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Fucking Chet:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni8KBhnebwE[/youtube]

JonnyAngle wrote:I may lose some cool points for this, but when I heard the solos for Bulls on Parade and Killing in the Name of my mind exploded.

Good ass call...and whatever. No shame. Bulls on Parade was a skatepark anthem and top 40 hit, with radio stations playing that solo. It was different than anything else on airwaves at the time...and in hindsight sounds like Morello is crabscratching a feedbacking guitar on a turntable. I, too was like WTF in its day

rustywire wrote:...and in hindsight sounds like Morello is crabscratching a feedbacking guitar on a turntable.

Didn't Morello have his guitars wired all weirdly to be able to get scratching sounds more easily?

Noisey Summer sent me on a quest to find obnoxious filtered fuzz.

Brad Laner solos, Polvo, Squarepusher, Crust, Quasimoto, Loveless...

sonidero wrote:Brad Laner solos, Polvo, Squarepusher, Crust, Quasimoto, Loveless...

Just saw Squarepusher...I've wanted to see him for almost 15 years. The techno/d'n'b/sequenced stuff was so badass and that bass playing. I made some believers out of people talking them into skipping AC/DC to see him though. I think I listened to Burning'n Tree about as many times as Christ the Album driving 10 hours every weekend for 4 years to see my wife (and that 4 hour a day commute on top of that). All time great stuff.

Amebix, G.I.S.M., Kraftwerk, Crass, and Final Exit were also bands that always keep my interest//blow my mind. I just never wonder about their gear (except for the Crass fuzz question that you answered). All those noisy Japanese bands too (Tranquilizer, Zouo, Gai). The Cravats were a recent surprise. I guess all of them have made me say WTF in the way they have arranged/mixed/made sounds with the limitations of their gear.

I must have listened to M.A.N. a thousand times trying to pick up recording techniques, vocal sounds, and general badassery.

lordgalvar wrote:Just saw Squarepusher...I've wanted to see him for almost 15 years.

I achieved some lifetime goals in the past decade including meeting Tom and Peter and seeing Squarepusher and Sonic Boom several times... I saw most of my other WTF moments as a youngin... Most of my WTF moments have come from live shows and not necessarily on records or whatever...

Also anything Herbie Hancock, Joe Zawinul, or Bernie Worrell ever did on a Moog, and for that matter anything Sun Ra did on his Mini or Rocksichord...

my WTF momment...basically radiohead ok computer when it came out.
that and...aphex twin

Both Battles albums blew my mind. I think those were a big reason for me starting to look outside of fuzz and delay for my sounds.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4XK6wQB4UI[/youtube]

I learned that you could Oscillate delays

Chankgeez wrote:

rustywire wrote:...and in hindsight sounds like Morello is crabscratching a feedbacking guitar on a turntable.

Didn't Morello have his guitars wired all weirdly to be able to get scratching sounds more easily?

Two pickups with independent volumes and a 3 way switch I think. He was able to use the toggle switch like a dj would use a cross fader this way.

K2000 wrote:

D.o.S. wrote:TIL I am the only member of ILF who wants that elusive bees in a vacuum cleaner guitar tone.

The Mentally Ill used an original Superfuzz I believe. That guitar tone is legendary.

Turns out I don't know what kind of fuzz he was using after all. Jax fuzz?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DPhFpZW5a8[/youtube]

The most recent wtf moment I had was when I first heard this tune, in 2005. I mean, I'd listened to faster music, more brutal music, more melodic music... But that was just so crushingly HEAVY. I think what made it wtf was that technically it was all stuff that I could pull off but there was something about the way they pulled it off that took it to a massive level, and thus made it wtf for me - there was nothing in my experience that I could use to achieve that heaviness.

It's still my benchmark for heavy.

Speaking of wtf moments: they're building a studio in NYC.

the 13th Floor Elevators' "Easter Everywhere" album. it's amplifier vibrato played with some kind of effect on, but it's weird as...well, as Roky.