Reminds me of a Rockman (created by Tom Scholtz).  I had one and used to wear it everywhere around the house playing - man it sounded good!

I'm not sure the Play Bus sounded that good. But to my ears back then, it was mind blowing. We're taking way back in maybe 1985. None of us kids had amps yet.

In fact, my best buddy had figured a way to hook up our guitars via his dad's 8 track tape deck and mess w/ the cartridge which would generate this weird kind of fuzz - that's basically all we had for distortion. I don't know how this could work, it doesn't seem to make any sense, but it did work.

To our ears, it was glorious man. We thought we sounded as heavy as Celtic Frost. lol

Rain


I had this strange obsession w/ owning many copies of the same thing. 

When I started playing guitar and decided that my dream guitar was a black strat, I wanted black strats. Only black strats. If I could have bought 50 guitars, they'd all have been absolutely identical.

I've since switched to Les Paul. 

The black and cream ones, w/ amber knobs, just like the one I have (well, except mine's a Epi.) I'd want dozens just like this one. Once I'd pass the magic number of 50, then maybe I'd start a collection of all identical sunburst ones. 

Long story short, I hate Jeff Beck! ;)

Your plugin collection must be absolutely horryfying!!

SF_Green

Rain


I had this strange obsession w/ owning many copies of the same thing. 

When I started playing guitar and decided that my dream guitar was a black strat, I wanted black strats. Only black strats. If I could have bought 50 guitars, they'd all have been absolutely identical.

I've since switched to Les Paul. 

The black and cream ones, w/ amber knobs, just like the one I have (well, except mine's a Epi.) I'd want dozens just like this one. Once I'd pass the magic number of 50, then maybe I'd start a collection of all identical sunburst ones. 

Long story short, I hate Jeff Beck! ;)

Your plugin collection must be absolutely horryfying!!

Heck, Bapu has more plugins than he does posts.
 
(Think about that!)

I realized yesterday when installing Digital Performer that I had 115 3rd party plug-ins installed on my machine - which I'm guessing is not much by anyone else's standards but I'm actually quite shocked because I hardly seem to use any of them most of the time.

True, a few of them like POD Farm are broken down into a bunch of plug-ins, others are broken into mono and stereo components and there's T-Racks which account for over 20 of those. OTOH, all my Waves plugs are hidden under the WaveShell.

Anyway, it may be time for a clean up.

Rain


I realized yesterday when installing Digital Performer that I had 115 3rd party plug-ins installed on my machine - which I'm guessing is not much by anyone else's standards but I'm actually quite shocked because I hardly seem to use any of them most of the time.

True, a few of them like POD Farm are broken down into a bunch of plug-ins, others are broken into mono and stereo components and there's T-Racks which account for over 20 of those. OTOH, all my Waves plugs are hidden under the WaveShell.

Anyway, it may be time for a clean up.

I know I'm due for a clean-up.  I was just thinking that earlier today.  I've got you by 2x not counting your Waves plugs.  I have quite a few things like POD which break into many objects, but still...

Steve Howe never did one of the "Everything he has" photos that I've been able to find.  But this is out on my coffee table:




He needed an entire book just for his guitars/stringed instruments!!  His collection is amazing.

Looks like a cool book. Added to watchlist. :)

craigb

"From the very beginning when I used to hear those solos on those old records I used to say: now here is an instrument that is capable of spewing forth true obscenity, you know?  If ever there's an obscene noise to be made on an instrument, it's going to come out of a guitar... Let's be realistic about this, the guitar can be the single most blasphemous device on the face of the earth.  That's why I like it... The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar: now that's my idea of a good time."

--- Frank Zappa

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