The headsup sweet shit on ebay thread....

[coupleonapkins]

Also, the world needs more orange pedals to offset the purple thread...

[Chankgeez]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLiGp6wSSpQ[/youtube]

I still can't view the YouTube embeds.

[Gone Fission]

Scrolling down past the pointy shred beastie toy, Musiciansfriend has the Korg Volca Sample for $99 today only, Yes, it's the OK Go special edition version, but you can load your own samples and suitably defile the special finish.
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/stupid?icid=210190

[Chankgeez]

A little Pi-Phase-age?

https://reverb.com/item/2735655-prophec ... phase-2015

[echorec]

This dude has some cool stuff like a Melusine and a DBA Ghost. I wonder why he's in Oman.

https://reverb.com/shop/al-hariths-gear-depot

[imJonWain]

Probably super rich over there?

[Chankgeez]

I wonder why he's in Oman.

What's that supposed to mean?

[DRodriguez]

That fuzzrocious is gorgeous

[insubordination]

Probably super rich over there?

The bassist in my band lived in Muscat, Oman (where the seller is) last summer while studying Arabic, and according to her it's a pretty modest city (compared to where she is in Jordan this summer). I'm sure there are no shortage of wealthy people though, I imagine this person is doing OK to have those pedals and presumably an amp to play them through. But all my knowledge is secondhand, so, I could be wrong.

[echorec]

I wonder why he's in Oman.

What's that supposed to mean?

Let me rephrase this sentiment. I wonder why a guy in a small country not known for producing modern or experimental music is buying up all these hip pedals like the Melusine. I wonder who turned him onto this stuff, or how his pedal journey began.

I wonder the same thing about people who grew up in rural parts of the U.S., where you're far less likely to be able to find oddities in local shops and you're far less likely to have a gear mentor. I grew up in Tennessee, so it took a series of events stretched over years for me to become a gear junkie.

[coupleonapkins]

I wonder who turned him onto this stuff

[rustywire]

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I wonder the same thing about people who grew up in rural parts of the U.S., where you're far less likely to be able to find oddities in local shops and you're far less likely to have a gear mentor. I grew up in Tennessee, so it took a series of events stretched over years for me to become a gear junkie.

...because Memphis & Nashville aren't known for legendary music gear & recording studios or anything

[lordgalvar]

Yea, weird cool gear has been harder to find in my experience in LA and San Francisco than places like Anacortes or Bakersfield (not that Bakersfield is particularly rural). I mean the shops carry more mundane new stuff in Bakersfield, but the cool, vintage, and/or weird stuff is all scattered around...big cities have it for a premium.

And gear mentor? It's called the internet haha. Or a melt banana record. Information is freaking every where and anything can be shipped.

[echorec]

...
I wonder the same thing about people who grew up in rural parts of the U.S., where you're far less likely to be able to find oddities in local shops and you're far less likely to have a gear mentor. I grew up in Tennessee, so it took a series of events stretched over years for me to become a gear junkie.

...because Memphis & Nashville aren't known for legendary music gear & recording studios or anything

Right, because everyone who grew up on Garth Brooks & Travis Tritt is dying to get their hands on an Electra Psychedelic Machine and an EMS Synth Hi-Fli.

[echorec]

Yea, weird cool gear has been harder to find in my experience in LA and San Francisco than places like Anacortes or Bakersfield (not that Bakersfield is particularly rural).

Two possible reasons stick out to me---if you can afford to live in LA or SF, you are more likely to be financially stable enough to hold onto unused things. People in big cities are often more tech savvy and independent, therefore more likely to sell things for themselves online, rather than losing money by trading gear in at local shops.

And gear mentor? It's called the internet haha. Or a melt banana record. Information is freaking every where and anything can be shipped.

Maybe I want to hold onto the notion that some people still have big brother figures (or even friends) IRL and aren't just anti-social fuckups hanging out on VG forums and getting into comment battles over viral videos. (Edwardian smilie?)