Tag: guitar

  • MTV’s Legendary Design Guru, Jeffrey Keyton, Jams In My Office

    Jeffrey Keyton‘s such a design genius, I’ve literally stalked him to get him to work with me. The guy’s a complete legend in these halls because so much of the visual language of MTV for the past 20 years, well, came literally from him. When Jeffrey dropped by my office and picked up this cheap,…

  • Richard Shay Just Made Me This Incredible Guitar

    My friend Harry Oppenheimer (the handsome gentleman in the above photo) took me to see his buddy, the legendary Chicago photographer and artist Richard Shay.   Richard’s famous for his work with Oprah, Ellen, Michael (Jordan) and many others. Richard took us inside his girlfriend’s house and showed us what he’s been working on.   He snapped photos…

  • Daniel Nester Found Out That Hitler Found Out That “United Breaks Guitars”

    Back in June, I posted about Dave Carroll, who by now everyone knows had his guitar broken by an initially unrepentant United Airlines. Since then, there have been too many updates to keep up to date on. Tributes, imitations, pledges of solidarity, hateful rants against United Airlines, donations, and now this, which Daniel Nester just…

  • VP of MTV News Benjamin Wagner Just Performed In My Office

    Turns out, when he’s not running MTV News, Benjamin Wagner writes and performs music. In fact, he’s already got a few indie albums out. Benjamin took a break from breaking news and whatnot, and he came over for a visit just now. My meeting was ending, so Ben picked up a guitar and jammed for…

  • United Airlines Broke His Guitar

    Ok I wasn’t going to post anything about this because EVERYONE ELSE has. But fuck it, it’s just too good. And the subject’s too relevant to what I kinda think I am supposed to be doing. United Airlines broke Dave Carroll’s guitar, so he wrote a song about it: I’ve heard all your excuses and…