Pierre Von Mondragon

The camera fails at anything other than zero grunge setting, the 'vibrations' interfere with stuff.

Bizarrely, at lunchtime, I managed to scoop, free, gratis and nothing, a Cry Baby (think it needs looking at, it's really quiet when off, then loupin' loud when kicked in), and, much more comically, a Digitech Grungin' pedal, thats obv what it should be called. Not what I'd buy, but got 5 minutes of sticking it into my fuzz, and there was muchtortion, and yea, it was good

Pictures, or it didn't happen. EDIT That ESP/LTD hybrid looks ace, that must be why they discontinued them, LP jnr x tele, win/win.

An excellent hypothesis as to why humans haven't invented anything better than rockets for getting into space, and, almost as a byproduct, an insight into why we as a culture seem to keep doing things that we know will fuck us up; concepts of path dependency, aka things can develop from really strange origins, and lock-in, aka why we're stuck doing particular things. Space stasis: What the strange persistence of rockets can teach us about innovation. - By Neal Stephenson - Slate Magazine# NS has been one of my favourite authors for years now, intelligent, questing and humane.

You can't beat a tinted maple one-piece neck, elegant, yet primally simple. That is the best colour scheme for that too, I didn't like the photo I saw of the burst, but yon is nicely nice.

OK, this is the inside of my new fuzz, mad 40s caps and other NOS gubbins. The dude who made it also made this mental looking O/D&Boost pedal, made out of some bit of an old cannon shell, if I could stretch to it, I would, especially now I know he has circuit skillz. Gun Face Distortion/boost Pedal Hello Sailor Effects on eBay (end time 05-Mar-11 03:41:45 GMT)

Crazy fuzz arrived today, so I was Living the Dream at lunchtime, ye godz, I got a wee bargain there. With my Classic 50s Strat it went from characterful crunch on half vol to hefty fuzzface-ish gain on full, but when I put this crappy behringer (sigh, yes, I should have known) graphic EQ in front of it to make it significantly hotter, it turned into a ludicrous ultra-saturated fuzz, flappier than the audience at a Hawkwind gig's troosers, chaotic, and sustainfull-on. Fucking ace, gonna put the synth through it tonight.

Dunno about specialist outlets, I've been in the Acoustic room in C&C, and it looked like all points of the spectrum were covered, Guitar Guitar is full o' top gear, and Merchant City Music has a wee room as well. If money is no object what about that Jimmy Moon Luthier to the stars dude; Moon Guitars er, Just like the guy above has said.

asphinctersayswhat?? the SNL shit was better anyhoo.

Excellent...Not. 2 catchphrases, I claim my 5, from whom I do not know

That re-released 'Ladies and Gentlemen...the Rolling Stones' from the Exile tour in '72 is awesome, I got a cheapo but ace Funkadelic dvd in Fopp, of course, Stop Making Sense, and that double Zep dvd from about 8 or so years ago has much gold on it. If 'All Those Wasted Years' by Hanoi Rocks was on dvd that I knew of, then I would unflinchingly recommend it.

My thoughts exactly, could probably get someone in Glasgow to re-jig the components if that was the case. The guy who made it wrote this about it; "This is a point to point hand wired boutique fuzz Made using some pretty special components Two Nos wax covered capacitors that were made in the 1940's!!!!!!!!!!!!! These things pre date rock'n'roll! Two Nos ceramic caps from the 1960's Two Phillips Nos yellow caps and a Phillips Nos axial cap This fuzz may not be to everybody's taste but you can't argue with how good it looks! I made this to be responsive to your guitars volume knob, with your guitar vol on full you get a fuzzy angry mess that sustains forever (not my personal favourite sound) but back off the guitars volume and you get a lush warm tone that is to die for! My favourite way to use this pedal is with a humbucker equipped guitar using the neck pickup with the volume below half way through an epiphone valve junior amp, gives the best bluesy rock lead sound going! This is a wacky unique pedal that has more boutique class than your average fuzz Any questions please ask" His use of the word 'wacky' was nearly a deal breaker, but I got over it.

I just won/bought this ridiculously named, weird looking fuzz pedal, it contains some 40's capacitors or some shit, bit of a risk, but only 45. Will report next week.

Like 'em or not, they were interesting, raw, and one of the only contemporary proponents of RnR mythology, as opposed to the triangulating careerist fucks that scurried in their wake, and prosper yet. I don't have to be that big a fan to recognise that they were viscerally thrilling in the way that rock n roll should be, I'm glad they existed.

Just noticed that ALF has Bootsy Collins' shades on in his axeman guise, Superlysergicfunkalistic!

Whiley is awful, she bums up the most insipid landfill indie, then looks all affronted at non-mopey electronic music 'how dare this talentless trash that doesn't hang around Koko's assail my ears' ad nauseam, a truly ghastly broadcaster.

Oh, that crazy cat munching ALF.

Loads I want this year, all on the pedals n amp front. I want some chaotic osc fuzz that squeals when you adjust guitar controls, through electric trickery. Seen some vids, this or the Devi Ever Robot Devil maybe. Currently leading in the 'I could actually feasibly afford this thing' stakes. And an EHX deluxe Memory Boy, A POG of some sort, and a Korg Monotron should see me. Fuck knows if I'll get any of this.

Read about what happened when the NHS was first introduced, all sorts of people came forward with chronic conditions, such as prolapsed organs, protruding hernias, and some other horrorshow stuff, that in some cases they had suffered with for decades due to the expense that fixing them would have entailed. You do not know you are born, just like me, and pretty much everyone else here, so don't come your third-hand, tenth-rate neo-lib pish, just because you don't give a shit if some drop dead in the gutter, to lower your taxes. And Sweden is even more thought-policetastic than Britain, not easy to achieve.

Surely Thains should get first pick, man I'd swap all the Prets in Glasgow for half a Thains, but then I remain an NE Man, despite displacement.

I'm reading 'The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad' by Minister Faust. Black Power SF, ace.

Better nae close before I finish using my Fopp Card I got for my birthday, got 'Ladies and Gentlemen...The Rolling Stones' DVD, ace gig from the '72 Exile tour, immense, haven't used all the credit yet though

Noel has not yet settled to his natural level, Living TV or somesuch, anyhoo, if you never saw Swap Shop in its prime, then you could never understand!? I meant the Belgrano gotcha, not a *shudder* pranksters sub Dom DeLoise shtick. He didn't seem as weird then, honest, he hadn't gone prime time, thats when the sinister shit started going down. Icke seemed normal once too remember!! (I can't helps it, the 70s are a perpetual sunlit/crisp snowy upland in my memory)

What nonsense, it's a pillar of the establishment, and as such, generally small c conservative, all sorts work there. Now, just because the BBC has rightly decided that it's time for a wee bit of belated strikey back at some of it's more ideologically motivated critics, (see Andrew Neill's prog last night about the posho re-taking of politics, by a total right-winger to be on the safe side), doesn't mean anything other than righteous self-defence, against the agents of News Corp. The BBC is inherently ace in a way free market ideologues are not intelectually equipped to understand; what know they of nuance or subtlety, those who deal in comms hacking, triangulation and gotchas.

I liked the last album muchly, and 'Repaid' is one of the best things I heard for years, but the comparisons and influences bandied about here rather make it seem that I won't be in for this one. Its just my personal musical cosmology, I'll try and at least hear it, but don't really anticipate a result, suppose I could be wrong, Also gotta say that I considered the last one to be much more folk-rock than prog, closest it got was that wee Deep Purpley freak out that was 'The Crossing'. Bugger all like the shite I associate with that description.