Brooks

you mean sasquach isn't real?!?

mastodon - crack the skye http://www.youtube.com/user/mastodonmusic?blend=1&ob=4 will bernard -blue plate special

love is everywhere.

rawk!!! welcome, nice gear.

outstanding show! we missed converge & high on fire due to the 2 hour drive down to charlotte. this was my 1st time in this newer venue called the fillmore, a kickass room w/ a huge stage, festival style flown PA & lights, classy looking chandiliers & red drapes (for sound treatment on all the walls). we walked in and got a beer just in time for mastodon. they played most if not all of the new cd "crack the skye", with killer visuals shown behind them on the enormous screen. their new stuff is more prog and yet more accessible at the same time. they were fairly stoic and still, concentrating on the riffs and multiple vocal parts of the new album. at the end of their set they did 4 or 5 old tunes, where they seemed to become more animated onstage, headbanging and moving around. my only complaint is that they didn't do "blood & thunder". brent played his killer see thru travis bean V, as well as les pauls and custom 1st act 12 and 9 sting guitars, while bill played his silverburst les pauls and explorers. the sound and performance was flawless. next up was dethklok. obviously they had the cartoon images from the tv show up the whole time on the giant screen, with hillarious short pieces inbetween some tunes. the allstar band was gene 'the atomic clock' hoagland (strapping young lad) on drums, mike kenally (zappa/vai) on 2nd guitar, and steve vai's touring bassist (name escapes me). the real surprise for me was the shows creator brendan small, who did most of the shredding *while* doing all the vocals, very impressive player (i expected kenally to do most of the heavy lifting, but he only did about 3 solos, concentrating on rhythm and amazingly tight harmonized arpeggios). like mastodon, dethklok was *sick* tight, and also fairly stoic and still onstage, concentrating on the tricky riffs, although kenally and the bassist were a little more animated. kenally played a jackson, charvel strat style, and a few others thru a rivera and marshall. brendon played a black explorer all night, i couldn't see his rig. at the end of the show brendan finnaly addressed the audience directly (instead of the cartoon onscreen doing the talking), he used the varoius character voices from the show as well as his own (sounds corny, but it was funny). again, the sound was perfect, full and clear but not stupid loud. my only complaint is that they didn't do "the cyborg slayers"; i just got their new album, it's the tune that made it onto my ipod, my highest personal endorsement. funny how the humourous cartoon angle could get me into seeing an extreme modern metal styled band like this, as i'm an old school zep/sabs/lizzy kinda guy. even if you don't think you'd like a show this heavy, i'd recommend seeing this tour, as you may not get a chance to see two extremely talented acts together like this again (i'd liken this to seeing justice era metallica and rush on the same bill, only with more chops). highly recommended!!

live in charlotte nc tonight!!!!! HORNS UP FOR METAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHXYzxdAhOY

thanx gus. i might later, i dunno. gay for floyd!!! haha when i say i don't like floyds tones, its compared to setneck hardtails (gibsons & hamers i've owned). i know, apples and oranges, but thats what i'm saying. i've tried OFR's, schallers, licensed floyds, plus kahlers too; experimented w/ scale lengths, setneck vs bolt on, different woods, different brands, different pups, oversized brass blocks...). i love playing this guitar, its the 1st one i reach for at home, and i will use it elsewhere (some tunes in the rush tribute, or other situations that require a whammy bar). but if i'm recording or playing somewhere that i want to sound my best, i prefer hardtails for the tones i use (70's hard rawk, clean jazz).

i have ~130 stickers left over, lemme know if you're serious.

the mylar prism srtickers have a sweeter top end than regular vinyl stickers

i've dug motorhead since "no sleep til hammersmith". as a kid, i used to ride my bike to the mall and flip thru the album racks at the record store. i'd buy albums based on their cover art only (this is pre-internet early 80's). i saw the cover of hammersmith and knew it would be heavy. i discovered iron maiden (killers) the same way. i still have 7-8 motorhead tunes on my ipod (my fave is live version of iron horse).

my alcoholic buddy from high school covered a peavey bass w/ naked women from porn magazines. across the room it had a quilted wood look to it, it wasn't until you were 5ft away that you could see the faces/legs/tits, it looked very cool. best part was the input jack!

while at the hard rock casino in florida for harry65's gig earlier this month, i spotted from across the casino a guitar on display that seemed to glow as if internally lit. i walked over for a closer look, it belonged to J from white zombie, he had covered it in prism stickers, and when the light hit its face it could probably be seen from orbit. i dug it, so a search on ebay found me a batch of prism stickers for cheap,so TA-DAAA: i removed the middle pup, as i never use it (and it didn't work). funny how guitars photograph; this chap/cent mutt looked better in pictures than it did in person when it was bare wood, but the pictures of it w/ these prism stickers don't look nearly as cool as in person. i'm sure someday i'll do a proper refin, but i dig this look, fittingly its very 80's.

not cool.

no regrets for me. the only thing that would be hard to replace is my #1 duotone (i've owned 5 usa's duotones and 1 import, plus a slew of other hamers, but my #1 is THE best, and i'm keeping it forever). well, i DO wish i held onto my '63 fender jazzmaster & original ts808; not because i miss them, but because i sold them before they were worth soooo much $$$

my 1st hamer was a slammer series sunburst, it kicked major ass w/ a pup change.

sounds good broseph. the ax looks sexy, too.

you should part that out; relish is worth more than a damaged pickle.

behringer ub1202 is $79 on musicians friend (i just happened to have that page open!).

ha! i agree, shredders should be tacky. as for a tone report.. it's a floyded shredder. i don't wanna open that can o' worms again. ok, one more time. i'm not a fan of floyd tone. the bob wilson chap that i sold a few months ago (mahogany, 24.75" set neck, upgraded brass block) was my final experiment in trying to get a good floyd tone (actually, the dean dimebag i had last year sounded best, but i felt silly). having come up on hardtail gibsons, floyds sound pingy to me, esp 25.5" bolt ons. but, i also came up on VH/vai/gillis/dime; they are a blast to play. i didn't want to turn this into another "floyds sound like ass", "NO, my (insert high end shredder here) sounds like a les paul" kinda thread, which seems to happen every time i post my opinion of floyd tone. lets talk about motorhead instead.

new pup covers and knobs. eventually i'll do a refin, but for now a motorhead sticker will do; i dig this thing. the action was so low i actually had to raise it, not because it was buzzing but because it felt strange. thanx to cloarkez for the deal.

i should also say that tho i don't use much FX, the FX on the axe-fx are very kickarse. studio & stomp comps, tape & dig delays, envelope & auto sweep (or pedal) wha, super tweakable flanges and chorus, even talkbox sims and trippy special fx, on and on... i read ty tabor of kings x has replaced his entire fx rack w/ an axe-fx, even tho he uses randall modular tube amps and egnator cabs.

i use mine w/ a 2 button footswitch (up & down presets). not very flexible on the fly, but i wanted to avoid a big footboard. i figured out what tones i needed (in this case, for the rush tribute), then i placed them side by side in a logical order (which meant duplicates of some lead sounds, as sometimes a rush tune goes from OD rhythm to lead, sometimes clean chorus to lead, etc). i also spent a few days going thru ALL the amp sounds only to discover that i *really* liked just 2 of them (a VH "brown", and a fenderish "brownface" for clean). i tried a few OD pedal sims (like a treble booster into a vox for a "queen" tone, etc), but still preferred just the 2 amp sounds alone. you can tweak these w/ tube sag, damp, etc but its all VERY subtle (IMFO). i had a similar experience w/ the roland VG8 (just liked a few of the hunderds of sounds), although the axe-fx sounds waaay better than the VG8. in defense of the axe-fx, i have expirenced 1st hand the difference between liking a tone by itself in your room vs the same tone not working in a full band mix, etc. so, the flexibility could come in very handy for someone who records a lot or needs a bunch of different tones (like a cover band, rush/U2 tribute, etc). right now mine is just sitting unplayed upstairs, as all i'm doing currently is acoustic gigs. i think its a great unit, but i'm seriously thinking about cashing it in so i can upgrade my motorcycle.

i have one, it sounds darn good. i haven't gigged w/ it yet, but have recorded. the idea is that its excells as an all in one modeller (amp/cab/mic), so its supposed to sound best like scooters pal is using it (straight into a P.A. or recording desk). i'm using mine w/ a carvin SS rack amp and a 2x12, which is a bigger rig than the combos i'm used to. i plan to tweak it for direct out if i get into a gig where i could use it (like my stalled out rush tribute, which requires a bunch of different sounds). its overkill for my original band, where i only use 2 or 3 tones. i like the idea of having every amp and FX tone i'll ever need in one tubeless box, but at this point i'm on the fence about whether its overkill for my needs. it is cool, tho. edit- something 1/2 way between my old superchamp xd and my axe-fx rig would be perfect; maybe a lightweight 100w SS head w/ less bells and whistles; just 3 or 4 good clean to heavy tube tones, a tuner, and a few FX. guitar player mag just gave the new marshall mg100hfx head an editors pick award, which is basically what i just described.

is that even a trans tube series?

more teenaged pantera (goofy as this is, wait til 2:26, even then the boy could shred); http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URXjjHUvi_w talk about great acting;