MeDave

Most of us already know but if you don't Nels gets very in depth in taling about his thoughts on gear, amps, and pedals! pedals! pedals! on his website...

 

http://www.nelscline.com/tech.html

 

His whole site is worth checking out, but particularly the tech page and amp du jour page for a good breakdown on his thoughts on what he uses to color his sound.

 

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older VC archive thread on pedals in general. Gets into jeff and nels...

 

http://archive.viachicago.org/index.php?showtopic=4325&hl=

hee hee. that was fast - thanks.

i would love to see us have a forum added dedicated to gear type questions - there have always been lots of amp and pedal and guitar discussion threads but it can be hard to find them in the archives or to come upon them in the tabs section...

 

it would be low traffic - more of a reference and resource section - threads on the band's set ups and methods, people could share a bit about what they do themselves, etc.

 

it could be called something silly like:

 

"We've got solid state technology, tapes on the floor"

 

etc. etc.

 

i'll take responsibility for getting it started as far as sparking a few threads and or identifying what in the archive could be brought into it?

 

no big deal - just a thought i had while going through a nels inspired pedal buying binge over the last months....

Hey ol chum, here's a couple I know for sure -

 

They say ev'rything can be replaced,

Yet ev'ry distance is not near.

So I remember ev'ry face

Of ev'ry man who put me here.

I see my light come shining

From the west unto the east.

Any day now, any day now,

I shall be released.

 

They say ev'ry man needs protection,

They say ev'ry man must fall.

Yet I swear I see my reflection

Some place so high above this wall.

I see my light come shining

From the west unto the east.

Any day now, any day now,

I shall be released.

 

Standing next to me in this lonely crowd,

Is a man who swears he's not to blame.

All day long I hear him shout so loud,

Crying out that he was framed.

I see my light come shining

From the west unto the east.

Any day now, any day now,

I shall be released.

written by Richard Manuel and Bob Dylan from The Band's Music from Big Pink

 

and

Randy Newman: Political Science

No one likes us

I don't know why

We may not be perfect

But heaven knows we try

But all around even our old friends put us down

Let's drop the big one and see what happens

 

We give them money

But are they grateful?

No they're spiteful

And they're hateful

They don't respect us, so let's surprise them

We'll drop the big one and pulverize them

 

Now Asia's crowded

And Europe's too old

Africa's far too hot

And Canada's too cold

South America stole our name

Let's drop the big one

There'll be no one left to blame us

 

We'll save Australia

Don't wanna hurt no kangaroo

We'll build an All American amusement park there

They've got surfing, too!

 

Well, boom goes London

And boom Paree

More room for you

And more room for me

 

And every city the whole world round

Will just be another American town

Oh, how peaceful it'll be

We'll set everybody free

You'll have Japanese kimonos, baby

There'll be Italian shoes for me

 

They all hate us anyhow

So let's drop the big one now

Let's drop the big one now

Theologians

fatal wound for me for the tweedy tribute please....