I have a replica of a Strat. It's the e-guitar equivilent of slurry. I play reasonably well, but taught myself from scratch learning iron maiden guitar solos. Therefore I can pick a solo like a mad man, but have the chord ability of a gerbil. A few bar chords is all I know, and about 10 maiden solos. The rest I make up as I go along.
I used to be in a band called Lynch Mob. I was lead, vocalist and main composer.
Here's some lyrics for old times sake:
In the future - about 2000AD (this is an old old band btw)
there's gonna be a different type of enemy
They drive around in trucks with guns and smoke
but their secret weapon is their length of rope
you may've seen on their land those trees
with bits of rope hanging and blood stained leaves
If you think this is strange then you'd better watch out
cos the lynch mobs coming so you'd better get out!
String em up, string em high,
Watch em hanging until they die
But it's their strength of will, that we do admire
So we string them up with some barbed wire.
The truck comes along in a whirl of smoke.
As they draw nearer you begin to choke.
You reel in shock. They're after you.
And if they catch up your life is through.
So you turn on your heel and run for your life
Until you're knocked to the ground by a throwing knife.
You turn on your back and watch the truck draw near
and your whole body is gripped with fear.
(Chorus)
You see the look on ones face as he opens his pack
he takes out some rope and feeds through some slack
A man picks you up from the blood drenched deck
and the guy you can see puts the noose round ya neck
you look up at the sky and say, why me?
But the mob just laughs and takes you to a tree
The rope goes over a branch. Your feet leave the ground
You writhe in suffocation but make no sound.
(Chorus)
bwahahaha. Now there's a blast from the past. To be fair, that was about 10 years a go I wrote all that shizzle. I've had my metal era and no longer care for guitar music at all really, but it's still funny to look back. We performed that track in school assembly. How cool was that? The teachers had no idea our song was about hanging people with barbed wire until they heard it.
Classic.
