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The guitar strap is made out of 8 oz. leather that is tanned and softened to be an easily worn for hours upon end. The strap has screw holes cut out for a variety of mounting options and adjusts from 46" inches to 65" inches. If you are looking for a specific length, just let us know upon checkout and we can get the strap set up to your exact specs for a perfect right out of the shipping box. For this guitar strap we use vintage black denim as the fabric, which is then glued and stitched to the heavyweight leather strap. The guitar strap is 2.5" inches wide at full width and then tapers on both ends. Check out this strap and more on our Etsy Store Rusty Knuckles triple row studded Denim & Leather guitar strap Rusty Knuckles triple row studded Denim & Leather guitar strap Rusty Knuckles triple row studded Denim & Leather guitar strap Details on our custom guitar with acid etched aluminum pick guard Details on our custom guitar with acid etched aluminum ...

Rusty Knuckles Custom Leather Motorcycle Seat Creating a custom motorcycle seat is a lot of work and design ideas, but when it all comes together, there is no better feeling. Functional art is what drives us daily and make a seat that will reside on a custom motorcycle is one of our favorite endeavors.  Want to buy this seat? Hop over to our Etsy page Rusty Knuckles Custom Leather Motorcycle Seat Rusty Knuckles Custom Leather Motorcycle Seat Rusty Knuckles Custom Leather Motorcycle Seat

The Bonneville Salt Flats are one of Utah�s most iconic landscapes, covering more than 30,000 acres of BLM-managed land in the Salt Lake Field Office. Since 1914, this majestic landscape has served as the racing grounds for generations of land speed racers from around the world. For decades, these passionate racers have tested themselves, each other, and their vehicles in an ever-escalating contest to go faster than ever before. The area gets its name from the prehistoric Lake Bonneville that extended over 19,000 square miles and reached depths of over 1,000 feet. The salt flats are a remnant of this ancient lake � where evaporation left large concentrations of dissolved minerals in the surrounding soils. In the winter, groundwater and regional storms flood the Salt Flats � creating a salty, shallow lake. When temperatures rise in the summer months, the water evaporates, leaving behind the iconic white salt crust � sought after by landspeed racers for the hard and flat surface it form...

Two hard rock bands, one young and one old, walk into a bar. The bartender asks to see the older band�s ID. �Welcome,� she says. �I loved your music when I was a college student in the 90s.� The younger band hands the bartender its ID. �Sorry,� she says, fiddling with the knob on her FM radio, �you�re far too young to be in here. Go get a few radio hits and come back in a decade or two.� Ghost BC, a.k.a. Ghost, one of the few metal bands with songs popular at both Pandora and hard rock stations. Such is the dilemma for young hard rock and metal bands. Radio has all but turned its back on the hard rock and metal stars of tomorrow. It�s a shame. Radio has remained the most common source of music discovery, according to numerous surveys over the years. The old-fashioned format is tied with friends/family at 68 percent, according to Edison Research and Triton Digital . Where do fans of metal and hard rock go for new music? Not commercial radio. Metal, and its umbrella genre, h...

Instrument 1 is a MIDI controller, a tool for generating the standard digital music file. But whereas most MIDI controllers are keyboards hooked up to inscrutable boxes, Instrument 1 is shaped like a purposefully vague string instrument. Typing notes into software can�t capture the totality of writing and performing music. The physical act of hitting a drum or plucking a string or moving yours hands up and down piano keys, on stage or in a tour bus, is crucial to the experience. Instrument 1 wants to replicate that. Pressure sensitive buttons let you strum, press frets, or even hold the device up on your shoulder like a violin. And if you lay it on a surface, the neck acts as a piano/drum kit. You can learn more on Artiphon�s site

The band X Japan in the 1980s, as seen in the documentary "We Are X." Photo: Drafthouse Films As a kid, Yoshiki always wondered if he were from somewhere else � like Mars. A misfit child scarred by his father�s suicide, Yoshiki, trained in classical music, grew up to become a David Bowie -like man who fell to Earth. He revolutionized heavy metal music in Japan and, still going at 50, is trying to break into the American consciousness. Stephen Kijak �s documentary �We Are X� is a broad but surprisingly personal portrait of Yoshiki and his band, X Japan , which formed in 1982, broke up in 1997 and re-formed in 2007. The band began a push into the U.S. market about five years ago, and interviews include American friends and fans such as Kiss front man Gene Simmons and Marilyn Manson .  The film is a rush, all right, but it�s also a soulful look at Yoshiki, who although rarely without his dark glasses, still seems very revealing. He re...

Read original post on First Order Historians Ryan Clackner and Lucy Cochran (sometimes separately, sometimes together) have toured, performed or recorded with Bob Wayne, Fifth on the Floor, Shooter Jennings, JD Wilkes, The Legendary Shack Shakers, Sarah Gayle Meech, Red Simpson, Travis Harris and many others. They�ve opened for Social Distortion, Tiger Army, Hank III, George Thorogood, Unknown Hinson, Roger Clyne, JJ Grey, Scott Biram and more. Ryan has appeared in multiple music videos, including �Hush Hush� by The Pistol Annies. The purpose of Stump Tail Dolly is to mess your head up with an off-center mix of metal and country with other influences snuck in for good measure. We are thrilled to have Ryan Clackner and Lucy Cochran of Stump Tail Dolly as our guest today in 10 questions. RM:  The first Stump Tail Dolly song I ever heard was �Billy�, and afterwards I sat there dumbfounded due to what I had just heard. Your music literally sounds like W...