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Playing on a stage in front of an audience, the only valid approach is to keep on trucking.

Line 6 FM4

I've been leaning heavily on the Line 6 FM4 for for my filter needs for the past 23 years. Adding an expression pedal really adds a lot.

McDLT

Cream of tomato involves adding milk during preparation, so...

I prefer cream of tomato soup with grated sharp cheddar on and soda crackers broken up in.

Lots of stuff will go into climate-controlled storage, and the rest will get squeezed into the corner of my living room in a pretty minimal setup with no room treatment. There is no point in even setting up monitors cos the listening environment will be hilariously skewed. Headphones for now. Ugh.

SUFFER

To be a train.

Makes me want to dust off "White Rabbit" again. Dunno if I can still hit those high notes, though. My voice has been through the wringer since last I sang it in 2017. It was becoming a stretch even then.

Cool! Thanks!

I've been holding back on making any political posts here as well. Attempting to stick primarily to music, with the occasional complaints about my rotten (but improving) health.

Most of it got incorporated into my home studio, and some of it is with my synthesizer hardware. The routing and switching part got sold off.

After some of the seller's remorse I experienced in the 80s and 90s, I don't often sell gear anymore. I have occasionally gifted some to friends, though.

I switched back to a pedalboard from rack stuff around 1997. Just made more sense.

That said, I also have a home studio that predates DAWs, so there's a heap of gear in them thar racks.

I do not miss recording to tape, I only miss the workflow. Definitely not the machine maintenance!

*fans self*

Academic publishing.

I swear, it was worse than the music business in the 1990s.

1978 Ross Flanger made in Kansas.

1986 Boss BF-2 Flanger

2013 MXR M-117r Flanger (reissue)

I have been known to buy a spare or two of a particularly essential pedal.

I tend to go through periods of being fixated on a particular type of effect. This is why I have loads of delays and flangers and fuzzes and phasers and at least three different chorus pedals.

Same with rack gear!

I've only had a few ways over the years. My first was a DeArmond 1802 Weeper Wah, which was physically huge and used a dual ganged pot on the treadle. Great sound and smelled like brand new car tyres due to the rubber tread.

Decades later, a Tech 21 Killer Wail.

Also, a Vox chrome top of uncertai

Nearly any big project can be broken down into a collection of smaller ones. There's gold in them there oxide strips.

Main things holding me back right now are slow recovery from major surgery and loss of mobility. This spring, though, I'll get through the whole thing in a couple of weekends.

Mine is a frozen Ponsonby Pie and an unopened bottle of L&P from 1997.

Fried Spam IS the prize.
It's also how cardiologists get rich.

Payment that fills the stomach, if not the wallet.

In the early 90s, I once did a 2 hour show with a full band, and we got paid in beer. The CONTRACT specified a $1500 guarantee.
Thanks to a paper trail and recorded phone conversations, we won in court. We also got blacklisted in that city. 😂

Quality over quantity?

But what you're talking about is why I barely used Twitter even before it slid down the wall. It just felt like a load of people wandering around monologuing.

You can tell by the way Alex uses his walk...

Might be a Dynacomp or an Orange Squeezer.

Many modern guitar compression pedals are derived from the Dynacomp.

The compressed guitar all over Dire Straits' "Sultans of Swing" was Orange Squeezer.

Red light fever is a real thing.

When has it NOT been time?

First impression: it tastes like I'm drinking a green apple Jolly Rancher.

I need to check out the Ellington. That Floyd album was a formative influence on my music making in the early 80s, and that Bulgarian women's choir album was recommended by Adrian Belew and still brings me chills.

I meant to type simulating, not stimulating.

There's a long tradition in many cultures of stimulating drug-induced reveries using nothing but sound. And what else is more primal than the human voice?

Vocal workshopping and rehearsals are so important and too often neglected.