Recent content by johnny q

Total Control is such a great album. "Let Me Love You" sounds like Gary Moore and Yngwie had a baby!

This has to be the most honest and profound thread title.....EVER!

I don't know about Odyssey being YJMs "peak" but I did love the album at the time and thought pairing up with JLT was a great idea, to get his music to a more "accessible" state for the masses. And, that clearly worked with the song "Heaven Tonight" getting airplay on mainstream FM radio...

YouTube comments are the armpit of the Internet and that is saying a lot. I complemented some dudes video once and he replied to me like I just told him to go die in a house fire. Hypersensitive little lilac's.........someone in their past didn't love them enough.

I handed in my Priest fan card at Turbo. Oddly enough I like the album, NOW.

My theory is - when you get to THAT hyper level of technical mastery, no one is "better" than anyone else.

I have had 100% positive experiences with Doug's Tubes and Tube Depot.

I would totally go with the Duncan Quarter Pounder. I have one in my HSH Charvel and it hangs well with the buckers and sounds fab. Kind like a cross between a single coil and a P90.

Exactly. A late 70s MXR Distortion Plus was my FIRST ever guitar pedal and I couldn't get rid of it fast enough.

A "buck eighty nine" for this pedal? Uh, no.......I would rather pay someone to kick me in the balls

My Sweetwater guy...he doesn't call, doesn't write. I mean.....how can I live with such rejection? :-)

Too many to list and honestly, having tried probably 30 different ones, even though I prefer some over others - NONE of them sounded "bad," so tough to go wrong. Right now I am gigging with my JCM800 2204 (to the chagrin of my bandmates who think I am too loud) and I am using a Wampler Tumnus...

$229 for one pickup is indeed too much. However, has anyone seen Sheptone's prices recently?o_O

He does? Hmm, he must have changed his stance on that because when I purchased a set of MarshallHeads 2006-ish he pretty much refused to do it and told me he tightens the covers so tight, it is not necessary. And as I feared, they squealed and whistled like a stuck pig, even under low gain...

The absolute best neck humbucker I ever tried was the Fralin Pure PAF 7.5K model. Lots of clarity and chime and sings under crunch or high gain.