Thanks, Allen! I do indeed use a compressor (EBS Multi-Comp), but it's not set to compress very heavily. It's on all the time, and I never mess with the settings during a show. What you're hearing is both pickups wide open (that gives me a Marcus-Miller-like tone, it's all Fender jazz) and an aggresive finger attack with my right hand. I really dig in on that tune and try to make it strut.
And yeah, you should definitely check out The Kind when I'm playing with them, it's a bit different than you might imagine. For those not from around here... The Kind is a bit of an institution around here, as are The Electric Woodshed and The Yams From Outer Space (and probably a couple others I've forgotten). All of those bands have been around in one form or another for 20+ years, and they were all big in the Blacksburg music scene's heyday (late 80s, early 90s, before the increase in the drinking age and the internet killed it off). The Yams were funk and heavy rock, the Shed was blues rock, and The Kind was All-Dead/All-The-Time.
I've been in the Shed forever, but I've only played with The Kind for 3-4 years. Me, I'm not very big on the Grateful Dead, so it's a bit of a problem... when I play with The Kind, we tend to do different material. I think of it as what would the Dead do if John Entwistle were the bass player and more typical classic rock (or even Motown) was the raw material. There'd still be plenty of jamming go on, but there'd be a heck of a lot more muscle behind it. So nowadays, we don't do too many of the long, flowery dirges that The Kind was known for back in the day...
