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Mountain Man is one of my favorite dinosaur songs live and on record. I would kill for them to do a whole record that sounds like that, a perfect melding of hardcore and sabbath. Beyond follow-up?
Budge is neither here nor there for me, like most of Bug.
Start Choppin rules it just for the falsetto lead up to the chorus. More falsetto please!
I think the Puke+Cry/Blowin It/I Live For That Look run is one of the most underrated stretches on any dinosaur album. I think they should dust off those and play them.
I know when I was having issues with my jag’s bridge everyone suggested both a mustang bridge and a buzzstop. I got the mustang bridge, adjusted it slightly and dropped it even, never even needed a buzzstop it played fine after that. Try just a mustang bridge and go from there. Plus buzzstops are ugly as sin on guitars.
With J’s tone it seems when in doubt, assume he is using gobs of flanger. Listening to the first two records, I think his tone pallet was a lot more limited than people suspect since nowadays he has seventeen million effects at his disposal live and even more in a studio. I think he just knew how to get the most out of a few pedals in those early days. He probably just had a muff, electric mistress, clone theory(I hear that all over his tone too), phaser of some sort, and then a wah.
I had a clone theory for about a year and despite it being so noisy it hurt my ears(broken down model)it was easy to nail some of his sounds. I know they reissued it as a small pedal, haven’t tried it though.
Two very different types of pedals. It depends on what sound you are going for entirely. A big muff, IMO is only good at sounding like a big muff. So if that’s the sound you want, its the best thing going, especially at its price. Single notes sound good, chords sometimes lose definition, depending on how you have your amp set up. Its a wall of fuzz, for better or worse. I’ve been using muffs off and on for years now and I’ve yet to find a truly satisfying all around tone with it.
On the other hand, I consider rats to be among the most versatile dirt boxes out there. I’ve never tried a you dirty rat, however, my vintage rat can have a wide variety of tones dialed in to it, all very responsive to volume controls, pickups, and the amp being used. I can get a dirty overdriven sound all the way to relatively fuzzy. It will not get as extreme as a muff, but it’s not supposed to. Its easy to keep chord definition and play lead lines.
My advice though…try them both out a local store. You can nab either relatively cheap on ebay as well.
I wish i could help but thats the first i’ve heard the mudhoney mentioned. I saw it at the guitar store a couple weeks ago behind glass, no display model and was wondering what it was. Is it just another distortion, albeit an expensive one?
No pretty pics but….
Fender Mexican Tele(I love this guitar more than even more expensive "better" ones)
Fender Re-issue Jaguar(Collects dust. Bought it used years ago.)
Fender Acoustic(Tons of fun to strum. I’ve yet to change the strings in the years I’ve owned. It adds to the sound of an acoustic I think)
Fender Squier Venus(Collects dust. Helluva guitar actually.)Main pedals used.
Danelectro Daddy-O(Recently saved from retirement)
Vintage Rat
Boss Tremolo
BBE Mind RushI also got a boss flanger, big muff, some random overdrives, etc.
I play through a little vox amp. If I ever was able to get crazy I have a fender bassman 10. Its loud.
