Attaching a strap to a National Tricone and any electric guitar...pt.2

And for electric guitars it´s about the same. Only that you have to attach the straplock system of some sort, on the lower top corner of the pickguard and use a bigger screw. Or else it is the same again. The guitar stays on your belly no matter what, and your shoulders will not be damaged.

The risk here is stripping the hole where you have inserted the new straplock system. But hey, it is a tool, right? And not your, or any other living beings, body. :)

Again, it floats in the air. And looks like you´re pulling some magic trick.
By the way: I do not take any kind of responsibility of damaged guitars, but I gather that you already know that. :)

Attaching a strap to a National Tricone and any electric guitar...pt.1

Over the years I´ve had some severe backproblems, and having to carry guitars with my shoulders have sometimes been impossible, and the whole standing up while playing and singing and all that jazz, have just not been an option...sooo...here is what I´ve come up with after a lot of trial and error
(with encouragement from Curtis Blues...give his stuff a listen at www.curtisblues.com)

I took a couple of leather guitarstraps and tied em around one grill. Took the thin end and tied it to another (the brown strap) with a nifty black and white tread I bought from a nice lady in Somerville, MA, on the other grill.
The brown broad strap now goes around my back and down and get attached on the bottom of the guitar at the end strap pin...or what ever it is called. The guitar will now be staying on my belly, held up by my backside, and will now not damage my shoulders or my back. It works surprisingly well. Cut some different holes in the strap for different heights, but that was about it. I use a Jim Dunlop straplock just for safety reasons.

The only remote danger is that the pull eventually will push the neck out of place and will make the guitar require a neck reset. But I figured:
1. It is a National Tricone. If this guitar cannot take some abuse, then what guitar will?
2. If it damages the guitar in the long run (It has yet to occur, been using this for a couple of months daily now) It will be easier to reset the neck on the guitar, than on me :)

Another cool thing is that the guitar looks like it is floating on your belly...

The next album

Anyhow...my idea is to release tons of stuff in the coming year or so. I will go through the alfabet so the next album will be beginning with a "b" and be called Birdmachine. The one after that will begin with a "c" and so on.
I do not know if I will actually press it on anything or just make it available via digital download and through last.fm, myspace and such for streaming, as cds are getting really hard to sell, and are a hassle to produce. Hopefully I will be able to generate enough money to press some 7 inches in the not so distant future (a year or so). The thing about vinyl is that they are damn cool, durable and just have something that those little shiny plastic discs don´t.
I am in no way anywhere near a record deal or anything like that so this is like the best option I have for me to make some music and get it out so it is possible to easily listening in on it.

...and yes it works.

Now you can hear the Automaton album here. I will make playlists and put them on this page for streaming. Gotta love the digital revolution when stuff like this actually works. You should be able to find some of the music on last.fm too, please go search for it there once in a while. I´m not sure if it is really working yet but in a day or two it...

I can of course not upload the Gudssoennerne albums, because of the shared copyright. But do check out www.myspace.com/gudssoennerne for samples, and mail me if you want to get your hands on a copy at klarseen at gmail.com.

Last.fm

I am trying to make my music available for streaming on last.fm. If I can make it work, it should be possible to listen to the Automaton album, and soon after that a lot of different things...but I will try to make it work with the first album first.
The streaming should be free, but they supposedly are giving 10% of their advertising money to the artists, so if it works it sounds like a win/win situation. Everybody gets to listen to everything, and the people crafting the music will even get some kind of food to eat. Not bad at all...