Life on Mars - FINALLY BACK ON!

Alright, so the fine people at ABC made a show worth a shit finally. Life on Mars is a show about detective Sam Tyler, a cop from the year 2008, who has an accident. He wakes up in 1974, doing the same job. Now this may sound a little out there and cheesy, but Tyler still has all his future knowledge, which he tries to impliment from time to time. The other officers have named him "Space Man" because of his crazy stories.

The music and clothes and cars are just so damn awesome. They're a grungy take on retro style, making everything feel more real and modern while having a distinct vintage look. They drain the color in all the shots to have a burnt orange kinda feel. It's really great artistic approach to make everything seem more dated.

I highly recommend you check this show out if you're into retro things, time travel, and crime shows. It's kind of like Dragnet meets CSI where the whole cast bends the rules to get the job done.

Currently Listening to:
Orange Goblin - Time Traveling Blues , [[coincidence much?]]
David Bowie -Suffergate City

DOD Classic Fuzz

The DOD - Classic Fuzz, sounds like a Big Muff Pi old school fuzz pedal at a much cheaper price. This thing was only like $20, i got it awhile back, and it has a diluted fuzz with pleanty of low end. I was looking for something more like this, because I hate when fuzz pedals sound to trebley and harsh. The fuzz is subtle, but has an overdrive adds a level of harshness to the sound. I really enjoy the old school burnt orange style of this pedal, wth specled paint. I don't see why people spend so much on these kind of pedals, because all it does is make your amp sound trashed.

Laney HCM30R - One kickass Practice Amp

I recently decided to pick up a practice amp, because I've been beating the shit out of an old bass guitar amp and it began to sound like I had a blanket over my amp or something, It was so muffled and the speaker is about to pop one of these days. I hit up a local pawn shop on the other side of town, I hadn't been there in a few months so I figured they'd get some new stock in and stuff ya know. This place always has tons of amps for cheap from like Waterloo or some place. They ship all their extra gear down here and try to jack up prices. Luckily for me they're having a sale [most likely because of the recession] and much to my surprise I glanced down at a Laney amplifier logo. This was an insane find because they only made this model in England, and it's very rare to find Laney amps in pawn shops, usually you can see a one or two in a music shop, and Guitar Center doesn't carry them [or anything else worth a shit].

Well this little deal would have been crazily amazing, but some moron took a sharpie to the N in Laney, and so my amp at the moment.. Is a Larey. It looks completly stupid.. I've tried everything to get the ink off this thing... It's kind of funny though so I might just have to leave it. Laney amplifiers have a perfect hard rock crunch and tone, and are the amplifiers of choice for the legendary Tony Iommi. I can dial in his sound almost perfectly with this little 30 watt solid state monster. It's still got the driver in it from like.. 1996 when this thing was made.. That's like 12 years ago.. And it sounds killer.

So to make this even crazier I was able to pick up this little monster...for only [drum roll]

$50.00

These things sell for atleast $200 anywhere else, but this somewhat shady pawn shop totally gave me a good deal. They've got tons of other gear laying around too, So I think i'll refer anyone else seeking used amplification to this place, because they had much larger much louder amps just chillin around for just under $150.00 - $200.00, And most of these in my opinion were upwards of 300 to 500 dollar amps and heads when they were new.

Keep on Rockin

- Currently Jammin to: House on the Boarderlands - Electric Wizard

COMPUTER FIXED

Finally my computer is back to somewhat normal operation. I'll post more stuff later on.

Keep on Rockin :D

The Holy Grail of Distortion

Behold, the MXR Distortion +. I recently came across a vintage one at a little known shop called Somewhere in Iowa guitars. They're real underground, and unfortunately going out of business. This little yellow box is perfect. It works as a overdrive pedal as much as a distortion, and boosts your amp that little extra amount to make it sound godly. From the second I stepped on this monster, I knew this was the one. I have an older model then the one shown here, But the owner dated it back to the eighties.

The main artist that I knew to use this was the late and great Randy Rhodes [for those whom are not in the know, was Ozzy Osborne's lead guitarist on his first two albums, among many other things I'm sure I'll blog on in the future.]

Currently listening to: Black Sabbath - Supernaut

[[funny story behind this track, It nearly lead to the split up of Sabbath back in 74' because Bill Ward was so fucked up on coke he couldn't get the beat down along with the fact that the band was going through a rough patch.]]

EDIT: This awesome post came to you from my old computer. A vintage 2000 Blue iMac. It's classy one click mouse and old lady compatible interface are pwnzorxz. My computer crashed on me because the of interwebs monster put a virus adware spyware thingy of doom on it. I'm going to try to cntrl alt dlt the spyware program before it dies. It's like space invaders too when the popups shoot out and you have to click all twenty of them real fast like. If only it had the cool music.

. I'm not sure whats worse, this processor that loads half an image every 20 seconds or the pop-ups on my dying PC. Either way this sucks, and I think maybe I can do it this time.

-Keep it METAL

-Stuthedew

Helstar's THE KING OF HELL

So, I was checking out some bands the other day, my common pass time, When i came across this golden band. These dudes have been around since 84', yet retain some really great old school style. The lead singer sounds like a cross between Rob Halford of Judas Priest and Ronnie James Dio. That let alone should make you go crazy, but then, the icing on the cake, They have thrash type influences on this album. Totally metal. The song starts out with a creepy operatic women singing in Latin, and then the lead vocalist comes in to match her octave. The guitars then rip into a thrashing shred and it feels as if you fallen straight into the burning pits of hell, at least.. Musically :P. The lead vocalist begins shouting things in his high register, that makes you wake up instantly and ignore whatever it was you were doing before you turned it on, Then the rhythem changes, and he begins commanding you to "Bow down to The King of Hell!!". This part is probably my favorite. The lead guitarist then proceeds to shed into an amazing solo that sounds as if Satan himself came up from the pits of hell just to jam out with the band.

This band has a very Judas Priest musical direction. The lyrics usually depict some kind of Maiden-esc story about demons and things that go bump in the night. They released an album in the eighties called Nosferatu, which was a concept album about Dracula. Their other 80's release, Burning Star is also really good old school metal. Fans of the older material seem to have mixed feelings about this new release, but I personally think it's awesome. It comes out Jan 13th 2009, In North America. If you like old school Priest type metal this is totally you're cup of tea... or blood or whatever you drink.

-Keep it METAL.

-STUTHEDEW