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There have been some pretty good ones here, but I fell off my chair at

The Sweatpants Boners

Thank you. That made my day.

I just remembered that my partner and I once had a short lived doo wop group called...

The Doo Keys

Back in high school in the late 80s, the top of the local heap metal band was named...

Stark Raven

Their only close competition was the band Sweet Cheater. Of course, the guys in my band, Killer Gonad Boys, mockingly referred to them as Cheap Sweater.

Oooof.

Hoping some one here can help me with this. I have an Eventide Clockworks Instant Flanger and I have someone who might want to buy it. Trouble is, I really have no idea what to ask for it. I know that examples in really great shape go for around $600-$650 (as I've found from some pro audio dealers),...

The rig I use most recently for gigging is an Eden Traveller into a Carvin (gasp!) 2x10. The main reason I went with the Carvin cab is because of the "kick back" design. That means you can angle it up at your ears and hear more of yourself without having to crank the amp as much. Also, I found that ...

The Perfesser said, "Either way, with the cheapness of Oktava or other mics from Guitar Center, do you really need to buy more mics at the Shack?" I'd have to agree with that. In my opinion, the era of finding some "diamond in the rough" piece of gear at the Shack is over. In the days (not so long a...

So, about Toto... This may be total B.S., but I heard somewhere that Jeff Porcaro did in fact die in a "bizarre gardening accident". Apparently the fertilizer or some chemical he was exposed to in his garden reacted with the medication he was on. The two chemicals combined fatally in his bloodstream...

A company called Etymotic Research has just put out a pair of plugs, the "ER-20 HI-FI Colors of Clarity Earplugs", that they claim reduce sound levels evenly across the frequency spectrum. I have yet to try them, but a friend has and says they work great. I have tried the Earos version that makes a ...

A classic tom mic I don't see talked about much here is the E.V. N/D 408. Maybe these are more associated with live use than studio? In any case, they're hypercardioid and are amazingly adjustable (the capsule is suspended away from the shaft, sort of like a B.L.U.E. Mouse). This makes placing it fo...

I've had one for a couple of years. Musicians Friend had them on sale and I thought, "Oh, why the Hell not..." Like Steve, there are some things about it that I hate and that make no sense at all. For one, I've never found a truly satisfactory way to hold it. A strap sure doesn't work, and holding i...

I could not agree more. I just started playing drums about two years ago (after 15 years of bass and guitar) and I must have bought 20 different kinds of sticks trying to find something that felt "right". The Vaters were the ones. 7A's all the way.

Ditto on the Masterlink. Love it. If this was the only thing Alesis ever made they would have a sterling reputation.

Just one more voice to say, "Don't do it." It is simply not worth that amount of money for the condition it is in. I had a Harmony Strat-O-Tone that was in damn near mint condition. Even the leather hinges on the original fibreboard case were perfect. It was like something out of a time capsule. I s...

Another vote for the MT-68!! My two favorite things: 1) the dedicated line out, and 2) how when I play high C with the "Cosmic Tone" setting it drives my cat absolutely insane.

Here's a link to a site that is all about experimental music and instruments. The link is for their catalog and they sell a variety of contact p.u.'s, including a Piezo film p.u., which is an amazing device. (I spent the first day with mine attaching it to everything in the house that might make a s...

There's a great collection of his stuff put out by Collectors Choice Music. It's got his "hit" and a lot of other amazing bits including some of the best Fender VI sounds you'll ever hear. See:

http://www.ccmusic.com/item.cfm?itemid=CCM01952

And it's on sale for only 10.99!