My Bloody Valentine is back

MBV Set List 6.13.2008 ICA

Yep that’s right! It was announced late last year yet those of us who’ve been fans since the early 90s had many reasons to be suspicious. But they just played 2 warm-up gig’s at the London ICA Friday and Saturday night for their string of shows next week at the Roundhouse. Here’s a review from NME. And a Flickr set I found from Friday night’s gig. They’ll be coming to the states in the Fall. This all makes me very happy!

The test drive: Classic Player series Jazzmaster

Well I got to take one for a test drive today down at Music 6000 in Olympia, WA… a very offset friendly and knowledgeable staff due in large part to my friends/bandmates Bill and Peter. I told Peter about them and they were able to get a black one. Fender said the others won’t be available till late June and the Jag HH won’t hit stores till mid July. Here are some of my impressions (playing thru a Twin Reverb RI and new Boss DD-7, which I’ll also do a review on)…

Stevie playing the new MIM Jazzmaster
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