Also dont knock my guitar

Oh, get a real guitar, LP Custom or SG ;)

Notice the ;)

Studio is good, but it also comes down to quality of wood etc, there is a lot in it. LP custom are very versatile, SG on the other hand are made to rock, I have one of the original Tony Iommi signature models, it only has one thing on its mind :) Ibanez are good, although I did start to get a bit tired of them, the feel, had a few RG 750's, 760's, S520, but I keep my old JS1000 (satriani signature model) it feels so nice.

Besides, its black
Yes black looks very nice, all mine are black. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5OvbOr0LTE

Not very Quake, but awesome! 

I hate to sound protective of my guitar, Plant, but theres not much in it really BTW.

The only difference your gonna get is something like 1mm (yes - 1mm) of cherry in the body of the higher end gibsons, ply wood binding, nickel hardware as opposed to chrome/gold and, er, 'different' (slighty) pickups. Alnico V instead of IV I think. Not worth �1000 

I have a roughly 400� Ibanez RG. :)
Proceed with bashing. 

And bash it youself. You can get a good sound from just hitting your guitar you know... What kind of amp do you use? 

15 watt Peavey transtube thingy.

I mostly play around with my acoustic steel string, or have for the last years. 

have you ever seen the pixies live? They have parts of the song which involve the guitarist kicking the amp to give a sort of explosion sound! But you need an amp which will do it, not just any old amp. You want one which makes a horrendous popping sound when you turn it off at the wall socket. It doesnt have to be an expensive amp... 

It's got to do with the reverb unit in the amps, I won't bother correcting your other mistakes/mis-information further above, because as the owner of a large Music store chain for the past 12 years, and an Australian Gibson rep for 8 years prior to that, I probably don't know what I am talking about ;) 

Let's get some proper tunes up in this place
http://youtube.com/watch?v=UNZxW6C4BNg 

love it when yer joking czg. 

http://www.gibson.com/en%2Dus/Divisions/Gibson%20USA/Guitars/LesPaul/Studios/Studio/

http://www.gibson.com/en%2Dus/Divisions/Gibson%20USA/Guitars/LesPaul/Standards/Standard%20Premium%20Plus/

OK - So the pickups models arent quoted exactly, and the wood specs arent exact - I mean were you ever a luthier? But its near enough to illustrate my point.

Are you talking about coil reverb units?

On another note, what do you think of the BFG? I was thinking of getting one of them, but I have been advised from 'other' sources that they probably wont retain their value very well (I still want one tho ;-) 

and Plant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyLo19rnPXw

This is what I talked about much earlier.
The most underrespected band in the world, Kingston Wall.
Sorry about the bad quality. Just listen to.. well, everything! The drumming, the guitar, the bass, the feeling! 

That's some good stuff. 

I have never heard that before!

Is like GNR/Floyd/Hendrix/Pearl Jam...

Reminded me of this for some strange reason:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27YaZMam1OY 

http://www.shadygrady.net/index.htm

This is a band from Austin Texas. I know of them because the man behind the band used to front the blues/reggae/rock group Big Sugar, one of Canada's best bands during the 90s. Their live show blew the fucking roof off of places. I have not seen a better show than them. He broke up the band in 2004 and moved to Texas.

Of his current band, he said �We�re trying to find the common ground between punk, metal and
gospel. I like to think we sound like Motorhead just got the job of backing up John Lee Hooker.�

This is obviously not going to be everyone's cup of tea, but if you like earblasting rock with some blues in it, you will probably like this. 

funky stuff there, Bambuz!
Sounds more like a three of a kind! 

I'm looking forward to seeing them live this month

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9FqCcT2cNs

That's the video for Big Sugar's breakthrough video. In Canada we have rules that a certain percentage of music played on music stations has to be of Canadian origin, but as a guy who hates mainstream music I'm glad of it. If a band becomes just plain old successful (ie, hits the US market, and most Canadian bands that have done so I'd feel dirty to even mention by name), we will hear them anyway. Oh god will we hear them. But there are plenty of good bands that we hear because of these rules.

Normally I like the more intellectual and depressing stuff, but I grew up on Big Sugar, and they just rocked so hard, and had so much talent for performance, improv, and just plain music, that they are definately one of Canada's best bands to me (and many others). 

that's simple music 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=k8eOxT3yjFQ 

i just listened to the two mp3s you uploaded. great stuff, lots of potential! thanks for that! :) 

Heres some cool dance music!
I think the guy's too busy pratting about with Madonna nowadays...

http://www.methodstudios.com/movie/90.html 

... you may now all be jealous. 

doesn't ring a bell. 

... you may now be jealous (or more likely you won't have heard them and don't give a damn). 

THEN you'd ALL be jealous (or I'll kill you!)