The Jam Room Blog Thread.

[Submarine]

It was written by Gershon Eliezer Weinrib

I got the audio book and Geddy narrates: he is really funny.  The stories are great, especially about Hawkwind.

[RAGER]

I'm still reading it so I don't know if the story is in there but I've of my favorites is Alex as The Bag and how Ace loved the bag but Gene and Paul didn't.

[everdrone]

Thanks y'all

My Ozzy gig is this Saturday

I think I sound good and that it will go well cheers

Great material and the band is very solid

[everdrone]

FLIER

[Muffin Man]

enjoy your set. congrats on the gig

[everdrone]

awesome thanks the fans were great and my bandmates thought I did a great job last night!  my prior tributes were Billy Idol and Axl Rose GNR and I put a lot of work into my Ozzy.  We only do the Ozzy Black Sabbath tunes.

no videos from last night but here is my old videos tribute bands

[Muffin Man]

well done on those.

[James1214]

Work continues on the barn, this time on the non-amp/music side of things. Skinned the door in some luan. Did some taping, mudding, texturing, priming and painting. Also skinned the tool wall with plywood and added french cleats, made a few holders/organizers. Now to tape, mud, paint the wall with the music gear will live. Really shooting to have the building infrastructure done by the end of the weekend so I can begin building shop infrastructure like my workbench, also I can move my big shop tools in from the container in the yard (the better half is tired of it, and so am I)

[everdrone]

well done on those.

thanks brutha cheers

[Pissy]

I like a wall lined with french cleats.  

[James1214]

Me too, Pissy, Me too....

Last coat of paint went up. When the shit gets somewhat organized I can hang the PA, run all the speaker cable, my snake, audio interface in (running digital for audio stuff until I can fix my stereo 1/4" reel to reel, then that'll be my main recording method)..... Can't wait to get the fun shit started in here.

[Pissy]

Asheville Guitar Show was yesterday.  I met Lordfinesse who came up from Charlotte.   

Lots of high priced guitars, and a large percentage of them were acoustics.  

I picked up a strap, a hard to find in the wild bridge for this Washburn 35 that I'm working on-and it fits perfectly- and a cheaper (Cadine?) reverb pedal.  

I should be able to get that Washburn restrung this morning, or I might go through the trouble of leveling/crowning/polishing the frets.  I'm probably going to do that at some point anyways, might as well do it now.  

[RAGER]

So you didn't hold out for the DG-335?  Lol. Jesus!  Is that guy gonna ever go away? 

[mortlock]

best logo in the business.
AxSxSxHxOxLxEx

[Pissy]

So you didn't hold out for the DG-335?  Lol. Jesus!  Is that guy gonna ever go away? 

No. I saw an original Trini Lopez though.  It was $14k.   

I have a couple vintage guitars.  A 1977 SG Standard, a 1975 Jazz Bass.  The SG has a headstock repair done long before I got it in 1997 or so.  The Jazz Bass has almost all aftermarket hardware and the paint was removed from the body.    I never think of them as items that anyone would give me any real money for.  And I'm sure that's accurate, but if any of those dealers were to flip them giving me say, $600 for either, they would not hesitate to put $1800 on either one.  

[mortlock]

if anyone out there in a band that wants a show in rochester ny, i can point you in the direction of a dude that is the promoter for a new venue opening. its going to be pretty diy/underground but super awesome. i can comfirm the venue is an old church. should be pretty wild.

[RAGER]

Thee guitar tone is AC/DC High Voltage.

ZZ Top's first album

VH I

[RAGER]

Well shit. Now I've come across Sabbadius Effects and especially the Funky Vibe and Tiny Vibe. Dammit

[Pissy]

Do tell. 

[RAGER]

They make other stuff but what spurred my interest is the Funky Vibe or Tiny Vibe.

[Pissy]

Those a pretty cool. I like the chewy vibe with the roller knob on the side.  

[neighbor664]

I have spent the last couple of days helping out a friend of a friend sort through the fire damaged remains of the storage space that his backline company uses for their drum inventory. He also has housed some of his personal boutique items there.
It was truly heartbreaking.
The number of charred remains that were once instruments that had to go in the dumpster are too many to list. Many unique items gone. Instruments with history that have been used by or gifted to him by many of musics legends are gone.
Here is a couple pictures of one of the more tragic losses.




That was once a mint condition Tone King 2x12.
The red one fared even worse.

[Pissy]

Ugh... gut wrenching.  We had a storage facility flood on our gear once.  Lost a GK 400RB head and a peavey power amp that were on the floor.  

Funny thing, nobody from the facility told us it flooded.  It was a newly expanded portion of the property, we were the first tenants.  I don't think they knew. 

[mortlock]

you could try and pass it off as one of those intentional relic finishes.

too soon?

in all reality, that fucking sucks. jesus thats is horrible. when really shitty things happen, my moms response was always 'well at least no one died.' I think this rises to that level. 

[neighbor664]

I'm not sure they know that for certain yet. The fire started on the 2nd floor. There isn't much left there to speak of. I don't believe they have had the ability to assess the cause yet. It is theorized that could be from hot plate or heater of a homeless person staying in their unit. That person could have perished and what ever remains are just not yet discovered.