Sounds like a fun time, Taso.When I find out what band it was I'll let you all know. According to this the opening band was Peeping Tom. Never heard o...

That's a great idea.

I started learning pretty recently as well and also started learning chords with the goal of playing songs eventually. At first I had to take a lot of...

Guitar "setup" refers to adjusting various components of the guitar which affect the way it sounds and plays. Sometimes all that's needed is to change...

The Smashing Pumpkins have a lot of songs tuned in Eb. Especially songs from Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness.

There is a two part series of articles called The Quest for Tone (part 2 is here) that you might find helpful.

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Thanks for the comments everyone. So far I've just taken off the strings to give the guitar a good cleaning, polished the frets, and tightened the inp...

Carvin makes some really beautiful guitars. Someday I'd love to have one of the basses. They have an excellent satisfaction policy: try the guitar for...

for winamp I use PaceMaker as well. Simple to use and gets the job done.

Woodburst.com sells many types of colored stains. Maybe something they have will do what you're looking for.

It looks very nice. On my screen I can't quite make out the color. Are you planning on making any changes to the guitar?

I use a micro-fibre cloth - no water, no solvents, no polish. I use the same for my acoustic. For stubborn marks and finger prints, I'll breath on th...

Some of my favorite acoustic songs are from The Smashing Pumpkins: Spaceboy, Stumbeleine, Jupiter's Lament, Disarm...Alice In Chains have a bunch too,...