SteveXFR

I'm at a point where I feel like I need to try lots of different gear to understand what works for me. I had a Fender Jazz MIM but didn't like it. I have a feeling it was just a bad one. I do seem to have settled on Orange amps but partly because I can't afford an Ampeg SVT Classic.

Solos are so last century. It's all about the break down now. Stamp on your dirtiest overdrive, palm mute and half time for 8 bars. One note is plenty, maybe too much.

Mercedes Marxist - Idles

Police Truck - Dead Kennedys

Song for the deaf - Queens Of The Stone Age

New album from Idles this morning. They've come on a long way since their first album but it still sounds great.

There is no worse sound than a YouTube slapper. A million notes a minute and it all sounds like a filing cabinet falling down a fire escape.

You have a sensible dog. I'd rather be stuck in a confined space with my dogs flatulence than listen to slap.

Change in the house of flies - Deftones

Summer Breeze - Type O Negative

Hurricane - Dylan

Maybe if you're terrible people will buy more booze in the hope you'll sound decent when they're better lubricates.

Greetings from sh!tsville - Wildhearts

Little Red corvette - The artist formerly known as weird midget

Hiphopapotamus - Flight of the conchords

I did have a Trace GP12SMX with TE 4x10 & 1x15 and its definitely the combination that gets you there. I replaced one of the TE cabs with an Orange 4x10 and it sounded good but didn't sound like a Trace amp any more. It was closer to the Trace sound with my Orange head with the Trace cabs. I think the TE reputation for being rather weighty is exaggerated. The TE 4x10 is the same weight as my Orange 4x10.

Naked in the rain - Red Hot Chilli Peppers

The only way is up - Yazz

Waiting Room- Fugazi

Pandemonium - Killing Joke

Window licker - Aphex Twin

Inside - Stiltskin A one hit wonder I'd completely forgotten until this suddenly popped in to my head

This discussion has worked out nicely. I've checked out quite a few of the albums mentioned here and found a few new bands I like. Dead Daisies and Amyl & The Sniffers being the highlights.

Dopesmoker - Sleep

Cowboys From Hell - Pantera