 Hi there new comer!
Basically this page details (hopefully) my progression as a guitarist. Let me explain the different folders to you.
Firstly we have the 'Blue Folder Project'; this is my earlist stuff, ranging from September 2002 to about Jan 2003, I had just got my guitar, I had just turned 18 and was into the usual stuff. You now, 'Nirvana', 'Muse', 'Metallica', 'Foo Fighters' etc and I think my guitar playing reflected that ALOT (just take a listen to 'Escape' and you'll hear the blatant Nirvana rip off that it is) I won't deny it, I don't have the best vocals in the world, but the only way to learn is to go out there and try it.. in fact, I'd go as far as to say a cat being ran over sounds alot more pleasent then my vocals did (and still do). However the vocals wheren't for me, I was more into my guitar playing. My effects at this stage was a Zoom606, that's what all that hissing is. And I was recording through a £1 mic onto cubase so alot of odd noises picked up from passing cars and stuff, all recorded in my bedroom, YAY! My guitar was a Tanglewood Nevada being 'pumped' through a 10watt no name brand amp. hehehe it feedsback like a talkative chat show host.
I kinda grew bored of loudness and the hissing of the Zoom606 and I was starting to get bored of the 'depressive' lyrics I was writing ('Prozac Prolife' being one of them) So, I turned my head towards... comdey music. I ditched the Zoom606 and played the guitar 'clean' out of the no name amp and into the £1 mic. The guitar still sounds like a tin can, which is probably the only funny thing about the so called 'funny songs'. The 'distortion' you can hear is the overdrive switch on the amp.
Then came 'Whacko Jacko's Bedsheets' with the help from Dave Davis (light night over MSN) who offered advice on recording and made some simple drum loops for me to work with. This saw the songs 'Chill Out & Scream', 'Captain Kirk's Intergalactical Orgasim' and 'Abduction' as well as other ambiant 'chilled out' music. I guess it was the fact that most of this was recorded at 3am led to the style that came from it. It's some of my favorite stuff, notice who there's no vocals in any of the songs ;) My influences hadn't really changed, was still listening to a lot of Nirvana, Muse, Foo Fighters, Rage Against The Machine and so. My effects at this point where my Digitech Whammy pedal (wh4), a Line 6 Delay Module and my MXR distortion + (oh and i still used my zoom606 now and again. You can hear it on the track Chill Out & Scream fuzzing and hissing over the bassline). My guitar by this point had changed to a EVH Peavy Wolfgang, a lovely guitar but a bastard to tune and maintain (at this current point in time it has tuned itself into a eBGAAD tuning and the Floyd Rose needs some serious attention).
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