I'm the Production Manager at the local Community Paper, the Upper Hutt Leader.
Nice and close to home. Pay's not fantastic, but there's perks that make it worthwhile.
To celebrate, Gini let me buy a new guitar to add to the stable.
I've been after a new acoustic for ages, and recently looked at both a Gretch Rancher Junior, and the one I bought, the Garrison AG-700. For those of you who know a bit about guitars, Garrison are a Canadian outfit favoured by James Taylor. They make a beautiful guitar range, and have recently brought out a new range, using all Canadian wood but assembled in China to reduce the manual labour cost. An interesting bit on the Garrison AG guitars - instead of the standard bracing of the soundboard assembly comprising multiple pieces of wood, they use the Griffiths Active Top Brace™, which is a one-piece glass-fibre unit which provides incredible stability to the soundboard, resulting in an increased volume, particular in the bass and middle frequencies. End result - the guitar is loud...
It's all inlaid with paua, and has a fully bound body and neck, and Gold-plated Grover 18-1 machine heads. I have Grovers on my Les Paul, and I swear by them.
Anyway those of you interested in acoustics should pop by and have a listen/play on this one - it's just great .
Oh - and Gini's happy I got a job too. Putting up with me at home for seven weeks ain't been easy for her...
And I to my motorcycle parked like the soul of the junkyard. Restored, a bicycle fleshed with power, and tore off. Up Highway 106 continually drunk on the wind in my mouth. Wringing the handlebar for speed, wild to be wreckage forever.
awesome! I wonder if i quit my job and started again someone would give me money to buy a guitar - any takers?
Ahh yes the G chord, normally, when in doubt, strum GCD in the right order! -dam boring tho, I hate when ppl rely completely on em. not that Im any good
Congratulations on the new job, Simon. That must come as a huge relief!
As for guitars -- evil music-making devices, them, that require dexterity, coordination and patience to master. All attributes that I lack in abundance. I admire all musicians greatly, irrespective of their ability.
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
W00t! Go Upper Hutt! Good on ya, man. Also high-five for the new guitar. I really need to get around to getting either an EX-260 or a Jackson JS30RR (Randy Rhoads). Both pretty mean axes...
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