Another Travis Bean make over.

original red finish.Travis bean TB500MM NAMM 2014 prototype

 

flush mount straplocks are possible on a hollow metal guitar after all.

wood refinished with a brass fiber resin mix , burnished to a lustre and aged with a patina to create a metal finish , paintwork done by goodwood finishing.

All breakdown, and reassembly, plus creative thinking for straplocks, and removal of red paint carried out by BoB http://rpguitars.co.uk/

2017, my shortest list yet.

pissed jeans- why love now, purple wax

melvins- atlantic set, limited to 33 handmade covers

cult of luna- mariner , yellow splatter

melvins - stag- haze edition, 122/200 red/blue

melvins/off/redd kross - 10" , 15/100 red/white wax

swans - great annihilator (crappy reissue)

bellringer- jettison, 49/79

hepa titus/teenage larvae- clear wax, rockyshell edition 13/96

dead -the trilogy box set 18/66

the unsemble - s/t

usa/mexico - laredo , green wax

hammerhead- new directionz white wax 112/200

battle of mice- all your sympathy gone

melvins - walk with love and death, pink/violet wax

qui-the bees 7"- oxblood wax

big biz- blacker holes- flexi 7"

dumb numbers- stranger ep olive/oxblood wax

qui with trevor dunn- purple wax

unsane - fix it 7" clear with black/red splatter, wrench cover

cherubs - heroin man- haze edition, yellow rear cover, clear wax with red/orange splatter

bash 17 comp 10" red/orange split wax 50/50 with black splatter

woven skull- they were pebbles 10"

melt banana / napalm death split 7"

 melvins solo lps set of 4 29/140

melvins love and death mackie edition 10/25

crystal fairy - s/t mackie tour edition 26/34 clear wax

dale crover- fickle finger of fate 430/500 black/red wax

liars- tfcf estuary angler edition  red wax

hey colossus- happy birthday

brutus - burst

made out of babies- the ruiner purple marbled wax

unsane- sterilize red wax

seawhores 4x7" poop 13/50

katastrophy wife- heart on 7"

shorty - fresh breath 10"

diamanda galas- all the way

pere ubu- 20 years in a montana missile silo

firewater- get off the cross trans purple wax

electric wizard- bloody wizard  clear wax

dead rider- crew licks

mark lanegan- gargoyle

 

2017, A man with a gig list

25-02-2017 - Oxford Wheatsheaf - Grub, Downard -I am the man with the sandwich. 

19-05-2017- Oxford Cellar - Brickwork Lizards - I am the Rambler with the sandwich. 

19-06-2017- London Barbican - Diamanda Galas - I am the man talking in the balcony, wishing he had bought front row seats when he had the chance!!!!

25-07-2017 - Oxford Wheatsheaf - Woven skull, gift of blindness - I am the man who has been Blinded to deaf. whatever that even means !!!!!!!!!!!!

18-05-2017 - Camden Unicorn- Poisonous cunt, jawless, DTA, kill bitches to dress foxes-
I am the man with the fake tits. 

12-09-2017- Hackney Round chapel - Blondie - I am the man who worked for 29 hours to pay for a pair of tickets for this show. 

09-10-2017 - Bristol exchange - Melvins, Redd Kross,- I am the man who is willing to admit that i dont like redd kross no matter how much street cred the melvins are giving them. (although weirdly i like Steve playing bass in melvins) 

30-11-2017- Camden dublin castle- pussycat and the dirty johnsons, stuntdriver, polly pik pocketz-
I am the man who knows the way, to BLOCKBUSTER   

  

Travis Bean #1141 gets a make-over

Paint work done by http://www.goodwoodfinishing.com/home/
Guitar fully stripped and reassembled complete with full set up and a lot of extra work to improve the quality of the fret board etc by BOB http://rpguitars.co.uk/

I'm getting better at staying in.

12/02/2016-hackney empire-the residents Is everybody ready for the picnic in the front row!!!

 13/04/2016- London Forum- Roky Erickson/young husband Roky doesn't seem to play guitar anymore, he pretends to, but there is no volume coming out of it, (this may be his manipulators at work). His backing band are sad uncharismatic losers who don't deserve to share a stage with him (I don't care if these people are his family or whatever). I would have much preferred to have seen Roky actually playing guitar solo with the volume up as no matter how bad that may or may not have been it would have been real. It may have even been as good as this 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeWZTrChY7A


18/04/16 - London Scala- Boredoms/ADSL camels
Ba ba ba ba a ba SUPERBASS

21/05/2016- Double dot bash - Reading- Hey colossus/shit and shine/woven skull/grey hairs/martin phone/moonbow/leaf library/the pawnbroker/the 12 hour foundation  The only festival willing to let OLD ERNiE perform in 2016, so therefore my personal favourite. 

17/06/2016- London Koko- Melvins - new bassist with shiny shoes adds a super camp element to the band. I think I liked it and laughed more than any previous melvins shows. they should keep this guy. 

30/06/2016 - Oxford Bully- Brickwork lizards/faith I branko  there is a member of faith i branko that looks just like an adult version of my niece. I remember nothing else about this night. 

02/08/2016 - Bristol Exchange- Dwarves/CJ Ramone/Maid of Ace

 02/09/2016- Oxford Wheatsheaf- Brickwork lizards - fast becoming one of the bands I have seen more than any other band. they must think I am a crazy stalker.

02/10/2016- Oxford wheatsheaf- Unman 

I prefer UNsane. 

13/10/2016 Islington assembly halls - swans not nearly as loud as last time I saw them.

Unman may have been louder!!!

07/11/2016 - London KoKO- Neurosis One member of this band has enough cool to carry the other four, can you guess which one it is?

   

07/12/2016 Oxford wheatsheaf- Volkenfunk/Deathsex Bloodbath

          Is there tomorrow? 

THERE'S NO TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Brown Glove -Clowning

Old Ernie - Clowning