The world should always pay attention to a new pedal from Z. Vex. This is his take on a high compression distortion here. That’s just a bunch of video demos of the pedal which has yet to be released.
Speaking of unreleased pedals, this Ping Pong Delay should be coming out from Build Your Own Clone this month (Feb 2008). I don’t quite get if it has a stereo out, though… Which I thought was the point of ping pong delays::
I build the BYOC DOD 440 clone and it rules. It’s a funky envelope filter. They’ve also updated that and put a video up of that too, but you’ll have to find that yourself.
Well… let’s see. This weekend, I saw Beck, Basement Jaxx, Peeping Tom and a bit of Queens of the Stone Age at the Detour festival. I had won tickets, so I didn’t really feel like getting there on time… I feel like it was cool, but I wish I’d seen more (like Red Kross and Blackalicious)… But then again, I didn’t really want to just bake out in the sun all day. It was a fun time, not something I would pay for, but totally awesome for free. I won the tickets from the laist (link to a review by me).
Hmm… yeah, I didn’t bring my camera… and also… my ipod fell out of my pocket to be lost forever. Whoops, that’s dumb, but you know it just follows from the chaotic world in which we live that the material goods we possess will all eventually depart (or fail).
So I guess the upside is that I didn’t bring my camera and lose it too. I’m generally not a loser of things, so perhaps it was deftly pick-pocketed, but I prefer to think it was dropped and picked up by someone who now has a scratched up ipod nano with my random songs on it. I hope they like Elastica, Sonic Youth, breakcore (in general), New Order, and some other randomness. woohah.
Let’s see… yeah… just trying to get my finances in order at the moment. My hospital session this summer is still producing bills. That sucks.
Why would I want my finances in order? In order to buy more stuff (to eventually lose):
Fixed gear wheelset for my cheap Raleigh Record… (maybe not the somax wheels, but something in there)
Somehow writing down just those three things as “wanted to buy” makes me feel less like wanting to buy them, which is good. I should probably focus on other ways to spend my money like… oil change, food, bills… Yeah, that’d be smart.
Seems like only last month I was talking about seeing Marc Ribot play a Harmony Stratotone with Ceramic Dog. And now, the folks at Eastwood Guitars are putting out a reissue!
It looks completely awesome. They put Airline on the headstock, but the little atom logo is the same and … wow… it looks awesome doesn’t it? Here is a link to some vintage stratotones.
That was a one line email from my Mom, which in many ways sums up how awesome she is. She let drove me and my friend Adam down to Pittsburgh (err… actually I drove down, she drove back) when we saw Sonic Youth headline lollapalooza ’95. Now what… 11 years later I’m seeing them for maybe the 7th time? not sure… First time seeing them since Jim O’Rourke moved on to doing other things. I’m pretty psyched as always for such things.