Zakk Wylde is one of the great guitarist known world wide. He is the former guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne and everybody know his bulls-eye-painted Gibson Les Paul custom guitar. Equipped with EMG hum bucking pickups and raw, unfinished maple necks, this guitar is one of best Gibson series ever made. the guitar suits to his character, a distinctive lead guitarist who has amazing solo outings, scorching riffs and remarkable stage performances. He also known as the founder of the Black Label Society.

 

what really excited me is when he appeared on 2011 American Idol, he was the guitarist for James Durbin’s performance of “Heavy Metal” by Sammy Hagar.  it was a great performance and I’m sure that America and the world wide saw one of the best about heavy metal. it was the time which everyone think that heavy metal will still rule for the next decades. it never goes off. there in the video you can see his infamous bulls-eye gear and his hilarious stage presence.

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once he lost his 1981 Gibson Les Paul Custom “The Grail”. Zakk Wylde lost the guitar after it fell from the back of a truck transporting equipment as he was traveling between gigs in Texas. somehow he got it back by trading it with a black double-neck Gibson.

latest news

then i read the latest news and found out that he lost his gear, again. this time is his one of two aged Pelham Blue Les Paul signature guitar with bulls eye pattern. A $10,000 worth guitar was stolen from his tour bus Friday night(March 14, 2014) outside The Chicago Theater while he was on the Experience Hendrix Tour.

as you can see on his twitter @ZakkWyldeBLS :

Message me if you are in Chicago and know the whereabouts of this guitar: pic.twitter.com/fPeK3U4Eps

— Zakk Wylde (@ZakkWyldeBLS) March 15, 2014

 

i hope he get his guitar back soon.

 

latest updates:

this guitar is returned to zakk wylde. this Pelham Blue Bullseye Gibson Les Paul Custom guitar — which was stolen March 14 from his tour bus in Chicago — has been found. a man came in to sell the guitar on March 24 – about 10 days after it was reported stolen- at Royal Pawn Shop, 428 S. Clark St. an employee originally paid around $50 for the guitar…  more details at Chicago tribune

for years I’ve been playing guitar right-handed. the fact is I’m lefty. when i took a moment to think, actually it wasn’t easy and i had difficult times in learning right-handed guitar playing (and I’m still learning guitar now). some people might think why i should bother to learn right-handed guitar playing instead of playing it lefty. Here the best reason of all time, “Because at first i didn’t even have a guitar!”… i borrowed my friend’s guitar, which is of course it’s a right-handed guitar,and start learning to play it. Everyday i came to his house and we learned it together.

i love this sentence, “we learned it to-get-her”. 😀 hahaha, everyone has own reason in playing guitar and mine was to get some cute girls’ attention. what a great reason to start guitar playing.

anyway, 😀 years gone by and i found myself right-handed when it comes to guitar playing. while until now, I’m still curious about playing guitar lefty. so today i decide to learn the lefty way. i have a Yamaha CX-40 nylon strings guitar and i changed the strings order. this post is a kind of legal agreement for myself to play left guitar. i made promise to myself that i will perform my left guitar playing in front of people on stage a year for now. actually i can’t raise the bar for more. it is a longer-term deadline compared with when i learn the right-guitar playing. no girls get involved in this agreement :D.

so here i show you my Yamaha CX 40 nylon strings guitar which i change its strings order. if you start learning guitar today just like me, then that’s great!! we can share all things about guitar, remember I’m a beginner here so go easy on me guys, see ya next post…