Did you see that insanely ugly guitar Gary Holt was slinging on the first song with Slayer? I felt violated, like my feelings were hurt. I just kept shouting "NO GARY, NO! THIS CANNOT BE HAPPENING!!" At this point I have to assume he was contractually obligated by Kerry King so that Kerry would...
I would note that someone on this forum had an amp "lost" in shipping years ago. It eventually showed up on ebay being sold by ups. Legally! Why you might ask? The rigtalk member signed the check ups sent him. If he had never signed the check, ups couldn't have legally sold it on ebay.
I get head covers and stack 'em up like prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison. Every once in a while I'll pull one out of the pile just to abuse the fuck outta it, then toss it back into storage. I make them stand on the end with the transformer on the bottom just for further humiliation.
Hell, I really dug the SL-X. Getting it modded by Brent Gutierrez made it even better. I'd do that again before I bought one of these new Marshall heads.
IMO my only next Marshall move is a 46and2. Cheaper than the new "modded" Marshalls and definitely metalAF.
I love no positioning markers on the fretboard, a lot of my customs are nekked...but I love a fancy custom inlay going across the board. The stuff Ken Lawrence does is superb.
Nope. As a thrash rythym payer, I only use a gate. When I played bass as a teenager I plugged straight in and went to town. I've ran an eq in the loop a couple of times on certain amps, but I'd rather not. There was a 4 year period when I was in the Navy where I had a huge rack full high end...