Potins et ragots du monde des pédales d'effets

Ah oui ? J'étais là aussi, avec Glamourpunks. Corgan était plutôt détendu.

Entre les menaces physiques, les vieilles allusions anti-trans et son trip "je vais te saigner au tribunal", il a carrément craqué.

Tu l'avais approché de près askthedust puisque tu assurais le son de son mini concert/ lecture de poemes.

Il etait comment ?

Toutes les fois où j'ai vu Corgan ces dernières années (notamment lors du resto -désormais fatidique! où je lui ai parlé de Devi et de la Rocket pour la première fois) il m'a donné l'impression d'avoir une haine contenue contre la Terre entière, une espèce d'énorme frustration qu'il dirige à l'envie contre les fans, les média, les autres groupes, les ex membres/collaborateurs des SP.Le seul truc qui le fait marrer c'est parler de matos.

Par contre je le pensais suffisament malin pour circonscrire ses coups de pression ça à son cercle privé, et éviter d'étaler ça en public...

A la lecture de Claire, il était cool pendant les balances et le show, mais a un peu fait la gueule au resto pendant toute la soirée après. Je lui ai filé deux pédales de la part de Skreddy ce soir là d'ailleurs, une Mayonaise II et un Echo...

One morning I woke up, and had a dozen emails and messages, all telling me to get the August GP magazine.

When I read that article, I was floored. Of course, I have never heard a word of thanks from Buddy, never been contacted by him again, even though he knew I worked for BMG and Silvertone, his record label -- if he wanted to contact me, I am very easily found. AND I still know Greg Rzab, the bassist that was touring with Buddy back then. Both Greg and guitarist Scott Holt were there when the "deal went down", and both of them tried to very quietly urge me to NOT let Buddy get his hands on my guitar.

I admit -- at the time it happened, it was a whirlwind, I was blown away to be in the man's presence, and he was incredibly nice to me. But like he said -- I considered that guitar my WIFE.....I sold THREE very nice guitars and saved up a pile of money to buy that '58 strat, because I knew they were gonna rise in value soon far beyond what mere working guys could afford. I had owned a few vintage strats in the 80s and 90s -- but that '58 was my favorite of all of them. I had Roger Sadowsky work on it, to help it to play the very best that it could, and it's a GREAT guitar, as Buddy seems to know.

I refused to drink, because I was working the show, and I still had to drive home to Tampa from Sarasota, a good hour and a half drive.....but he kept twisting my arm, and I did not want to appear to be unpolite and refuse the man's hospitality....but I had no idea he was trying to get me liquored up so he could take advantage of me.

When he initially wanted to trade, I laughed at him......he said "take any of my guitars" But I told him straight out "Buddy -- all your guitas are nice, they are Fender custom shop strats, but they are only worth about $2000 each. This '58 strat is worth a lot more, I have over $6000 into this guitar"

But he kept after it, and kept trying to do shots with me, drinking and playing and being friendly, and still hounding me about the guitar.

Eventually I said to him "I know you REALLY want this guitar, but this guitar is MY WIFE, I had planned on playing this guitar for years and years, and I invested all the $$$ I had into buying it and getting it into top shape. I like your red strat (there's only ONE red one) -- but we are about $4000 apart in value"

We keep drinking, and eventually his road manager comes over, they talk, and he gives Buddy a pile of money, but it only turns out to be $500.

I once again told Buddy he was not offering me a fair trade...but after a couple of hours of drinking with him, being sort of starstruck by the man, being tired from working the show all day, I finally gave in....he REALLY wanted the guitar, and I felt like I was doing a good thing by letting him get my '58. I felt like he would make it up to me somehow, someday....the man has hundreds of guitars, he owns one of the top blues clubs in the USA, and all of his albums on Silvertone (that I worked for BMG) had done REALLY well, one of the top sellers in the blues genre.

But I never heard from him again, even though I tried to contact him several times. I stopped by his club when I was in Chicago, but he wasn't there. I spoke with the president of Silvertone, as he and I were friends....and had him leave a message for Buddy with my contact info, but no dice.

Was I a stupid starstruck college kid who let the man talk me into a really bad deal? YES......I admit that. I should have just grabbed my guitar and gotten off the bus as soon as he started trying to snake me.

But did I deserve to get taken advantage of from someone who was practically pouring shots of whiskey down my throat for two hours straight? Someone that I was a huge fan of, that had been an influence on my own playing, and that I had worked HARD for to help promote his damn records?

Right now, that '58 strat is worth around $35,000 -- and just a few years ago, they were reaching $45,000 or more.......the '58 was the ONLY year they made a maple neck with 3 color sunburst -- also, the neck on the '58 is my fave of ALL the 50's neck shapes, it's a nice rounded shape, not a "V" like a '57, and not a bigger "U" shape like a '59.

that guitar was the last vintage PreCBS strat I have ever owned. Now they are FAR beyond what I could ever afford. And if I had not traded it to Buddy, I would probably still have it today, playing it. I have never owned a better strat than that '58, and Buddy took it from me and gave me a lousy custom shop guitar and $500. I essentially traded a DIAMOND for a cubic zirconia.

And I could have lived with that mistake happily for the rest of my life -- until I read that article.

anyone that agrees -- please "like" my facebook page i started about this:

facebook.com/dotherightthingbuddy

email Michael Molenda at Guitar Player, and tell him he should print MY side of the story

mmolenda@musicplayer.com

email "Annie Lawlor" -- Buddy Guy's manager -- and tell HER what you think:

annie@buddyguy.com


i appreciate your support -- please spread the facebook page around to your friends, to other forums, and anywhere you think people would be interested.

I don't really expect much to happen -- it would be nice of Buddy to try and compensate me in some way for ripping me off. maybe he would leave the guitar to me in his will, or give me one of the Fender custom shop's attempts to copy that guitar, as he mentions in the article -- if I can't have the real one back, I could at least have the custom shop replica of it, which he said didn't sound as good.

all in all, it's one of the biggest mistakes i have ever made, and one of the most disappointing things i have ever experienced in my life

Toutes les fois où j'ai vu Corgan ces dernières années (notamment lors du resto -désormais fatidique! où je lui ai parlé de Devi et de la Rocket pour la première fois) il m'a donné l'impression d'avoir une haine contenue contre la Terre entière, une espèce d'énorme frustration qu'il dirige à l'envie contre les fans, les média, les autres groupes, les ex membres/collaborateurs des SP.
Le seul truc qui le fait marrer c'est parler de matos.

Par contre je le pensais suffisament malin pour circonscrire ses coups de pression ça à son cercle privé, et éviter d'étaler ça en public...

A la lecture de Claire, il était cool pendant les balances et le show, mais a un peu fait la gueule au resto pendant toute la soirée après. Je lui ai filé deux pédales de la part de Skreddy ce soir là d'ailleurs, une Mayonaise II et un Echo...

Là où perso je me pose des questions depuis 2/3 ans, c'est par rapport à tous les trucs qu'il nous rabâche, à moitié spirituel ou religieux, il s'est fait embrigader dans un machin genre sectaire? religieux? ou autre?