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Monday January 4, 2010
Ben Simon Music
Wild custom guitars from Brooklyn
Rock history is filled with epic guitars, from Eddie Van
Halen's "Frankenstein", to Nigel Tufnel's Marshall stack
with a neck, to the Dean Explorer ZZ Top had covered in fur,
leading Billy Gibbons to constantly complain "PETA's got me
Under Pressure". Now all of them can bow down to your own
custom axe, from Ben Simon Music.
Just now accepting commissions, Simon is a BK-based former
touring musician who moved to the Carolinas in '05 to learn
woodworking, then went mad scientist and started concocting
abstract rigs that're part instrument, part art, and 100%
awesome. The journey to ownership starts with a free consult
(phone/email/in person) where you'll discuss your wildest
musical instrument dreams, sussing out materials (from local
Douglas fir to Brazilian purpleheart), hardware ($2 or $200
pickups?), and outlandish shapes, which in the past have
included a rain cloud w/ a lightning bolt neck, and a giant
brontosaurus -- unfortunately devoured by the members of T.
Rex. The crazy gets crazier with bonus electronic
components, from built-in speakers, to circuit boards ripped
out of vintage drum machines/synths, which can be hooked up
directly to buttons on your unholy creation, or tweaked to
create random new sounds via a process known as "circuit
bending", a term you always assumed referred to that time
9th circuit judge Andrew J. Kleinfeld totally dressed like
Rosemary S. Pooler of the 2nd circuit!
Currently Simon is considering taking classes in metal
working and other skill sets that could be applied to future
music whips, though if he doesn't figure out
a-how-how-how-how to make a guitar out of actual Legs, Billy
Gibbons won't pay him with a Pocket Full of Change. Or Cheap
Sunglasses. La Grange.
Prices start as low as $500, so get inspired at the gallery
and get in touch at bensimonmusic@gmail.com
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