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John 5 and Fender donate Black Fender Squier Guitar

J5 and Fender donate guitar for Queensland Disaster Fund

http://john-5.com/main/2011/05/18/j5-and-fender-donate-guitar-for-queensland-

John 5 and Fender have teamed up with Soundwave Festival and donated a Black Fender Squier American Standard Telecaster to be auctioned in support of the QLD Disaster Relief Appeal.  As you may be aware in December 2010  Queensland was hit by flooding and Tropical Cyclone Yasi.  Many communities have been left devastated.

The guitar, which you can start bidding on tomorrow (19 May 2011) has been signed by John 5.

BID ON EBAY HERE (click) (Link will open at noon on May 19 2011 – AEST)

The auction will end 29th May 12.00 noon (AEST)

You can find out more about the QLD Disaster here: http://www.qld.gov.au/floods/

You can find out more about the auction by following @soundwavefest on Twitter and by going HERE

Thank you for your support in this auction. Please retweet, like on Facebook and spread the word.

 

Nikki Sixx “This is Gonna Hurt” Book Tour

I met Nikki Sixx on his book signing tour.  He hit San Francisco on 4/14/2011.  He was signing his new book “This Is Gonna Hurt” at Book Passages in the SF Ferry Building.  We waited with hundreds of others for an hour and 30 minutes.  When we looked back, we couldn’t even see the end of the line there were so many people.

Nikki told me that the guys were giving him a hard time because he didn’t have a gig bag for his guitar.  He said that “he needs a gig bag”!!!  I told him that the Sonoma Bass Gig Bag, in black leather (model #314 15-29) is 49″, not long enough for his new Signature Blackbird Bass, which is a staggering 57″! Nikki said that he can use it for his P Bass.  Yes!  He now has the RB Sonoma Bass gig bag in black leather.  I also hooked him up with our black Merino Wool Pinstripe RB guitar strap.   DJ Ashba, his guitarist of Sixx .AM., has the same strap,  which I presented to him at the NAMM Show.

Nikki was just as I had imagined … charming, kind, warm, and an all over beautiful person.  Let’s just say that I was 15 when I first started listening to the Crue, and Nikki was plastered all over my room.  You can imagine this meeting was one of the best days of my life!  Thank you Nikki!

Details on his new book are as follows: This Is Gonna Hurt: Music, Photography And Life Through The Distorted Lens Of Nikki Sixx, is part photo, part journal—but all Nikki Sixx. It is a collection of compelling photography and stories that capture the rage, love, optimism, darkness, and determination that shape his work. Combining the raw authenticity that defined his New York Times Bestseller The Heroin Diaries with a photographic journey, This Is Gonna Hurt chronicles Sixx’s experiences—from his early years filled with toxic waste, to his success with Motley Crue, to his death from an OD and his eventual rebirth through music, photography, and love.

Love story, bad-ass rock tell-all, social commentary, family memoir, This Is Gonna Hurt offers the compelling insights of an artist and a man struggling to survive, connect, and find a happy ending—a search that fuels Sixx’s being.

You can view his book tour dates and videos of the “This is Gonna Hurt” documentary by checking out Nikki Sixx’s official site:  http://www.nikkisixx.net

Motley Crue is on Tour this year!  For all of you Crue fans check out the following link for tour dates near you! http://www.nikkisixx.net/tour/

 

 

All Axess shares another lesson with John 5 – watch here

A couple of weeks ago All Axcess All Axess posted a video taken while John 5 was in Birmingham UK on the UK leg of the Rob Zombie tour, where he went througha little lesson a little lesson for the fans. In that video he went through how to “Chicken Pick”.

This week the guys have posted another video from that series, and this time John 5 shows viewers how to play a Spanish Guitar style lick.

In the step by step video he shows you how to play this style with ease.