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Sharp Dressed Man (and holy crap, this is the 100th post!)

(Donations this week have triggered this bonus post! Enjoy it, AND the Spin article will ALSO be coming soon!)
By the time I got home my hand was starting to throb and I wondered what exactly I’d done. OK: buy gloves, learn to drive, get health insurance.
I should have had the cab take me to [...]

Posted 13 August 2010 † daron § Daron's Guitar Chronicles ‡ Comments (8) ° Also tagged: ,

That’s The Way You Need It

We all came off stage half crazed, still high from the signing, still high from the playing and energy, and I felt like I didn’t want it to end. In some weird way, I felt safer lusting after Ziggy up there than I did in a hotel room or tour bus. I wanted the game [...]

Posted 27 May 2010 † daron § Daron's Guitar Chronicles ‡ Comments (4) ° Also tagged:

Madness: One Step Beyond

We both stumbled as I crossed the threshold and he fell at my feet while I slammed the door and stood with my back against it. Let it not have been anyone important who heard all that, I prayed, my head spinning from what I’d drunk earlier in the night, but it felt like something [...]

Posted 05 April 2010 † daron § Daron's Guitar Chronicles ‡ Comments (4) ° Also tagged: ,

Fall On Me

A van was waiting for us at LAX along with two guys to collect our luggage. With some reluctance I handed over the Ovation’s case. The majority of our gear had been shipped already, including the Strat and my newer electric, an Ibanez, but this one I didn’t trust to anyone, yet. Funny how I [...]

Posted 01 April 2010 † daron § Daron's Guitar Chronicles ‡ Comments (4) ° Also tagged: , , ,

You’re All I’ve Got Tonight

My butt was numb against the bench by the time a punk in blue combat boots took up a position across the street. I crossed to his side, and walked up next to him. There was probably some elaborate ritual we were supposed to go through, like in a bar but more complex. I didn’t [...]

Posted 03 February 2010 † daron § Daron's Guitar Chronicles ‡ Comments (5) ° Also tagged: