A noisy strat.

Strats, man.

Probably the shape most people think about when you say "electric-guitar" is the Fender Stratocaster (me, I say "electric-guitar" for no reason about two-three times an hour). John Mayer said somewhere that it took him seventeen years to pick up another type of guitar and it took me almost as long to realize that there existed other guitars outside of Fender Stratocaster and Gibson Les Paul.

My first electric was a strat. Not a Fender. Wouldn't be anything punk about that would it? No, the first guitar I tortured my parents with was a red and white Peavey Stratocaster and after two detours (a crappy Fenix SG and a not-too-shabby Tanglewood Semihollow) I'm now back to the

Peavey. I've painted it and switched the single coils to Chris Klein "Big dippers" so it sounds a lot better now but it's still as much fun to play as when I was 14.

The things with strats, though... They're insanely noisey. Big dippers, especially. It's not that noticeable on songs that have a thick production but if you do something scaled-back you'll have a lot of work ahead of you.

Two new songs uploaded to myspace today.

"Bukowski's 'Women'" is a piece inspired by Berlin more than Charles Bukowski. It features JFK as an outro.

The other song, called "In the candlelight", kinda betrays my more embarrassing musical roots. My very first two records that I owned were two Bon Jovi records. There. I said it. "Bon Jovi-records". Crossroads (a best-of) and These days.

It kinda shines through in this song which, in my defense, was written to prove to a friend at MTV that I, too, can write cheese balades. I do try to hide it in a low-fi Moldy Peaches-esque production. So at least there's that.

You can listent to both songs here: http://www.myspace.com/uhhuhradio

Enjoy!