Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Off Topic Opinion for the Day

I did it again! Wow...I put too much work into this to keep losing it...oh well!

I want to start with a moment of intellect (it took hours to find this one today):



Now that I feel enlightened I would like to share my favorite music video:



No rants until I get some followers!

Cool Shit for the Day

Van Halen got their big start opening for a 70s metal band in LA named Sorcery

Sound Familiar?


Pretty innovative for the 70s eh?

Check Out Sorcery Here

Weekly Shredder's Rig - George Lynch in Under Lock and Key

The tone!!!

Lynch's Rig Would Be As Follows:

From the producer himself:
"We had two Marshall heads and two Laney heads, not sure which models, but one of them was a Plexi. We had cabs in three different rooms: two cabs were placed in the big room at Amigo, one connected to a Marshall, the other connected to the Laney. The Marshall was responsible for the high end part of the sound and the Laney was set to take care of the low end. There were 14 (fourteen) mics set up in that room in various psoitions around the cabinet and some further away to get some room tone. The second Laney was sent into a very dead room and had a Boss chorus pedal in front of it, set to very slight chorus. The second Marshall was sent into a small, tiled bathroom, to add a different room tone. Those 16 mics came in on the MCI 500 console mic pres. They were bussed to one bus and that bus had a UREI 530 EQ on it (best guitar EQ ever). George mentioned that he always gets a great tone with his Fostex 4track recorder when it's in total overdrive, so I asked him to bring it in. So after the 530 everything was sent to the Fostex 4track, which lived under a packing blanket under the console, so nobody would see it. The Fostex was on stunn, completely overdriven and was sent on to the 3M 32 track dig machine from there."

Assuming certain gaps in this explanation, let's break it down how we would normally:

4 Heads: 2 Marshalls and 2 Laneys for different sections of the EQ
I assume the "Plexi" head was his famed Modified Plexi.

Cabs: I assume Genz-Benz, correct me if I'm wrong

Boss Chorus Pedal

UREI 530 EQ Post Mic

and...FOSTEK 4 TRACK OVERDRIVEN!!! I think this may be bullshit...can't confirm it though.

It's also commonly known that Lynch would use an Ibanez Tube Screamer to push the preamp of his Marshall for many leads.

Weekly Writer's Pick

My pick of the week this week would have to be:

Dokken's Under Lock and Key

Lynch sounds and plays amazing. Vocals are catchy. Riffs are clever and good. Lynch tone = Amazing!

I've been listening to this CD for about a year now and it still hasn't gotten old.

Check Out Under Lock and Key

Metal Band of the Day (modern) - Crashdiet

I did it again...I deleted my old post for my new post...only readers that read yesterday will get the real pleasure of me bashing some other talentless modern band that "claims" to do Glam Metal...I can't even remember who it was

Favorite Album - Rest In Sleaze

Favorite Track - Needle in Your Eye

Key Member(s) - Bryn Bennett and Alex Necochea

Cool Point - In their 4 year original material existence they've had 3 singers (Not so cool point that one of these singers died, which happened to be the only one with any slight talent)

Best Solo - Straight Outta Hell

Do They Do It Well? - Not really

Fashion (1 to 10) - 7...Some badass lookin' mother fuckers!

Comments

These guys suck. Everything sucks. I'm not even going to waste my time writing about this overrated (by modern HM fans) shit.

The first CD was about a 3.5, second BOMBED...another complete disappointment. I hate bashing bands like this...but everything that comes across my plate today seems to suck!

Trust me guys...I would much rather like your garbage than bash it. It brings no joy to me to waste my life listening to a bad CD straight through and would bring me tons of joy to find a band nowadays that does it right.

RIP Dave Leppard, their only remotely talented singer that died.

Remember to say “THEY ROCK HARD \m/” in the comments if you want to vote for them as the best from the 80s

Rest in Sleaze

Metal Band of the Day (from the 80s) - Kix

Favorite Album - Hot Wire

Favorite Track - Luv-A-Holic

Key Member(s) - None

Cool Point - It's thought, or so the band thinks, that Poison ripped their style off...

Best Solo - Cold Chills?

Fashion (1 to 10) - 7 Just like Poison! ( ;) )

Comments

Hmmm...

These guys...kinda suck. Their fans are avid, but when somebody knows absolutely nothing about Hair Metal...and bash it...this is what they think of.

Very Cliche (I'm to lazy to put the accent on that e...yet have enough energy to write about it)

They have another album, Midnite Dynamite, that's ok...and the rest is not worth wasting your life...unless you're into this kind of shit (which according to their reviews...they have fans).

Remember to say “THEY ROCK HARD \m/” in the comments if you want to vote for them as the best from the 80s

Check Out Hot Wire

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Off Topic Opinion for the Day

I want to start with a moment of intellect (it took hours to find this one today):



Now that I feel enlightened I would like to share my favorite music video:



No rants until I get some followers!

Cool Shit for the Day

Van Halen got their big start opening for a 70s metal band in LA named Sorcery

Sound Familiar?


Pretty innovative for the 70s eh?

Check Out Sorcery Here

Weekly Shredder's Rig - George Lynch in Under Lock and Key

The tone!!!

Lynch's Rig Would Be As Follows:

From the producer himself:
"We had two Marshall heads and two Laney heads, not sure which models, but one of them was a Plexi. We had cabs in three different rooms: two cabs were placed in the big room at Amigo, one connected to a Marshall, the other connected to the Laney. The Marshall was responsible for the high end part of the sound and the Laney was set to take care of the low end. There were 14 (fourteen) mics set up in that room in various psoitions around the cabinet and some further away to get some room tone. The second Laney was sent into a very dead room and had a Boss chorus pedal in front of it, set to very slight chorus. The second Marshall was sent into a small, tiled bathroom, to add a different room tone. Those 16 mics came in on the MCI 500 console mic pres. They were bussed to one bus and that bus had a UREI 530 EQ on it (best guitar EQ ever). George mentioned that he always gets a great tone with his Fostex 4track recorder when it's in total overdrive, so I asked him to bring it in. So after the 530 everything was sent to the Fostex 4track, which lived under a packing blanket under the console, so nobody would see it. The Fostex was on stunn, completely overdriven and was sent on to the 3M 32 track dig machine from there."

Assuming certain gaps in this explanation, let's break it down how we would normally:

4 Heads: 2 Marshalls and 2 Laneys for different sections of the EQ
I assume the "Plexi" head was his famed Modified Plexi.

Cabs: I assume Genz-Benz, correct me if I'm wrong

Boss Chorus Pedal

UREI 530 EQ Post Mic

and...FOSTEK 4 TRACK OVERDRIVEN!!! I think this may be bullshit...can't confirm it though.

It's also commonly known that Lynch would use an Ibanez Tube Screamer to push the preamp of his Marshall for many leads.

Weekly Writer's Pick

My pick of the week this week would have to be:

Dokken's Under Lock and Key

Lynch sounds and plays amazing. Vocals are catchy. Riffs are clever and good. Lynch tone = Amazing!

I've been listening to this CD for about a year now and it still hasn't gotten old.

Check Out Under Lock and Key