The “proof” may be in the “pudding”...but there's no accounting for “tastes”
— H. Thrust
OTHER WORK by Howard Thrust
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One of my favorite forms of Sonic Communication is “Storytelling” with accompanying “Background Music”. Click on the image to reach my “Musical Mono -logues” Soundcloud Page!
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Currently, I have about a Dozen “Visualization” Videos up on my YouTube Channel. Just Click on the image for a look and listen to my featured Y/T Vid!
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I have DOZENS of Feature Articles (among other works) posted on “The Truth About Cars” website. Click on the image, and you’ll be transported to my currently featured “Memoirs” Editorial…
Featured Music Gear
To one degree or another, ALL Players/Musicians are into the gear they use to create and perform with…and I’m no exception! While not really at the level of Guitar “Luthier/Builder”, I have absolutely gotten behind not only selecting instruments for specific purposes…but ALSO those which become “platforms”—to one degree or another—for modification to further enhance their performance for those specific purposes.
Witness this lovely vintage “Edwards (ESP) Vision” model from the early ‘90s. The Edwards brand was created by the ESP Guitar Co. to produce models strictly for the Japanese market. Typically, these units had one or more features which infringed on other manufacturer’s design copyrights (such as “Headstock” designs) in the U.S.A. ; but ESP was able to easily negotiate this problem by avoiding their import here. Still, some (thankfully) did make it into the United States individually. Like this one!
Sporting a “semi-dinky” all-Maple Body, select oil-finished Maple Neck—with half of the Fretboard topped with Rosewood, and the other half with Maple, and rocking “mid-jumbo” Frets—unique high-output “stacked” humbucking Pickups, a Thrust installed “Suhr Doug Aldrich” high-output humbucker in the Bridge, and a Gotoh brand Floyd-Rose Locking Tremolo system, this Guit’ really GETS with the “Shreddy Hard Rock” attack!!
The translucent Fire Red Nitrocellulose Lacquer paint (Purple on the sides of the Body!) certainly ROCKETS it all the way to “11” !!