User:ACFuzz
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About Fran
ACFuzz aka Fran (age 35) hails from a small insular town just outside of Nottingham in the UK. He lives with his girlfriend Kathie Anne and his Fender guitars in a splendid post victorian house. A carpenter by day and musician by night, he has played guitar for 16 years spending much of that time in gigging bands such as 'Anti-Social Dog', 'Primary', 'Kitsch' and 'Poem Rocket' to name a few. His main hobbies are listening to music, playing music and offsets. He also likes to have a 'tipple' the odd evening and chat nonsense to the other shortscalers' on the forum.
He is also a guitar FX addict with a compulsive disorder to buy, sell, swap, modify and trade. Once the proud owner of 15 different Fuzz pedals his collection has now dwindled down to a handfull including his Germanium Fuzz Face clone that he built himself.
The music
His musical influences cover a broad spectrum, from indie to metal and punk to 60's psychedelia he finds something interesting as a guitarist. In no particular order here is a small list of his favourate all-time bands:
The Jesus & Mary Chain
Dinosaur Jr
The Stooges
The Smiths
Peter & The Test Tube Babies
My Bloody Valentine
Black Sabbath
The Stone Roses
Bad Brains
MC5
Pixies
Black Flag
Mudhoney
Frans links:
Bites Dog Current punk band
Poem Rocket Previous indie rock band
Youtube tom foolery Various video clips dedicated to offsets
Most of the bands he has played in have been either indie/alternative or punk. Happy with ambient excessive FX use like Kevin Shields (MBV) or rawking it up like Dr Know (Bad Brains), two major influences.
The offsets
His love of Fenders finest began around the late 1980's after seeing such bands as- 'My Bloody Valentine', 'Dinosaur Jr' and 'Sonic Youth' play live.
Them odd shape Fenders looked amazing on these equally amazing new bands and it has been love ever since!
Here are a few of the guitars in his current collection...
My CIJ Jag now also has the Fender 'mute' fitted, SD QP in bridge, a B/W/B pickguard and buzzstop.
The Jazzy has also been upgraded with a SD QP pup and mint pickguard.
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The darkside...
Over the years Fran has owned many different guitars from Ibanez to Patrick Eggle, but besides the Fenders only one other guitar has become as important- the Gibson Les Paul Junior. This guitar shares similarities with Fenders shortscales. Firstly it was intended as a budget student guitar with a small comfortable neck and a 'no frills' workhorse aura about it. Secondly it appealed to an alternative crowd as far as bands go gaining it cult status.
Anyone that has owned a LP Junior will know, it is a relationship for life.
His contribution to this site is the Fender Jaguar page.
