Fall Out Boy

We've been playing cover tunes. It's sorta like reverse engineering to tear something down and divy the parts out to a new set of musicians and rediscover the whole song. Challenging and empty in a way. I've been visiting friendsorenemies.com alot this week since I discovered it and getting a kick off all the tongue and cheek stuff posted. I'm cooking up the idea of covering "What a Catch (Donnie)" with our non-band. A musically very busy arrangement, a vocal ascent and a self depreciating theme throughout the verses...instant classic by a great band.

There was a "blowout" sale at Long & McQuade last weekend. 35%-40% off on a bunch of stock and while I was there I became enamored by Boss pedals. I bought a DS-1 basic distortion pedal, brought it home, plugged it in and got what I didn't expect - plucky sustain and a little crunch. But I was still happy! It's much more authentic then my ZOOM modeler...did Nirvana record and rehearse all that Grunge with one of these? It's suppose to be a classic... Nonetheless I'm still eagerly awaiting my BCB-60 and the prospect of filling with Boss effects.

Thee Hoolies

Regina bands. Regina Bands.

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Library Voices is a better show over all but tonight's performance was a step in the right direction for these guy's. The set started off strong but sorta lagged out a bit in the second half then ended on way too subtle a tenure for me. Bands should peak during the final moments of a set and leave the audience still in touch with the songs and the delivery thereof and not stepping stage left before the second last song is concluded. Over all an interesting experience...

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The spinach and feta pie was a treat at O'Hanlon's and so was the bands drummer Matt Palmier. This band has a routine of instrument trading between songs that I'm not a big fan of but the song's Matt sang on were on the money. Alot of bubbling below consciousness of the performance that sorta sprung up during the emotional moments of certain songs...work and arrangement was there that kept me interested as well as some nice guitar work.

Guitars. The lazy man's instrument.

Someone told me this week that guitar players are a dime a dozen! Oh no!!!!

My thought's: bad one's are.

BCB-60 Pedal Board

I ordered a new item from the store where I work this week. The BCB-60 Pedal Board is a storage and transportation (carrying) case for your pedals. Power supply, tuner and cabling are included in the price (roughly $180.00.) It's set up for Boss pedals (7 at a time) primarily but modified you can safely tote other effects pedals as well...curiously enough though I'm a Canadian...Boss is an American company...in order for the store where I work to get the BCB-60 "in" for me I have to wait for Roland (another manufacturer) to ship a batch of them either to Vancouver or Toronto!? From there, it will be distributed to all Long & McQuade store's across Canada. Apparently there's a PO number attached to it (whatever that means?) and I'll receive an e-mail whenever it arrives...now onto the collection of Boss Pedals themselves...average cost $170.00 a pedal. It seems like they were like $40.00 cheaper like a month ago?! The Saskatchewan Economy.