Brian Krashpad - any news?

[tjcurtin1]

I was wondering if anyone's heard from Brian lately - hoping that he is doing OK.

 

[piebaldpython]

Krash is doing well. I am Facebook friends with Krash and so I see a lot of his posts. Healthwise, careerwise and most importantly, git-wise he is doing well. If you are on FB, you can friend him.

 

[tjcurtin1]

Thanks, Pie - I'm not a facebooker, so I appreciate your update!

 

[Brian Krashpad]

Thanks, Pie - I'm not a facebooker, so I appreciate your update!

I'm good thanks! Managed to gig Crash Pad a couple times in between operations (had jaw rebuilt, then complications) last year. We had a bandmember move unexpectedly, and between that and work have had a tough time getting the main band back on the boards.

Recently (about 3 weeks ago now) I played a reunion gig with the band I was in in 1989-90!

Here's a viddy (not sure if you can see it if you're not on fb), I don't really do anything but play rhythm on this song, but you can see I'm still alive. Also, fast forward through the first half of it, it's a long spoken intro:


I've been playing banjo and mandolin with an Irish band too:

Also in process of firing up my old friend's performance art collective, which has been on hiatus for about a year after he got married.

I'll be up in Jacksonville tomorrow for pre-op stuff at Mayo Clinic, have one more operation at the end of this month, supposed to make my neck look slightly less grotesque. We'll see how successful that is.

And I'm doing fine gear-wise. Ended up buying 3 Epi LPs last year, a Special, a Junior, and a Deluxe. Am considering an old Hagstrom Swede, but if I go for that I'll probably sell something I currently have. Also I've gotten a total of 3 of the old Marshall JCM 800 Series solid state combos, in the above video I'm playing a mini-stack of 2 of them (the Les Paul is the Deluxe).

Here's the current guitar stable:

Short version: I'm doing OK! Thanks.

 

[tjcurtin1]

Hey, Krash - good to hear from you and to know that you are doing well. Good luck with the final surgery!

Ted

 

[Robert]

Good to hear from you Brian!

You still have more than twice as many guitars as me. Keep on rocking!

 

[duhvoodooman]

Nice to see your face in the place, Brian! And I can still tell my wife that there are TWO guys on TheFret (you & Spud) that have more guitars than me!! Not that that gets me much slack....

 

[helliott]

Nice collection, Brian. Best of luck and fond wishes,

 

[Zip]

Nice to hear things are going well.
Do you still have the Sovtek Mig?

 

[marnold]

Great to hear from you, Brian! Is the latest surgery mainly cosmetic or is there more to it?

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[Jipes]

Great to see that you're back in good shape, wish you all the best and tons of great times ! I love your Guild guitar is it a Muddy Waters early bird model or a Reissue ?

 

[stingx]

Thanks for the update, Brian. It's nice to see you're doing well and still playing! If you remove all bass guitars from your picture I have now as many guitars as you

Take care.

 

[Brian Krashpad]

Nice to hear things are going well.
Do you still have the Sovtek Mig?

I still have the Tube Midget, yes. It needs a re-tube though. That's why I played that reunion gig with the Marshall mini-stack.

Great to hear from you, Brian! Is the latest surgery mainly cosmetic or is there more to it?

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It's technically cosmetic, I could go home at the end of the day and wasn't in-patient. They removed part of the pectoral muscle in my neck. Unfortunately it's still kinda grotesquely large, they couldn't take any more without risking killing the transplant. Meaning I'll probably have them do another debulking in 6 months.

Great to see that you're back in good shape, wish you all the best and tons of great times ! I love your Guild guitar is it a Muddy Waters early bird model or a Reissue ?

It's the DeArmond re-issue called the Jet Star. :AOK

 

[marnold]

Glad to hear from you, Krash. Praying for good health in the future.

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[Brian Krashpad]

Glad to hear from you, Krash. Praying for good health in the future.

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Ta Rev. Hope you, and all here, are doing well!