Ask a music scene micro celebrity

[roto13]

Two questions:

You play a Travis Bean and have recommended the Electrical Guitar line of instruments -- never having played either, what are the benefits (sonic and otherwise) of an aluminum neck guitar?

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most importantly, it is bastard hard to get a major label to pay its bills

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To what do you attribute this? Bureaucracy/incompetence or do they hope you'll give up and they'll get to keep the money?