So yeah, I finally got sick of all the flakey musicians and band drama I've been facing lately.. I've been through a few drummers, numerous guitarists/singers, and other bad apples.. All of which had poor excuses and flaked out at some point (.. or had no drive). Anyway, using a channel switcher, I now run a guitar amp and a bass amp w/ my bass. I can get very 'guitarish' tones on the guitar stack and still get solid bass on the bass stack. I can mix and match any combination of lead, rhythm, or bass parts and am even working on my singing. I have a solid drummer and 5 or so songs (which are damn good I think..) to work with. To hell w/ flakyness!! Ok.. done venting. I'll post some songs I'm working on soon
If that doesn't work out, keep looking. We went through 12 lead guitar applicants before finding the guy we have now and it's the best fit we could've dreamed of.
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If that doesn't work out, keep looking. We went through 12 lead guitar applicants before finding the guy we have now and it's the best fit we could've dreamed of.
Wow! 12 guitarists eh? That's nuts! Did they all show up to try out in a relatively short time span? Or was it spread out over a longer period of time?
It was spread out over about 6 months. Wide variety of reasons they didn't work out. Some just lived too far away for practice to be practical. Others didn't make it on time to their second practice and others had different musical interests and we were worried they would get burned out and so didn't want to invest a lot of time in them.
Some just didn't have the right look - a much bigger deal in our band than it usually would be.
When I say we went through 12, I don't mean they were all members. But that's just guys that we tried out and at least invited back more than once.
It was a massive pain in the butt, but our lead guitar player now is note for note and tone for tone exactly what we needed. Great guy who fits in with us and is definately on the same page musically and looks the part better than any tribute Ace out there.
It was worth the wait.
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check out my new band Blackwood on FB at blackwoodrocks dot com.
After acquiring an Electro Harmonix POG pedal for organ tones, I now run 3 channels. The first channel is for bass, the 2nd channel is for high gain guitar distortion, and the third channel is the POG. All of these are run through a mixer and pushed through a 4x12 and a 1x15 w/ footswitchable flexibility. Sounds great and all it needs live is the output from my mixer to the PA Recordings up soon! Most of the stuff is psycho circus music, meets Lighting Bolt, meets Sabbath.
