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Hey blokes, mates, chaps, amigos and all that – I haven’t checked in here for a couple months, but right now I’m sort of wishing that I hadn’t – what a dismal wasteland of a forsaken back alley of the internet this one-time active and entertaning forum has become! Did I just see a tumble […]

…and then flame me into the ground. 😳 Hey guys! In case you’re bored online and have an extra minute or two, my band spent a long night in the studio yesterday recording a 12 song practice demo; and some of the tunes can be heard here: http://www.myspace.com/fourhorsejohnson Having been robbed of my creative spark

…recorded late Friday night in our garage practice space on my small digital camera. I’m standing out of frame to the left playing leads and singing nearly inaudible back-ups. I’m liking my new Barber Direct Drive. 🙂 We’re not a country-rock band, but this is sort of a country rock sounding original tune. The song

It started out like THIS. Now, after some Gotoh tuners, a bridge from eBay (2 1/16 spacing?!), a DiMarzio Fred with a push / pull pot wired as a coil tap, black string trees, strap buttons, and jack plate, a new decal (poorly installed and lacquered by me) and some clever work by my friend

or I’m gonna call you a “noob.” I built it using scrap oak and maple left over from a cabinet project: http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b125/vitaminE2d/001stand.jpg http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b125/vitaminE2d/001inuse.jpg It’s light-weight, collapsible, and very sturdy. I’m thinking about whipping out a bunch of them and selling them on eBay. 🙂

Hey Gents, I’m in the process of updating my pedal board and I have a couple questions. I want to keep my tube amp and I’m looking for a wider variety of sounds; and to that end I’m thinking of adding two more overdrive pedals to the mix. I figure that three overdrive pedals with

On Friday night my new bandmates and I chalked up our third gig at a local pub. Everything went really well with one notable exception. If I removed my hands from my Stratocaster while the guitar’s volume was turned up, a loud and evil sounding buzz would come from my amp. All of my cables

Hey guys, I haven’t posted here for some time, but I’m having a bit of a crisis and need some sound advice (pun intended). I’ve had Seymour Duncan Hot Rails loaded in the bridge positions of my Strats for close to three years now. At first, compared to the total rubbish pickups that are standard

Hey guys! Recently someone posted several clips on You-Tube of The Replacements ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Replacements ) from a very early gig at the 7th St. Entry in Minneapolis. Tommy Stinson was 16 at the time and had to get a note from his mom to play the job. These clips from 1981 are absolutely brilliant. Anyway,

…after years of informally “showin’ stuff” to people here and there. My first student is a 16 year old girl who wants to move to Minneapolis and start a band. The other is an 11 year old girl who wants to eventually play guitar in the high school orchestra. Apparently this has created somewhat of