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Hell, if I could get 10 B3 organs, I would. I wonder if it isn't the model that's misidentified. I know that they were touring with an A100. A100s run somewhere around $2k to $5k. Hammond M3s, which also have tonewheels and drawbars, run about $200 to $500.

I'm with John. Just about all of us play tube combos in the 15-30 watt range, and very few of us would trade those amps for 5 watt numbers. In fact, BolivarBaLues was just talking in another post about he really loved the sound of a 50 watt amp and was considering trading his 30 watt amp for one. The truth is, even if we suceeded in browbeating AlistorTheGreat into buying a 5 watt amp, in a few years he'd just want to get a bigger amp with a few more options, more headroom, or something that just sounded better to his ears. Why not just let him get that amp now? By the way, being born

No problem. I'll take a listen to the Bsus2, Bm part and see what I can come up with, but from what I can remember it was a little difficult to transcribe because I had a hard time picking out what was the lick and what was the other guitar behind it. Also, I'm not positive but I think it changes around slightly each time. At that point, laziness took over. Warm, comforting laziness. Yeah, I played around with the capo in a couple of different positions, 2nd, 5th, 7th, and 5th fret just made everything else easier to play. I could be completely wrong as I've never seen them play this so

Hmm... solid state amps tend to get a bad rap and while I mostly agree (seeing as how all of my amps are tube except for a JC-120 for my Rhodes), I don't believe that solid state is that bad. Gang of Four and the Buzzcocks both used solid state amps and I think they sound great (though they sound different from tube amps). Modelling technology has come a long way and Line6 amps made an appearance on Summerteeth (pick out which guitar parts aren't played through a tube amp -- even if you could, would it matter?). Anyway, most of us will put a whole mess of completely solid state pedals in

The truth is, even with a small amp, you're going to have to turn it up way too much for bedroom practice before you start to get power tube breakup. It'll breakup sooner (at lower volumes than larger amps) but I've never turned my pro-junior up loud enough to have it breakup and still not rattle the walls of the apartment building next to me. Beyond the way they sound you probably won't notice a difference in loudness between a 20 watt and a 50 watt amp. This is because you have to increase wattage 10 fold before you get a doubling in perceived volume. So the 8 watt pro-junior is only h

Thanks, Froggie and John. I got nice and smashed the night it happened and the room didn't stop spinning completely until 4:00 or so the next day. You know, they tell you alcohol numbs the pain but you don't fully believe it until you're lying on the floor because you're not sure if your legs are still attached to your body.

House was a rerun last night and my girlfriend dumped me, so I had a bit of time to take a stab at this one. You know, before I got drunk and fell down. Here's my go for the intro: 1..+.....+.....+.....+.....2..+.....+.....+.....+...... e--------------------0-----|--0--------------0--------| B-----2--------------2-----|--3--------3-p2-----------| G--------2-----4-----------|--------4-----------2-----| D--------------------------|--------------------------| A--------------------------|--------------------------| E--------------------------|--------------------------| 3..+.....+.....+....

I got the drunkest I've gotten since college last night on a Manhattan, and a couple of er... vodka and root beers (this story, while decidedly not cool, would be marginally cooler if I had been drinking something more adult). The night before, rum and cokes and then some pinot noir.

No problem. Cheers!

It sounds like this is an accepted way of wiring up Les Pauls, but it can be easily changed to how you like it. In other words, your tech didn't screw up, but you can probably get him or her to switch it around for free: From the Stew-Mac website: I hope this helps!

Hahahahahaha that's awesome. Thanks!

It sounds like Jeff

I dunno. I mean, I'm sure he says that, but I don't know how much you have to listen to that. My Vexter doesn't seem to care where it goes in the chain (though it sounds different after different things as we would expect any pedal to do), unlike my Fulltone '70 which really misbehaves (mostly unholy screeching) when it is placed after something (though this isn't a problem so much now that I power everything with a Voodoo Labs Pedal Power 2+, hmmm...). Anyway, it doesn't seem like Nels puts his Fuzz Factory first. Though, it's not immediately clear to me what exactly does come first. An

Hey, thanks, buddy. Yeah, the sarcasm can get pretty thick around here. Thanks for keeping me honest (I was a little kind to myself when I claimed 67% accuracy). I would have probably never corrected my mistakes without your push, so thanks for that. Anyway, try out the tab, see if it agrees with you. If it doesn't, post a correction or say what sounds wrong -- we'll get the whole thing tabbed right eventually. Cheers

Here we go: Well, I took another look and listen last night and came to the conclusion that I was about 67% right. (1) The tuning was, in my estimation, right -- Open Bb (low to high Bb F Bb F Bb D) -- I tried a bunch of other tunings and this one seemed to match up the best. (2) The chord names were right (ignoring whether to write chords as they sound or as they function). (3) The voicings were not correct. I think I was fooled by just how fricking loud Jay Bennett

Apparently, you're not used to my sense of humor, which is to say you are part of 99.999% of humanity (add more 9's at your leisure). No offense was taken, nor was any meant. My letter was a long exercise in entertaining myself in public as I am wont to do, while simultaneously avoiding real work, also as I am wont to do (much as I am doing right now). This might be the funniest thing I have ever heard (at least today... you know, not uttered by me... ). As far as taking things too seriously, you have stumbled onto my middle name (phrase?), but again, I'm just having fun (I choose t

You're experiencing what is known as the "ginandcigarettes effect," wherein massive amounts of information obscure the dawning realization that I have absolutely no idea what the hell I'm talking about.

Oh, I'm pissy all of the time. Anyhoo, I'm perfectly open to being quite wrong about this as I spent all of 15 minutes doing the most rudimentary transcription possible (most of this time was spent tuning my guitar to open C and then to open Bb when I realized that it was not in open C despite what Jeff Tweedy said in the director's commentary). WARNING: Long, painful, boring post to follow. Skip to the last paragraph for the point. Still, to be perfectly clear

Yeah, that's weird. I have a ZVex Vexter Fuzz Factory (supposedly, it's the same internally as the non-Vexter version but it has an adapter jack and a status LED and has a silk screened paint job and not the hand painted job). Anyway, I don't really have a problem where I put it (sometimes before my overdrive sometimes after -- and always after a buffered effect, i.e. my tuner). I will point out that the Fuzz Factory is designed to produce all kinds of buzzes and noises, self occilations and other things that most folks will not think are musical (hence, factory). Try turning the gate u

Bwahahahahaha If I had been drinking milk it would be coming out my nose right now. They all look like who they are supposed to look like, but Pat is earily similar. I think it's the hair. Or that he really is just a real life cartoon character. You should post that on another topic that, you know, is seen by more people than you and me. And, by the way, I didn't make you do anything that you didn't already want to do.

I dunno, do you have an AC30? Overdrives react differently to different amps at (this is important) different gain settings (some can sound great at bedroom volumes, but dime the amp and they sound horrible, or at least different). I find my Deluxe Reverb Reissue is finnicky when it comes to overdrives. Others are more forgiving. Also, it depends on the style you're playing and what you're using the overdrive for. Single notes might sound cool with certain overdrives but chords sound like mud. Of course, you might like this. Be clear on what you're looking for, you might think you want

I've now found out that this is incorrect. It turns out that the PX 110 and PX 310 both have triple strikes (three separate samples -- soft, medium, and loud) for their piano sounds) and the PX 100, PX 300, PX 400R, and, well, the other Privia-esque ones, I suppose, have a dual strike. Whether this adds up to a noticibly better performance, I dunno, as I only have played on the 400 (to my ear, in a noisy music store I could not discern a second sample but this shows you what I know). I should probably stop guessing what the right answer is and start checking my facts. I blame the liberal m

Nah, I used this.

Yeah, but I use a Tele Custom (and apparently look a lot like Trey when done in South Park caricature). This might be a more fitting avatar for me:

Because they didn't have sunburst Tele Customs with Bigsbys? (That makes me a sad panda.)