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Oooh, good idea, I'll look there.

Welll...let's be careful here. I don't dig cookie monster vocals, that shit's laughably bad, but also there's plenty of music I don't think will sound right any other way (Swallow the Sun, Ephel Duath, et al). Anything with any variety (cookie monster to witchy poo, a la Cradle of Filth) is still >> (much greater than) just cookie monster. I do still listen to it, but it's in spite of it, not because of it. Look at how I celebrate clean vocals any time it's within the context of anything hard. Amorphis' best is when they went clean or mostly clean. Of the growlers, Gojira are the best. Better than Opeth, better than ... well, better than anything else I've heard. But yeah, it's right up there with smashing your guitar or your drum set. I realize that everyone else thinks it's totally rock'n'roll, but...yeah, no, just grates on my nerves.

Wait, what? I might have read that too quickly, but I discerned that two pieces of crap cancelled each other out. What'd I do wrong?

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That's the problem right there. You do, indeed, need to make that distinction. There's a difference between arguments of fact (what is wrong) and arguments of ego (who is wrong). When spritzer facepalmed your post, it was understood that it was his foray into the argument of fact (because he doesn't know you, and we knew that he didn't know you, so it didn't merit discussion). We don't know if this is your own knowledge that you have legitimately accumulated through experience, knowledge you are regurgitating from a smart, close friend (we get a lot of those, too; I'll be honest, I'm one -- I don't know anything myself, so I tend to stay away from technical discussions), or knowledge you may have gleaned by googling (get a lot of those too). (And of course, the ones who have no knowledge, who come in here and expect us to spoon-feed them the answers.) So even if the facepalm was directed indirectly at you for being the source of the information, it doesn't mean it was directed towards you at a gestalt level, since that is but a small crumb of who you are. And you're probably not even going to read this, so I'll just stick this here. So, leave your ego at the door, argue the technical merits only, until you get an idea of who we are personally. THEN you can start attacking us personally. Well, not really, then we'll ban you for being a dick, but at least you can feel righteous in your exile.

Nope, and it's not because I can do that thing that Aaron did with the heel of his hand on the knob that's right there by his strumming hand, it's because I haven't worked up to it that good yet. I keep my volume just plain down for now. My next pedal: Futanari pedal

Maple syrup

Yeah, you obviously have some knowledge to impart (please don't part with it, I'm not sure what we'd do with it...), but please don't take attacks as personal, we correct each other all the time, and the best way to deal with it is with a thick skin. (notes spritzer's black-on-gold avatar)

Anyone heard of Byzantine? I am immediately smitten with their guitar chunkiness and their sense of humour, and apparently they're only one state over, so hopefully I will have a chance to see them live. Come on, their kickstarter pledgemusic is so close (telepathically urges people to discover them in time).

Heavy metal almost funded and only 2 days to go

Corner loading is where it's at.

Klayton -- this is like distilled adrenalin -- not something one should normally take more than one shot of, for example.

I heard the 6 is going to be bigger.

Way Huge Echo-Puss, Aqua-Puss, or Supa-Puss? You don't want a Swollen Pickle, that's not your thing Strymon Blue Sky or Big Sky (reverbs)? Phaser? Chorus?

EDIT: they were awesome -- they have a couple songs that are >50% instrumental, so I think they can be counted as a "jam band". Might've been my favourite rendition of Ice yet -- during the middle portion, two of the guitarists just froze while the keyboard played for a couple minutes, and slowly all the guitarists started playing. It was kind of postrocky. And they played a couple songs I hadn't heard live before (Robots for Ronnie, A Night on the Town (with Snow White), Long Nights, A Sea Epic). I realize they don't play very far from Baltimore any more, but highly recommended.

Waiting to see Crack the Sky.

I totally dig it. I think it's the best thing they've done. But I've always hated cookie monster vocals. It's just one note, there's nothing musical about it. I do have to admit, though, it's nothing like anything from the golden lineup of Akerfeldt, Lindgren, Mendez, Lopez, which was kind of a bizarre combination (in being half Swedish, half Uruguyan) and magical. But that stopped being magical when Akerfeldt became the focal point of the band. Kayo Dot appear to be heading in a similar direction (less extreme).

And there's no way to run it off an external power source? Yeah, that might get inconveniently timed..

I would get the balcony not just for the grill, but because there are just some things you don't want indoors (e.g. painting vapors, gas cans when between cars, decomposing bodies).

>_< You know I like Colourfield a lot more than Fun Boy Three, but damn were they catchy.

Yeah, found that out. Silly salesman.

Sharing a grill with the commonfolk would require charcoal.