"The Pedal Movie" Discussion Thread

[qersty]

I built my first pedalboard when I was living in my great grandmother's basement for a few months...

fx86 > big box rat > trash metal sound tank >fx25 > small stone > phase 45

Does stacking the death metal and trash metal provide that perfect, not too sludgy, downtunedness at high velocities early death metal have?

[retinal orbita]

Not gonna lie, kinda over JHS' dumb face everywhere. Its getting really hard to escape it at this point...

Like the pedal market is bigger and more diverse than ever, why the fuck does is always gotta be him? Ugh.

My wife and I share a YouTube account because it’s just easier than re-logging in and we do our youtube workouts on the TV, and despite not following him or barely ever watching his videos they always suggest his videos. My wife refers to him as the no eyebrows guy. I feel like he’s the first video every time

[Blackened Soul]

I built my first pedalboard when I was living in my great grandmother's basement for a few months...

fx86 > big box rat > trash metal sound tank >fx25 > small stone > phase 45

Does stacking the death metal and trash metal provide that perfect, not too sludgy, downtunedness at high velocities early death metal have?

Mmm... not really... it gets real sloppy and noisy, way more later grindcore type sound.. if I had had a gate I think it would have been sick but at the time I didn't get the point of gates and sadly the recording from that time of me and my cousin [rig wise me on a epi lp bass and him on electric drums and "singing"] playing a song called sushi cookie has never been found

[Gone Fission]

My wife refers to him as the no eyebrows guy.

I just always think he’s a butter sculpture from the state fair with a cheap wig and some basic animatronics. (The Country Bear Jamboree had a bear who played banjo, so nothing to exotic is needed.)

[Seance]

I love how they brought up forums just to shit on them because we are bullies "chained to our mom's basement eating dog food and wanting to watch the world burn".

So what about the fact that the world is burning?
I refuse to close my eyes, but that doesn't mean I 'want' to see
all the dumpster fires blazing around the world.

The whole "mom's basement" phenomenon is also what the current
economy of debt-peonage has wrought.

As for documentaries... some people seem to think that a documentary
is "good" if you are interested in the subject. For me a "good documentary"
is one that is engaging and thought-provoking or revelatory even if I'm not
really interested in the subject.

A lot of documentaries have been made that seemingly don't realize that
various formal techniques have been used in documentaries for decades,
including things that have been used in literature for centuries (such as an
unreliable narrator—Land Without Bread 1933, Mondo Cane 1962; or foregrounding
the filmmaker's ego—Sherman's March 1985, everything Errol Morris; and the
hard-to-classify genre-blenders—Agnes Varda, Ben Rivers, Jean-Pierre Gorin, etc.).

[qersty]

I could never live in my mom's basement (the acoustics are too weird)

[the_bright_undead]

My wife refers to him as the no eyebrows guy. I feel like he’s the first video every time

I just always think he’s a butter sculpture from the state fair

i am now calling JHS Butter Baldy Brows

[retinal orbita]

As for documentaries... some people seem to think that a documentary
is "good" if you are interested in the subject. For me a "good documentary"
is one that is engaging and thought-provoking or revelatory even if I'm not
really interested in the subject.

This is a great point - I think I mentioned before but compare the documentaries of Sam Dunn. The Alice Cooper, Rush and Headbangers Journey ones are GREAT. And I’m very interested in all of these subjects. However the Iron Maiden and ZZ Top ones are absolutely not that interesting. And I’m very interested in those bands as well. But the stories are just not that interesting.

I recently watched the Death documentary on Prime recently and it was so boring. I love Death but it really just seemed like two hours of people trying to say nice things about Chuck who really seemed to come off as a very difficult person to work with.

[VREEEEVROOOOOW]

Not really doing a great job at disproving the point by taking turns at effectively bullying the JHS guy here. (I don't personally care about him.)

The film seems interesting enough to watch, but not interesting enough to pay for.

[Seance]

Not really doing a great job at disproving the point by taking turns at effectively bullying the JHS guy here. (I don't personally care about him.)

The film seems interesting enough to watch, but not interesting enough to pay for.

I guess I don't know what "bullying" or "effectively bullying" means anymore.

To me bullying is when a stronger person uses force or intimidation to get a weaker person to do something under coercion.

Do ILFers have that much power? Does the internet bestow power? If that were true I'd think the world would be a bit different.
Perhaps the internet is the false appearance or sensation of power while actually working to insure the opposite? Even the group
dynamics of "peer pressure" and "reverse peer pressure" have been twisted into marketing jargon (and into politics since politics have
been forced to conform to marketing jargon since Reagan). JHS is doing fine. If "social media" gives a false sense of intimacy and
that an internet personality known or unknown "feels like a friend addressing you directly", then viewers reacting to the "personality"
of the internet personality in question seems a likely result.

Sniping, having negative responses to somebody's personality or ubiquity doesn't strike me as "bullying". But I guess the internet
has reshaped the conversation about what "bullying" means and what "direct confrontation" is versus expressing an opinion on
on a public forum or a semi-public semi-restricted forum.

I remember encountering some interview in which Thom Yorke said that disliking Radiohead because of his singing was irrational or
unfair or something to that effect. But the truth is that a person's reactions to music is about whether or not something resonates
with the listener. The timbre of a singer's voice can illicit a visceral emotional response. This is one of the factors which shapes
whether or not we respond to a song or a band. Sometimes we just "don't like" somebody who on paper seems like exactly the kind of
person whom we would be best friends with.

Everyone's a critic because human beings all have the critical mental capacity to form judgements and have opinions and visceral reactions.

I see a difference between a critical response and being mean. And I think there's a difference between being dismissive and bullying.

[Blackened Soul]

The film seems interesting enough to watch, but not interesting enough to pay for.

To be honest.. I haven't even been interested enough to watch a preview

[frodog]

I can't imagine how desperately bored and starving for content I'd have to be to watch this, let alone pay. A two-and-a-half hour industry puff piece produced by Reverb? Featuring the most mayo cast of (mostly American) builders and products I've already seen all over youtube, and many more that I never even wanted to see? Fuck you Josh, pay ME. At most, I'll watch the Arion section if and when a clip surfaces, just because it's rare to see that brand spotlighted.

[retinal orbita]

Dude is like the Elon Musk of pedal builders as he’s built a cult like legion of online defenders. I don’t think a little commentary that he’s overexposed counts as “bullying” but

[Chankgeez]

Does the internet bestow power?

Yes.

Fuck you Josh, pay ME.

I don't think they could even come up with enough money to pay me to watch it.

[Gone Fission]

Punching down is bullying. Punching up isn’t.

Guy with the personality of a frozen haddock on a good day wants to be the lord high genius of pedal building by making himself a social media star to advertise his very boring pedal brand that is jobbed out to much better builders. I’m not impressed. And he keeps making it about himself by making himself the brand. Guess what, negative feelings on both commingle any time I see him at the top of my YouTube feed. If you make yourself such a needy wannabe public figure, you’re going to inspire a range of reactions.