the name's John, but Jack to my friends

peddle to the pedal

jacktomyfriends — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 04:01:52 +0000

So as previously mentioned, having a board full of fancy shmansy pedals is just to die for, but i realize that there are many among you that have no concept of such delights, so, for you dear readers, i present the following overview. Below are a couple of pikkies of the typical stage setups from Mark & Dan. Kurt’s will doubtless follow. Yes, that’s right, even bass players get in on the action once in while.

so here you go, first Mark’s:

as you can see, it’s a pretty complex setup; not for the faint of heart, short of breath, or pregnant women, or those likely to become pregnant.

now Dan’s:

Pretty complex stuff i’m sure you’ll agree. But whilever “reading manuals is for sissies” remains one of the band’s mantras, we shall remain sadly unaware of the sonic potential at our feet, nor how to get rid of that annoying 60 cycle hum when the middle one is on.

expensive guitar pedals + Guinness = not a good idea

jacktomyfriends — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:28:09 +0000

for those of you out there with a nice pedal board stuffed full of expensive sound-altering goodies, i’m sure i don’t have to tell you to NOT spill an entire pint of Guinness on them. I know it seems like it should be obvious. It seemed obvious to me beforehand. That knowledge did not stop it from happening however. Half a gig with no distortion is no way to live.

Happy to report that an isopropyl alcohol rinse and sitting out in the sunshine for a day have rendered them once again workable.

Another story where the problem, and the solution, were both alcohol related.

how exciting.. for you that is

jacktomyfriends — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 15:03:07 +0000

so, the people that bring you periodic band notifications of a mildly humorous bent, went and got themselves a blog. ‘about time’ i hear the cry. seriously. like most good ideas, this one will be used sparingly so as not to oversaturate. unless of course we decide to oversaturate, at which point, that will become the good idea.

we’ll try to keep the blog babble to theoretically band-related notions, but, see ‘good ideas’ theorem above.

here we go.