The Analog Grownup

You added the bold part as an assumption on your part. I didn't add anything in bold. Is this the interview? http://squintyt4e.li....com/45380.html Yes, that's the one! :)

Took me a while to realize you weren't kidding :P The bit about the animated computer match sounds so much like the last Rocky movie ;)

You added the bold part as an assumption on your part. I didn't add anything in bold.

It's too long time ago I've seen it so I'm not sure, but I think your points sounds interesting. I'll be eager to see what others reply :)

Now you can't just type that kind of thing, and then not elaborate! :P

That Gretsch looks stunning. Is the color on the photo accurate? I love that orange/peach color

Yeah going tobogganing with Geddy would be fun :D

I wouldn't chase them down, but if I randomly ran into them I'd treat them just like any other normal person. Wouldn't be scared to talk to any of them, not even Neil, because I'm pretty relaxed around celebrities. I don't get starstruck. I'm pretty down to earth and sympathetic so people tend to relax around me. ;)

This is not really a fact but when I was a kid and would go trick or treat, one of my neighbors would always grunt and slam the door :D. I remember when my family had a bitch german shepherd and our neighbor had a male german shepherd. Our dog couldn't stand the other dog and would always try to 'kick his ass', and one day our dog ran straight through the fence to get to the other dog, only to get such a beating from the other dog. I don't know why our dog kept attacking the other dog, because she always lost :P I'll throw in for good measure, that the dogs fighting were never serious in a way that it would be dangerous. As soon as our dog gave up they stopped, and neither of them ever got hurt. :)

wow, I've met a lot of people here with German ancestry. Also a big cheers to you from the other side of the pond. :cheers: I'm almost 100% German. My last name can be found on many German Christmas ornaments. :D So your name is Weihnachten :LMAO: . Cheers :cheers: to the beautiful Chi Town. I will never forget how the people of your city treated me so kind in 2010. Fröliche, actually. ;) Hey, my sister lives on the Rhein...in Rheinberg. :cheers: Prost! Prost :cheers: to you from Germany. The Rhein (Rhine) is a beautiful river and there are lots of wonderful places alongside. Spent the night in Assmanshausen this summer and it was beautiful! Best name ever for a town, by the way. We have a lot of beautiful town names in Germany. Here's one from Bavaria. http://i1253.photobucket.com/albums/hh597/greyfriar2112/600400-Fucking-One-Salient-Oversight-jpg_130932_zpsc5be7dfa.jpg Holy s***! :o The sign was stolen so many times, they even think of changing the name of the village. LOL They have the same problem in Paris, Denmark. A little town of 7 houses or something like that. Only one road going straight through :P

That amp would be cheap in Denmark for $2600 :(

Either way works fine. The difference is how the taper of the wah responds, being that if you go overdrive then into a wah the taper will be more 'smooth'. The overdrive I use cannot be fed a buffered signal, in order to respond to my volume control like a fuzz pedal. My setup is a little odd given that I run overdrive, wah, buffer and then volume and so forth. The taper of my wah gets too narrow if I put a buffer before it. I don't think I have that much in line, and the difference between going straight to amp and through my effects is not noticeable. :) Good cables and a good power supply is always good. Ground loops can be pretty annoying too. I go through 35 feet of Mogami cable, and I can assure you that there's not anything missing in the top or bottom end. There would if I didn't use a buffer. Depends on how you wan't your effects to behave. Too me running effects after the amp sounds cold and sterile. I see the point in having certain amps for certain tones, but being a poor musician I always seek to get the everything out of one amp. Of course it also boils down to the kind of music one plays, and how one plays it I guess. I don't use any channel switching since the music I play doesn't need it. :)

Kinda like Dinner At The Hunting Lodge :D

I have found a confidence in my playing, that no matter what tube amp I play through I sound like me :). I have 3 tube amps; one Mesa/Boogie Single Rectifier (1.generation) and a 2150 Marshall combo from 1979 that's in need of repair and a Marshall JCM900 100 watt head - well that one is borrowed but I'd buy it if I had the money. This IS an amp thread, but I'll just throw it all in here: Current rig: Gibson Les Paul Goldtop '57 VOS -> Mad Professor Sky Blue Overdrive -> MXR CAE Wah -> Skrydstrup buffer -> Ernie Ball VPJR -> Boss BF-2 -> Boss DD-3 -> Marshall JCM900 head running a 4x12 cabinet loaded with Greenbacks. My sound is a mixture of preamp distortion, power tubes cooking and the sound of 4 Greenbacks pushing air. I play fairly loud with the master cranked to 12 o'clock (not drowning out the drummer), and the overdrive pedal adjusted just to give me the right feel and dynamics. My clean sound is backing off on the volume on my guitar. I started using the tone controls on my guitar more too - setting the presence of the amp higher than I normally would. When I need to solo or cut through the mix better, I just turn up the tone control and wail away. The key ingredients to my sound is warmth, controlled feedback and dynamics. Would like to implement my Rectifier and Plexi into my rig, having the plexi add 'air', the Rectifier solid mass to the bottom end and the JCM900 in between those two. Sometimes I think about adding some effects after the preamp sections of the amps, but with the prospect of three amps running simultaneous, it seems too daunting too me. Nice to see all your amps :haz:

Do you know the feeling when everything just clicks, and the gear just sounds so good the guitar practically plays itself? So much the other band members start giving you the evil eye, 'cause you won't stop riffin' away?! I had my pedalboard set up the same way for a very long time, and got to play around with order of effect pedals and buffers. Turns out I've been doing it wrong the whole time. Now I can't stop grinning when I play because it sounds so friggin' awesome. :haz: :guitar: But of course you know that feeling ;)

Someone here posted something with Howard Ungerleider saying there was nothing planned for the next two years, then a tour would ensue. But all is really speculation and at this point, even from the band, as everything can go either way as it is.

A Passage To Bangkok has one of my all-time favorite solos in it.

Since I was born a year after Signals came out, I can't answer wether or not keyboards were received more warmly than the strings. But to me the added strings on the record, and using then string ensemble live was really exciting. It was refreshing and it sat well with the music. They're most likely not gonna take the string ensemble on tour again, and reside to using samples instead. That's fine and all, but I noticed that when the string ensemble came on stage the energy kind of changed. The human element gave a lot of energy, and I think they all fed off each other and the band seemed much more fired up. That's the Rush I wanna see - regardless of what their setlist might be, or how many new versus deep cuts they play. Nothing worse than seeing a lackluster performance. If I were old enough to have experience Signals when it first came out, I'd probably vote 'the same' :)

I noticed on the cover of Beyond The Lighted Stage a line that says: "From the creators of "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey" and "Iron Maiden: Flight 666" so I watched both of those yesterday. Got me so fired up I played my guitar for 8-9 hours straight :haz: :guitar: http://www.pikky.net/uploads/c206f70ab1aa96b57cccf4ac448c72a1df2e2f7c.jpghttp://gspirater.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/flight-666.jpg

It's a great interview- could use a topic to itself, I think! Since I am high speed deprived (HSD for short! ), and unless there is a transcript of the interview, would someone be so kind as to fill me in on the highlights of this Geddy interview? Please? I might give it a go tonight, but no promises ;) Analog, Bluefunk very graciously filled me in on the details of the interview. This is to alert you that you are now hereby relieved of the duty! :) Great, 'cause it would seem that I too don't have a high speed internet connection tonight :P

now THAT would be addiction. Nope. As far as I understand, addiction is having some sort of dependency on it. I eat blueberries every day, I don't think I'm addicted to them. Weed is not addictive. I smoked it about 4-5 times a week until about a month ago when I got a job that does testing for weed among other things (don't even get me started on "drug testing""!!) and I had no problem what so ever stopping. It's not addicting. Simple as that. Exactly. It's a choice but not an addiction. If people think you can't get psychologically addicted to pot, they're very, very, very wrong. You absoultely can. Tons of people are. That's the social addiction. It's not what you take but who you're with and the social context you get addicted too.

It's a great interview- could use a topic to itself, I think! Since I am high speed deprived (HSD for short! ), and unless there is a transcript of the interview, would someone be so kind as to fill me in on the highlights of this Geddy interview? Please? I might give it a go tonight, but no promises ;)

This discussion is surely getting heated. Honestly I don't see why some of you get bend out of shape by Goobers posts? I have different opinions about smoking pot at concerts (don't do it myself, didn't even go for a beer during my Rush show - wanted to see every little second ;) ) but while his opinions may cause a lot of commotion, he doesn't tell anybody what to do. He chooses not to go which I don't understand why that bothers some. I'd wish he did attend since we breathe so much poisonous stuff compared to pot smoke, but again that's just me. And many pot smokers I have met have been very polite; offering a toke of their joint although they never force me if I decline. Never have drunk people asked me if I wanted to have a sip of their beer. Cheap bastards ;)

now THAT would be addiction. Nope. As far as I understand, addiction is having some sort of dependency on it. I eat blueberries every day, I don't think I'm addicted to them. Weed is not addictive. I smoked it about 4-5 times a week until about a month ago when I got a job that does testing for weed among other things (don't even get me started on "drug testing""!!) and I had no problem what so ever stopping. It's not addicting. Simple as that. Exactly. It's a choice but not an addiction.