I don't know the answer to the first question, and the answer to the second is thus obviously no.
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What a sad little man...
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I don't know the answer to the first question, and the answer to the second is thus obviously no.
Hats off to a succesful dude for expanding his brand. He is clearly excited about his new product line and thinks the sound is great. I'm sure he will survive the hurt feels caused by hurting our feels with his egregious microagression.
I am retreating to my safe space and filing a sternly worded hurt feel report.
I am retreating to my safe space and filing a sternly worded hurt feel report.
At least hes releasing pedals and not hot sauce or wine.
Because Reverb and other folks are exact-frickin'-ly like the tabloids. Stir the pot and let it splatter everywhere. It's the American Way. Too bad.
I saw this today on Reverb and was offended at THEM posting. Now I'm exactly like everyone else. Bllleeeeccccchhhhh.
Well... it's a good thing Mr Hammett is finally whipping out his soldering iron and building a series of guitar effects for and by actual musicians.
Now we will finally hear something good from his guitar!
Since, apparently, all the effects he has ever used were built by electronic hacks that don't know dip about what a guitarist needs for his sound. He must have been pooping in our ears all these years. Who knew?
Thank you Mr. Hammett.
Another long stride down the road to musical innovation.
Oh, and I realize it's been a long time since Jerry Springer last aired, but we all love to hate.
It's in our nature.
Or don't you ever read history, news, presidential debates, etc...
Reverb is cashing in on that.
As are we, right now.
Feels good.
Oh yeah.
Hate him.
HATE HIM!!!
Now we will finally hear something good from his guitar!
Since, apparently, all the effects he has ever used were built by electronic hacks that don't know dip about what a guitarist needs for his sound. He must have been pooping in our ears all these years. Who knew?
Thank you Mr. Hammett.
Another long stride down the road to musical innovation.
Oh, and I realize it's been a long time since Jerry Springer last aired, but we all love to hate.
It's in our nature.
Or don't you ever read history, news, presidential debates, etc...
Reverb is cashing in on that.
As are we, right now.
Feels good.
Oh yeah.
Hate him.
HATE HIM!!!
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I have no idea who builds Catalinbread or Earthquaker Devices. I know who Kirk Hammett is. In no way do these facts determine which pedal I'm going to buy. A bunch of wannabe rock stars who now built pedals. Stop your whining! Kirk is a great player and nice guy.
And I can't name one of them and don't recognize the company names. How many records did they sell?
Irrelevant.
Logical fallacy: Appeal To Ignorance
Also, none of them have families to feed.
Does anyone honestly think Kirk himself is somehow hunkering down behind the glow of an oscilloscope soldering these things himself and working up schematics? Oh, so he's just consulting on them, if anything? And putting his name on them? How is that ANY different than what Dunlop, Boss, etc do? Derp. So much derp.
How can it be irrelevant when it is the point of the post? How many pedal manufactures are accomplished guitarists of Kirk's stature?
It's not about those big companies. It's about the boutique and "mom & pop" builders.
Most started, run, and staffed by musicians.
Music status is beside the point. He didn't say anything about "professional" or "accomplished" guitarists. He just made an uninformed blanket statement that in and of itself was untrue.
And I agree. Kirk is full of himself. #1: He isn't actually making these. Nor is he doing anything that any other pedal maker would do with an artist that endorses them. #2: Even if he was actually designing them and soldering the darn things himself, there are countless others that have been doing that for decades, and they are guitarists too. It's either ignorance, or just plain old cynical marketing junk. Just because it happens all over the industry doesn't mean it smells any better coming from Kirk.
I just read his next pedal will be a collaboration with Kanye West...
Projection? If only...I'm 6 ft. tall and laughing...at all of this furor. If I hadn't posted this happenstance(it really wasn't 'news'), somebody else would. I don't dislike Metallica, but at the same time they really haven't affected my life. Any human interest stories about KH that have filtered down to me has left me with the impression that he's a bit of a knob. Keeping in mind that talking trash about the lump sum of all other pedal makers before throwing his(or at least the team of circuit benders that he hired)product out to the market(and subsequent reviews)has a certain risk of making him look like a douche, perhaps he should have though this one out a little more. But by doing so, he opens himself up for criticism. Maybe they'll be as successful as the Digitech Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix pedals.
I think he is hilarious.
And the interview is pure gold too. I mean the guy thinks that modding a tube screamer is pushing boundaries
What a clown.
And the interview is pure gold too. I mean the guy thinks that modding a tube screamer is pushing boundaries
What a clown.
At $230 for his Tube Screamer clone, they better offer something far more than just his name on them.
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