Spanish Manlove posted:

None, the bottom should be entirely made of surgical grade stainless steel polished to micron consistency for maximum contact with the ground, improving earth shaking and therefore overall tone.

Dr. Faustus posted:

I'm really sorry to bring this thread down so loving hard, but she was "that dog" in the first page of the first thread and I wanted everyone to know her better; especially now. I did everything I could for her about 15 years.

My lame joke is my niece named her "Missy," but of course if I had gotten her first I would have named her "Stephanie Rae Vy."

A human heart posted:

what kind of music do you play

fartzone_42069 posted:

I know the tr00/kvlt vs radio metal debate is all dead dumb and pointless.

I like the real metal. poo poo like Immolation, Bathory, etc. loving HATE Shadows Fall, Killswitch, Ax 7XFold, etc. All that watered down over produced not too threatening garbage for satellite radio. I call those bands radio metal.

But they're straddling that line between metal and super softened radio rock, basically metal meets adult contemporary. That's just horrible. Not everything has to be bludgeoning you to death, but also you can't flash devil horns to a singer who does those inhale vocals and then there's 10 synth tracks to back up the lovely sing along chorus.

My point is Korn are legends at sucking and are not pretending to be something they're not. They're confidently nu metal. I'm only talking the first three albums. But they're classic, timeless bangers.

How was the show?

massive spider posted:

My submission for stupid music poo poo: bands which have formed like, a month ago making 10 second “teasers” on social media for their forthcoming material.

MrSargent posted:

Hey fellow Digitech hater! My worst pedal was a Digitech RP80, similar to the 50, but with the added bonus of having a really lovely expression pedal. It was my first pedal and I had no idea what the gently caress I was doing, I just wanted a bunch of cool effects. I did not get a bunch of cool effects.

Gorewar posted:

Was the city at least fun to be in?

Wark Say posted:

So, I have a question for you, Goons: What would you consider is the ultimate "Butt Rock" Guitar tone?

field balm posted:

The stupid music poo poo is coming from inside the thread!

I lolled 'sad midi trumpet' though, great description of a guitar tone

kjetting posted:

This is pretty accurate.

My favorite Metallica product will still forever be the “Some Kind Of Monster” movie. It really showed the dangers of having too much money, and makes you feel sorry for Kirk who seems tired of the enormous egos and drama and just wants to play in a band and noodle on his guitar.

Wark Say posted:

This is going to sound like a brag, but it's not: I have 10 times that.

Wanna know what I use most of the time with my bands?

• For the death metal band and the post rock band, I use a Line 6 POD HD500. Yes, the one that's almost 10 years old at this point, usually combined with a Mesa Boogie Recto-Verb 25 head, but sometimes I use whatever it's available as backline, because I literally have my 12 patches set up twice to go either direct with Amp Modelling to the front or 4-cable'd with no amp-modelling.
  
• For the covers band and when I play the Weddings/Quinceañeras/Sweet Sixteen/etc circuit, I use 10 pedals and I can tell you the order without even being at my rehearsal space: (front end) T.C. Polytune Mini Noir, Ibanez Weeping Demon, Xotic BB+, Electro-Harmonix The Glove, Devi Ever Aenima, (FX loop) Fender Chorus Pedal, Line 6 Tap Tremolo, Line 6 DL4, MXR Micro Amp (what ties them together) T.C. Sentry. As an amp, if I'm not using a backline, I usually bring my Mesa Boogie Express 5:25 Plus.
  

Out of that whole list, the only thing that's sorta uncommon is the Aenima and that's because Devi decided to make them a one-time deal. That's it. Out of +400 pedals and almost 40 Amp-heads/Combos, I use a Multi-FX Pedalboard, 10 Pedals and two amps. And while I'm at home? A Yamaha THR10x.

I am Wark Say and I invite you to my glasshouse of stupid music poo poo.

Jonny Nox posted:

Plus he plays a boring old Washburn super-strat, and doesn't have a signature guitar.

Jonny Nox posted:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/synthwatch/audioweld-synthwatch-worlds-first-wristwatch-synth

Fors Yard posted:

Watched this recently and explains that it was basically Lars' fault and the producer wanted to make a separate mix that he thought sounded better but it was too late.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmFgeFh2nlw

Kilometers Davis posted:

Rageaholic Monkey posted:

That's just a lovely spraypaint job, isn't it?

Also why did they spraypaint over the pickups and the pickup switch? What the gently caress

s.i.r.e. posted:

What music were people playing, I'm trying to get a sense of what the audience (or lack thereof) would be.

CheesyDog posted:

Played three hours to almost empty room in a "country club". Given that this was supposed to have been a more upscale gig than our normal dive bars, I had invited some family to come watch.

The "country club" turned out to be the kind of bar that has to go "members only" because they keep losing their liquor license. The free dinner was some corn chips with shredded cheese poured on top and microwaved. The dish itself smelled like nicotine. The beer smelled like nicotine. The building itself looked like the barroom from a 1970s Clint Eastwood movie that had never been cleaned or remodeled in the subsequent 40 years; this description also applied to the patrons.

We spent most of the time dealing with a belligerent drunken late-50s lady who alternated between complaining about our song selection and shouting "now you got some dancers!" and boomer-twerking when we did play something she liked.

After playing the last twenty minutes to an empty room we called it at midnight, only to be banned from the venue because they were open till 2:00 AM and we had quit playing "early".

CheesyDog posted:

50s Twerker lost her mind for "Get Lucky", of all things.

gently caress Your Website posted:

New Years' Eve gig in a Midwestern basement with the typical insufficient punk rock PA, vocal mic stand sitting half in a puddle of standing water the entire time, any time I so much as brushed the mic I got shocked.

massive spider posted:

According to the bassist and drummer when they woke up in the night the venue owner had elected to sleep on the bar room floor with them.

Rageaholic Monkey posted:

I don't know how the gently caress we even got booked there, but my bandmate did all the booking.

Wark Say posted:

• I've been playing instruments since I was 6
  
• I started playing with a rondalla when I was 8 and started busking at 10
  
• I turn 35 in July.
  

I could probably make a thread on hellgigs and at the very least fill several pages of posts on my own easily. But I'm going to start with something from my most recent exploits. Sorry in advance if I get too wall-of-text-y for the mobile-only goons reading this. First, some background:

A little under two years ago, this friend I have that teaches at the local Yamaha Music School told me that a drummer she's friends with was looking for a guitar player for an "early In Flames / At the Gates" style sound. Two mid-March 2017 rehearsals later, we had a band. He already had a lead guitar player and through other mutual friends we secured a bass player for the 2nd rehearsal and we've been in the band ever since. That same weekend, a friend who had just finished rehabilitation after his car crash had begun to slowly re-learn to drum, but he needed money, so I agreed to help him back on his feet, so with him as the foundation, we started both a "bar/covers band" and a wedding band...

... then a month later, this girl who I've had met maybe twice contacted me and said "Do you like Explosions in the Sky and Isis the band?". If I were a cat, both bands would be like catnip, so it was the quickest yes I've given to somebody. So in less than 2 months I went from being a semi-retired recording engineer with no day job to being in 3 -technically 4- bands. Oh, and I had gotten a day job shortly after.

Back to 2019 and more specifically last weekend at a wedding reception, this dumb, angry motherfucker started baying orders at me that we should be playing now. I told him that, traditionally, it wasn't until everyone was at their tables that we started playing. Since I was washing my hands off after doing my business, I was kinda just trying to get him off my back when all of a sudden, he pulls a gun on me and starts yelling at me.

Some context: Monterrey has always had a mafia/cartel problem. Even before "the 1st wave of gang violence" that started back in 2008 and lasted until like 2011, the local/national mafia has always been running some big chunks of Monterrey's metropolitan area. Like, it's probably not as bad as, say, New Jersey or some other cities in the US, but it's there.

Luckily for me, the shithead's dad (who also happened to be the bride's dad and the one bankrolling this whole thang) swung by and proceeded to smack his son for being a dumbshit. He apologized and requested if we could start playing in a couple of minutes, since they wanted to start doing toasts and all that junk, so we had to do our thing. The reception went fine and everything, but as someone who hates any type of gun and gun-related violence, it still kinda put me on edge.

So yeah, I suppose that's not so much a hellgig as it is "dealing with the physical avatar of the scum of your local area".

Wark Say posted:

Ask and ye' shall receive. A HellGig thread!

Shugojin posted:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/ay062s/aita_for_buying_my_dream_guitar_my_fiance_is/

lol

rickiep00h posted:

What did we ever do to you to deserve this.

Anime Reference posted:

Hey, do you want to pay $1000 for the privilege of digging through a pile of Juno-106 shards to see if anything useful survived?

Wark Say posted:

Is this stupid or awesome music poo poo? I can't tell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwkF3-JmSeA