Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Nikki Sixx Heroin Diaries Ovation

Posted by Jon in • Acoustic Guitars in • Cool Guitars

Nikki Sixx Heroin Diaries Ovation
If you were/are a fan of Motely Crue you will know who Nikki Sixx is, for those who don’t he is the bass player and composer of most of Motely Crue’s music. You will also probably be aware of the fact that Nikki along with most L.A. bands of the time has suffered from Heroin addiction for most of his colourful career so it is pretty disturbing to see the artwork on this Special edition Ovation which i presume depicts the time Nikki overdosed and was revived after being technically dead for a few minutes to find the walls covered in blood. Now there’s a nice fireside story he can tell his grandchildren! If you want to read about Motley Crue’s crazy years I recommend you check out The Dirt too, full of stories from each band member, Tommy’s chapters are particularly entertaining I think his first word in the book is “Dude!“

“The stunning graphic on the top, designed by world-renowned artist PR Brown, is applied on spruce and married to a super shallow body to provide exceptional acoustic balance and projection. The NS28-HD also features many other distinctive Ovation characteristics including a thin profile neck, vibration sensitive Slimline pickup and the OP4BT preamp with a built-in tuner. Twenty-five percent of Sixx’s royalties from the guitar will go to Running Wild In The Night, a charity he established in conjunction with Covenant House to rescue homeless and runaway youth from the streets.“

So some good came out of his Heroin addiction! No, not the guitar the charity! honestly…

via Guitar Player Gear Guide

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Stratoblogster on 05/02 at 12:51 PM

Too bad Ralph Steadman is dead. Imagine if he’d done that graphic.

on 05/02 at 01:25 PM

I thought Ralph Steadman was still alive? He is according to Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Steadman

Plus I thought he worked on the McSwain ‘Fear and Loathing’ guitar:

http://www.guitarnoize.com/blog/comments/slashs-fear-loathing-mcswain/

on 05/12 at 12:23 AM

Another example of a perfectly good guitar ruined by an artist who probably never painted a guitar before in his life…and hopefully never will again.

Jon on 05/12 at 07:29 AM

I’m getting the feeling you don’t like painted guitars at all Lou?

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