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My studio amp is a Blackstar HTR1. I have an extensive pedal board fed into it. The amp is on the clean setting, full volume, 50% EQ, 40% gain, 40% reverb. Fed from the speaker emulation output directly into my DAW. Priceless!

Everything's in my ears all the time.

They were just starting then, so there wasn't much of a light show. The music was right on, as we're the costume changes. I was with my wife and 5 year old son. I remember being very impressed, so I'm not surprised that they're still doing it 25 years later. As I've said before on this forum, the music of the 60s and 70s was something really special, and it's still being appreciated, even by millennials.

It absolutely sounds like the real deal as I've been fortunate enough to play a Gibson version in the past. The pickups are Epiphone Alnico Classic Pros.

I've had it for a couple of months. I'm quite happy with it. It's immaculate, no imperfections. Solid build for a Chinese built guitar. Stays in tune with 10G strings. Wonderful playability and the buckers put out sweet tones. The coil split option is nice. I've always upgraded pickups on my guitars. I may do so with this guitar eventually, but not anytime soon, they're that good. Probably the best deal I've ever scored with a guitar.

Cool pedal, great deal! Though I'll point out that the Flint is like two- almost three, in a way- pedals in one, for its price... Absolutely. Point taken. I have an excellent MXR Flanger pedal before the Pulsar.. The two together create magical textures.

I agree Caevan. A tremolo pedal is also a good way to go. I have an Electro Harmonix Pulsar that injects some good fuel to the chain at about half the cost of the Flynt.

We had a new huge Guitar Center open up last year in Daytona Beach. They can be useful. I found a great guitar tech there that serviced 3 of my guitars recently and while I was there I tried out and bought a new Epi ES-335 vintage sunburst on sale for $379. Next week they were back up to $499.

I agree with Winston. Sounds like you need a modulation pedal. A good flanger pedal will give you chorus also. 2 in 1. Good luck with your search.

Sorry to hear about WF, but he definitely brought it down upon himself. I'm doing a lot of recording now that I'm retired. Living on the Atlantic Ocean here in Florida is very inspirational. I don't contribute much but I enjoy being a member of this forum and have learned a lot from y'all. Peace.

+1 On Godin.

Oscar was the man! He could tickle that ivory like nobody else, and a lot of it was improvised. He was a great artist from Montreal. We have a plethora of tribute bands just south of us in Daytona Beach that play at an Atlantic Ocean beachside bandshell. Many of the artists they tribute to I've seen. There's one coming up in August that I want to see. A Doors tribute band called The Dirty Doors.

Most of the guys I know who do Tribute bands also do other projects, including a cover band, and maybe even other tributes. Especially if you don't travel, there isn't enough demand to play a Journey Tribute, for example, every weekend. You set up maybe a half dozen larger shows per year, and fill the time between with other projects. Most of the guys in our local Pink Floyd Tribute also do a Led Zepplin Tribute. One of them has an original band. Between them all, they come from 3 different local cover bands. In my original progressive Metal band, half of them play in an Iron Maiden Tribute that does a handful of shows a year. Our drummer and the bass player from the Tribute have a cover band that plays regularly. So for the drummer - that's a tribute, and original band, and a cover band. That's pretty common. Yep. So following this " I don't imitate other people" line of thinking... if you can have a spot as the guitarist in an established band, or backing up a well-known artist, you're going to force your playing on it instead of playing what has been a hit? Right... My mother is a classical pianist. What a waste... she just plays note for note covers from centuries ago. There's just musicians who play gigs and musicians who don't. Your Mother probably doesn't think it's a waste. Just be happy that she's still playing. Music isn't just about entertainment. It goes much deeper than that.

Good comments J. Dan. I've never been a performing player. I had a full time career in electronic engineering and now that I'm retired I'm playing the guitar more than ever and doing some recording projects. A lot of these musicians are doing what they feel they need to do just to play music. Whether it be in a bar or in a tribute or cover band, or whatever. It's very competitive out there and some guitar players and other musicians will do what they need to do to escape a desk job.

Drum machines are great, as are loopers. As you advance, complicate. You'll only get better. Music is all about the beat.

The best tribute bands I've seen personally over the last 10 years have been the following: House of Floyd- from San Francisco- saw them in Sacramento Fool's Logic (Supertramp)- from Southern California- saw them at Feather Falls Casino, California Classic Albums Live, which is an outfit based in Toronto that started in 2003 that hires musicians throughout Canada, U.S. and the U.K. to perform a multitude of classic albums, too many to mention. The one I saw was in Sacramento. It was a trio who performed Are You Experienced in the first set and an assortment of Jimi's stuff in the second. "Jimi" was a chap from Toronto, the other two from Southern California Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience- saw them in Daytona Beach The Music of Cream which I critiqued recently on this form. As far as I know, all of these groups are still touring which tells me that there's still many classic rock fans out there. It's great to see a lot of young people at these events also.

I don't gig that much anymore, but I'm recording a lot of my own creations and adaptations of other artists material. For example, I recently recorded tracks for my own version of 3rd Stone From the Sun by Hendrix. One thing I think is important is if you want to learn to play another artist's song from beginning to end, learn to play the vocal parts on the guitar if you don't sing.

Definitely a Fender Stratocaster. I've had mine for 30 years. I've upgraded it with hot noiseless pickups and locking tuners. She just gets better.

Leave it to the Swiss! Amazing!

For me, compression, overdrive, distortion and delay are equally important. My reverb is taken care of with my amp. I have to say I'm very happy with my newest purchase, an MXR flanger which I was able to replace 3 other pedals with- flanger, chourus and phaser. It covers all those applications nicely. It also allowed me to put my wah pedal on my main pedal board and create space for one more pedal! Christmas present!

Rock: Vocals- Jim Morrison Guitar- Jimi Hendrix Bass- Jack Bruce Keyboards- Keith Emerson Drums- Neil Peart The All Dead But Neil Band (They'd never get along)

I'm showing my age here. My opinion, but I think pop music for the most part (there have been exceptions of course) hasn't been very impressive since the 70s. Once we got into the 80s it really started to become formulized and it has lost much of it's heart and soul. That being said, much of pop music in the 50s and early 60s was very formulized also. Once the late 60s and 70s arrived pop and rock blossomed together to create in my opinion the greatest decade of popular music ever. Did I mention that this was just my opinion? I don't want to offend anybody.

Being an old Hendrix fan I love tastefully done feedback. The fun part is trying to keep it under control before it becomes a chaotic wall of noise! Other great feedback players- Jeff Beck, Ted Nugent, David Gilmour, Eddie Van Halen, Jeff Healey, Alex Lifeson, Frank Marino and Robin Trower.

I can get some pretty wacky noise out of my Danelectro Chili Dog Octave, and more so when blended with my Boss FH Phaser.