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|July 27, 2016 | Found Images

Rat In The Skull

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|July 17, 2016 | Found Images

Fresh And Cold

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|July 17, 2016 | Found Images, Gear

I have a thing about Kid Congo Powers, who was a founding member of the Gun Club, played guitar in the Cramps, was in the Bad Seeds with Nick Cave for 10 years. Right place at the right time, always, that guy.Thinner

I was reading this interview today, where he says, “I have gone through my entire conscious life thinking I’m going to be killed because I’m gay”, which is a heavy-as-fuck statement, but not unfamiliar to anyone who is gay or who knows someone who is.Thinner

I also have a thing about Ibanez lawsuit guitars, which were the first halfway-decent electrical instruments I was able to touch with my own hands, because they were affordable enough that I knew a couple of kids who had one. These same guitars featured heavily on one of the very first “cool” records I ever got (the polka-dot-customized Rocket Roll flying V played by Bryan Gregory, Congo’s Cramps predecessor, on Songs The Lord Taught Us), and the first punk gig I ever went to, where another Rocket Roll was handled thoroughly by Hüsker Dü‘s Bob Mould – and if you want to know what that sounded like, here.Thinner

Anyway, here’s a photo from Congo’s tenure in the Cramps – he’s playing an Ibanez Destroyer Explorer copy (I don’t have the numbers, but in my experience these are less common than the flying V copies), which I assume is the same one played by Julien “Grindsnatch” Hechtlinger (Powers’ short-lived successor) in this clip from Urgh! A Music War.ThinnerKid Congo and Lux

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|July 12, 2016 | Found Images

The Last Known Roll of Kodak Film From 1888

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|July 11, 2016 | Video

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|July 7, 2016 | Found Images, Gear

My god, that’s pretty. More guitar porn here, if you’re so inclined.1958 Combo 850

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|July 5, 2016 | Found Images

KILL

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|July 2, 2016 | Found Images

Harry Callahan

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|July 2, 2016 | Found Images

Paul Kos - The Sound Of Ice Melting - 1970