Posts Tagged ‘Guitar Straps’

Rival Sons Play The George Lopez Show

Monday, August 15th, 2011

It was awesome to see Couch friends Rival Sons rule the The George Lopez Show the other night.

Rival Sons on The George Lopez Show with Couch Deadstock Flowers Guitar Strap center stage.


That’s bassist Robin Everhart there in the middle between George Lopez and singer Jay with his Fender Bass and Couch Limited Edition Deadstock Flowers Guitar Strap. Nice!

Sorry these Deadstock Flowers Straps Robin has are now all sold out.


Most of these guys are actually from around Long Beach where we live and are all solid players- we’ve been enjoying hearing them in various bands for years. It seems like all’s clicking with The Rival Sons though, they are signed to EMI’s Earache Records, Classic Rock Magazine just called them “America’s Best New Band”, they’ve toured with Alice Cooper, licensed their music for Izod and Jeremiah Weed, just played Center Stage at The 2011 Indianapolis 500, and even the dude who did their album art also did the epic Pink FLoyd The Wall cover art. These rockers are currently in Japan and will be touring all of Europe with Judas Priest and Queensryche most of the fall. Metal! BTW have you heard Rival Son’s singer Jay sing? It’s pretty insane, check the video here. BTW, The George Lopez show just got canceled, reportedly due to a weak lead-in by Conan O’Brien, so these guys had one of the last performances on the show.

Mountain Goats Rock Couch Live On David Letterman!

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

4AD Records' Mountain Goats Wear Couch Live on David Letterman


4AD Records band The Mountain Goats have a brand new record called All Eternals Deck and were on The David Letterman Show a couple weeks ago to support the record with their song “The Birth of Serpents“.

Brown and Orange Racer X Strap and Army Guadalupe in Background

We were excited to see that Mountain Goat songwriter John Darnielle is still wearing his limited edition Army Guadalupe Strap he must have purchased from Couch 4 or 5 years ago when we did the only small batch of 30 or 40 of these. He’s been wearing this strap for years, so it’s still doing the job for him! We’ll guess and say the bass player here is Peter Hughes. We don’t need to guess on his strap though, as he’s definitely wearing a Couch Brown and Orange Racer X Guitar Strap. Nice!

John Darnielle has been included in Paste Magazine’s list of the 100 Best Living Songwriters, and New Yorker critic Sasha Frere-Jones called him “America’s Best Non-Hip Hop Lyricists“. Those are some nice words yo!