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the meat puppets 'out my way' is a great ep with cool songs and awesome guitar parts that is almost ruined for me sometimes by the big poofy snare sound. i hate to say this but... i was listening to the soft bulletin by the flaming lips the other day, and i kinda got sick of the way that every song ...

there's a switch on the back ... a little black switch... dang, i'm at work, can't remember what it's called... Not the dbx switch, but the other one that looks just like it... anyhow, it's for using the thing with midi or some such thing, but it has to be off, or else one of yer tracks won't work. ...

DEREK TRUCKS! dude is amazing. allmans. SG. face-meltingly cool.

ooh ooh i got one....

the clash - safe european home [starts the album too!]

why is it that the first song i thought of was loverboy's "working for the weekend?"

Somebody should really track down an email address for Ian. We've got a multi-faceted discussion going on here about a few words the guy said (and for those of us who weren't there when he said them, they're out of context.) From what I've read, Ian would respond to an email inquiry.

...deep breath... the grateful dead if yer going for that san francisco poppy psychedelic sound (Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape,) check out their first album. Their second and third albums go into more lysergic (and STP and nitrous) influenced studio experimentation type of 'psychedelic' music. if y...

http://laweekly.com/ink/04/22/triple-payne.php

link to an LA Weekly article on the production team, a little about their studio.

i like that album, too... i was even looking forward to audioslave before the album came out, thinking it might be more of the same. oops.

http://www.soulfuldetroit.com

cool site with maps, photos and info about classic detroit recording studios, hitsville, united sound, invictus, etc...

the 'terra shirma' story is really in-depth with photos and equipment info. that's where funkadelic recorded 'free your mind...'

have fun.

hold your group together with ROTOSOUND strings.

someone recommended 'em to me on this board once, and now i'll never change. they got that good big metallic piano wire sound, bright and deep at the same time.

peas porridge.

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cool kids play boot hill

to go with steppenwolf... denny dias' band was called 'demian' (after another hermann hesse book) when donald fagen and walter becker answered dias' ad in the village voice looking for musicians. they effectively took over that band... later adding drummer jim hodder who was previously in a band cal...

stepppenwolf

i hear that all the time on the oldies station... i don't think it's covert remixing as much as that compresso-eq-boost/limit-basspump-izing they do for the radio - it sounds REALLY weird on some oldies to hear the bass all pumped up, a lot of the time it sounds totally out of tune even. tunes were ...