baby iceman cometh

I picked this guitar up in really bad shape. This guitar had been part and parcel to a grudge and major violence. It has huge chunks taken out of it, the fretboard was separating from the neck, but somehow through it all, it played and sounded great.

I’ve quickly developed a major fixation. A little glue and some spring clamps did wonders. The missing chunks are still evident, but worn with aplomb. The neck is thin, fast and has very low action, but no fret buzz.
My first Iceman was black, I bought it from Jim Shank and it was a magnet for abuse. I scratched graffiti into the thick black finish, I smashed it into Dan Campbell’s bass drum again and again until the neck brace gave way.
I loaned it to Richie Carrino, who took it with him on tour with Guns and Roses (Richie was a roadie, not in the band!) When it came back, it had a GnR sticker on it, and I immediately told him, ‘Take that off of it NOW’
eventually covered it with Pink flowered contact paper.

In 1995, I finally got a new Iceman, this time a blue one (Lazer Blue!) , more or less the same heavy, unbalanced body as the black one. I sold the gutted body and neck of the ‘pink flower’ Iceman to Chad E Kool, but kept the ‘icicle’ shaped tuning heads and put them on the blue one.

I got baby Iceman for $45 from some tweeker looking metal heads, who had a bunch of 7 string guitars laying around their apartment. They asked if I wanted to buy some barstools also.

I Just found: http://www.ibaneziceman.org/