The Doom Room: ILF Edition

[CaptainBoxman]

I can see you in that suit man.

[samzadgan]

Christmas is just another day for me. I don't celebrate it. Every day is Christmas for me!

I'd never been one for xmas or birthdays…but i think now that i've had a kid, i get more excited about it, because i'm doing it for him….maybe thats just the cycle of things

[AngryGoldfish]

I can see you in that suit man.

Christmas is just another day for me. I don't celebrate it. Every day is Christmas for me!

I'd never been one for xmas or birthdays…but i think now that i've had a kid, i get more excited about it, because i'm doing it for him….maybe thats just the cycle of things

I was taught all that is wrong with Christmas from a very young age, but a lot of people enjoy it and who am I to question that?

[AxAxSxS]

I think that link's going to miss, so I'll spell it out

I JUST BOUGHT A SUNN CONCERT LEAD WOOO YEAH

Let's hope this amp actually works on arrival eh?

Cool man! Enjoy it!

Pacific North West =/= Praise and worship, unless you count the Old Ones, asleep in the deep.

[CaptainBoxman]

also, don't shit on christmas, it's my birthday.

Are.....are you Jesus?

[Iommic Pope]

Praise and worship the Old Ones, asleep in the deep.

[AxAxSxS]

how do you play guitar with those tiny little arms?

I need to steal that Cute lil Cthulu pic

[AngryGoldfish]

also, don't shit on christmas, it's my birthday.

My brother's birthday is on Christm day, too! He doesn't have the same beliefs as me, he just can't be arsed celebrating anything.

[Nostradoomus]

Any PNW dudes going to Eyehategod on Jan 25 at the Highline?

I'm coming down, let's beer! Anybody know a good hostel in Seattle?

[AngryGoldfish]

I found this new company earlier. They're from New Zealand and make super expensive (like $8,000 expensive) Titanium and aircraft grade steel guitars. They apparently built a couple for James Hetfield. The necks are wooden and are built into the body in a neck-thru style. They look pretty stunning and are described in a similar way EGC guitars are described—no surprises there.

http://www.badseed.co.nz/

Many of the pictures are obnoxiously big so I can't post them, but here are a few from Premier Guitar:

[AxAxSxS]

thats cool but I think would prefer the neck to be metal, body either way.

I'll have to get that show on my calender. DR meetups rule.

[AngryGoldfish]

Yeah, I think the draw of a metal guitar (of any variety) is the rigidity and playability of the metal neck. But that's what puts many off metal instruments. They are so used to feeling wood between their hands (TWSS) that anything else is just wrong.

I still really want an EGC, but I've become a little fearful of custom gear. I've moved on, in a way. Once Nick has finished my amp, I might call it quit for custom gear for a while. I used to love the idea of custom gear, and I still do, but I think it's—and this is a shameful thing to say in many ways—safer to buy production equipment. It retains its value better and you won't spend a year trying to flog it to someone who happens to have the exact same taste as you. If I was a wealthier man I'd buy an EGC in a heartbeat, or if they offered cheaper models that encapsulated everything awesome about them as instruments, had a perfect balance of features and looked the way I like them to look, I'd probably buy one. I know the draw to EGC is the customization, but I can't settle on any design. I think EGC could easily sell production models for a few hundred dollars cheaper that had simple features and simple aesthetics. They could also have shorter wait lists.

[AxAxSxS]

ok, that makes more sense.

THIS JUST IN! Just in time for solstice.



Thanks Mrs. Dirge

[AngryGoldfish]

I do this every few months, I put on Mastodon's The Hunter and see if my opinion on it has changed. And every time it's the same. It's a fun album overall with some catchy tunes and a couple of stand-out moments that make me smile and get in the groove, but overall it's a weird—but in a boring way—album that has no cohesion, little intelligence, and just makes me laugh—but again, in a bad way. It's like they smoked some pot, decided they had earned enough money and had enough of an adoring and loyal fanbase to smack everyone in the face, and then smoked another bowl and burned some cash on a poorly written piece of obscurity. It's not a terrible album, but it's terrible for a Mastodon album. They were already pushing boundaries with Crack the Skye, but overall it worked and was a massive success in my eyes. But they took it too far with The Hunter. 2.5/5.

[AngryGoldfish]

I like Torche. In Return is at the end of my playlist at the moment, after The Hunter. I'd like to see them live, but I don't listen to their records that often.

I'm listening to Wilco at the moment. I don't normally like such airy-fairy music, but it's a very good record (their famous Yankee Hotel Foxtrot) and has some intelligent design to it.