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I still think you want the mesh pads.... even if the feel is not an issue, the ones with the simmons style rubber pads are bad for your wrists

he's actually kind of a jerk though.... not one of the nicest people in industrial rock, more full of himself than Al Jourgenson, though a lot less voaltile and angry...

Trent on the other hand is a very friendly person who really loves his fans... or he was anyway. I haven't actually sent him in a very long time. Not since I tagged along with buddy who ahd backstage passes to the Fragile tour. Rob Zombie is a SUPER NICE guy. One of the nicest people I have ever met. Under all that makeup and hair lies a total comicbook nerd and sweetheart of a human being. His wife is nice too.

I am way off topic now. Anyway, I don't think people were referring to manon's stage/pblic persona so much as his actual character.... and that character is an ill-tempered, self-absorbed premadonna who really borrowed a ladder so to speak from the whole NIN/Ministry pool of industrial rock acts and then eclipsed them and left a lot of them to languish. Maybe he's nier since he gave up drugs, but 15 years ago? incredibly rude and distant

heads up, in V-Drums you want the kits that look like this:

https://www.roland.com/global/products/td-25k/

where the pads have some depth like a rototom or something, that's what I had and it wasn't bad to play on at all -- not that I'm a drummer, but I can drum adequately for 2 to 6 minutes and I sued to play in indoor drumline in school so I'm rpettys ensitive to how sticks contact drum heads and what feels natural when you're rolling or doing a flam.... the roland ones with depth to the pads were the only electronic drums I could ever feel comfortable playing on, they didn't hurt my arm when I hit hard and they had give and bounce like a drunken coed's as--- erk, sorry

I have no idea what you're talking about. Should I assume Romo is a football player? I absolutely HATE football. Can't watch it and the last time I played it the bass player from Under Your Bread took me down so hard that I cracked a rib against the pointy end of the ball that I was holding. Right before we were supposed to go on the road too... FUCK THAT (I went on tour anyway, the first few dates were agony and I got no sleep between motels because, who would have guessed? you can't get comfortable on a van seat with a broken rib)

now baseball? that's a game.... I need to start following it again this season so I can teach Lucian all about the joys of extra innings and crackerjacks.... maybe we'll go to a minor league game just to break him in

but tuna fiesta.... just, yeah

hey! I paid a grand for my junk car!

just wtf on the tampons and baby footballers

she wished... Leigh

my wife gave me some razor blades as a birthday present and we carved our names in eachother's asses

it helps me write songs though... I am working on this new wavey thing today that I rattled off last night about if I had retaliated when she got violent and killed her... I have a great chorus lyric and I am not always good at lyrics...

He was a sensitive boy,

that's what they always said,

but now he's a killer.

was a beautiful girl,

but it went to her head,

he wouldn't forgive her....

run baby run baby run

got to get away

baby run and live

to fight another day...

I have some alt lines for every chorus that're prtty clever and thenI have an outro chorus variation that needs some lyrics.... I have a bunch of the programmed electronic elements in my DAW already, just tweaked 'em up and dialed in the perfect guitar sound on the 70s arbiter AC30 that's more marshally than voxy... I also got a sound for some riffage with an OD out front of my fawn AC30HW... I am doing SG standard for the rhythm track and the little licks and fills seem to sound good with the silver Les Paul. I need to find the right room for each amp and get a mic position and then my day will be guitar takes....

I am stoked because I haven't wound up using any of the ac30s for recordings lately.... I seem to be using the matchless, traynor and pro a lot on everything even though my heart really belongs to vox. Its just the kinda stuff I've been playing wanted more punch and those amps have fat attack and tight power sections that really help thigns whack through a dense mix.

But yeah... if you can manage to experience some personal tragedies it will certainly improve your music (if not your disposition). An even before meeting her Iw as nos tranger to PTSD level misfortune. I had a seriously fucked up early childhood but its just too creepy to write music about. I hate to be all 90s and cliché but its just true in my experience. On the one ahnd I do in fact miss her, but on the other hand? well I woulda liked to have made that hand into a fist just one time and hit her back so she woulda learned that grown people don't attack eachother. But aside form the fact that its generally frowned on to hit your wife under any circumstances I probably woulda killed her... she was 5' tall and a whispy little thing even during her fat phases. She was fat for her height, she never manages to outweigh me and 'm a full foot taller than that little punkrock girly.

this is such a thread hijack.... back to 1st guitars! have you considered a squire hell kitty strat? always funny

you ate Long John Silver.... on purpose?

I got ya, its just weird sometimes hearing "I'm so sorry" from people because in the grand scheme of things this was the best thing that could have happened.

I'm going to go off now:

She was a VERY troubled person, very unhappy and she became someone who was impossible to live with.... she loved our son, but she was so erratic that she was a really destabilizing presence in his life sometimes and with a custody schedule she would be the parent in charge on certain days regardless of her mental state and she could be so childish and possessive with her love towards him and me that she wouldn't be thinking about his overall best interests, just about making sure he was with her for the max time allowed by law (or more if she was allowed) and part of it was sticking it to me because I wouldn't take her back so she could get burned on momming it and start ignoring him to pursue extracurricular activities. I knew I made the right call when the court handed me temporary full custody and restricted her to visitation within my home county at my discretion and then for the 6 months leading up to her death instead of coming out here at my expense (I offered) to visit him a long weekend every month she returned to full time drug use instead of just dabbling. She evens topped calling him on a regular basis after a month or so which was really sad since she had been militant about making me put him on skype every single night during my time in the period where we were 50/50.... see the lead up to her death was sad, when she died it turned out to be surprisingly easy to explain it to Lucian and get him over it and its not like she ever contributed financially. Before the breakup her contribution to the household was being sexy.... then it was being pregnant.... then it was basically being a baby sitter while I was at my 9to5, but she would just be like "take the baby, I am so sick of doing this" the minute I got home and she would stay up late and sleep in all weekend so it was really all me then. Oh, she did the laundry, but damn was she good at shrinking clothes. I cooked, I cleaned, I paid the bills... so its not a lot different now other than having lost my free sitter. Oh, and I never get laid now, but as I discovered when the baby arrived you just don't have the time even if you have the energy once you have a child. I remember a few times I came ome and the baby was strapped in the baby-swing bawling and she would be locked in a bathroom. She just wasn't cut out for it. The marriage was shakey when we moved to DC and she got pregnant, but it got a lot worse with the screaming little third wheel involved. I miss her sometimes, but I don't miss the relapses, legal troubles and random temper tantrums.... not those, no sir, I do not miss ducking while my guitar pedals careen towards my head. I swear I shoulda bought a football helmet after the 1st year of marriage when she started get snippy...

why, did you sell my wife the heroin cut with deadly phentanyl?

His mom is dead though. Doesn't that entitled you to Social Security?

Sooo many better ways to word asking this... if at all.

Boom's not known for his tact, its okay

yes and we're applied, but it won't be much as she was such a bum she barely worked her entire life so she abrely paid in.... and the application process takes a year, we just got a case worker

I actually no know all about dealing with social security from my day job, I am doing my best to expedite...

when I say I'm poor I don't mean we're on foodstamps or anything, but we are just above that line and I don't own my home and I am a ta point in my life where I expected to be a homeowner... I could make more money if I didn''t want to work from home, but daycare is rough because the latest you can get anyone to keep them is 6pm and pretty much everyone upcharges you by the minute after 5 or 5:30pm, so its very difficult in an industry where every month the accounting department has to stay until 6 or alter a few nights a week... as a consultant I make my own hours and only go into the offices when I need to, but I take a tax hit or I have to kick some of my salary back to a referring agency for the duration of the contract and there will be periods where I may not be working and other periods here I am in 2 or more contracts busting ass, working well into the night but at home... this wille ase up when he's potty trained soon.... the options for 'after school programs' that run alter than 5 or 5:30 for no additional charge opens way up once your kid is out of pullups and can manage the potty without adult assistance. Right now though? I am severely limited. Its a work in progress.

its a shame because his social security would help with child care, but I didn't get the death certificate to apply for it until November so I don't expect to see the backpay until july or august at the earliest... I am about tog et a HUGE tax return as a widower, maybe that'll help but I had rather planned to put it down on a new car

1/4" reel to reel

I was definitely poor as a kid and I would still class as poor now, but barely. I wouldn't be so poor now if it weren't for being a single dad.... kids are expensive with 1 income and no child support coming in.

I actually went to school in what was technically a suburb of Philly, but it was close to the northeast border and we got a lot of kids from North (the hood) who used a grandparent's address to get into a suburban highschool... not that we didn't have a lot of homegrown delinquents. I lived in a low rent but nice enough aprt of town while there were richer areas in spades there was also a big wrong-side-of-thr-tracks trailpark area and right at the city limits there were tons of ratty apartment complexes that were cheaper than even the city and the management would look the other way on like 2 poor families of 3 or 4 jammed into a little 2 bedroom sleeping on mattresses...

anyway, you seem affluent, or like you were raised by affluent parents at least... I was such a street-punk hustler when I was a kid.

you must live in a wealthy area, my highschool didn't have a recording studio.... and it had metal detectors on the doors as early as like '98

its just me and the kid so I can just go record in any room.... some have carpet, some have hardwood or ceramic tile, so I can get cool room sounds if I want or I can use a walk in closet and get bone dry, close miced tracks.... my studio area is officially the rec room, but that's just kinda mix position.... I'll run cables allover and if I need to go upstairs I can do wireless

listen, try talking to a university with a studio and a recording program.... their students need material to work on for class projects.... it'll be FREE, and if you know your business you can help the newbs not screw up your tracks... they will learn and you will get a decent free studio, simple... also, sometimes these students are fantastic engineers, you just never know... I used to sue Drexel University here in town when one of my guitar students was going there.... he and his best friend in that engineering program had fantastic ears and mad skills, I rarely had to do any engineering work with them unless I was doing something creative like recording the drums in the live room with a trashy mic in the iso booth with the door mostly closed

anyway, universities, man

i think it's a bass thing. my guitarist takes ten takes and picks his favorite, my rhythm guitarist records a few bars and loops them himself. i just do my thing and then produce the entire record on an aging MacBook.

its not a bas thing, I played in a band with a guy who was a very good post-punk bassist in the Peter Hook sense ON STAGE, but in the studio we ahd to replace the bass parts he played with the drummer and me in the live room and then it was 8 million takes and punches in studio B and GAH~! I was really involved in producing that one but I totally bowed out of those sessions and let the engineers handle him, one of them was a bassist.... I went out for sushi those days. Now that guy's not nervous in the studio at all and he will kick out perfect takes with me and a drummer to the point where we can elt his SVT bleed into the room mics without worrying... but back then he couldn't bring his live performance into the studio at all

I am used to traditional studios as a player and I really do as muchas I can with the band live for core tracks, so a lot of the time its a lot of takes until you get one where everyone hits their part well and there's a good feel to everything too... overdubs its more about printing a bunch of different sounds than getting a take, I'm pretty precise on guitar when I make an effort to be... but a lot of the stuff I've played on? once the core band tracks are done its about breaking out a ton of amps and guitars and trying accent parts with every conceivable combination.... nice thing about the computer is you can save everything.... when Iw as a kid we had to commit completely.... these days you can even go DI on a spare track in case you wanna reamp and replace the original amp sound but keep the performance

lately I do everything in my house.... I quit pro music 10 years ago and I'm a single dad now so like. home recording! at home I just do 1 or 2 passes on guitar, its all I have time for, I just leave the amp closet setup and there's some ac30s floating around I can mic up real fast.... I don't have time to be fancy anymore but I also have so much experience now that I can go fast and get results most of the time

so should I measure my penis or not? I don't wanna be the only guy posting a dickshot here....

very punk rock of you

I don't think I've ever heard of either version of "Dirty Diane".... not really the same thing as "Changes"... I mean everyone knows this song whether they like it or not, its just that famous:

https://youtu.be/pl3vxEudif8?t=53s

or do you not have Bowie in Germany? I mean, recorder there quite a bit.... but maybe you guys are all minimal techno and folk music?

I think I said this to you when we were talking yesterday, but I had a roland V-Drum kit I really liked, just a middle of the road one.... it was used too, late 90s model.... really not bad for electronic drums

I'm funnier in person, especially after a couple of drinks. Ask anyone who's worked on music with me. I can be all business when I need to be, but usually I'm pretty fun to make a record with (I remember one time me and a friend bult a potato gun and brought it to a session at a studio out in the country and we terrorized the chimunks with it inbetween takes.... and then there was the 'gross pizza' sessions where we would order a spare pizza with horrible stuff on it like anchovies, pineapples and hot peppers and dare anyone floating around the studio to eat it because it was free! but we would only give them a slice for free if they promised toe at it in front of us and not pick any of the toppings off... starving musicians will eat anything -- remembering this stuff makes me want to engineer some records for other artists again, haha)...

like, I will always go out after a session to party.... I don't like to have drinking in the studio beyond a couple beers to loosen up, but afterwards? when I ran this little, ghetto studio in Trenton me and the clients would go up to the corner bar for last call every night and we got into so much fucking trouble after hours because there was this bartender whow as ina band I sued to do live sound for and he would lock us in with him to 'clean up'... anyway, good times.

PS: I got candy in my band's strip van, little bassist -- and a mattress...

yeah sure, its fine with me... I mean, its just like this loose exchange of ideas between colleagues. Just me, Zach and Kyja right now but you're kinda involved in the sense that I bounce ideas off you separately. Zach and Kyja are more involved on the vocal front right now, but that will change any time. Its just anything goes, swapping track on google drive :-)

Is that a J-50 or a J-45? Or something else?

I think its a J50... I lived in Langhorne Pennsylvania for a little as a kid, I didn't know it was still used as a name for humans though, its pretty archaic... does this guy know how uncool it is to name your song changes? One of a handful of the most iconic Bowie tunes? Its kidna like naming your song "a day in the life" or writing your own tune and calling it "teen spirit."

damn, I couldn't guess that Kay model nor could I guess who the goofy girl wielding it is.... you lose Jim, you lose

where do you find all these folkies? every so foten you psot someone I've heard of, but for the most part I am scrathing my head. Are you just heavily tied into some kinda post-coffee-house acoustic music scene that I, as an electric player and synthesizer fanatic, am totally cut out of? its weird because I feel like I'm tied into so many little underground music scenes fom jazz to lofi pop to alt country and even dance music just through personal associations with people participating in them, performing, recording the artists, promoting their little shows and tours... but this is news to me, you know about some circle of strummers and pickers that's a mysterious blackhole.

Hey hey, me again.

Is somebody familiar with old Kay guitars?

I used to know a little and I will check in one of my books to try to find this guitar, but Kay is not well covered and I doubt ANYONE knows everything about Kay's acoustics.... they made tons of them and distributed them through catalog stores as well as traditional music retailers, not unlike Harmony... both companies had so many models it can be hard to figure out and even if you have an old Kay catalog for a specific year there will be exclusive sears and montgomemery wards models not shown that were shipped to those stores that year and there won't be pictures for every model that IS listed, just some very general specs

Kay is a tough one, short of asking Kim Welsh (yes, I got her name from the jpeg) I would be surprised if you can figure it out... and even then, she would have to know what she ahs and she might not. Might be some junk guitar she found at a pawn store and fixed up...

the amp? the tweed isn't lacquered so its not a vintage tweed and the control layout looks wrong for any old fenders I know of so its not a reissue or kit of anything or a small builder's clone.... it looks too big to be a blues jr... Fender blues deluxe? either that or a peavey classic of some sort... I am not so good at at IDing those modern working man's amps, I just plain don't like any of them though a lot of their users make them sound okay on stage with a lot of pedals....

anyway, I am going with blues deluxe, looks like an offset 1x12 with ratty enough tweed to have been made in the 90s.... but I really don't know what the peavey classics look like, so maybe there's one that fits the bill.... can you just ask him in the isntagram post?

Okay, imo there's different kinds of pop-punk.

There's:

*facepalm*

thanks, man... that was great 1st thing in the morning, just totally cravking me up with your very earnest descriptions of sub genres of a sub-genre of a type of rock n roll that was anti-music-biz and categorization.... its a snow day! I hope I get to dick off work, make music and then run around in the snow until dark with my kid.... and I even bought beer yesterday, yippee! but first I'm going to read that shit again. actually your personal genre names are really funny, 'specially the last one! I take it you like the buzzcocks?

if I were into little boys I would be offering to take you out for a hotdog right now, baby

HAHAHA

I'm sorry I responded to this when I coulda just took a snapshot f my erect dick against a tape measure and posted that.

wait, did you mean that statement as an endorsement?

a cranked amp with a tube rectifier? going Di into two urei 1176es?

the dynacomp is fine

the nearly done version:

god this has been fun to make... so many guitars, synths, drum machines, samples, effects, plugins gah! and just nutty ideas employed making it happen... hardest electronic piece I've ever done

SPECIAL THANKS TO TEL_NOBODY for all his input!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you helped arrange and mix this one, dude. Couldn't have done it without you. You are the man!

it exists, its the egnater/randall MTS modular amp system, look it up... discontinued, but a lot of fans including the smashing pumpkins

eganter designed it, and the rarer eganter version ash 2 channels per module so in a 3 channel amp chassis you get 6 channels, high and low gain voicings for each module.... randall is 1 voicing per module... and then there's the modders like salvation and jaded faith who tweak up existing modules to sound more like vintage amps or into never before heard configurations

if you are cool with preamp drive then its a good system... for me? I love some preamp gain bangers like the 800, soldanos etc, but my heart really belongs to old amps played loud as all fucking get out

she had a certain something-something when we were both young in the 90s, but man she grew up to be creepier and creepier and not in a slutty goth/punk sense of the word creepy

I used to date a girl who really looked like Lydia Deitz to the point that my parents nicknamed her Beetlejuice.... it wasn't just the gothiness, she really looked like Wynona Ryder

later in life I dated someone who dressed like Lydia's mom.... briefly

I dunno if that's the adjective I'd use, but he certainly turned his handicap into a virtue by using it to create a whole new style of playing that's been highly influential.