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Sublime Reunites At Smokeout and Eric is Rocking Couch!
Our friend Dave just emailed us yesterday this Youtube screencap of Sublime bass player Eric Wilson wearing a Brown and Orange Racer X Couch Guitar Strap in front 30,000 plus people at Cypress Hill’s Smokeout Festival on October 24 in San Bernardino, California. Nice! We had heard a number of years ago Eric had purchased […]
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Upcycling Is The New Recycling? Glad There's a Name For It!
The other day our designer friend Jay from Whodini Handbags asked us if we knew what the word “upcyling” meant. He said he was seeing the word a lot on that indie-designer craft super site etsy.com and was curious about its meaning. Upcycled Guitar Straps, like our Vintage 80’s Mercedes Upholstery Straps, Ford Mustang Plaid […]
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Silversun Pickups perform "Panic Switch" on David Letterman
A long time ago we saw And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead performing live on The David Letterman Show and after a less-than-enthralling performance, Dave stood up and literally said “Gentlemen, don’t quit your day jobs”. It didn’t sound to us like he was kidding. The Silversun Pickups got entirely […]
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How To Attach A Guitar Strap To An Acoustic Guitar
We get a lot of questions about whether our guitar straps will work with acoustic guitars, and the answer is yes, Couch Vegan Guitar Straps, any guitar straps for that matter work with acoustic guitars. The question arises because many acoustics have only one “button” on the back side of the guitar to attach to […]
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New Wilco Video Out, Nels Cline Wears His Couch Strap
Tim W. From Deitze Music in the Omaha emailed us the other day to mention that “Avante-Guitarist” Nels Cline is wearing his Couch Guitar Strap in the brand new Wilco movie/DVD “Ashes of American Flags” (Nonesuch Records)! The movie, about “American’s Best Live Band” (NPR), won “Best Cinematography” at The Big Sky Film Festival too: Nels’ […]
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A Free Beer With Every Straplock!?
This is well known in some circles and less in others, but did you know that the little red washers used on ceramic Grolsch Beer bottle tops work excellent as strap locks? We at Couch Guitar Straps like them because we’re not really that into drilling into our guitars, or for that matter spending the money […]