tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76123538738123446782009-11-11T03:23:03.228-05:00Forced to pick a subject to write about for a college course, this blog is one man's attempt to learn about guitar stuff and sound like he knows more about guitar, guitarists and guitar-related accoutrement than he actually does.Eamonn Rockwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18287172688855492440noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7612353873812344678.post-54494163141900906872008-04-24T14:56:00.003-04:002008-04-24T17:58:26.392-04:00

I've been a fan of Outkast, mostly because they're great. "The Mighty O" was such a sick song and could have been a huge summer smash if "Soulja Boy" hadn't come out like two weeks afterwards. Hence my hatred for Soulja Boy.Although I was too young to appreciate it at the time, when Bombs Over Baghdad came out on Stankonia in 2000, it was a monumental moment in history. The song is so fast and

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Remember when I said Marc Bolan should have his own custom-model guitar? I think we're closer than ever! This Les Paul (April 2008 Gibson-of-the-Month) allows you to mix the pickups easily by having two zebra-pickups in addition to the two regular pickups with the model that are connected by magnets. No longer are the technologically-challenged required to go to the guitar shop to get their

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For all you hippies out there, today is 4/20, when all hippies, pot-heads and Nazis come together to smoke weed and celebrate Hitler's birthday, or whatever pot-heads and hippies celebrate these days. Go get high and listen to your Allman Brothers or your Greatful Dead or String Cheese Incident or whatever awful music you listen to when you get high, you Burning-Man loving longhairs!Note: I'm not

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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

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I went to the Earth Day Festival this afternoon, and I think it's safe to say that it both sucked and blew. After being crammed into the metro with a bunch of obnoxious high-school brats, I basically had to stand in the rain while the atrocious O.A.R. finished their acoustic set (because playing a Bob Dylan song on a Taylor 410ce while looking like a total frat-boy choad will make girls like you)

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If you haven't had your fill of 80s Lycra-covered clown singers with concaine addictions, you'd better watch this. If you have coulrophobia, for God's sake don't watch this (warning: possibly NSFW).div#main{overflow:visible;}

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This isn't guitar-related, but I just heard the song "paper planes" by M.I.A. and now I can't get it out of my head because it's so good/catchy. It apparently samples some song by the Clash, which is ok because I never really liked them. Enjoy or admit lameness.

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Can't think of anything to write about. Maybe strings? I've been a fan of Elixir Strings for a while because I'm disgustingly rich and I like super long-lasting strings. I also drink mimosas every morning before Jeeves brings me the New York Times and a Dodo omelette.

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EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!I'm giddy as a schoolgirl, which helps explain this skirt and high-socks combo as well as why my hair is in pigtails. This show promises to be pretty amazing, with headliners Jay-Z, Kings of Leon, and The Verve (for some reason)just three of the approximately 1000 bands scheduled to be there. I'm more interested in the following bands and events at the

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My delay pedal still doesn't work. The three "G" spots (haha) have continuity between them, so that's good. But other than that nothing works. More on this when I find out what I did wrong.

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I'm pretty sure this is the cure for erectile dysfunction. Although a Flying V with a tremolo bar is nothing new, I've never seen one with a Bigsby until now. Notice that the bar was too long for the body and required a bar in the back to hold it. That's just icing on the cake.

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Yeah. It's a dog danglin' afternoon over here. There's probably some sort of guitar thing to write about, I just can't think of what it is.There's the $6000 Jimmy Page Custom Guitar that I used to want after watching the How the West Was Won DVD and would accept as a gift should anyone be desperate to get rid of one.Oh, and there's also the robot guitar which can intonate, tune and string itself

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This is what Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) is supposed to sound like. Perhaps there are other ways it can be played. I even heard a good version by Stevie Ray Vaughan, but this is the way it exists in nature. Anything else is probably wrong.

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As a poor, tired man yearning to breathe free, I am in constant need of money. I have even stooped so low as to apply for a bike courier job (If you are reading this and are my mother, then you can soon stop yelling at me to both exercise and get a job)to be able to fund my extravagant lifestyle of buying totally sweet pedals on a whim and also fund my numerous shocking activities in Europe

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As you may know, or don't know because I don't think I actually wrote this, I bought a BYOC Digital Delay pedal. After learning how to solder and burning my hair a few times, I managed to complete it.The only flaw in this process is that the pedal does not work at all, probably because I didn't solder something correctly. The current problem is that the LED light doesn't turn on when I press the

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You people on the internet are known for kindness, and as this blog has been read by someone other than myself and my professor, that pretty much makes it the most popular blog in the Northern Virginia area that I know of. You can credit that part to my not reading anything that doesn't relate to guitars, jaded-fashionistas or beautiful women whose clothes have mysteriously vanished. Therefore,

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In the past few months or so, I've been getting into metal more and more. However, the line between terrible metal and amazing metal is thinner than Louise Brooks's negligee. (if you understand the reference, you might be my hero). However, I like many before me have come to the conclusion after meticulous research that the band Slayer is the heaviest of them all. The music is just so brutal

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Everybody knows about Guitar Hero by now. You magically play Rock anthems and solos by pushing somewhere between one and five buttons when it tells you to. Like many video games, I'm horrible at it (the only exception being Resistance, which for some reason I am good at). The game has become so popular that Guitar Hero competitions have replaced karaoke in numerous bars across the land. Why do I

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Exactly what the title says (possibly NSFW). Reading music (or anything, for that matter) for me is the equivilant of asking a blind man to read some bizarre foreign sign language while he's being lowered into a pit of piranas who have been genetically modified to have the ability shoot flames underwater. It's not like I haven't tried to learn this obscure talent. But getting a C- when I tried

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I'm visiting a good friend of mine in Seattle this Spring Break. While we're unable to go to the beach to pick up passed-out underage blondes, this city remains pretty interesting and fun despite the cold and the rain and the constant threat of attack from Megaladons. It's good to know that yuppies on the west coast have problems too and that we've finally got some ammo against them when the next

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My friend Bob (same one who's thinking of changing his pickups) recently bought the Line 6 POD XT Live on Ebay for something like $150 less than the retail price. My history with POD pedals is that they have lots of effects good enough for starting guitarists but does not give advanced guitarists adequate control of the effect. That and it sounds too digital, which makes sense since it's a big

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Following my own advice and upon getting $100 for my birthday, I bought a BYOC Digital Delay & Ping Pong pedal. It was a close match between this and their Fuzz pedal, but in the end I felt that my POD 2.0, which are probably less than $50 these days, already had almost a dozen forms of distortion, so I was somewhat covered on that front. If I manage to successfully build this, I should be able

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Before you start chasing after me with a rolling pin and your hair in curlers yelling about something I did to your daughter or how this post doesn't have anything to do with guitars, read closely.Glastonbury is a huge hippie festival in England. First held the day after Hendrix died in 1970, Glastonbury has grown from a small concert on 900 acres of farmland into a huge sprawling hippie

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A former/current bandmate of mine recently bought a Strat . After yawning compulsively at him for buying such a decent-but-boring guitar, he told me that his recent obsession with DragonForce convinced him that he needed to put in new pickups to get the sound that can only come when your hands move faster than light on steroids.For those of you unfamiliar with DragonForce, the reason you might

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While hunched over my computer in a way that would make Igor jealous, a friend IM'd me and told me about a pedal he was about to buy. When he asked him the brand, he told me it was a BYOC, which I had never heard of. It turns out that BYOC stands for Build Your Own Clone, a company that ships all the parts required to build a boutique pedal for around a third of the price. Since almost all pedals

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