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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out
- Thread starter Korladis
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All this talk of hair metal, and I'm the first one to say it: Steel Panther.
That is all.
That is all.
Eh, feel no shame. I can see the fun in that stuff even though it was never my thing. I don't believe in "guilty pleasures." Only pleasures. I'm not the least bit squeamish about my love for The Monkees or some ABBA or huge mega-hit bands of the 70s like Wings, ELO, Elton John...some real cheese. Ya likes what ya likes. Fugg everyone else.
As long as you aren't into Guns N Roses, you don't have to justify anything to anyone.
I can top that:
Spyne Ryder. (but put umlauts over the 'Ys')
I feel the need to say I only liked it for a few years then hated it after I got into better music lol
aaaaaAAAND: BOO-YAH!
Accepted a job offer for a new job today. Should start before the end of September. Pretty jazzed about it. I wish it was more money, but it is close to an extra $7000 per year. Good bennies. And it's a better title--will look good on a resume. Best of all is I can kiss my boss goodbye. Tired of that BS. I know there'll still be job BS but I gotta imagine it'll be better.
Also won't have to move. We still have to move into a nicer rental, but at least there's no rush, and we won't have the expense of making a more major move. I will just have a 15 commute to/from work.
Accepted a job offer for a new job today. Should start before the end of September. Pretty jazzed about it. I wish it was more money, but it is close to an extra $7000 per year. Good bennies. And it's a better title--will look good on a resume. Best of all is I can kiss my boss goodbye. Tired of that BS. I know there'll still be job BS but I gotta imagine it'll be better.
Also won't have to move. We still have to move into a nicer rental, but at least there's no rush, and we won't have the expense of making a more major move. I will just have a 15 commute to/from work.
Eh, I'm a d!ck.
Always just considered them the most overrated band in the history of rock music.
Actually thought the band was fairly tight and decent, but Axl's primadonna douchebaggery, whining, nasally vocals and sub-junior high school-level lyrics kill it for me. Kill it all the way.
Hell with that.
Well, for a big enough paycheck I guess, but I'd probably still end up trying to move closer to work.
Yes. It confuses and frightens me when people change their avatar.
I feel lost, like a ship without a rudder. "What happened to Squanch? Where is Squanch?"
Had a killer time last night at our show. We opened for Black Tusk and it was awesome. Real nice dudes those guys are. They dug our tunes as well which was pretty cool.
I had some drama to handle before the show. I was trying to do some final knob tweaking and level checking through my ampeg rig and 810, and I think I blew a fuse in my power amp. It will power up but only the fan turns on. No LEDs. I haven't been able to find anything on google yet to help trouble shoot. I'm pretty sure the amp power plug is to blame. It fits in the socket in back of the amp, but rather loosely. Not super loose, but not as tight as it should be. A couple times now I have powered on the amp only for that plug to come loose enough to kill the power. The amp died as a result of this poopie. I am a little bummed, but I can't imagine the unit is done for so I'm also not that worried about it.
I also happened to be testing my sunn with the 810 to see how far 120w would get me. Turns out it is enough for one cab shows. It actually is louder than the prolites 875w through the 810. Something that both confuses me and makes me feel like I need more than the 3.0 can offer. I'll wait to hear the prolite through a dually before I assess final judgement though. Sunn sounded excellent! Worked like a champion and was actually noticed sonically by a couple people who have been to our shows before.
Rig pic of the evening.
Next Saturday I think I will run both tube amps to an 810 each. It should loud pretty good.
RE: Fuzz
Started with EHX BBM
Then on to
thC Ultrastoner mk2
Dunwich 3 knob Cthulhu
Blower Box
AE Hail Cannibus
Lone Wolf Iron fist, Little Bastard and Extreme Octave fuzzes
I also have two Pharaoh clones and two 2 knob silicon fuzzes in the works.
I also have a Tortuga Fire Ant and EQD speaker cranker that I use for lighter dirt duties.
I'd like to order a Blackbeard soon, but would also like to check out some other fuzzes as well as an Afterneath.
I had some drama to handle before the show. I was trying to do some final knob tweaking and level checking through my ampeg rig and 810, and I think I blew a fuse in my power amp. It will power up but only the fan turns on. No LEDs. I haven't been able to find anything on google yet to help trouble shoot. I'm pretty sure the amp power plug is to blame. It fits in the socket in back of the amp, but rather loosely. Not super loose, but not as tight as it should be. A couple times now I have powered on the amp only for that plug to come loose enough to kill the power. The amp died as a result of this poopie. I am a little bummed, but I can't imagine the unit is done for so I'm also not that worried about it.
I also happened to be testing my sunn with the 810 to see how far 120w would get me. Turns out it is enough for one cab shows. It actually is louder than the prolites 875w through the 810. Something that both confuses me and makes me feel like I need more than the 3.0 can offer. I'll wait to hear the prolite through a dually before I assess final judgement though. Sunn sounded excellent! Worked like a champion and was actually noticed sonically by a couple people who have been to our shows before.
Rig pic of the evening.
Next Saturday I think I will run both tube amps to an 810 each. It should loud pretty good.
RE: Fuzz
Started with EHX BBM
Then on to
thC Ultrastoner mk2
Dunwich 3 knob Cthulhu
Blower Box
AE Hail Cannibus
Lone Wolf Iron fist, Little Bastard and Extreme Octave fuzzes
I also have two Pharaoh clones and two 2 knob silicon fuzzes in the works.
I also have a Tortuga Fire Ant and EQD speaker cranker that I use for lighter dirt duties.
I'd like to order a Blackbeard soon, but would also like to check out some other fuzzes as well as an Afterneath.
Congrats Mudd!
Realized I never posted my fuzz journey. Pretty short by most standards.
In the late 90's I started getting into stoner rock so I bought a black russian muff. Used it mostly for guitar, some bass, got stolen along with a shitload of other gear.
Played drums a lot - no fuzz.
Started playing in the old doom band, bought a bass big muff. Worked out fine.
Bought a Palmer Bazz, booted BBM which hung around for a couple years before I sold it on Reverb last month.
...and that's it.
Realized I never posted my fuzz journey. Pretty short by most standards.
In the late 90's I started getting into stoner rock so I bought a black russian muff. Used it mostly for guitar, some bass, got stolen along with a shitload of other gear.
Played drums a lot - no fuzz.
Started playing in the old doom band, bought a bass big muff. Worked out fine.
Bought a Palmer Bazz, booted BBM which hung around for a couple years before I sold it on Reverb last month.
...and that's it.
@Muddslide
Glad it happened
Time to leave weird things in all the books at your old gig.
I took it because it was the first job that came my way I literally heard back two days after I started looking. It's a paid internship that's spawned into a we can't afford to hire you, but you can keep at it in your part time way until you move on to greener pastures. It's super flexible, I watch tv and peruse TB as I work and I can work from home days where I'm not assisting the bosses directly. I was also told later on after I've left them, when they get the ROI from the deals we are doing they'd pay me much better to do on the side contract/consulting work for them since they really like me.
That said if I get the new gig I'd make my current jobs entire years wages in two months.
Glad it happened
Time to leave weird things in all the books at your old gig.
I took it because it was the first job that came my way I literally heard back two days after I started looking. It's a paid internship that's spawned into a we can't afford to hire you, but you can keep at it in your part time way until you move on to greener pastures. It's super flexible, I watch tv and peruse TB as I work and I can work from home days where I'm not assisting the bosses directly. I was also told later on after I've left them, when they get the ROI from the deals we are doing they'd pay me much better to do on the side contract/consulting work for them since they really like me.
That said if I get the new gig I'd make my current jobs entire years wages in two months.
Fuzz Journey
Boss FZ-3
NYC Big Muff
Messdrive Plus
Attack Goat
Grey Stache
Ox Fuzz Bass
Ox Fuzz Germanium
Bluebeard
Baby Thundaa
Blunderbuss
Wizard
Boss FZ-3
NYC Big Muff
Messdrive Plus
Attack Goat
Grey Stache
Ox Fuzz Bass
Ox Fuzz Germanium
Bluebeard
Baby Thundaa
Blunderbuss
Wizard
Thanks, man. And everyone else. I woulda loved to move out of Oklahoma, back to Arizona or Oregon or someplace, but I have a lot of years left to work. Library Director on a resume can get you pretty far in the field, and I'm good at what I do...I know libraries inside out, all aspects. I've done it all. Maybe a couple three years down the road I can move on and make substantially more money.
Besides, realistically I don't know where we'd have gotten the money to make a major move.
I've never had trouble with anyone I've worked with, boss, colleague, or staff I've supervised like I have with my current boss. She's just a mean-spirited nutcase spinster bent on making everyone's life hell. I don't get it.
At least I have this recording project happening...makes my whole outlook on everything better.
The way those kinds of drain cleaners work is by dissolving organic matter, essentially, IIRC. If you water it down, you are diluting it and so actually making it less effective. As far as I recall. It's been many years since I've used any.
The 80s were a weird decade. So incredibly obviously homoerotic while being completely un-self-aware about it, to the point of ridiculous homophobia.
Nah, I only have an EHX Big Muff and a Swollen Pickle on my board right now. And I'm wanting a custom fuzz that will allow me to toggle between those sounds with the flick of a switch, so that I can go down to one fuzz pedal.Man, I am feeling put to shame with all the fuzz collectors here. I started with a big box muff borrowed from a friend, then went fuzz-less for a few years. Then I bought a Bluebeard in '05. Tried a Swollen Pickle, took it back, back to the BB. In '13 I got a second BB (Tone bypass), and later sold my old one to Bryce. That been pretty much itI am looking into a Musket for my guitar rig, but no other fuzz I've heard or tried has made me stray from my Bluebbeard.
Ugh, don't even get me started on all the guys who expound on how "my basses are just tools." I feel like they're pretty much all try-hards.
Always guys, for some reason, too. The few women who post on here never say that crap.
Lol, we listened to a lot of that on tour. I think "my heart belongs to you, but my dick is community property" was kinda wishful thinking, though.
The Monkees' music got pretty weird once they got creative control of it.
As for GNR... I like them a bit. Not really into them, because the vocals are terrible.
That's it, exactly.
They would have been, in my opinion, a pretty damn good band with pretty much any other singer.
The Sunn 2000S and 1200S, IIRC, were rated at <1% THD. So yeah, they may only be rated 120 watts, but they are loud for their rating.
Also the 2000S "full system" was a head and two huge 2x15 cabs.
@Muddslide Congrats!
I just remembered that my wife is late from work because she's picking up my mother-in-law from the airport. Maybe I should tidy up the house instead of plowing into the domestic lager, cranking up power chords, and droppin' an extra stinky deuce into the spare bathroom? NAHHH.
Love Appetite for Destruction. Don't think much of the rest of their work.
Jammed out with my older sis to Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet in its entirety like every day when I was 12. Still think highly of that album.
As a pubescent youth and now, I can dig the riffs, guitar tones, and hooks of hair metal when they are tasty, as they often were. I could not relate to themes of partying and pussy at the time and was not into the image. Once I had a paper route and a budget for cassettes, I felt much more comfortable exploring thrash metal. In my Guilty Catholic Leftist anti-Hollywood anti-Reagan parental household environment, thrash metal was actually much less anxiety-inducing than, say, Britny Fox.
I just remembered that my wife is late from work because she's picking up my mother-in-law from the airport. Maybe I should tidy up the house instead of plowing into the domestic lager, cranking up power chords, and droppin' an extra stinky deuce into the spare bathroom? NAHHH.
Love Appetite for Destruction. Don't think much of the rest of their work.
Jammed out with my older sis to Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet in its entirety like every day when I was 12. Still think highly of that album.
As a pubescent youth and now, I can dig the riffs, guitar tones, and hooks of hair metal when they are tasty, as they often were. I could not relate to themes of partying and pussy at the time and was not into the image. Once I had a paper route and a budget for cassettes, I felt much more comfortable exploring thrash metal. In my Guilty Catholic Leftist anti-Hollywood anti-Reagan parental household environment, thrash metal was actually much less anxiety-inducing than, say, Britny Fox.
