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Ghost of Electricity

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  1. good ideas above.  I'll add:

     

    Kinks -  You Really Got Me (use of distortion)

    Link Wray - Rumble (broke so much ground it became the only instrumental ever to be banned from radio)

    and something by Velvet Underground as that opened the way to the whole "alternative" thing (or whatever you call it) maybe I'm Waiting for My Man or Heroin

  2. i've considered a rat before.  What's the difference between a rat and a turbo rat?

     

    Todd, what are you playing that beautiful tele through?  (i vaguely remember this being discussed, but i'm feeling too lazy to go looking for it)

  3. I managed to swap the Trower for the FD2 today, left the phase at home, tried some trem.  I've decided the Swollen Pickle is not for me.  Also, the slapback sounds fine on it's own, but muddies up the band arrangement a bit...that might get left home next tome too.  And the ehearsal was much better than the last one.  maybe it wasn't the pedals after all.

  4. in my own defence, the board was thrown together at the last minute, using a 2nd od borrowed from the bassist (fulltone robin Trower, didn't like it). which i had to do because the other guitarist, who had previously been very much a stright into the amp purist, started using my FD2 (because I wasn't).  and now he's sold on it, it'll be hard to get back.

     

    the main questions now are: "how much does the phase add in those 2 or 3 songs where i use it?" and "do i really need slapback on the country stuff?"

  5. wherever it is, I'm pretty sure that folks groan and roll their eyes on the rare occasion that Ction stormed in to booze grouchily, and faces light up with glee on the equally rare occasion when Lotti makes a grand entrance.

  6. After I had a board I was reasonably happy with, I stopped going to the gear page for a long time.  The GAS stopped.  Eventually, I got sick of lugging the whole board to rehearsal (i walk there), so put a fuzz, od, and tuner in the gig bag, and that was that.  stopped worrying so much about my feet; more about my hands.  my playing improved.  had a couple of great gigs that way. 

     

    then, a couple of weeks ago, i started going back to the gear page again.  gas came back. pedal board came out again.  first rehearsal with it back yesrday. And....it was a crap rehearsal.

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