The Doom Room: ILF Edition

[celticelk]

Hey Celtic, you got blood eagle on constant repeat yet?

Not just yet. Just finished downloading the Thou albums, so I'm starting in on those.

[Iommic Pope]

Cool cool.
I need to get onto that new Thou.

[conky]

It rules pretty hard.

[whiskey_face]

offload 2203 for another superbass?

[doctorpoopenstein420]

offload 2203 for another superbass?

Dawg, that full stack is insane. I'm all for it. Wall of superbass. Think ahout it.
Remember that one time you got yr superbass from death rock Kelly for stupid cheap? Got dang. Stoked you ended up with it and none of us Sam Ash chumps got it.

[Iommic Pope]

It rules pretty hard.

Sweeeeeeeet.

[AxAxSxS]

The only drummers I know play standard 4/4 beats in various tempos. Never had a good or interesting drummer to play with ever. So uninspiring and bland and amatuer sounding

Well, in all fairness, playing outside of 4/4 is a lot harder on drums than it is on guitar. It really doesn't make any difference when you play 7/8 on guitar, but 7/8 on drums takes months of practising to get the hang of, and that's just one odd timing. There are much, much harder ones like 15/16 that only a few drummers on the planet can comfortably play. I know how frustrating it is to be stuck within 4/4 because the drummer, despite being good, just doesn't want to veer outside that pocket. Just remember that it's not because they don't want to or haven't practised enough, it's because it's like trying to demand your guitarist to sweep pick; it's incredibly difficult.

Here's the thing I realized by accident about techniques like that. They are not hard. We tend to overthink things and make them seem more difficult than they need to be. I used to think that shit was well beyond me until my old drummer ( who also played guit) layed this on me after a jam -
"I hate you John."
what? why?
"you make that sweep picking stuff look so easy."
I wasn't sweep picking.
"Yeah you were, fuck you, I wish I could do that."
I wasn't, here's what I was playing. (Play a chord slowly with some hammer on stuff added)
"Yeah asshole, that's what I'm talking about."
(Dawns on me that what I was playing would be considered sweep picking) dude it's just a chord with some extra shit.
"Fuck you man, I could never play that."

The thing is, he could. dude knows more chords than I do, just would get hung up on thinking it was harder than it is. if you can make each note of a chord stand out by lifting your fingers off after you play it, you are 90% there. just add some more notes into the thing and BAM! PUNCH EM IN THE FACE! Sweep.

Last nights show ruled. First one with a new drummer and he nailed it. We never sounded so good. Matamp and aor ruled. Got tons of compliments on the sound. Dammit I'm ready to play again. I hope someone took video or pics.

Fucking badass man!

We had a decent one tonight ourselves. Managed to raise a bit of fundage for the Oso slide victims.
Was a bit of an adventure in antique van ownership though. Had worked on it earlier as the brakes were sticking. so I bled them and replace fluid, also tuned up the engine, cleaned a gapped the plugs. Engine was way better. brakes were not. stopped and redid that, then the left front tire decided to do this crazy shimmying thing. so I was laying in a puddle on the side of the highway in monsoon conditions jacking up the van, taking the tire off etc.
there was a moment there when making it to the show was looking pretty iffy.
Glad we did though. Skies Below kicks some ass. The opening band was rad too, except they all left after their set which is not so cool. probably half the people stuck around till the end of the night for us and I thought we did pretty good. I had another epic pedal board moment, but it was not catastrophic this time I think I going to make a plexi lid for the thing so settings cant get fucked with in transit. Lots of awesome people there and could tell that our stuff was being enjoyed.

Now is time for more liquor and then Sleep.

[t-rey]

Commercial mead or homebrew? There's a relatively local meadery (B. Nektar) that I've been meaning to try, but we usual have enough homebrew around (and drink it so slowly) that buying mead is unnecessary.

I LOVE mead. I've been homebrewing for about a year, but never tried my hand at mead. Any suggestions or things to approach differently than brewing an ale?

Well, it's not MY homebrew - my best friend makes it. I don't have the patience for shit like that. It seems to take a good six months after bottling before it's fit to drink, so that's probably one difference from the ales.

Touche. I need to ask my local homebrew shop about it. I would love to have a batch of mead and a good stout ready to drink in the fall/winter. If it just needs to condition in the bottles forever, then that's cool - I was afraid it needed to sit in primary/secondary fermentation containers for months, which means that I couldn't brew because my cheap ass can't justify having multiple instances of homebrew equipment just for one thing.

[celticelk]

Touche. I need to ask my local homebrew shop about it. I would love to have a batch of mead and a good stout ready to drink in the fall/winter. If it just needs to condition in the bottles forever, then that's cool - I was afraid it needed to sit in primary/secondary fermentation containers for months, which means that I couldn't brew because my cheap ass can't justify having multiple instances of homebrew equipment just for one thing.

It needs to sit in primary for quite a while too - Ken helped my wife set up a batch last year in anticipation of her 40th, and I think it was in primary for two or three months. It might depend on the recipe, though, so don't take my word for it. Beers turn around in primary in a week or two, right? Mead is a wine, or at least the meads I've had were wines, so different rules apply.

[dazedbyday]

Mead takes a long time to be ready. I remember some of them taking a year or so. I think that it is something like a few months in the carboy at the least. I never have done a mead because it would take so long. It has been a while since I have brewed any beer though, so I might want to clean everything up and make a mead and just let it sit in the corner.

I also wasn't able to leave home yesterday because of the damn trains so I spent the time putting together some pedals. I got together a bee baa clone, a naga viper clone (which is pretty awesome,) and I fooled around with a color sound overdrive clone. The colorsound isn't finished though because it sounds kinda farty on some setting. I tried using the same transistors as the black forest, so I might need to change around a few resistors to get it to settle down. The naga viper is pretty cool through. It is a nice cleanish boost that adds in a bit of color depending upon how you tweak the heat and range knobs. The range knob is nice in that you can narrow or widen the frequencies affected by the pedal. So to the left it has a wider range while to the right it is more of a treble boost. The wider range gives a bit of a wooly tone which is neat. The bee baa is cool and more velcro like then the muff fuzzes I'm used to.

[Grrface]

Whores tonight. So stoked.

Somehow, I've not managed to try mead. I think I need to fix that at some point.

[ryan summit]

im gonna go lock myself in the basement
hopefully for most of today
i think i got a case of the fuggits
gonna put some b.h.o. into my signal chain
see if that helps

[celticelk]

Somehow, I've not managed to try mead. I think I need to fix that at some point.

The easiest commercial mead to find is probably Chaucer's. Resist the temptation - it sucks. There's a Danish brand called Danskmjod which comes in really nice reusable stoneware bottles, and which would be a much better use of your mead-buying dollar if you can find it. My local upscale wineshop/deli carries it, so if you've got an equivalent nearby, look there. You might also be able to find a good local meadery - the microbrew movement seems to be trickling down to niche tastes like meads and ciders, which is all to the good in my view.

[ApeLincoln]

Moonlight meadery from Wisconsin (I think Wisconsin) makes some great meads and should be in almost every state and I think he's shipping to Australia now too.

[Krosis]

These guys make some pretty good mead: http://www.bnektar.com/