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Jay

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I speak softly and carry a big guitar. Born in Charleston, WV...relocated to Los Angeles, eons ago. Currently guitarist-for-hire, former guitarist for the now-defunct L.A. bands RuKuS and Smokin' J, these days working on sessions, original music, and looking for new projects...

My Interests

Guitars, guitar-building, art...

I'd like to meet:

I've been lucky in that I've met most of my heroes... I'm of course looking to meet the future ex-Mrs. Hale...

Music:

Mostly rock, but a little of almost everything else for variety: Van Halen, Ozzy, Sabbath, Led Zep, Jimi, The Beatles, King Crimson, The Black Crowes, Motown, King's X, Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, My Chemical Romance, Velvet Revolver...to name a few...

Movies:

Comedy, Horror, Action-Adventure, Sci-Fi...Looney Tunes...

Television:

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Heroes:

Edward Van Halen, Randy Rhoads, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, George Lynch, John Sykes, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Steve Vai, Jason Becker, Doug Aldrich and just about every other guitarist of worth ever...Richard Pryor, Bill Hicks, Triumph the Insult comic dog, and of course, my parents.

My Blog

Odd coincidence, unfortunately...

So today is the 28th anniversary of my father's death. Still miss ya, ya big lug (granted, I'd probably still kick your ass once just for good measure, but I DO miss your grumpy old ass.) I'll go on r...
Posted by Jay on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:43:00 PST

Number 3 redux

So as I was stuck at home all day with an annoying backache, once I was able to sit up for more than a few minutes at a time figured might as well do something constructive and started the pickup swap...
Posted by Jay on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:19:00 PST

Big Block

...You know what's simultaneously wonderful and sucky about being a guitarist/tinkerer/tonechaser? Besides getting excited about things other people think you're crazy for? I confirmed something yest...
Posted by Jay on Mon, 24 Dec 2007 02:10:00 PST

The room is spinning, and Im not drunk! DAMMIT!

   OK, at home on sick leave (all week, doc's orders) with a serious double ear-infection - my doc said the words "permanent hearing damage if we don't clear it" as I've had it for 3 weeks n...
Posted by Jay on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:59:00 PST

What in the wide world o' sports!

For the first time in...well, years literally, taking a mini-'vacation'; one that's not a "working" one (taking a few days here and there to play jr. guitar tech in parts unknown or whatever)...yeah, ...
Posted by Jay on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:28:00 PST

As if I didnt ALREADY want to build another guitar...

So lately, apart from the refurbs of a couple of my guitars that are in process right now, I've really wanted to build another one. I don't do it nearly often enough. Then today I saw this: ...
Posted by Jay on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:52:00 PST

Decisions, decisions...(confessions of a gear whore)

So I was tinkering around with my rig today (yeah, yeah, 'when aren't I')...picked up a new Monster speaker cable and confirmed (pretty much as expected) it's not that one of my cabinets necessarily s...
Posted by Jay on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 07:56:00 PST

The Grail !!!

So, being the eternal pack-rat that I am, I've saved every reference material from every guitar lesson I've ever taken, and anything I found interesting/useful over the last twenty something years. Ba...
Posted by Jay on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 08:03:00 PST

The Gear Page!

Ok, for shits and giggles, figured I'd put up a page devoted to my gear. It's kind of a work in progress. Guitars:We'll start with my favorite group shot, then get to the individual specs: In order of...
Posted by Jay on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 02:13:00 PST

2007

To quote one of my heroes "I have a two-word plan: 'LET'S GO'!"To quote one of my friends "Grab it. And grab it again." ...Nowhere to go but up, right? Yeah....
Posted by Jay on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 01:52:00 PST