craig deadenstereo

Baise Moi - what film! I'll never look at skanky french girls the same way, and if a girl ever rips the crotch out of her tights before fucking me, I will run screaming from the room.

Peavey Classic 30, tweed all valve 1x12" combo with two channels and reverb, both footswitchable. average cosmetic condition, but full working order. 230. This bad boy smokes a number of other lower end valve combos (Fender HRD, LC30 etc) About 450 new Lexicon MPX 500 stereo rack effects processor. Pretty much any effect you can ever imagine, plus excellent reverbs/delays. This is either a studio or live effects processor. Sound is in a different league from floorbased multieffects - people use this in real recording studios. 200 Excellent condition, no box 450 new Yamaha MFC10 Midi floorboard. 10 buttons, loads of banks, 1 expression pedal - evey part of it assignable with program or channel changes etc. Can control a number of different midi devices at once (eg fx, sampler, synth), and also contorl yamaha guitar synth stuff. 180 is cheapest could find it anywhere on line. Ex condition, no box. 100 pm me, or whoseyourguitarhero@hotmail.com Craig

I like Road Song.

I dunno why everyone is getting upset. I see where the guy was coming from. At least the guy knows what he wants - a good idea of image and philosphy before he starts. To be honest it's what you need to get ahead, and if you can back it up with good tunes and lyrics, then you're gonna go far. If I was in Aberdeen and sans band, I'd go for this.

I like politics to be related to things I like. Eddie Spaghetti says: "That's right, it's down to the nitty gritty. I know that many of you think that my emails should consist strictly of "liquor, women, drugs and killing, rock-n-roll, outlaw country and the occasional joke or two and to you, I apologize. Feel free to bury your head in the sand once more and delete this missive now because I am here to use my (very nominal) influence to tell our fans to please get out and vote for a change this Tuesday. To my republican friends (and I hope you are still my friends if you've made it this far into my email) I have this rock-n-roll analogy for you: Let's say that the Republican Party is Van Halen and (for the sake of argument we will time travel quite a bit) Abraham Lincoln is the David Lee Roth of Republicans. An ass kicking, slave freeing, minimize-the-government-in-our-lives bad ass. The glory years. Then let's say that Sammy Hagar is the Ronald Regan character, he totally lost the die-hard but for some reason Van Halen had never been more popular. Hit after hit. The Van Halen machine makes more money than anyone thought possible! Next, sadly, it's time to enter that guy from Extreme, Gary Cherone. Here is our G.W. Bush. Even the most dyed-in-the-wool Van Halen fans have to admit, this was one bad idea, it didn't work and, thankfully we only had to put up with one record from this version of the Republican Par..., uh, I mean... Van Halen. Gary made Van Halen so bad that Sammy Hagar returning actually seems to be a GOOD idea! So there you go, even Republicans have to admit that G.W. has totally "Gary Cheroned" this Presidency, don't you think? I thought this would help clear things up for you. Now get out there and buy one of those "Republicans For Kerry" stickers and help us make this change. Sure Kerry's no Diamond Dave either, but who is anymore? It's not like Van Halen's gonna ask ME to sing for 'em...

The website isn't actually down, just one page. If you look around hard enough you can find it..... Here's the standard:

try picking up a second hand flextone II. wipes the loor with those spiders, which if the truth be know, suck donkey balls. You may not have developed a good ear for tone yet, so just trust me on this one!

Me and chris from the band went down to the Bannermans gig in Edinburgh a few days ago. Boy did it suck! There had been very little promotion done for the gig, and as a result, me and chris made up the majority of the paying customers. No Radio Lucifer either..... So we saw Aceface who were, to be honest, dreadful. They kind of sounded like Deep Blue Something without any tunes. I actually wondered why the hell they were over here wasting money instead of staying back in Canada and getting better. I almost felt sorry for them.... They reminded me of one of the shit bands we get stuck on bills with in crap pubs in Greenock, and wonder "why the fuck would you put us on with such turgid bilge water?" Neil Leyton was playing with Aceface as his backing band plus some other guitarist. it wasn't a good mix. Neil is pretty good, but the band were like a lead balloon dragging him down. I dunno who the guitarist was but I have never seen such lifeless and uninspired playing in a long time. Technically, he was playing the parts, but Craig's official verdict was: "suck". Big Neil needs to get his old band back playing with him, they were much better. The atmosphere didn't help (not that there was any), but my finely tuned bullshit detector was pinging for Aceface. Hopefully it'll be better up north for you heathens. Craig

Personally, I only eat battery farmed chickens/eggs. I like the smell of fear on my food - makes me feel that little bit more alive - like a hunter/gatherer....

good place, worth playing. We've played a number of times. The food is fucking awful. But I absolutely hate vegetarian food, so never ate there out of principle. I had the misfortune of being so hungry that I tried one of their bean burgers. sludgy crap. Vegetarianism is just weird to me. However, I ate 3 different animals in one meal yesterday - a chicken, a sheep, and a pig had to die for my dinner - so I'll call it quits with the veggies. I'm making up for them! My views however, do no represent the views of deadenstereo - Chris the bass player has been veggie from birth. Now that's weird! Craig

Killswitch Engage use Framsu Cobras or Dragon amps. Have a look at www.rocksolidamps.com they ahve some there. You may find that teh ENGL amps are used a lot. They are not too well known over here, but are quite big with metal bands in the states. I have an ENGL Thunder head. Pretty nice likes.

Paying for hosting is no problem - it's for a client. Craig

I need somewhere to put a website. Gonna be downloadable videos, so gonna need about 1gb of space, along with .htaccess Anyone know anywhere good? Craig

deadenstereo My first ever site. Pretty big, based all on HTML. I figure it is simple but effective.... Craig

Your lead guitarist needs to practise doing his bends in tune.

Playing a Jap Tokai Les Paul standard, which compares favourably to a number of Gibsons I've played. Only problem is the really small strap buttons off of which my all-stretched-out strap falls off all the time. Kind of ruins a AAA quilted maple top when it has yellow gaffer tape over it to hold on the strap. Previous guitars were an 80s Yamaha SG (which I really fucked up the tuning heads on), and a sparkly pink Charvel telecaster with a reversed pointy headstock. Both were good guitars, but the tokai is a step above (and also worth 3x as much) I don't think that the tokai is (objectivley) worth 3 times as much as the others, but that's what you gotta pay (or con your insurance company into paying if you're smart) Craig

Just downloaded and watched this on the reccomendation of a Canadian friend of mine. It's a movie that half mixes Spinal Tap with Wayne's World and sort of Candian redneck moshers. Incredibly funny. I think it is coming out to the cinema soon, but is on dvd in ths states so is downloadable. check it out peeps. Craig

I've got a date with a pretty hot chick to go see the Edinburgh gig. I bought the first Sugarcult album by mistake in Santa Barbara, California a few years ago, before it came out over here. I was listening to the cd in a music shop, and thought it was cool, so bought it. However the cd I bought wasn't the same as the one I was listening to. I'd been listening to Thursday's Full Collapse album, but they'd put the demo cd of that in the sugarcult slot on their headphone thing. So I burned a copy of sugarcult, took it back and got the Thursday album. My friend was at uni there, and said that Sugarcult used to play all the house parties along Del Playa drive which is where the frat houses are. Supposedly that's where Incubus started playing as well. Craig

Here are some MP3s from our last gig in Edinburgh. Recorded using an SM58 mic and a minidisc recorder. Trust the Tale (Not the Teller) - This is gonna be the title track from our next EP, as is pretty much our best live song at the moment. Smooth Stones - Named in homage to Kyuss, this is our set opener. It's quite long (6MB) as it has an extended intro. The solo at the end is when I get a bit "Slash" on yo ass. The bass was broke for the whole song too. Axis of Evil - Our set closer. Sounds a lot heavier than the recorded version Comments, are always welcome, although I will say we were under-rehearsed and the playing was a bit sloppy.... Craig

I have a broken one. I'd recommend you check out the Kent Armstrong one. Real difficult to notice a difference in sound, and half the price. The first guitar that comes in on this track ws recorded with my charvel tele, plus Kent hotrails. deadenstereo - the ideas we have of god Craig

yeah it's cool. Don't think I really like some of the cheesy shred stuff though.

we (deadenstereo) probably sold 90 or so of our last split single with Stigma. Mostly at gigs, although rumours abound that one was bought in OneUP. We had about 150 pressed up, and probably sent the rest away, lost them, broke them or gave them to chicks to try and get them to let us touch them in nice places. But, we don't consider ourselves very succesful at selling cds. Craig

big difference between a spider and a flextone III. Maybe you should look into getting a cheap small tube amp, like a Peavey Classic 30. I've heard very good things about them, and saw a blues guy using one - it sounded real nice. Supposedly you can do some heavy rock tones with them too. A marshall 201 or 401 is another option, they're good in the house amps and can cut it at gigs. Craig

I played a duoverb, was thinking of picking one up. They are pretty nice. I liked the SLO setting, and the Vox AC30 ones. One of the guys from The Cherykicks was using one when we played Mosholu with them, sounded immense out front. check the clearance section on www.pmtonline.co.uk They have one for 300 or something.