Brooks

our thoughts are with you, broseph.

+1 on raging slab, great band but their albums are hit & miss (kinda like some other bands i should add to this list, like kings x, wino, c.o.c., or fishbone).

i remeber lord tracy! i thought they'd be big when they came out. terry was the original singer for pantera back in their spandex/cover tune days. barney was an amazing shredding bassist (ala billy sheenan), he used to play for lightning (big 70's/early 80's texas band), went on tour w/ the cult after lord tracy split.

+1 on the bee gees and disco, at least for dancing (i dj our company partys; drunk girls + disco = party!). i also like some rap that was popular when i was in college, like public enemy, ice cube, ez e. for some reason i really love sublime, even though they are outside of my typical hard rawk or neo-jazz tastes.

yeah, ozric tentacles has some cool stuff. other cool instrumental stuff under the radar: will bernard tj kirk dave fuiczynski cool hard rawk stuff under the radar: riot mindfunk burden brothers

nice shirt, chris. do they make those for men, too?

"thats a bold statement" - vincent vega. that suhr was killer. can't wait to check this daytona out.

i know jeff e. terwilliger (JET) from raleigh nc, he used to do work on my stuff before i moved to g'boro (& started mooching work off stike). he made me a doubleneck i designed w/ some short scale bolt on necks i had. he does nice work. but, i gotta agree w/ HHB about the over the top eye candy factor, thats a turn off i get from lotsa high end builders.

my take on shred type players is that they're alot of fun to watch live. i love watching someone who has mastered their instrument, even if they go over the top (like yngwie). but, most of the shred stuff i've heard doesn't stand up to repeated listening, at least to me. its the same w/ bluegrass; i'll enjoy watching a live set of quality BG music, yet the cd's bore me as much as shred. that said, i do have a few scott henderson/andy timmons/kotzen & howe/holdsworth tunes in rotation on my 200 cd player. i used to love vai & satch in the 80's, but i never replaced their albums w/ cd's (kinda like judas priest and iron maiden). i like scofields stuff from the last 10 years. he's got chops, but he doesn't overdo it. its his jazzy phrasing that hooks me, along w/ the funky grooves. charlie hunter and will bernard, too. i like good players, esp for instrumental music. but alot of my fave rock music (sabs, zep, CCR, etc) is kinda lame compared to jazz and shred stuff, at least chops wise. but i'm feelin' it.

i vote for chorus as the most useless effect.

bill, you've made some major progress today, we're very proud of you

yep. because of that, the only time i DIDN'T use an OD pedal was when i was in a coverband w/ a fulltime soundman. otherwise, a boost pedal (in my case, a comp) wouldn't boost the volume of a gainy amp channel, it just compresses it more. without a soundman, i NEED a volume boost for solos that i can control. for most rawk band gigs, i've always run a OD pedal THEN a comp into a CLEAN tube amp; this way the comp gives as big of a boost as i set it to, clean or dirty. recording is different, tho.

mc chris, didya get my private msg a few days ago?

yeah, the trip just seemed stiff and dated, ymmv. i'll look for wild in the streets. a great book that got me interested in the new hollywood era is "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood". i made a list of movies from the book and entered them in my netflix list.

alberts right. i've been on a "new hollywood" kick, watching movies from that mid 60's to late 70's NH era. watched "wild angels" a few weeks ago, along w/ "the trip" (fonda, dern, hopper). the NH era is all about "un-hollywood" type movies; unhappy endings, slice of life kinda stuff. faves so far have been; last picture show, mean streets, & easy rider. i didn't like a few i've seen so far; the trip, last tango in paris.

right on albert!!

beat to death already in this thread: http://www.hamerfanclub.com/forums/index.p...=547&hl=avatars

HFH is a great neck pup IMFO, had 'em in a LP, as well as the 25th annv i sold to teleman. prolly my 2nd choice for a neck pup (after a phatcat). also had a duncan jazz neck pup in a few guitars, maybe my 3rd choice. but yeah, "humbucker from hell" sounds like a dimebag reference, makes ya think it should sound all high gainy, but it doesn't. hmmm.

i bought a marshall from eddie years back when he was at music loft in raleigh, great saleman.

mc chris, who is nawing on that girlies breasticle in your avatar? freddie krueger?

oh snap!! (wags head & finger like agitated black woman) pammie, NO YOU DIDiN' just lump tull, jaco, & rush in w/ (ok, i'll give you most of the rush & tull catalogues, but NOT moving pictures, one of the finest crafted rawk albums ever, hmmpff).

yes.

amen to that, broseph! ps- stike, your tourrets (sp?) comment is classic!!