Hopefully one more time before the end of the year! We'll definitely keep you posted, we love Adelaide!
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
What's the story behind the Les Paul Standard no longer in Ronnie's possession?
Haha oh god...
Alright.
Well, there was a young girl who was a fan of the band who after sleeping with a few times (oblivious to me, as usual) began to have "feelings" for me. I entered a relationship with another girl and she continued to carry a torch, so in her mind a way to win me over was to give me her tobacco burst Gibson Les Paul standard.
I couldn't believe it, nobody had ever given me something like that before, in a messenger conversation discussing the guitar she said "it's yours to do what you want with" so I took a screen shot and saved it.
As L.U.S.T. went into the studio to record the album that would become First Tattoo I used the Les Paul to record a lot of the rhythm guitars and some leads, it was a great sounding guitar, the girl offered to help out coming into the studio filming sessions and giving me lifts, even attempted to become best friends with the girl I was with, started dressing like her, changed her hair to be the same as hers. I was incredibly flattered, eventually we slept together again.
I made it incredibly clear that there was nothing serious going on between us and there never would be. After we had finished tracking the album, one day the girl I was with broke up with me, I had no idea why. It turns out the girl who had given me the guitar had told her I had been with another girl whilst on tour in an attempt to break us up so she could have me all to herself.
So I came clean about sleeping with the girl who had given me the guitar behind her back, apologized, we got back together, I sold the guitar & spent the money on getting the Ramones eagle tattooed the size of my back.
One afternoon we were sound checking at the Gaelic club in Sydney and I kept getting calls from an anonymous number, eventually I found out it was the girls father, she had lied to him and said I'd stolen the guitar, he said that if I didn't pay him the cost of the guitar he was going to take me to court. So I sent him the screen shot I had taken and that was the end of that.
It's not something I'd do again, and I do miss playing that guitar, but it was cursed.
-Ronnie.
Would you ever consider bringing in another guitarist to join LUST?
We've often thought about it, I like the freedom of being the only guitarist in L.U.S.T. however I do miss having another axeman to bounce ideas off and feed off onstage.
Like having Joel up from Torch Le Monde at the Gaelic was awesome because we were able to recreate harmonies live. For now I'm going to continue being in charge of all things six stringed, but I definitely wouldn't rule out the possibility of us welcoming another guitarist into the L.U.S.T. family in the future.
-Ronnie
Monday, October 4, 2010
Are you gonna be making any more videos like First Tattoo and is there recent live footage besides the Boys Are Back In Town cover?
We're in the process of planning a video for Fight Fire With Fire, it's going to be massive, expect it to be released by the end of the year. More live footage will be up shortly.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Will "Get Em Out" and "Little Devil" be on the album?
Get 'em out and Little Devil WERE recorded for the album however won't be on the first release, expect them to be B-sides for singles and then on a special edition of the album in the future
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