Nick Valensi Signature Guitar

In an effort to have a website and not be a journal, i've decided it's going to have stuff that catches my interest, so today it's Nick Valensi's signature guitar. As most of you probably know Nick Valensi is a guitarist for The Strokes. His guitar is basically an Epiphone Riviera which he put single coil pickups in, which leads to a brighter tone, and apparently one great sounding guitar. His new guitar is of course made my Epiphone, part of the Elitist series of Epiphone guitars, which means:

1. Higher Price
2. Higher Quality

It's come in a natural finish and a vintage sunburst.
Here's an press release for the guitar with all the statistics.
Press Release
And here's a picture of the man playing it.


And a picture of the production guitar

Click on Guitar for Bigger Picture
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In other news, Interpol has decided on their current American tour to skip Detroit, sure I saw them in October, but eff that The D deserves the 'pol just as much as Chicago.

Still some good looking chaps though.

Tomorrow I might talk about the State of the Union Address, depending on the extent to which it pisses me off and how much of it I can tolerate. Anybody catch that democrat burn last year, where bush said "If we don't act then The Patriot Act will disolve" then all the Democrats started clapping, ohh man that one made me hoot. Not even The Daily Show had that one.