Steve Albini's Big Black/Rapeman Guitar

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 2:20 am

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Dave · Post by **Dave** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 8:11 am

To be fair I way prefer the drums of shellac to Roland in BB but you can't say that Bad Penny and Cables aren't freakin awesome. As for originality I agree. I did once play shellac to a mate and be goes 'ah! Jesus Lizard!'. I think you can hear some influence here and there along with Gang of Four

NickD · Post by **NickD** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 9:34 am

endsjustifymeans wrote:
hotrodperlmutter wrote:nah, it means that her daddy probably wasn't in her life, or a male figure sexually abused her as a child. or both.
Or it just means she's a woman. Women love cuntbag men. Tell'm you don't give a fuck and their panties burst into flames.

That's where I'm going wrong...

benadrian · Post by **benadrian** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 9:14 pm

The Big Black guitar is from a guitar shop in Evanston that built and sold parts guitars. It's just a stripped down, double cut tele style. Nothing special or magical.

The Electrical (EGC) is now his backup guitar in Shellac. His main Bean 500 seems to have been rebuilt or tuned up by Kevin at EGC; new pickups, new pickguard with volume and switch only.

Ben

benadrian · Post by **benadrian** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 7:41 pm

Found this on flickr the other day.

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Ben

Noirie. · Post by **Noirie.** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 10:12 pm

Cheers! Thats fucking awesome.

BoringPostcards · Post by **BoringPostcards** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 1:35 am

travisbeanguitars.com

There is a docu being produced now as well about the history of Travis Bean and his rather small team of guys that built the TBs in the 70s.