Since my career started I have always been lucky to work with some great guitar companies. In 1990 I started to also work on some of my own designs.
In the year 2000 I told myself I was never gonna wear white socks again and if possible not play anymore guitars with shapes that looked like normal safe guitars or guitars that looked like versions of a Les Paul or a Strat.
So like many musicians when I was a kid I would dream about being able to get into this incredible trade show called Namm that was filed with amazing music equipment.
I first got in when I was about 19 and I bought a cool peddle board made by a guy named Jay Sessum and since that day I have been hooked!
Today I am designing some new versions of my signature Framus Idol Maker guitar at the Warwick Framus Custom Shop in Markneukirchen Germany. I am working this week with the co-designer of the Idol Maker and head of Framus and Warwick R & D Marcus Spangler.
I woke up this morning in Austin Texas thinking about a weird old song that was a pop hit called in the 80s called Jesse’s Girl by a guy named Rick Springfield.
I wasn’t really thinking about Rick OR the song but I was thinking about the amazing melodic rock solo on the song by the GREAT but not talked about guitar player Neil Giraldo. I heard Neil’s notes in my head and tried to picture where those notes were on the fret board….and a funny thing happened….I couldn’t picture where those notes were coming from.
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