Yum

Homemade salsa.

list of the Year

well well well....
it's about that time of the year again.

what made your lists?

unlike 08', 09 left me digging through piles of records, racking my brain as to who made the illustrious list, that no one cares about.

i find myself pretty shocked by the number of good releases, and from those, the selections that made it onto my list.


top 10 records:

tied for first:
1. the life and times - Tragic Boogie
2. the dear hunter - act III

.....the rest, in no order......
3. dredg - "The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion"
4. oceansize - home and minor
5. thrice - beggars
6. shelflife - shelflife
7. mastodon - crack the skye
8. Actors and Actresses - Arrows
9. national skyline - bliss & death
AND - the bloom EP
10. the auxiliary list spot. i just had TOO many good records to listen to....so this spot will be divided amongst a few who earned a spot.

sights and sounds monolith
caspian - tertia
baroness - blue record
the appleseed cast -Sagarmatha
russian circles - geneva


biggest disappointment:
cave in - planets of old
what's worse than a great band going on hiatus?
when they come back with a totally mediocre record. ugh.

the mars volta - octahedron
jesus. i guess the only thing worse than the 40 minute drug induced musical themes from the mars volta are the SOBER 40 minute musical interludes. just stop making music.

killswitch engage -
they shows such great potential with alive or breathing / end of heartache....but since then have become a band that is using like B & C side scraps.
break the mold and push forward guys. your sound is played out.

poison the well - Ep's and Lp.
A for effort, just boring releases.

as cities burn - hell or high water
previous record (come now sleep) was a top 10 lister.....the followup is a piece of crap.
what a bummer.

thursday - common existence.
crap. i should have known better. their next release will not make it to my ears.

muse- the resistance.
much like thursday, i should have known better.
these guys have been in a downward spiral for awhile....


honorable mention:
constants - The Foundation, The Machine, The Ascension
-- some decent songs--but nothing wowed me here. in fact, i'd say they took a step back from the production of their split w/ caspian.
THAT is how they should always sound, so this is a bit of a regression.

pelican - what we all come to need
--- it's not a bad record, and probably better than city of echoes....but it's just not great. especially in comparison to the other releases of 09.

mono - Hymn to the Immortal Wind
meh. not bad. not great.

isis - wavering radiant
meh. not bad.

what i'm looking forward to in 2010?
minus the bear
oceansize full length
jatun!

Non 2009 records that got the most play
oceansize - frames / effloresce
shiner - the egg
riddle of steel - python
cave in - jupiter
swervedriver - mezcalhead

gear for sale

upgraded to the M9 / pog2. pog = $210 shipped. spring chicken (used for an hour) = $177 shipped. no trades please. ebay: gregovertone (100%) plenty of references. click pic for full picture.

Gear for Sale!!

here we go.
the xx4 series.....

they've served me well, but i'm moving on.


mm4 modulation modeler $125 shipped
fm4 filter modeler $125 shipped
dm4 distortion modeler $125 shipped
dl4 delay modeler* $60 shipped
** broken ** doesn't power up. i'm not mechanically sound. i don't know what's wrong.




no trades please.
ebay: gregovertone 100% feedback.

Never thought I'd see this!

Daaaa bears

My friends, da preediction is da bears by 4. Da illoosive 2 safety
victory

NIN

I'm in line at the aragon.

To get to where I am....
Leave the Aragon, turn right.
Walk along the El tracks a bit. Turn left.
Walk down the alley for a bit, turn right onto broadway, walk a bit.
Basically, we are way deep in the longest concert line I've ever seen.

We've been here for 20 minutes, and I can no longer see the end of the
line.

gear for sale!!

alesis qs 6.1 keyboard
w/ a couple 8 cards, and cables.
sweet keys.....i'm just going with midi controllers.

$225 shipped


line 6 pod pro xt
w/ footswitch
$375

shure ksm 109
$100 shipped

sennheiser 421
$200 and shipping.

tape op ribbon
group buy
like nady rsm2
$115 shipped

1994 japanese jazzmaster
w/ gig bag
trem arm
buzz stop
extra pickguard

$700 shipped.

Keys for sale!

Time has come!

My first real keyboard is for sale.

Alesis qs 6.1
With 2 cards.

great built in sounds, great midi controller!

$200 and shipping.

Finally.

A place to put my computer when I'm outside.

Gear For Sale

ibanez mij phaster - $105 shipped
semaphore- $145 shipped
dunlop ts1 - $95 shipped
boss hm2 jap - $50 shipped
boss bf2 flange -$50 shipped.
4ms noise swash - trades for crazy crap?
dd3 - $75 shipped




cij jazzmaster. mint green guard.
trades considered for recording gear/mics



01' prs cu22 semi hollow. rare option. birds, wide fat. 
sick guitar, just not being used much. 
trades for vintage fender? 
sweet recording gear?



wanted: 
sm98
sm7
at 4047
distressor
joe meek twin q
500 series?

A blog for the studio

http://gregs-studio.blogspot.com/

pictures of the build process.

Wow

A very controlled high end :-)

Meet the new roommate

Zelda-

Rib eye sale at jewel

Makes for a good lunch

We bring guns to knife fights

And 4 grills to memorial day

Blast from the past

many years ago, I put these stickers up on a post at tgi Fridays.

Crazy.

Never thought i'd be this happy

To see a sink, tub, and toilet

Never thought I'd be so happy

To see a toilet and sink

Learning to grill

Pete is using his home made rub and BBQ sauce!

Amp wall

With 57's, naturally...

Putting up some mics

Stereo bar!

Awww yeaaah

Grilled chicken lunch.
Wish I knew what I was doin.

Dream Relived

Jordan's.
Oh yea

Ha

Now he's a box turtle.
Get it?

Cuz he's in a box

I hope he's not a mutant ninja

Cause he's hanging out on our deck!

Latest project

!

Sweet

New layout

Studio couch!

Studio couch!

studio is coming along!

New Guitar Lesson Service.

I have been toying around with new technology. 

twitter.com

It's a site that has shown little purpose to me thus far.

  i have never cared what people are doing every second of every day. 

Then it hit me. Use it for lessons.

 The concept:

I make a twitter. 

Students make (or already have) a twitter.  

 When someone cancels, i post the time to twitter.

     Twitter then automatically sends the text message to the students who have subscribed.

 It will also work for RSS feeds, for the students who use those. 

      As an aside, I LOVE RSS feeds. Genius.

This way, should you ever want to change your lesson time during the week, you'll be immediately informed of every time that's open!

   Additionally, if you aren't enrolled in lessons, but just want a single lesson, you'll know my availability. 

As to not abuse the system, the only messages sent will be for three functions....

- When lesson times become available 

- When lesson times are no longer available 

- Special events and notices

Here is how it works:

Visit    www.twitter.com   and setup an account (if you don't already have one.)

In the twitter settings, enable phone updates, and link your cell phone (with a text message plan).

Visit   www.twitter.com/gregsgtrlessons

Beneath the profile picture, click Follow

Click to enable mobile device updates for this person.

That's it. 

From here on out, you will receive the lesson time updates via twitter.

Please feel free to email me if you have any questions, but i really hope you take advantage of this new, and seemingly useful technology. 

-Greg-

I've dreamed of this day

Since I was a boy.

My own, built-in pedal and mic shelves.

The move

Has begun.
Weeeeeak.

Pete's house

Lemons

When life gives you lemons....you make speaker stands out of a rack,
snare stand, and binder?

New monitors day

Sweeet

bass stuff

been a while....

i reassembled a bass rig this week.....

Whoops

New pedal day

jealous?

i hate auto-formatting

click the pics for the full sized versions.

a few basement pics