Miscellaneous

Call me a wimp but those medium-gauge strings are gone. They were just too much for my fingers so I switched them out for extra-lights. The fingers were very grateful ...

Stephen Colbert isn't the only late-night TV dude who likes to bang on the guitar. The New York Times stopped by Conan O'Brien's office, which he was packing up for his move to Los Angeles, for an interview and came up with this photo. I spy two guitars and at least 11 cases.


“Music and comedy are so linked,” O’Brien says in the interview, which runs this Sunday. “The rhythm of comedy is con­nected to the rhythm of music. They’re both about creating tension and knowing when to let it go. I’m always surprised when somebody funny is not musical.”

Apparently there once were lots of videos of Conan playing on his show on youtube but the honchos at NBC had them yanked. Still, you can see him busting into "Sunshine of Your Love" at the 3:58 mark on this video ...

John Belushi perpetrated one of the greatest acts of cinematic guitar abuse in "Animal House," as seen in the video below. The singer was played by Stephen Bishop, who had a couple of soft rock hits with "On and On" and "Save It for a Rainy Day" back in the '70s. Bishop had the cast of the movie sign the remains of the guitar and hung it in his garage.