So yeah, I've had a pretty eventful week. I went to see Powerglove and Symphony X the other night. Probably an obvious thing to say, but it was an amazing show. Powerglove blew my freaking mind, they're so ridiculously good live. After the show we met the whole band, got a drum stick from Bassil signed, as well as a foam hammer, foam sword, and got our pictures taken with all of them. I also bought their newest album and a tee shirt. Inb4 "buying music" but their bus had broke down on the tour 3 times and they had to pay $4000 to fix it. I have pics with all of them somewhere that aren't the best quality since it's from a phone, but fuck it. Anyways.
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Please excuse the screaming moron in the pokemon video.
Anyways, here's Symphony X.
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We didn't end up staying through their whole set because it got to be like midnight and they were still at the beginning of their set and we all had to work the next morning :/
All that aside, I talked to Chris Marchiel from PowerGlove for a good bit. I was really impressed with their tone and I noticed while they were playing that he actually plays with his strings on upside down ala Jimmy Hendrix. He told me that it actually gives you a really unique tone if you don't swap the pickup positioning. I would have to agree with him since their guitars were cutting through the mix really well all night. Not to hate on Symphony, but Powerglove had the best tone of the night. Chris also went into detail with me about his rig, which really isn't much. A 6505+, Marshall cabs, a tube screamer, and a few effects. Pretty simple I guess, but it got the job done.
... And, on a side note I
finally bought my 6505+
I went down to SamAsh the other day with no intention of buying anything and decided that was the amp I wanted to play on so I went and searched it out. I got to the back of the store and they had it sitting on a Marshall 1960 cab, and they only wanted 1200 for both
So in a weird turn of chance I ended up getting the half stack and have been playing on it almost non-stop since. Both pieces of gear were used obviously, but are in pretty much perfect condition aside from a few smudges on the exteriors. I really can't explain how happy with the tone I am. This thing is freaking amazing, I can't say I'll ever really need another amp, unless I want something with better cleans later. The ones on this are alright, but I'm sure there's better out there. But if I want to just be like 90% of the people here I could just say "what's clean?" and call it a day.
Sorry for the long post.