English guitarist Guthrie Govan plays a 5 minute solo in the styles of 20 famous guitarists. And look, someone has added a picture of each of them. Don’t scroll down if you want to see if you can name them all. Guthrie’s playing is so good, you might be able to tell with your eyes closed.

Eric Johnson, James Taylor, Pete Townshend, The Edge, B.B. King, David Gilmour, Mark Knopfler, Albert Lee, Edward Van Halen, Al di Meola, Yngwie Malmsteen, Paul Gilbert, Zakk Wylde, Tom Morello, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Sonny Landreth, Jeff Beck, John Scofield, Jimi Hendrix.

Wow.

On a brighter note, some photos have been leaked of the latest version of the PedalBoard.

From top, left to right:

Boosta Grande, BOSS DD-6 delay, TubeScreamer, Pedal Power 2+, Swollen Pickle Fuzz

BOSS CH-1 chorus, TubeScreamer, Satriani Satchurator, BOSS TU-2 tuner,

Ernie Ball volume pedal, Carl Martin Octaswitch, Vai Bad Horsie 2 Wah.

It’s wired up with Planet Waves cables.

You can see the PedalBoard in action Wednesday, April 28th at 6:00 at Shores of Panama in Panama City, FL. AND Thursday, April 29th at Bullwinkle’s in Tallahassee, FL 11:00-2:00.

I wish I lived in the Washington owned by Petey Greene.
I hope all of SwaggerTooth Nation is just laying in wait for SwaggerTooth2.0 the REFRESH. It should be coming along anytime now. ST has gone through some lean months, we just need to power through the one year anniversary (which passed on March 6th).

Genius... staring you in the face.

Oh yeah, and be yourself.

3 minutes later, we see you.  “See Sam, I told you.  There he is.  Nothing to worry about.”  I could not have been more wrong.  What I somehow failed to realize was that you were actually handcuffed and that you had a 2-person police escort.  You were there to inform me that you had been arrested for possession of *******, they were taking you to jail to be booked, and you would be spending the night in jail.  After a brief and awkward conversation with the officers about how we could get you out the next morning, they took you away.  Sam and I were in a daze.  I was officially out of the musicial “zone” and we decided to head back to our campsite to collect our thoughts about what the hell just happened and to strategize a plan to get you out the next morning.  Naturally, we decided to “worry about it in the morning.”

The next morning, I must admit, is a blur.  After telling the story to Kegger (I don’t know where the hell he was the previous night) about how you were arrested, we did a lot of sitting and eating–not a lot of strategic planning.  Yeah, we kinda knew what we needed to do, but not really.  Finally, I called the jail:  “Ah yes, is Terry Logue there please?  Yes?  Can I talk to him?  No?  Hmm.  Well, what’s he up to?  Oh, he’s eating breakfast.  Aight, well let him know I called and that we’re getting the ball rolling for busting him out of there.  Thanks!”  What did I accomplish in that phone call?  Absolutely nothing.  We then decided the best way to bust you out was to just go to the jail.  Don’t know why we didn’t think of this earlier–It wasn’t like we were going to get anything accomplished from our campsite.  Once we got to the jail, it was a slow process to get you out, but we got it done.  You were free…from jail.

After a couple months of you declaring your life “over”, trying to hide this most arrest from your parents, and meetings with the best lawyer in town (shout out to Bill Davis!), you learned your fate:  Your case would be transferred to Leon County, and you would enter a “program” that basically would require you to be COMPLETELY sober for at least 1 year.  This was significant because honestly, I’m not sure if you had been COMPLETELYsober for more than 48 hours since your 18th birthday.  The good news was that once this program was completed, all charges would be dropped.  You started the program exactly 1 year ago today.

I can sit here and honestly say that there was never any doubt in my mind that you would be able to stay COMPLETELY sober for the entire year.  I know it was tough, and we were not always easy to hang out with while we drank (amongst other things) ourselves stupid, but you were always a good sport about it.  I’m proud of you, and I wish you the best of luck as we move forward into the next phase of our lives.  FREE BOBBLE!

Friday February 5th, the “gang” will be headed out on the town somewhere in Tallahassee, Florida to celebrate. Call or text someone in the know to find out the details of the plans.  Probably Clyde’s or Bullwinkles or Finnegan’s or something like that.

After two weeks of alcohol soaking, it’s really going down in Jacksonville Beach February 19 (Thribby’s 26th!) through February 21st.  You gotta be there to be cool.  Contact David “Dem David Dem” Gomez, secretary to Hans “Chicken” Martin Liburd, for information. Hopefully, by then Maggie will have it straight which weekend is which.

El Meester Note: Be sure to also give us your T-shirt sizes in the comments for the “FREE BOBBLE” shirts that we will be giving out on February 5th.  Seriously.  They’re the shit.

Here’s an article by ma boi that was written a few days after the attempted attack on an airplane on Christmas day, 2009.  I had meant to post this earlier, but I just get so busy around Jesus’ birthday.  VonChris, in my opinion, makes some great points about airplane (and, more importantly, airport) security.  I finished his book, God is Not Great, and found it to be awesome (and great).  I’m currently poking around in another of his titles, The Portable Atheist, which is a collection of essential readings for the nonbeliever by writers from Lucretius [De Rerum Natura] to Ayaan Hirsi Ali [How (and Why) I Became an Infidel], selected and introduced by Hitchens.  It’s a big one, but it should prove worthy.

Another point on the security issue: I saw a gentleman on TV making the point that if a terrorist sang “Mary Had a Little Lamb” before blowing up an airplane, the TSA would ban singing on airplanes.  But if I were a terrorist, I wouldn’t pay attention to the no-singing rule (or the no-getting-up rule or the no-explosives-on-planes rule).

Also worth mentioning is that I love the use of the word “expectorate”.

P.S. One more month.

I hope GangstaClaus got you what you wanted for Christmas.