Rat Bastard from To Live and Shave in L.A. and the Squelchers has a pair of 12" Peavey solid-state amps that are louder than all hell and sound great for guitar. I was skeptical at first, but they have a pretty rad dirty sound when you crank 'em all the way up. The clean sound is pretty good, t...

I know a guy who's fond of answering all insults with this rejoinder: "I've got a knife in my pocket that says you won't come up here and say that." Sounds like Rat. Rat Bastard once greeted me in D.C. by sneaking up behind me and saying "I coulda cut yer throat right then and you ne...

The Orange tends to give a very foggy thick type of tone, and the TS808 is another midrange booster, so that combination probably lacks any transparency. I'd look into a treble booster of some sort and push the input of the amp, might do the trick for you. A Dallas Rangemaster clone or a simple JFE...

what, technically and subjectively speaking, are the differences? i also have a question regarding their interchangability... if my amp has been re-biased to take EL34s intead of 6L6s, can I pop 6L6s in safely, or would the bias have to be adjusted again? You can pop 6CA7s in there safely, with no ...

You know the part I like most about this?

The fact that we can successfully ban the torture of geese but not the torture of humans.

Oh man am I soiling myself with laughter about how awesome that is.

same wrote:are they cd-rs or actual 'pressed' cds?

Factory CDs.

how can I prevent this? You can't. Some cd's are more prone to flaking than others. It's that unstable digital media. It's called "flaking"? Hmm. I didn't see where the aluminum went ... it just vanished, like magic. Black magic. Black magic that sucks the music out of my goddamned CDs. I...

A number of CDs of mine that had been stored for about a year showed crazy patterns on them where the aluminum substrate had just ... disappeared. The erosion was in the pattern of crazy trails, not unlike the kind worms leave just under the surface of tree bark (all jiggly and zig-zaggy like). Ther...

I think this is a really great album, I love it.

Twenty years from now, I'm pretty sure I'm going to remember this summer as the one where I listened to this record over and over.

I was fucking around with Hugh McElroy's bass the other day, and the tone knob is totally busted. I pointed this out to him, and he goes, "Dude, I play dub, I haven't used that thing in years," and then he laughed at me.

That was funny.