SoundOfAGun

@AslatIE, I haven't heard it. I'll have a listen to it tonight.

13 hours ago, James Bond said:

Come Friday I will likely have a mint condition, all original 1983 JCM 800 (4010 model). Absolute dream come true.

Sweeeet! What cab will you be running it through?

On 28/06/2016 at 8:38 PM, moreblack said:

Isn't Cash's song also a cover?

This version blows the original out of the water IMO. Cash's recording is the sound of a man at the end of his life. Haunting and beautiful. @AslatIE, are you playing this on your neck/rhythm pickup? It sounds quite "plinky", like it had been done off the bridge/treble. An acoustic would sound much nicer.

I have always loved the production on that album. The guitars are immense, drums are a bit more modern than UYI and Axl sounds great. I would also agree that it is a shame it was a covers album and they couldn't have reworked the music Slash put out as the first Snakepit record. Axl on Beggars and Hangers On would have been amazing!

I think his vocals have been worse since the tour started. He killed it with ACDC, but doesn't seem to have any fire for the GN'R songs. Axl could pull it out of the bag for a record though; I remember reading he records one vocal line at a time. 

42 minutes ago, DocArunas said:

Shit gets thrown at the head and knocks it out in the middle of a song, would you want to risk that happening?

I doubt a bottle could knock an amp head off balance and if it did, Axl would stop everything anyway and at least threaten to go home, which would leave plenty of time for a switchover.

What a fucking poser 

8 minutes ago, rocco said:

I don't think a single one of the amps on stage was used. Amps on the stage of huge stadium shows are just for looks, behind the stage is where the main amp rig(s) are located, mic'd up. A lot of photos of Slash's amp rig were posted and it was also shown in the teaser videos, it's still the Silver Jubilees. 

Also, the loudspeaker cabinets on stage are actually screens for the stage visuals/videos  that's kinda cool, but it shows that the onstage-amps are actually just for looks...

I thought as much, it is weird that they choose to put Plexis up there given he hasn't used them for years. 

The stage amps look like Plexis, instead of the usual Jubilees/AFD100s, anyone know if these amps are just for show or if he has changed it up?

6 minutes ago, paranoyd androyd said:

new single? new album? LMFAO these guys look and sound like shit. no genuine camaraderie or energy.

you'd have to be on some serious drugs to think there's any future here. the band has been DEAD over 25 years now... 25 years! get over it, just embarrassing now.

 

That's the spirit!

10 minutes ago, Trashcan said:

https://twitter.com/IzzyStradlin999/status/746553377765494784

Meanwhile, out in IzzyLand...

Is this track on YouTube anywhere? I still haven't heard the whole thing. 

I have finally got our old stuff from our old guitarist and have started uploading the tracks onto Soundcloud, I have 5 on there so far and also the demo versions of each track. I don't know if I have demo versions of all the songs, but I will be uploading everything eventually. There are two playlists; The LIPA playlist which is the final recording of each song, they were recorded at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts and the Demo Playlist, which would have been recorded with a couple of condenser mics at each end of a rehearsal room. 

Hearing tracks that are this old (12-13 years ago) is kind like looking at photographs of yourself as a teenager; you were convinced at the time you were cool as fuck, but upon reflection, maybe you weren't! It is history though and a cool way to have the old music on display. Please have a listen and enjoy!

LIPA Playlist:

Demo Playlist:

2 hours ago, Jabberwocky said:

Thank ya kindly. Just like with my music, I just use whatever equipment I have and make the best out of it. Not to toot my own horn but I think I've done very well considering I've had no formal training.

Yes, I have heard some of your music and although the fuzz guitar is not really to my taste, you have an excellent ear for a melody and consistently produce interesting vocal harmonies.

Thanks for the info @Jabberwocky, it is definitely quite ominous in its current state. Your artwork with the skull looks fucking awesome!

@Jabberwocky, what is you film about? The first one on your post, Hearts are always killed. And did you write the music for the film?

59 minutes ago, AslatIE said:

Mine 

Fair enough. You should post some. You may be too critical of yourself. 

1 hour ago, AslatIE said:

It's a hobby of mine. The films are shit, though 

 

Yours or his?

No worries, I just got a DSL40C, they are sweet amps. I added a clip of the new amp on the gear thread here.

You will get a richer tone from a valve amp. What cab are you going to get? If you are only recording guitar, you should get a 57 instead of a 58.

What amp do you use?

3 minutes ago, Ralphelmo said:

Look at duff at 0:24  Obviously he's not so confident with Frank behind the drums.

My thoughts exactly!

2 hours ago, AxlisOld said:

NGD! Well...kinda. Got this a month ago-ish, I just don't post very often.

 

 

Oh my FUCK this guitar plays sweet. And it is built to play fucking fast. I have 3 different Japanese Charvels and Jacksons, and this lives up to them so well. If you're apprehensive about a Charvel or Jackson because they moved to Mexico, DO NOT BE.

It looks like a sweet axe! Great colour too! What pickup are in there? 

I would like a new guitar, but given that I have spent just under £2000 on gear this year already, it is likely to be a sticking point with Mrs SoundOfAGun.....

7 hours ago, DieselDaisy said:

When Guns N' Roses talked about ''living on biscuits and gravy'' in their club days, I honestly thought - before discovering that in America a 'biscuit' is something different - that they lived off this,

(I've used Custard Creams in my example.)

With a jug of beef gravy poured over,

This is brilliant! Custard creams and beef gravy, life on the streets in LA.... 

It reminds me of when I was little; my dad was eating a Cornish pasty so I asked him what was in it (back then in the 80s it would have been some meat gunk from the Pork Farms factory) and he told me it was cat food. From the age of about 4, I thought that people ate cat food filled pasties. What a fucker.

Yeah they always worked pretty good with the 747 settings on the eq with the gain at around 6-7. Nothing like a stack, I miss those days! We once played a gig in a tiny little pub and our mate lent us two 4x12s so we had full stacks on a tiny little stage!

On 6/1/2016 at 0:11 PM, Snake-Pit said:

I went a local rehearsal studio yesterday (Scream Studios, on the A23 in Croydon), played on a Marshall JCM 900... Wasn't bad. Wasn't through a Marshal speaker, I think some 'generic one' didn't think to check. Was there for 4 hours with a djembe drummer.

Bought my guitar slide along, and my go to guitar/Gibson... and... at one point with the guitar slide and the djembe... Sounded a bit like the theme from Breaking Bad; Sounded way cool, I do like the distortion of the Marshall JCM 900 though; I don't love the tone, per say, but it's still a really nice tone; I prefer it to the Marshall JCM 800.

It was just guitar to amp, no Korg AX3000G like I use at home.

Never played an 800, but I used to play through a 900 head at our rehearsal rooms until I got my 2000. I always thought that they got a bad rep for no real reason. I know that they have diode clipping to push more gain, but so did the Jubilee and people love that amp. 900s aren't amazing, but you can at least get a serviceable gain sound out of them without turning the fucker up to hearing loss levels. Speakers make a big difference as well, V30s and Greenbacks always sound great to me, the standard 75s in Marshall cabs are still good enough, but the V30s and Greenbacks are tone monsters!