hard to say... i mean, at a certain point, you need to go SOLO! you can then graduate to having a backing band. ok seriously. hopefully you'll get better as you get older. that's reason enough to keep going. plus, what on earth is more fun? it can be hard to find others with both the same tastes and...

Hey everybody, look at me! The guy who always has questions, but no answers! I've got a guitar where the bridge pick up (humbucker) is obscenely close to the bridge. Can I reverse it in the ring and have the same effect as actually moving the whole pickup away from the bridge? Are pickups wound in a...

I am a guitar whore. I'm now up to 14 of em. I can do basic shit like intonation and bridge height but have always been afraid to mess with a truss rod, thereby not getting the same quality set up as when I drop one off. Whatever I'm currently playing the most gets the pro set up but it's cost prohi...

I'm not going to pour over my whole collection but the first band that sprang to mind is His Hero Is Gone; "Monuments to Thieves" in particular. All the familiar adjectives apply: pounding, driving, pained blah blah blah blah. They get special points for being so heavy while only having 1-...

I don't know if i'd say "Greatest Album Ever", but Bubbelgum by Mark Lanegan has been in heavy rotation at my house since it first came out. I think I'm probably just a sucker for the throaty vox sprinkled with a bit of PJ over a sea of fat dirty bass lines though. same here. it also came...

I'm drowning in all the threads about Traynor amps. I've owned a "reverb master" for a few years without knowing anything about it other than I got it cheap, and by accident. I had been looking for a tremolo pedal for a while and found one I liked for $200. While thinking it over, on one o...

this city ain't big enough for the both of you's.... i propose pistols, at dawn he said, she said, blah blah blah..... my gut reaction would be to join in and bitch about those being bitches and bitching about how pointless internet sniping is (between those who will never meet in real life), the wa...

I'm not sure if this is kosher, having never seen anyone post one of these. who cares. I'm 28, live in Chicago, and am anxious to either get some people together for a recording project (at EA preferably), start a new band or join up with an existing one. I've been in bands on and off but somewhere ...

whoa... who would have thought this thread would go in this direction? i'm a friend of a friend/acquaintance of fred's and he's always seemed like an ok guy in person. his guitars certainly have a gimmicky element but he does it more for himself, having been making them long before he opened this sh...

1) Mike Mignola comics (Hellboy in particular)

2) TV on DVD