FJ-HRN-2965

B-Roll – Gibson – shots around party, the bar, the stage, some guitars, shots around party, Gibson amps, shots around party

Sound Bite: Ned Brower & Taylor Locke
Ned – I used to go with him to the old Gibson shop on Sunset. Apparently they moved 5 years ago so I’m out of the loop.
Taylor – Yeah I’ve been here to get a Firebird and to get a burst top Les Paul and you know Jack Cassidy bass.
Ned – You started him on guitars and he’s just going to talk about them all night. As he should.

Sound Bite: Ned Brower & Taylor Locke
Ned – I don’t know we’ve played, our band Rooney’s played everything from tiny places to stadiums and stuff. My favorite stuff is like a good sized theater or a big modern club with good sound. I think that’s where it sounds the best and where you can connect with the fans the best but it’s still comfortable.

Sound Bite: Ned Brower & Taylor Locke
Taylor – You know the thing with embracing technology is if it’s good technology then I think musicians in our business do embrace it and if it’s maybe a little wonky or prematurely or has issues then it can be very frustrating for somebody who’s trying to just uh carry on with the creative process and they don’t want these tools to hinder them. I have not physically played the Dark Fire yet, I don’t know if anyone has besides who was testing it, but I will say in terms of amp modeling and plugins and stuff available in the digital realm and Pro Tools. We’ve certainly embraced a lot of that, we’ve had a lot of fun and flexibility and uh it’s really all about great sound and a great workflow so those 2 things are happening then there’s gonna be a great product that musicians are going to gravitate towards.

Sound Bite: Ned Brower & Taylor Locke
Taylor – Well it’s our third record and uh we’ve managed to hang on to a fan base for a long time, there was a big gap between our first and second record where we were trying a bunch of different things and hopefully our audience is patient with us and it’s like Ned said we are blending a lot of influences. Our base core influences that we sort of inform everything we do, our classic melodic rock and roll stuff like British invasion, The Beatles, The Who, uh Yard Birds, Zombie, Queen, Electric Light Orchestra, all that. What I think uh recently we’ve been really opening ourselves up to like new funk and danceable rhythms and a lot of drum and bass oriented things and a lot of times it’s been a new writing tool of ours to start from the ground up, working to grooves and rhythms. At the end of the day it’s gonna be a lyric that’s catchy and emotional and storytelling and a melody that’s strong and catchy and gets stuck in people’s heads. Other than that everything else are just different flavors that we open ourselves up to so that every record can be a little different than the one before it.

Sound Bite: Dave Amato – REO Speedwagon
Of course, it’s a Gibson Les Paul! No no no I have old Les Pauls that are really cool. (talks) I’ve got a ’52 gold top old gold that’s great, for a collector, but I’ve got a triple pickup ’59 Les Paul, that’s awesome.

B-Roll – Gibson – people in party, Wesley Scantlin

Sound Bite: Wesley Scantlin
Yeah um, you know Les Paul um who’s invented multi-tracking and also like you know great Les Paul guitars that I use all the time, his birthday is the same as my birthday and uh my wife on my birthday she uh she had a guitar, it’s a Gator special edition, and it’s signed on the headstock by Les Paul and um I’m trying to talk to him about maybe making the Wes Paul, haha, but I don’t know if they’re going for it man.

Sound Bite: Wesley Scantlin
Yeah yeah yeah, I’ve gone and seen those guys a couple times and they’re talented musicians as well as like rock stars and also comedians and they get their getup on and they’re you know they’re good man

Sound Bite: Wesley Scantlin
It’s really uh it’s really kind of cool, you know when you’re like growing up as a kid and you’re like going to the woods and you go out and play fake war and stuff and you go over there it’s like the real deal and they’re, you know they get to like the technology nowadays is also making you know making the war even though the war is bad a lot safer to where there’s not as many casualties which is a good thing you know and hopefully we can get everybody back here in one piece you know and see their family members and their friends and stuff.

B-Roll – Gibson – Satchel explains what a guitar god is by rocking to camera

Sound Bite: Lexxi Foxx, Satchel
Lexxi - The best thing to do obviously is, I don’t have it with me, is at the front of our tour bus and it’s in the tour bus that we’re in right now, it’s there but it’s Aquanet, what we like to do is lift our hair as much as you possibly can. Do something like this. Obviously it’s very important to heavy metal to flip the hair around, ? all of a sudden which just happened with my hair. Looks a lot different than it did before, so the more you flip it the more you flow and the length is very important. You cut it, you cut it every six months, you get the split ends off, this is a great example.
Satchel – Is there a particular length that is best for the hair or is there too long? Can it get too long?
Lexxi - Whatever length I have is the best.

Sound Bite: Satchel, Lexxi Foxx, Michael Starr, Stix Zadinia
Satchel – Uh it will do everything. It will tune itself, it gets a myriad of tones. Myriad, look that up in the dictionary, look that up on Wikipedia, ok?
Michael – Who told you that word?
Satchel – It will uh it will has six strings, well a lot of guitars have six strings, but it will do it will pretty much do everything. It’ll put itself away when you’re done, it will self clean like an oven, um it’s uh it you will definitely get more vagina with this guitar in your hands.
Michael – Now that’s what’s most important. If a guitar can get you more vagina, that’s a guitar you want people, don’t go to.
Lexxi – Here’s what’s the most amazing part that I like the guitar is that it comes in different colors.
Michael – It does, it does come in different colors.
Satchel – And also you can uh when you play this guitar you don’t have to use condoms because it can it will tell you which girls at the show have STDs.
Stix – STD detector, it’s got built in.
Michael – You have no idea how important that is to guys like us. I mean we nail so many chicks and you know sometimes we’ll end up with a little Chlamydia and we don’t know we have it and we pass it on to his mom and stuff it’s uncomfortable so this guitar has been a savior for us.
Satchel – You know it’s obviously we don’t have to worry about all the STDs out there, it’s not like you can catch herpes twice you know there are certain…
Michael – It’s the gift that keeps on giving.
Satchel – It really is, I know. But actually this Dark Fire will tune itself which is probably the coolest thing about it. did I mention that? It tunes itself? It does, I think I did actually, right in the very beginning.
Stix – You should show him the lights.
Satchel – Watch this, watch this. Ok check it out, pull this little knob out, right?
Lexxi – Oh look at that!
Stix – Is it tuning it right now?
Satchel – No it’s just making little lights.
Lexxi – Look at the letters it’s making letters!
Satchel – Isn’t that cool? It’s actually spelling out the name of our band, Steel Panther, holy shit, she knows that I’m in Steel Panther. One of the cool things about this is uh the nut on this is uh made out of titanium so you can play it for days and you’ll never bust a nut.
Michael – That sucks. It’s like being on cocaine.
Stix – Yeah. Or adoral.
Satchel – it’s good if you’re playing on the guitar.
Michael – It’s not good if you’re having sex. Well you know what that’s not true. Some chicks hate it when you bust a nut too early.
Satchel – Is that true?
Michael – Do you do that?
Stix – Do you do that?
Satchel – Who cares what they think, right?
Michael – You got that right. Word. Chicks are like lighters, there’s one every 5 minutes.

Sound Bite: Steve Stewart, Richie Onori, Joe Retta, Stuart Smith, Steve Priest
Joe – Okay one time this Gibson Les Paul almost knocked me out on stage because the guitar player went like this. I had the mic like this, and boom, it’s one of my best vocal moments ever.
Stuart – I hate the things.
Richie – Yeah Stuart was playing the show and he hit right into this cabinet and he went down backwards and totally knocked him out.
Stuart – I was up in a few seconds I think.
Richie – He hardly drank.
Stewart – I gotta good one for stability of fuckin the Gibson bass, that big fuckin honkin. A buddy of mine, a buddy of mine, I’m sorry. (talks) A buddy of mine is hammering away and the stage split apart a little bit and he went down right and he went down hard and the only thing that stopped him was the neck of the bass and he just stood there rankin away and the thing never went out of tune man. They pulled him back out of there, no issues.
Priest – I’ve got a good one. I hadn’t finished yet, I was watching screaming lord ? a hundred years ago and the bass player was being harassed by some guy so he took his ? off, whacked him around the head with it, and put it back on and kept on playing.

B-Roll – Gibson – the band Sweet, cutaway

Sound Bite: Jacko Karako
{laughs} I’m excited to see Steel Panther, I uh I hear all the legend about them because of their whole Metal Skool here in LA. But I haven’t really gotten to catch them. I’ve actually played before like opening for uh for Steel Pantehr but I only maybe saw a song and then had to leave so it should be crazy.

B-Roll – Gibson – pan across crowd to Sweet, guitar on wall, something not sure what it is, a dude flipping some papers, Billy Morrison and Wesley Scantlin

Sound Bite: Billy Morrison
Um well I think that uh I think there is a resurgence of Rock and Roll, I don’t think it’s any particular fashion or cult thing, I just think it’s good old fashioned rock and roll. I put an album out last year with Matt ? and Billy Duffy, the band was called Circus Diablo and it was just AC/DC meets Sex Pistols and it was very well received. You know AC/DC is cleaning it up out there right now. You know Velvet Revolver’s, you know not right now but uh the Stone Temple Pilots, it’s a rock world out there so I don’t know about uh you know a resurgence, it’s just a resurgence of good old fashioned rock guitars.

Sound Bite: Billy Morrison
I know it blows my little mind. I don’t understand it. I’ll still play it but I don’t understand it.

B-Roll – Gibson – Michael fixes up Lexxi’s hair on stage, they introduce the show and the guitar (not a good vantage point and angle for seeing them play)