I'm using a plain old pair of New Balances. The last pair I had lasted at least 4 years, and survived countless bleach, ammonia and hot grease dropped on them from working in the food industry.
I really love the guitar tone in the blue album. Sometimes I still marvel that such a tone was played on pop radio. Especially In The Garage.
Garbage is the only other band from that era to get that kind of guitar tone on the air.
He knows his stuff, I'm sure, but I think people over there forget that things like favorite albums are subjective; they act as if there are wrong answers.
Yeah. Though IMO, some of the guys there are pretty much just there to kiss SH's ass. There's not really a whole lot of objective opinions, only biased ones. And I'm talking about the music section, not the audio gear!