Jump to content

Paul Wesley

Legacy Members
  • Posts

    1849
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Posts posted by Paul Wesley

  1.  

    19 hours ago, Deej said:

    It ain't the tools, it's the man who uses them. 

    Wait a second.  Are we talking about *practice?*   We talking about PRACTICE, man.  We're talking about practice.

    What are we doing?

    I'm supposed to be the franchise player, but we talking about PRACTICE?

  2. 9 hours ago, G650 said:

    I've been eyeballing these for a hot minute

    I really like it.  To my ears, it sounds like a *slightly* more modern-sounding Vox... i.e. a little more saturation as it breaks up more and more.  It breaks up in a way that doesn't feel genre-specific to me.  Depending on the settings, I think it could be perfectly at home in an alt-country band (Stapleton/Isbell/etc) or as a heavy Brian May thing.  

     If I had one complaint with it, it's that the EQ often feels a bit light on low mids, although that could also be an accurate reflection of the guitars that I'm using.  I haven't recorded with it much, but it occurs to me that the same low mids that I want to bump up with an EQ pedal might be exactly what's carved out by the mix engineer.  

    I could get down to three amps for the rest of my days on earth and be perfectly content:  A Laurel Canyon, a Two Rock Studio Pro 35 (which is the ultimate Swiss army amp, IMO), and a Marshall flavor (either a 65Amps Empire or one of those Marshall 20-watt Plexi-voiced heads).  

     

    • Fuck Around and Find Out 1
  3. I'm a Vox guy.  I have a couple different Vox-style heads including a Matchless Laurel Canyon and a 65Amps London.  

    I also have a China-made AC30 - the 1-speaker version - that has just been gathering dust for the past decade.  So I just sold it online, and before the guy came to pick it up, I plugged it in the other night and ran through it just to make sure it was fully functional.  

    It sounded better than I remembered.  

    • Like 1
  4. 5 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I love Chris Stapleton's tone, and there are similarities across multiple guitars.  Can someone identify these amps from SNL last night?  I think he's driving both rigs, his rhythm guitarist (off on screen left) was standing in front of a couple of combo amps himself.  I assume those were his.  I see a Matchless head driving two small cabinets and a couple of small Fender combos -- any model info out there?

    image.thumb.png.7f67fbdd6a764460a8aa0cda7198f31d.png

    I think the head on the right is the bass player's Thunderman.  

  5. I just got a targeted ad on social media for a “mini cajon.”

    And it kind of made me happy, in the sense of “Well, obviously you data-sucking corporate bitches don’t know *everything* about me, now do you?”

  6. 7 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

    I fucking hate this relic bullshit.

     

    this ugly fucking thing is in worse "shape" than my '37 Gibson, which has oh...87 FUCKING YEARS ON THIS PLANET. 

    I fucking hate this shit. 

    Yeah, the "heavy" relic thing seems especially odd.  

    I mean, if you're doing an "artist" model, and you want to copy all the flaws of Malcolm's Gretsch or Eddie's Frankenstrat... I think that's pretty cool.  

    Outside of that...  just beating the hell out of a brand new instrument...

    Screenshot-2024-04-01-at-12-34-09-AM.png

  7. I realize I'm a week or so late, but I just saw the Don Lemon interview.  

    What a thin-skinned little baby.  

    I mean, has Elon done an interview in the last year where the smallest bit of pushback or criticism doesn't cause a toddler-esque pouting tantrum? 

    He just defaults back into self-congratulations and canned-answer platitudes about saving free speech.  Then he runs off to tweet damage-control messages or to attack the interviewer.  He seems utterly incapable of defending his choices (especially around censorship vs enabling racist/offensive content) in any real-time conversations.  

    He should have YEARS of experience articulating a coherent viewpoint around topics that are DEFINITELY going to come up over and over again.  Nope.   

    • Hook 'Em 4
  8. 2 hours ago, tbone_ said:

    I came back to flog your post with Mickey Raphael references. But then I re read it and I think I agree with you.

     

    Haha.  Harmonica players in bar bands… white guys with fedoras and diabeetus… just waiting for a solo.   
     

    At least hippies keep their digeridoos at home.  

  9. 5 hours ago, TexasHooch said:

     the didgeridoo.  

    Hippies, man.   They smell bad and they’re off-the-charts annoying (though some of their political beliefs turn out to be right, which is also annoying).   

  10. 14 hours ago, ohchaucer said:


    I was gonna say alto sax. Why do we need this?

    In 6th grade band, I needed to pick an instrument.  About a week before school started, my mother said, 'How about saxophone?  You should play saxophone!"  I ended up playing alto sax for two years. 

    Ugh.  

    Man, I would trade that for ANYTHING else:  cello, violin, drums... even oboe or bassoon would be cooler.  

    I'm surprised no one said "fretless bass," because that's another one that everyone else in the room just has to kind of cringe and pray to God that it stays in the case all day.  

    How about a trio of alto sax, fretless bass, and cajon?  They could name themselves something annoying, like "Phish."

    • Like 1
    • Haha 3
  11. 20 hours ago, Celery Man said:

    When I was probably a junior in high school my band (which at that point still considered itself somewhat "ska") opened for them an Los Skarnales upstairs at Fitzgeralds and I thought I had basically made it at that point.

    Screenshot-2024-03-25-at-10-10-57-AM.png

    • Hook 'Em 1
    • Haha 2
  12. I hope we play smart.  I can’t take watching another turnover festival peppered with off-balance threes from Disu and stupid hero-ball shots from our guys.  
     

    We hit only one three because the vast majority of our threes were off-balance and out of rhythm.  Hell, Abmas hit that one from the logo, but at least his shoulders were square and his feet were set.  

  13. Whoops.  The blonde one was miscategorized.  I put American-made as one of the filters but the results included that made-in-Japan model.  Still might be a good guitar, but it's not how it was represented.  

    • Hook 'Em 1
  14. On 3/19/2024 at 1:25 PM, CoTex said:

    Asking for advice:

    Son wants a telecaster.  I don’t mind spending money and want something that he will appreciate for a long time.

    Can someone recommend to me a Tele or two that are nice enough that they will retain value?  I’m not looking to ride an investment to the stratosphere, but I would rather buy this once, and it be nice forever, than be 2 years down the road and the purchase being inadequate - falling apart - or not nice enough.

    So, what’s a good long-term telecaster? Buy gently used or vintage or new?

    You're an awesome dad.

    Personally, I'd look at an 1990's American-made guitar.  In my opinion, it was a pretty good era, and they're not perceived as "vintage," so the values aren't too crazy.  

    You can find one in good shape in the $1200-1500 range, and there are a lot of options in there to find something that he loves cosmetically.  

    Stay away from "noiseless" pickups.  They suck.  

    "Buy this once" - check

    "Be nice forever" - check

    If it doesn't work out, you should get your money back out of it.  

    A few from a 10-minute Reverb search:

    Lipstick red for $1080:  https://reverb.com/item/69542092-fender-american-standard-telecaster-1992-1993-lipstick-red

    Sunburst with rosewood neck, $1350 and accepting offers:  https://reverb.com/item/77910288-1995-fender-american-standard-telecaster-with-rosewood-fretboard-3-color-sunburst

    Blonde, $1600 and accepting offers:  https://reverb.com/item/78163624-fender-50th-anniversary-telecaster-1996-blonde

    edit to add:  Understand that a 30-year old guitar is almost certainly going to have some minor scratches and dings.  That's normal.  If that feels disappointing to him, then he should get something new or nearly new.  

    • Hook 'Em 2
    • Like 1
×
×
  • Create New...