Back in my high-school days (this picture was taken during a one-time performance of my band's alter-ego band The Deadly Toilet Spiders), my friends and I had a habit of removing unwanted electronics from my schools backstage area. The argument was that it would allow the school to get rid of equipment they didn't want and let them write off the cost of a replacement on their taxes. So naturally when we won a battle of the bands (it was either us or a bunch of screamo bands), we decided to give ourselves a prize, and what could be better than a pile of old guitar pedals nobody had used in years?
Turns out that was one of the better decisions we ever made. I grabbed me a MXR Phase 90, the phaser that all others have to live up to. My particular one was made in 1979/1980 and needed a bit of fixing up at Action Music. However, it gave me lots of pretty lush phasing before it mysteriously stopped working. But once I finally get my delay pedal working, I might be able to fix this one.
Incidentally, several members of the band I used to be in are forming a new group moving in more of an acid-metal direction. If you know any clubs/friend's basements/empty fields that are friendly to this style of music and don't check IDs, let us know. Also, if you are a big record company that wants to give us lots of money or some weird indie label that wants to record us and give us underground fame, that would be useful to know as well.
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