I’m sure you know my pal and occasional bandmate Jesse then! haha! I do but it's been a lonnnng time - we would go and try to watch anything Jesse was doing because he was always into good stuff. He might not remember me, but he would know Andrew Jeffkins, I'm his friend Tyler. You might know Davey...

Also - those Maranger guitars are very very cool! I played a show with a band (strange attractor) who had one of his basses a few months back and it was really striking. ah! the glorious small world that is Canadian independent music. I am from Sudbury - longtime friends with Jeff & Mitch, nati...

https://i.imgur.com/OZLecWI.jpeg I built up this (relatively) cheap JM parts guitar recently and it turned out really nicely. There's not much of note aside from the pickup which was probably the most expensive single part on the guitar (~250CAD); it's a humbucker styled after teisco gold foils (ki...

at a base level we all want to sound like the Screamers right?

Kniferide wrote: Tue May 13, 2025 4:06 pm I could pretty easily live on rice with kimchi, a fried egg and some chili crisp for maybe forever.

same + green onion + black sesame

Perfect mexican rice = buy a half liter of salsa, dump that into rice in an insta-pot. Press "rice"

Distortion for synth (think grind-y and metallic results). Every pedal I’ve tried either does nothing cool or goes straight to too much with no sweet spot. Maybe a dry/wet blend is key here? I think The Screamers just used big muffs but their parts are more monophonic than what I’m trying. EDIT: I ...

Good idea, I had it going through a Tronographic Boxidizer, but I think an EQ pedal would find the sweet spot a little better. Plus a vintage style comp to help shave off that 80s style attack. I never made the connection between the Rhodes Mk II and that one goddamn DX7 sound, but I can see its ki...

Woke up Sunday with significant numbness, and impaired mobility on my left side, when it didn't improve, Leah took me to the emergency room. Had a seizure, (first in 6 years) and a ct scan. thankfully not a stroke. Was kept overnight, with a wild eeg helmet thing on.MRI yesterday. No tumour growth....

Working class american jobs, "Americans should buy less cheap crap they don't need", is what generally the left has been saying for decades, and the "extreme" left had been against Free Trade What was missing was the racism of the extreme right being commonly adopted, and suddenl...