[Dave Pickering]

Niiiiiiiice! The Tele sounds killer.

My biggest fear is when I die, my wife will sell my guitars for what I told her they cost.

[Dave Pickering]

At this traffic light, your choices are “Walk” or “Head-bang”

My biggest fear is when I die, my wife will sell my guitars for what I told her they cost.

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I put this together a few weeks ago. I wanted a pedal board that would have a lot of flexibility but with a small “footprint” for those venues with postage stamp size stages. Signal chain: Boss TU-3 tuner -> Seymour Duncan Vise Grip compressor -> JHS Morning Glory overdrive -> Wampler Ratsbane distortion -> Boss MD-200 multiple modulation effects unit -> Earthquaker Devices Dispatch Master Reverb/Delay. Everything is mounted on a Holey Board and powered by a Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 3 and it’s only 12″ x 14″

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Kossoff’s playing was outstanding for it’s time especially

Joe Bonamassa has said that Paul Kossoff was one of his influences–particularly his vibrato.

My biggest fear is when I die, my wife will sell my guitars for what I told her they cost.

[Dave Pickering]

A great improviser can perform a solo that’s so good, it sounds like it was carefully composed. Larry Carlton’s guitar solo on “Kid Charlemagne” by Steely Dan is, IMO, absolutely note-perfect and one of the all-time greatest solos ever–it was improvised on the spot. The same with Allan Holdsworth’s solo on “In the Dead of Night” by UK.

Almost every great “classic rock” guitar solo from the 60’s and 70’s was improvised:
Jimmy Page’s solos on “Stairway to Heaven” and “Whole Lotta Love”
Eric Clapton’s lead work on “Crossroads”

“Eruption” by EVH has become so iconic, most people don’t realize it was essentially Eddie noodling in the studio.

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[Dave Pickering]

I’ve considered the Grammys to be a complete joke since 1990 when they gave one to Milli Vanilli.

The following music artists have never won a Grammy:
Chuck Berry
Jimi Hendrix (awarded a posthumous Lifetime Achievement award)
Janis Joplin
Guns n’ Roses
Heart
Journey
Queen
The Kinks
The Beach Boys
The Who
Joe Satriani (nominated 15 times for Best Rock Instrumental Performance)

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[Dave Pickering]

That was great. I love dirt pedals and have been considering picking up a Friedman Brown Eye-OD (which has the most gain of the Friedman O/D pedals–the Dirty Shirley falls between the Golden Pearl and the Brown Eye).

I have two different transparent O/D pedals: the JHS Morning Glory and the MXR Timmy. The sound of the Timmy is similar to the Golden Pearl–they both have a 3-way toggle to control clipping (it’s the “Voice” toggle on the Golden Pearl). I like using the transparent O/D to add just a bit of “grit” when playing through the clean channel.

I also like stacking two overdrives with the transparent O/D going into another O/D set at a medium gain setting–when you turn them both on you get a really nice hard-rock tone. (I’m planning on building a small club style pedal board and I want to use the Timmy–because it’s a small pedal–stacked with another overdrive (probably either a J. Rockett Archer or Earthquaker Devices Plumes).

BTW, what kind of wah did you use on that recording?

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So I say thumbs up for the newer (“real”) tube pedals.

I love the sound of tube overdrives. The Chandler Tube Driver has been around since the 1980’s–Joe Satriani uses one on “Surfing With the Alien” and Eric Johnson uses one on “Cliffs of Dover”.

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[Dave Pickering]

Not metal but….

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This is Spinal Tap

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I only saw Van Halen live once. It was in 1981 when they opened for the Rolling Stones on the “Tattoo You” tour in 1981. Unfortunately David Lee Roth almost ruined it for me. DLR was a swaggering out-of-tune idiot who was out-classed by Mick Jagger when the Stones came on later.

However Eddie was absolutely amazing.

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[Dave Pickering]

The Speed and Accuracy Exercises have been a part of my practice sessions for a couple of years now. Highly recommended.

Doug, is the Strat new? It sounds great.

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