Dammit. Been sifting through my feelings during this stupid, shitty week and I keep coming back to this: I owe the man a profound debt of gratitude. For nearly four decades I’ve loved music he made or recorded, a lot of it bound up with people and places that are long gone. Nearly all of the friends...
Great thread. I gotta go with Saccharine Trust. Of the dozen or so SST bands I got to see in my backwater hometown the set I saw was the best/most memorable. it was right around the time We Became Snakes came out, me & my friends went from what the fuck is this to WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS in about ...
The best is having the fuzz on and just turning the volume knob down. That's impractical sometimes though so a rangemaster for guitar, EP booster for lap steel
I met a guy a few years back who worked with visiting artists at the Old Town School's venue. I asked him if he had any good stories. He told me that when Marc Ribot played (a show I saw) he had one strict instruction for him: "I will take a nap for an hour or so before I play, and I want you t...
Pi 4 running as a Moode server > Schiit DAC > Schiit tube preamp (my friend got crazy good deals on the Schiit stuff) > old Yamaha CR-2020. You can use a browser to search for songs, make playlists, etc or use a 3rd party MPD player app to control it from a phone. You can also stream internet radio ...