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Guitars

Honey - Front View
Hipshot 5 lever tailpiece with roller bridge and roller nut, tuned to E maj 9 for country, Nashville-type rock bends. This unit has had extensive custom modifications to put a maj 9 in the middle of the chord, or straight octave, and other custom modifications to the unit itself. If you are not rich, and are a meat and potatoes working musician, on the circuit, this baby in open E with or without maj 9th is a fantastic setup.

Honey - Back View
The artwork you see on the back of the guitars pictured was created by Mark himself

Hipshot 5 lever
Hipshot 5 lever tailpiece allows you to drop top E to D and bottom E to D and A to G, creating open G tuning from normal tuning. Bends B string and G string, skilful use of top E lever as well allows you to adjust top E to a major 9th and bend the lever back to get root, so leaning on both B and G, and twiddling top E lever, you can get all three going, creating pedal steel sounds. Also custom modification to the unit to create maj 9 in the middle of the chord also, or returning to root.

Flame artwork
The "Flame" artwork shown here has been further modified this year with additional stones etc.

Recently, I found a rock and gem fair that had the right stones for guitar art.
I got hooked on this idea, my friends, some of whom are very conservative, and suffer terribly from G.A.S. (guitar acquisition syndrome), who have at least 10 Firebirds, 10 Les Paul Standards, 10 Strats, 10 Tele's, 10 335's, etc. etc. etc., are utterly horrified and mortified that I would carve up a Gibson and do such a thing as guitar art.
Let it be known that creativity nowadays is harder and harder to do, with the constant inflow of media dictating your thinking, and peer group pressure, built on falsehoods, and the cult of corporatism, and the cult of ineptocracy.

Seven Artwork close up
"Grail", shown here, is an absolutely fantastic "TOMMY'S SPECIAL GUITAR" that I found from a scientist who was wealthy, whose wife was pressurising him to give up playing music, he was advertising it under "Hi Fi" in the Loot Magazine, which is equivalent to the "Recycler" magazine of Los Angeles, I suppose he really didn't want to sell it, so I went round and met him, and played it for a bit, he only lived around the corner from me, so he liked what I was playing on it, and said he wanted it to go to a good home. I got it for absolutely thrupence hapenny farthing, which is old money terms before decimalisation of 17th February 1971.

Peaches - Front View
Peaches, has a mild steel large capacity sustain block, a Dennis Cornell active pack, much like Eric Clapton's, a LSR roller nut, Sperzels.

Mountain - Front View
THIS BASS WAS STOLEN IN MAY 2012
Mountain, has got scalloped upper frets, and a funk channel for double finger pull-ups, and thumbing like Larry Graham on the lower strings, and thumb inserts by the pickups.

Excalibur
"Excalibur" is a real find, I found him for not a lot of money, he is an early developmental 5 string from Fernandes in the USA, he was an absolute dog, in the shop, but I saw his inner responsiveness, took him home, put some Kent Armstrong special pickups, that have coil taps on him, and did various modifications, thus bringing to life a bass that was not understood, by so many people that picked it up in the shop, until it was straightened out.
Speakers & Amps
THESE AMPS WERE STOLEN IN MAY 2012