Recent content by Plgfritz

There is of course Type O Negative, where Peter was essentially playing the rhythm while the rest of the band added leads or what-have-you's. Adding the Boss OD-1 more or less rounded out the sound to give it a more full feeling. Then there is a band like Swamp Ritual, which is just a two...

If there's no receipt, there's no cash. Think about it like a pawn shop. If you come in and pay with a debit or credit card, they have a taxable record of a transaction taking place for a specific amount of money. If you paid cash instead, what may have been a $500 item is now $450 for you...

Checks sketch me out because a few bar owners in the area have come pretty close to burning us once or twice. We obviously do not play at those establishments any more. Cash is king, if they don't have enough cash on hand a check made out to the Corporation of Annual Savings and Holdings will...

Swamp Ritual. My friend sent me this video one day a few years ago at random. It's a 2 piece drum and bass group. I noticed that they had a show a few days away, so my friend and I went to it. It was in some basement in a college town. They were EXTREMELY loud. This was a few years ago...

I used to have that feeling, until I got married. Best decision I've made thus far (besides learning to play bass and guitar). And, as more time passes, I get glimpses of their life through the barren wasteland that is 21st century social media, and I realize that I dodged several bullets and...

I was reading Suttree and "Moonlight Melonmounter" sounded pretty good to me. And yes, it's exactly what you're thinking it is.

My band plays this doodad bluesy kind of intermission song. Completely instrumental, a little verse, a lead up, and then the guitarist solos, repeat, bassist solos, repeat, drummer solos. Each solo is 2 measures. If I had a nickel for every time I screwed up my solo I could afford better...

Hello people. I hail from the Upper Midwest and have been playing bass for about 14 or 15 years. It all started when some friends of mine asked me to start playing for their "band" (really just a collection of dudes that had no idea what they were doing) so I bought a very cheap bass and...