starbuck26
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Last night at rehearsal my bass player wandered in, and I was talking with the drummer about our next string of fall shows starting in October. Specifically, I was talking about the annoying gear-sluts who come up and stand with their faces an inch from your pedal board, staring at your pedals and trying to figure out how to rip whatever they can from your guitar sound.
So, our drummer, who repairs motorcycles (he's such a drummer) has a full airbrush kit in his garage. I told him that I want to come over this weekend, take all my pedals out of their cases, remove all decals, sand them down a bit, and then spray them all a flat, matte black. It's probably ridiculous, but I actually feel this way.
So the bass player started laughing. He was said: "what are you afraid of? they're gonna go down to guitar center and buy a pedal and steal your sound?" To which I replied: Man, that's precisely the point. You can't just wander down to the music shop and buy a telecaster because you want to be Johnny Greenwood, you can't buy a cream-white strat and be Jimi Hendrix. You've got to be you.
I guess in the end, though, what I'm really interested in is taking any distracted focus off of the gear, the amps, the guitars, all of the various media that are put together to create a sound and keep that focus on the quality of the sound in and of itself. With no endorsements given or asked.
I guess I post this here because someone might understand my argument. The bass player sure didn't, the singer shrugged and wrote some poetry in his notebook, and the drummer gave me one of those wicked, warped smiles and head-nods that only drummers are capable of doing. What it said to me was this:
"You're totally insane, and I have no fucking clue what you are talking about. But I will gladly help you onto the diving board, and even if you start to chicken out, I will toss you into the deep end myself."
So, our drummer, who repairs motorcycles (he's such a drummer) has a full airbrush kit in his garage. I told him that I want to come over this weekend, take all my pedals out of their cases, remove all decals, sand them down a bit, and then spray them all a flat, matte black. It's probably ridiculous, but I actually feel this way.
So the bass player started laughing. He was said: "what are you afraid of? they're gonna go down to guitar center and buy a pedal and steal your sound?" To which I replied: Man, that's precisely the point. You can't just wander down to the music shop and buy a telecaster because you want to be Johnny Greenwood, you can't buy a cream-white strat and be Jimi Hendrix. You've got to be you.
I guess in the end, though, what I'm really interested in is taking any distracted focus off of the gear, the amps, the guitars, all of the various media that are put together to create a sound and keep that focus on the quality of the sound in and of itself. With no endorsements given or asked.
I guess I post this here because someone might understand my argument. The bass player sure didn't, the singer shrugged and wrote some poetry in his notebook, and the drummer gave me one of those wicked, warped smiles and head-nods that only drummers are capable of doing. What it said to me was this:
"You're totally insane, and I have no fucking clue what you are talking about. But I will gladly help you onto the diving board, and even if you start to chicken out, I will toss you into the deep end myself."
