Yeah... but sometimes the world isn't as fun as it once was. Safe-sex, the PMRC, the war against drugs, helmet laws, sound-men, and in-ear-monitors have ruined the free-balling spirt of a loud amp, guitarists weren't. It's not us, it's them.
Wait just a doggone second here, Serg!
Safe sex was always on my radar in the 60s because it also meant I wasn't going to become a teenage Dad.
The PMRC was Tipper Gore's 80s thing, I was still young then.
The war against drugs was in full swing in the 60s, people went to jail for possession of a single joint.
Helmet laws? Michigan had them until two years ago, and I think it was cowardly of the legislature to bow to pressure from one interest group to eliminate them, given the cost to society of a brain damaged rider, but that's what happens.
Sound men? I like them. One less thing for me to do at a gig.
In ear monitors? The best-ever playing experience if you invest in good ones.
On the other hand, I completely agree that it's
them, whoever
they are.
In the pic below are the pedals I really love with the DG30. Conceptually, the rig is similar to what Grissom uses, but the brands I use are different.
For example, he uses an EP Booster, where I prefer the Suhr Kokoboost; he likes the Telos overdrive and buffer, I use a separate Suhr buffer with two outputs, and I like the Fulltone Plimsoul with the amp (Grissom used to use one as well). I prefer the Eventide to the Strymon delay he uses, partly because it includes an awful lot of chorus programs and other modulations as well as delays, and partly because I use a real tube tape echoplex and not a digital re-creation (if I had to drag the thing on tour I might just go with the digital). The Bogner pedal isn't on the board now, because what it did is covered by the HXDA, and I like to have as few things in the audio chain as I can get by with.
