all you pedalheads: swervedriver, just swervedriver

been into these guys since they appeaed o the ps1 roadrash soundtrack, just respecting Adam and Co and informing you shoegazers about something from that scene with stooges level RAWK

just the first record's singles:

https://youtu.be/f1gi23R1iqo?si=ZkghPgdz3ZAHIPY5

https://youtu.be/eHcNU9qxSEE?si=OaxA1ZdEOH0k-LZW

apparently Rick is into these guys but that just shows they kill, rick is a weiner but he knows his $h!t

Fuck yeah, Swervedriver's awesome. Would also reccomend Catherine Wheel, since they kinda remind me of Swervedriver.

As for pedals, I have some of their Guitar Rigs saved in a document somewhere.

https://dn721806.ca.archive.org/0/items/guitargeek-archives/swervedriver_adam_1998.gif

https://dn721806.ca.archive.org/0/items/guitargeek-archives/swervedriver_jimmy_1998.gif

https://dn721806.ca.archive.org/0/items/guitargeek-archives/swervedriver_steve_1998.gif

This last one you might have seen around before, as well.

https://dn721806.ca.archive.org/0/items/guitargeek-archives/swervedriver_adam_franklin_guitar_rig_1998.jpg

I saw the tour (one of the tours, I don't think I caught them every time they were in town in the 90s) where they were using the ac30 and jcm800 rigs, might have been the 99th dream tour, it was so sweet sounding.... the prior tour they had hiwatts, even the bass player if I recall. That also sounded great but it was more pedal tone, whereas the vox/marshall rig had a really dirty/jangly 'clean' sound.

I definitely like catherine wheel too, I had this friend we called @$$hole Alex back then that turned me onto them. I also like that band catherine that used to share rehearsal space with the pumpkins.... different thing though.

It's hard for me to reconcile that the person who wrote Black Metallic is the same guy who now creates $3M+ Porsche 911 resto-mods.

no kidding... I will say that there's a major overlap between car tweakers, pedal tweakers and amp modders. If I were wealthier I would build a shelby cobra kit in a heartbeat. It's a short step from building an elaborate pedalboard and tweaking your rig to melt faces to hot rodding a Porsche and marketing mod kits in my experience. Every good sized studio I've worked at was owned by a guy who spent all of his free time tweaking a vintage spots car, roadster or muscle car lol. Right before the pandemic I was really tempted to buy my neighbors mg midget, but there was no room for gear and no back seat for Lucian and I couldn't really afford to have a roadster AND a dad cruiser.

Good points.

It's not the fact that Rob Dickinson is/was both a music gearhead and a car gearhead that surprises me, that overlap is pretty common (to your point) -- the dissonance (to me) is that his company makes an ultra-luxury product in the $500k to $3.5M range.

I could hear a Catherine Wheel song on the radio for free as a kid growing up in the rural nothingverse. You'd have to go to Dubai or maybe car week in Pebble Beach to have a chance to even see a Singer, and nobody reading this will ever even have a chance to drive one.

I've loved 911s since I was a kid watching 80s movies... but when you take a 964 maybe one of us could have gotten our hands on, and turn it into something only a Saudi Prince or tech oligarch can afford... well...

he's probably just ahead of the curve, if you can't rustle up at least $500k of play money you're below the poverty line these days

he's probably just ahead of the curve, if you can't rustle up at least $500k of play money you're below the poverty line these days

Ooof. That's too close to reality for me to laugh, Jim...

I wasn't joking.

you have the right guitar to do all the vibrato bar stunts adam pulls!

Or that Kevin Shields or Rowland S. Howard does.