Soda Jerk

You could always opt for an EQ pedal and possibly a chorus pedal to add quite a crisp tone to your clean sound which will sort of give your tone a bit of an acoustic character. Don't ooverload it so it sounds like Peter Frampton, but just make it shimmer a little bit, like the intro to Nirvana's Come As You Are.

I'd like to think "defensive midfielder" really means "I'm not going past the halfway line because my dribbling is terrible, but I'll tackle the shit out of you" in 5-a-side terms. Definitely a valid 5-a-side position. 8-)

But then everyones trying to score, then you get caught out at the back, with a wall-bounced through ball. You're eating goals in no time. Need a basic 2-1-1

Yeah, it is hard to implement in a live set-up. I was mainly just being anal about the dynamics of acoustic guitars rather than putting it forward as an option. Live acoustic guitars are a bit of a hazard unless it's a solo effort. Amplifying them just makes it sound a bit cheap. It shouldn't feedback using a microphone though. That probably means the mic was a bit pants or it was just far too loud.

If anyone needs a 6 and a half foot defensive midfielder, I'm in. I'd like to have a kickabout, but I don't think my band (if a so far gigless band constitutes as a band) will want to play.

You really can't replicate the dynamics of an acoustic guitar with a digital pedal. Even an acoustic amplifier will do enough to completely shittify the sound of even the nicest acoustic guitar. You really can't go wrong with sticking a microphone infront of an acoustic, as it resonates the WHOLE tone, where as DI'ing it from the a pickup/jack output will only resonate string vibration, and not the natural tone from the friction of the pick, as well as the tone that reverberates out of the guitar as opposed to just the tone that goes inside the guitar. I wouldn't bother at all. Just find yourself a clean tone you're comfortable with on you current guitar(s)/amp(s).

I can't believe they are still touring under the name Misfits, and charging 15 a pop for the privelage. Is it still just Jerry, Dez Cadena and Robo? What a joke. There's more member of Black Flag there than Ramones. They should play only pre-Damaged Black Flag songs instead. Still, at least Michale Graves is out of the equation. He's a fucking fruit.

I didn't expect Corey to be having a sing-song in the chorus, but can you expect now he's trying to get Stone Sour to sound like Sugar Ray? I've never liked them, but I always found them entertaining. But this just sounds so straight forward and chuggy - It's not embarassingly funny anymore like My Plague or Liberate was.

I find it interesting that it wasn't the break that ended his career, but the infection which spread due to his 20+ operations to fix it, which ran him close to having his leg amputated. Poor guy. I think he's a coach at Coventry now though, so he can still pay the bills.

Word. I'd love something David Busst esque to happen to him. CRUNCH! Brian McClair. That's why you're a striker. Because this is what you do. Then Schmeichel ran off to the corner flag and hurled chunks. What a game.

Might have something to with the SPL being very badly funded outside of the old firm, causing a very boring and amateurish football league? Or maybe people just really like football and like to follow teams from many different leagues? When Eurosport used to show European league games, I used to try and follow Fenerbache, Benfica and Ajax wherever possible, just because I liked the teams. I'm not sure if that breaks Football Supporting Rules, but if there is any kind of breach, I will refrain from following European football immediately and I'll even chuck my Juventus shirt in the bin. Come on. The Premier League is the most supported league in the world. Kids in Africa probably have an "English Team". It's not exactly something new.

He's played for England once, and he played shit. The two Newcastle players having a fall out was a bit of a scrap over two players being hot headed children. Joey Barton beating people up, spitting on teenagers and putting out a lit cigar on someones eye is a bit more than "Everyone makes mistakes" He's made mistakes and he's been punished with docked wages and suspended from the squad. He's carried on making mistakes and the 'mistakes' have gone beyond forgivable behavior. Kevin Keegan is taking the fucking piss by backing him and Newcastle should be ashamed for carrying on paying his wages. How about he mans the fuck up and makes a public apology for his actions like Zindane or Cantona did? That's how they are both still well respected footballing talents despite very, very questionable behavior (and they were also absolute legends of the game). Barton is just a fucking mindless ned with a temper that makes Wayne Rooney look like Ned Flanders. He's also not a very good player who obviously can't display any kind of composure or control. Get rid. If he wants a career in football, he should be doing no more than washing the mud off Michael Owen's boots.

I think being a 'good guitarist' and being able to shred are two different things though. I know a couple of guitarists who've spent weeks locked away in their bedrooms learning how to sweep pick, but they can't for the life of them put together a decent riff or even an interesting chord progression. In my opinion, speed doesn't instantly equal skill. Cock rock guitar solos aren't as prominent as they used to be in rock music, but there are still excellent guitarists who are really developing intersting uses of rhythm guitar, and due to the stereotype of "guitar gods" being able to shred, it takes a HELL of alot more to stand out as a rhythm guitarist, or merely just a guitarist that avoids solos. Guitar partnerships go completely unnoticed, when what I find really impressive in rock music is two guitarists that play off each other incredibley well. Not one guy chugging a powerchord whilst another one shreds, but the guitars just independtly playing together. Fugazi's Piciotto and Mackaye, Hot Water Music's Wollard and Ragan, Drive Like Jehu's Reis and Froberg, all have exceptional guitar work when played together, and are rarely heard playing the same chords as each other. I'd rather hear something like that than some poncey cockshiner just wanking away on the top three strings. It's all for style and glamour, but there's no real substance to it.

I bought The Stranglers - Greatest Hits on tape, The Jam - Snap on 2x12" and Madness - Utter Madness on 12" from a carbootsale when I was 9 for no more than 1 in total. I had this shitty branded Hifi which had a tape player and a tiny turntable that couldn't really fit a 12" on it, but I played them on it anyway. I didn't have a CD player until I was 14/15. My dad used to give me old Jam/Madness/Clash 7" singles and tapes from carboot sales, so then I started spending my pocket money on them myself. These days, I fucking hate Madness however. Probably something to do with Suggs being in fucking fish fingers adverts. Prick.

Replied to your PM also. I want it bad.

I'll give you 60 quid for the cunt. Worth a shot.

Guitars: ESP Viper (I bought it when I was in hardcore bands. but now I just hate it. Looks too metal. Metal guitars are piss) G&L Tribute Telecaster Yamaha 912J Pacifica and a cheapo Yamaha 112 Pacifica. And an even cheaper Yamaha ERG, my first guitar, pasted in stickers, with an EMG81 in the bridge. Amps: Marshall JCM2000 DSL50, Modded to get rid of the fizz, and add more warmth and crunch. Sounds less like a fizzy wanky metal fest now, and more like a JCM800 Don't have a cab at the moment. I did have a Matamp cab which was the tits, but I had to sell it to move up here. Disaster. Pedals: Marshall Guv'nor, for boost. Boss tuner pedal. I'm pining for a Rickenbacker or a Gretsch of somekind though right now

Glorytellers, La Grecia, Glass and Ashes, Iron Chic, Less Than Jake (Fuck off, it's ace!)

This thread is ace. Cover bands are shit. I have hate all cover versions of any song, ever. I think it was spawned from hearing Fall Out Boy and Akon cover Michael Jackson quite recently, which gave me cancer of the feelings. Before that, I used to enjoy Reel Big Fish's cover of Take On Me, because is had zazz and reminded me of good times. It might have started when my band played a gig with a covers band who were supposed to play for 25 minutes before us, but ended up playing for an hour and a half, meaning we didn't get to play. Who really wants to see a band play for an hour an a half anyway, unless it's Queen? It wasn't Queen. It was Britpop covers, and they were dogshit. I don't know where this is going, but I like it.

I really really don't like the Vintage Modern. I'd avoid a modern Marshall unless you're going to fork out for Modifications. I got my JCM2000 modded (because it comes as standard with fizz and buzz a mile wide) and now it's a powerhouse of warmth and crunch, like a JCM800 with a bit more gain available. Superb. But modern Marshalls just don't pull their weight without some modifying. Not since Jim Marshall cashed in and started selling terrible, terrible solid-state amps to beginners and children and took his finger off the pulse of valve amps. He hasn't really produced anything worthwhile of its pricetag since the 800 series. Peavey 5150/6505 is a one trick pony. They simply don't do clean. Just less distortion, but nothing sparkly. A very slick overdrive though, but the higher wattage models just don't seem to sound as saturated as I'd expect a valve amp to. Not for me. I need the crunch. I haven't used the others, although the ENGL's I've heard being played sound tasty!

Oh, man. Floating bridges are just a whole new kettle of fish. I cannot stand the things. I bought a Pacifica with a Floyd Rose in it with the good ol' "aaaah it'll be fine!" attitude. Nightmare. I just can't get my head around it one bit. I remember changing strings for the first time, and it took what felt like a week to get it in tune. Never again.

I'm not going to scour the internet for other people who agree, but I've been told by a number of guitar tech's I've used. One of which is who I took my guitar to, and asked if he could block the trem (because I'm a bellend when it comes to woodwork) and he strongly recommended I didn't, despite the fact he was going to make a bit of cash on it. I've got 2 trem-fitted guitars, one which is blocked off (only because I've lost the arm for it, and can't seem to get another one that fits, so might aswell have it hard tail) and another which is fitted a tremol-no, so I can get the benefits of the trem unit and hard-tail whenever I please. Versatility! Both have the same bridge PU and both bodies are Alder. Both same gauge strings and were both set up at the same time. I can tell distinctively which one plays and sounds better. I'm not arsed enough to defend it to the death though. Folk can do whatever they like to their own guitars. Depends how anal you are about tone and action as to how you want to block the trem. But why buy a guitar with a trem just to block it off anyway? Unless, like me you're a tit and lose the trem arm. Can't we all just get along?

It most definitely isn't.

The blocks of wood and the additional springs aren't good for the balance of tension between the trem unit and the strings/springs, and can really strain the guitar. A good set up with a DIY blocked Trem won't play as nice as a set up on a guitar fitted with a tremol-no. It also means you can turn it on and off, for whenever you want to use the trem or have the sturdy tuning of a hard tail, with the turn of a knob on the back of your guitar. They are a swell piece of kit.