Here are better pics of the Budokan LP.

I found another offer, a little bit cheaper than the Budokan I saw in a music shop. I couldn't resist... Here it is, with my 6-7 feet Gene I found in a bric a brac shop. Bad picture done with a flash... The guitar weights about 4.4 kgs, so I don't think there are too many holes inside of it. Beautif...

...teenage memories...

nobody knows if he could play his killer riffs today or what he is doing the whole day. That’s something I keep wondering about : can a “shredder”(Vinnie is even more than that) still shred without practice ? Does he still play ? What kind of music ? From the pictures we've discovered lately - show...

I thought that happened in 2011 instead of 1992... He was still able to play then.

So when Vinnie opened the case and pulled out the guitar the whole restaurant went silent for several moments. You could've heard a pin drop.

Great story, thanks!
Did he play any note or chord? Did he look like he was still able to play?

LMFAO!

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by shramiac » Mon Aug 25, 2014 9:10 am tukoztukoz wrote: It seems he didn’t flutter with Kiss and before Kiss There is live footage from the LIU tour where Vinnie is doing it during his solo! Gillis and Vai are best known for it though. Not surprised at all if Beck was doing it though. In the movie...

To me, flutter = Jeff Beck in the mid/early eighties. Vinnie’s flutter is also great on the first Invasion record. It seems he didn’t flutter with Kiss and before Kiss, that's why I think it was new in 1985-6.
I cannot find when Jeff Beck started to use this technique.

shramiac » Sat Aug 23, 2014 11:13 am What is that blue sucka you've got there by the way tukoz? It’s my sawed strat I posted pics of in another topic here « post pictures of your Fender axes ». This blue sparkle guitar looks sweet! I borrowed glitter blue paint/glue from my daughter and put it on t...

I like two points strat tremolos, you can do nice fluttering effects, the trem bar stays in place (not like the Floyds after a while) and the guitar stays in tune. Also, there are no fine tuning screws, so you can hit the bridge with your hand or fingers. Jeff Beck and Vinnie often do/did flutter. I...

Thanks to ankh, 1031, double v and others (on another topic, "Fender and Gibson buy my dinner"), I got back to reality and forgot about buying that guitar with a glued-paper fingerboard... Also I learned about weight-relief guitars and the meaning of the words "made in USA"... Thank you VVFF! Maybe ...

I've been working on my "butchered" strat this summer. I changed frets, found some glitter paint (for the white on the pickguard too), put an LSR nut and cleaned every part of the poor guitar...
This is the result with my 2009 Jeff Beck strat.

Goin' blind = Vinnie ?

But to make me pay the same price of a guitar with rosewood fingerboard...........

I agree with you.
Thanks for the info about richlite. I followed the link on the wiki article that said Martin guitars was doing richlite fingerboard too...

So what about the Gibson ace Budokan 2012 with Richlite? Is it crap?

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... that song keeps turning in my head since yesterday...

The one that makes me hesitate is a Gibson Budokan. Its price is around 2750 US $. I tried it. Those Di Marzio pick-ups and the richlite touch, I don't know... I'm not used of Gibson guitars, so it's difficult for me to compare with another Gibson model. I think it would be more reasonable, better a...

I don't have any Les Paul Style Guitar, but I'm thinking of buying a Gibson Ace Frehley Budokan for months. What price do you think would be correct for a mint Budokan (not the aged-model) ?

All of this reminds me of Samuel Beckett’s « Waiting for Godot » : two people waiting for someone that will never come. We are those two. Between the two acts, there is a kid coming, announcing that Godot will come the next day... Just like RokkenWdokken, or every time Vinnie announces something new...

... Sonic beam and explosions... great! Now we know where Vinnie got his inspiration for the Boyz gonna rock video!

Vinnie could be a great character for a fiction (novel or movie). What about having someone like the Coen brothers making a movie about Vinnie ? An actor like Steve Buscemi would be great to play Vinnie, and the VVFF could give lots of stories and ideas for that kind of project. The Coen brothers di...

I did a research on this forum with the word “dimensions”, and found this: Official NAMM 2011 reports thread by TJMonster » Sun Jan 16, 2011 7:49 pm Those are NOT the jackson dimensions. Those are not even the carvin dimensions. Those are new dimensions. I have looked and measured this guitar a hund...

Do you think he still reads this forum ?

I’ve got half of a broken japanese double guitar that seems to be a Matsumoku production from the early eighties, neckthrough, 24 frets, kind of DiMarzio pickups. A friend found it in a garbage can and gave it to me… I want to transform this guitar to make it look like a VV model. I checked on the i...

I didn't see anything on this forum about the german TV video of "All hell's breakin' loose". Vinnie pratically never appears on the screen, even during his great solo- they put Gene instead of him. Any idea why ? Did he steal the piece of meat Gene had in the official video ? The TV show was called...

This is my 1988 Fender strat standard US. :shock: I bought it new at the time, and I’m responsible for the terrible massacre I did with a saw and other machines around 1992-3. I covered then the body and the headstock with velvet fur cloth. That was ok, but it lost its colors after all those years. ...

Great voice - he should become lead singer of Kiss :D ... He's got a real guitar style of his own. It's nice to hear from him today, especally when I think about him twenty years ago. I saw Ace in a Kiss convention in 1995, and that was a catastrophe. He was drunk, people were really angry at him, t...

Thank you for the nice welcome. I really like Fenders, especially Jazzmasters, Jaguars and Stratocasters. A lot of guitar players that I've listened to over the years did play or still play Jaguars/Jazzmasters : Marc Ribot, Robert Smith, Blixa Bargeld (Nick Cave), Thurston Moore, and a lot of others...

It’s a US Jaguar ’62 Limited edition made in 2008, thin skin. I found it on the internet. The lady who sold the guitar never really played it, so the guitar is mint. It was funny to meet this lady again, because I already bought a harmonium (kind of piano, but you have to produce air with your feet…...

Like some of you, I can't help buying guitars sometimes... I bought this one a few weeks ago. I thought you might enjoy the color...

I've always enjoyed "Special Forces", "Zipper catches skin" and "Dada". Alice is so funny in those albums. I wish he and Dick Wagner did one more album like these three.
Thank you for that interesting show!

I’m not sure, but I may have found some pictures of Vinnie : it seems that the Google car took two pictures of him in 2013… Go check on Google earth, street view mode. You can see Vinnie’s neighbour cutting the grass with her lawn-mower, and also – maybe - Vinnie with someone else between the two ho...

Hello, I've been reading this forum for about a year, and I finally introduce myself. I've been listening to Kiss since the eighties - "I was made for loving you" made a big impression on me when I was a kid. I started guitar when the first Invasion record came out. Listening again to the "Lick it u...