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Actually not true. Tower Records in Japan was never connected in any way to the real Tower Records. It's a Japanese company that "appropriated" (stole) their name, logo, branding and retail format.

They're as far apart as you can get. OCD is aggressive and transparent, Bad Monkey is smooth and colors your sound more.

The Bad Monkey is the best sounding tubescreamer type pedal I've ever tried. Being able to boost the bass and treble to compensate for the "mid hump" of the TS is the reason. I don't know why they stopped making them. They seemed to be very popular. Most people on this board seemed to love them.

This was a thread I started in 2009, and now it's been revived! Strange to think I've been on this site so long... Anyhow... some time in the last 14 years I watched the movie Gimme Shelter and answered my own question. You can clearly see him switch back and forth from the neck pickup to the...

Unfortunately, I think that's pretty much everywhere nowadays.

The bigger the place is geographically, the less accurate the findings would be. Here in Los Angeles, the bad parts may be worse than most cities, but most people never see those areas - they don't even pass through them, ever. I got lost once and drove though an area that really looked like a...

And it always will ...along with anything else creative. Nice places are too expensive for young creatives. Fran Lebowitz said about New York in the '70s, "I didn't move there because it was safe. I moved there because it was fun."

Both will make your nice Fender amp sound like a transistor radio. Maybe slightly less so with the SD-1.

Cuz someday you'll be up on stage and need it, and you'll be glad you have it. Plus, if you use an overdrive pedal at home, you don't have to mess around with the amp's volume, you can just turn the pedal down. When chicks see your amp, they'll know you're a real man and be impressed. Chicks...

I really don't understand the concept of an amplifier being too loud. They have volume controls. Just turn it down. If you want overdrive, use a good overdrive pedal that sounds like your amp is loud... or as close as you can get (and you can get pretty close).

Also, there's a difference between a corner bar with a local cover band and a rock club that also servers drinks. At a rock club, people are there for the music and expect it to be loud. Rock music is supposed to be loud.

It's very simple: bars don't want you talking, they want you drinking. The more you talk, the less you drink. Even bars with no live music deliberately have the jukebox too loud to talk over for that reason.

People are unhappy in other places because they're bored, they just don't know it. California isn't boring. Long Island NY, Las Vegas NV, and Fredricksburg TX are boring.

OK, since we're fixing the language, here's the one thing I would most love to eliminate: Starting off a conversation with the word "So." It makes my stomach knot up. Not because it's incorrect and meaningless, which it is, but because it almost always indicates that you are about to hear...

That's an Italian American expression... it's from the Bronx in NY city. I've heard people say that, but never anywhere other than NYC.

Preventative and Preventive are both correct. Towards and Toward are both correct, as are Afterwards and Afterward, Forward and Forwards, Backward and Backwards. Reiterate means to iterate a second time (or third or fourth). Irregardless - You're correct with that one; it's not a word...

Why? It's the nature of language. It's not as though things have ever been different. Every "American spelling" is the result of Americans spelling words incorrectly. Every contraction is the result of people slurring words together. Even our national anthem contains the word "o'er."

I doubt there was any money in country rock either after the mid 70s. He wasn't like a modern day studio player who can play any style. His electric style was so unique and original, I don't see it fitting in with anything that came later. His brother Roland, on the other hand, had a whole...

I live in Los Angeles, where everything is measured in time. How far away is the restaurant? It's about 30 minutes from here.

Well... I guess if someone isn't popular in the good ol' US of A, they may as well be living under a rock. Yee ha.

No, and I was just trying to find it myself to verify it. It was at least a few years ago... but I know I didn't imagine it. I wouldn't make it up... I'm not even a fan of his solo music.

Paul Weller, not the Jam. Paul Weller has been a solo artist for many years now. His music sounds nothing like the Jam. From Wikipedia: "Weller's album chart performance has been especially strong, with five number one and seven number two albums. He has also scored five top ten and nineteen...

That's what I read a few years ago... it was referring to sales in England only. It definitely surprised me, though.

Yes, completely. I saw Cut Chemist perform once, and it was one of the most amazing musical performances I've ever seen.

I'm thinking more like this one...