About this years prize
Im not gonna lie- I had a bit of difficulty whenever I attempted to brainstorm ideas for this years guitar giveaway prize. The dull, persistent drone of grief was unrelenting as I lost a close family member over the summer, followed shortly by the unexpected loss of another amazing friend. I found myself feeling angry at the way life seems to take so much more than it gives as we get older.
One early October night in the midst of my funk, I stumbled into watching the end of the movie Pet Sematary. I got to thinking how I would totally lay my friends to rest at an ancient native burial ground that turns them into zombies. If we could all zombie hang and do hood rat zombie stuff, sign me up! Maybe they won't come back the same but if there's a slim chance that they won't eat my face, then I'd take it. I'd bury all sorts of shit at the Sematary- broken tools, pants that don't fit anymore, those salad tongs I love that are missing the rivet that holds them together, hell at least 4 or 5 guitars, my 401k...
And that's when it struck me- Im going to breathe life back into something that was cherished by someone who was important to me. So to honor the memory of my dear friend and irreplaceable Guitar Giveaway co-host Brent Hinds, I resurrected one of his all time favorite Bankers- The Walnut topped Leslie DC known as "Les Pissér" The guitar Brent proclaimed as his favorite double cutaway Junior style, with its extended stop tail position that provided plenty of room for him to rest his weary right hand whenever it got a break from pinching plucking and picking all those strings. After a few tour dates, the guitar fell victim to a careless backstage forklift operator who rammed his forklift through the side of the guitar case, smashing the delicate Korina neck inside. Brent was so upset when it happened, and the damage so bad that it was less of a hassle for me to make an entirely new guitar than to try and fix this one.
But that was then and this is now, and now I was in the mood to resurrect what was once considered gone forever. The old Leslie was snatched from guitar purgatory, and the broken neck was removed, measured, and recreated using the same quartersawn Korina and Sapodilla fretboard (literally the same piece of wood), and reattached to the all original body. All of the hardware and electronics were left entirely as is, with the same set of overwound Banker Bucker HO humbuckers and custom FUCKIN/TRUCKIN toggle surround. I even kept the mangled truss rod cover that was gouged by the forklift.
The end result was worth it, I instantly remembered why this guitar was so beloved, because it absolutely rips!
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