It's Fall 2013 and things are getting weird. It's been a while since we've had a new mixtape around here,…
I've been buying and selling guitar effects pedals for a long time; I currently have maybe 60, and have probably…
Above: best ad ever. "Yu Brother" (what???) of Taiwan introduces their line of microphones and guitar effect pedals in 1981. …
Above: the 1989 advert that caught my attention I've said it many times, but pls let me re-iterate: as much…
A few years back, I wrote a short piece regarding Canadian scholar and author Marshall McLuhan. One of MM's most…
Nothing too heavy today, just some oddball 80's amps that crossed my plane of perception. Above: "Vibration Technology" (catchy!) of…
Above: Sequential Circuits Prophet-5, Remote Prophet, and Poly Sequencer c.1982. Below: period adverts for the Pro-One and Prophet 5. We…
I really can't figure this one out. So there's a ghost who sings in a band. He (she?) rides a…
Goddamn! Would you look at that thing! Peavey built and sold a small number of these US-made uber-4-tracks in the…
Oh stop. 'Tude. What is it, and why does it matter? 'Tude, which is, rather reflexively, a "bad-attitude"-driven abbreviation of…