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October 20, 2004
BLING BLING
Morning all. After the nastiness that is the RedEye flight from LA to New York, we are finally in the swing of it all here. Yesterday was a busy day - went to J.Lindeberg who dressed us for the Red Carpet - picked up a killer suit, and a shirt to go with it. And I paid the nice people at Gibson Guitars a visit, had a look around at all the amazing guitars they have there, and picked up my two guitars for this show. While I was there, I got to play the $400,000 Liberace Grand Piano!! The thing is the most ostentatious instrument I have ever seen!! Check out the pic! And I also played the dubious-looking Hummer Les Paul. Not sure exactly who would play that thing, but its ......"interesting!!" The set-up department have made my CF Custom and my 1960 Gold Top play beautifully, and I wanna give Shanon a big shout out for being such a gracious host.
Last night, we all went for dinner at Vela - a fantastic Sushi restaurant in the East Village, and then on to Snitch (the newest Rock and Roll club in Manhatten, owned by my friend Brett Scallions from Fuel, and Duff and Scott from Velvet Revolver). The club is great - cool music, chicks dancing on the bar, a stage with equipment (in case the visiting muso's wanna get up and play) - thank you Brett.....a good night out.
Today is rehearsal day - I'm gonna get a cab uptown and do a bit of retail therapy first (some amazing Nike Dunks here if you know where to look!) and then meet the rest of the guys at 2.00pm. Gotta dash - coffee to drink, cigs to smoke, and sneakers to buy. Thank you for all your kind words about the chat - it really was fun, huh? And the less said about the Raiders, the better. Cantrell told me last night that the Seattle Seahawks just bought Jerry Rice yesterday......thats all we needed. I'm bummed. And outta here......
Peace
Billy
Posted by vivelerock at October 20, 2004 06:09 AM
Comments
I hope you took an extra suitcase for all that 'retail therapy' to come home with you....
With all those shoes, are you needing to turn a room in your house into 'The Shoe Room' yet? LOL
Posted by: flamingheart at October 20, 2004 07:14 AM
Hi everyone!
You know who else collects sneakers (or trainers) David Beckham. Then again, he gets most of them free for sponsorship.
The dumb stuff I know.
I knew that was a Liberace piano right away. Good eh? My Nan loved Liberace, and I grew up with him on the telly.
I LOVE that photo Billy, so funny you all punk rock looking. (real punk! :P) A camouflage blazer in front of the glitz and shine. I like your style.
Sounds like you're having great fun in NYC. I've developed a sudden yearning for the place, and sushi.
Thank you for thinking of us all here and posting. So cute! :D
Good reading too.
Billy~Where do you store you sneakers? or do you display them like sculpture?
Are you growing your hair long?
Can you please please recommend what less expensive Gibson Les Paul to get for rock? I'm drooling over all of them. Is buying new better than vintage/used? I'm hearing all conflicting stories.
Thank you, Lisa xxxx
Posted by: ylais at October 20, 2004 07:43 AM
Did you take a picture of the Hummer Les Paul???
Posted by: zannebee at October 20, 2004 10:31 AM
yea, i was looking for that too..thought i was being an idjeet again...:D
ou est le hummer les paul?
I've been choosing songs I want to learn with my guitar teacher, and while I was doing that, I kept thinking, ooo maybe that's good for Doheny! :D
I Love Faith No More, and I'd love to hear you guys do their "Midlife Crisis". Okay, well I had a long list, but I don't wanna hog the blog.
Love Lisa
xxxx
Posted by: ylais at October 20, 2004 11:55 AM
Billy....you look great next to that piano!!! LOL Have a grat time!!
Posted by: Abby at October 20, 2004 02:07 PM
Billy.. that piano is totally awesome.. though I do want to see the Hummer Les Paul. I was out to see Whitepony a couple weekends ago and "loaned" him my Gothic Explorer.. I still have my Gothic Les Paul here in TO.. it is the sweetest beast I have ever seen.. now just to get back to playing it again.
Peace and Respect, to Billy et al.
BH
Posted by: BH at October 20, 2004 03:29 PM
needed my sunglasses jus to look at that thing,thats about the most outrageous piano ive ever seen.Billy,glad you share my affinity for shoe shopping,though my weakness is clogs...suede,leather,low heel,high heeled mules,sherpa lined,lol....last count was 30 prs of em(eek)and yes i wear em all.Wont say another word about football at alllll..pray for the Sox though,theyre playin their lil hearts out against them damn Yankees.
Posted by: NhMadness at October 20, 2004 03:47 PM
Wow...I would love to sit down and play that cool piano. Cool pic too! Maybe you can put up a pic of yourself in the new suit! I also can't wait for CFR this weekend. Sounds like it's going to be a good show, especially with Billy Duffy. We need to get him into the chat too! That would be pretty interesting...I mean, we've got to get the Tour of Two Billys going, right? And speaking of music, what's with the music they play at the casinos? I swear I heard them play "The Final Countdown" and "Desperate But Not Serious"...weird...Of course, I was a little bit tipsy...
Posted by: Julia at October 20, 2004 06:26 PM
They played Adam Ant's "Desperate but not Serious"? In the casino. :O
Coincidence..I was thinking earlier, dare Doheny do any Adam and the Ants? :D
Posted by: ylais at October 20, 2004 07:55 PM
hi Billy....
wow that is one helluva shinee Liberace Grand pee-yannerr yer standin in front of!
this is my first visit here, ylais told me (hullawrer ylais) about the good vibes, and Im a sucker for the good vibes~ spreadin em, on toast .......and eatin em.
...was checkin out the 'Artwork' page, and got a good laugh out of 'churchsign' so goodonya whoever made that one!
hi Abby!, I see your pic in the Rogues Gallery. You're such a cutie! It's a good thing I live 1000 miles away eh, or I might have just got my arse kicked, ms. black belt ;) i definitely mean the compliment with the utmost of complimentary respect to you :)
Billy, im curious about this Hummer Les Paul...got a pic? what the hell does is it look like in all its' dubious glory?
all the best,
hope you, and all in CF have a good gig.
Posted by: skot at October 20, 2004 07:56 PM