
"The agony in this house is indescribable. There will be no further updates from this page. My prayers are with this wonderful family."
Peter Lowe, a family friend, spoke to media outside the family's rural Ancaster home just after noon today. "The family has no statement to make. We just ask that you [media] give us the same respect you did last week. It's tough."
Bosma attended Ancaster Christian Reformed Church, and the church pastor was with the family in their home this morning.
Jo-Anne Le Mare, administrative assistant at the church, said as she cried, "You can imagine how we're all feeling right now. The minister is with the family right now. And the church is supporting them."
Kavanagh was the Hamilton police officer who broke the news to Bosma's family.
“It was a very hard job to notify the family of a loved one, and I'm sorry for the Bosma family,” Kavanagh said.
“I have no idea what they're experiencing right now.”
#1699 Re: The Sunset Strip » goin to see alice in chains » 703 weeks ago
Show isn't til July....but yea I got my ticket waiting
Gonna see how close I can get to Jerry...watch some of his guitar trickery up close and personal
#1700 Re: Guns N' Roses » Axl/Slash Picture on Paradise City » 704 weeks ago
If u read the reckless road book it looks like la music scene was pretty incestuous back then...people were in and out of bands all the time...
