SFW
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I went to see Souls of We last night at a local dive bar near my house. I thought I’d give a review for you guys.
First of all, they played at a total dive bar. I didn’t even know they were playing until a buddy of mine called my at 8PM and told me. There was zero publicity for this show. If I were George, I’d fire whoever is doing the booking. There are at least three venues that I can think of off the top of my head that would have been far better. Hell, if there were 100 people there I’d be surprised.
I was standing right in front of George for the whole show. So that was really cool. He actually set his own stuff up… which tripped me out a little. I’m not used to seeing a national act do that. He was playing an ESP Tele. I believe that it is the one that he’s playing in the YouTube video where he's tracking the overdubs for “Key of Noise” in the desert. He used a Diezel Herbert, and had a Marsha sitting on top of the Diezel. He also had a smorgasbord of pedals in front of him. I recognized a script logo MXR phase 90, TS808, and his sig boost pedal. There were some pedals that I didn’t recognize, but there were a leslie pedal, rotoshpere type pedal and a delay. His second guitarist was playing a modded plexi… and actually had better tone than George.
A few observations before I talk about the playing. During the first song, George’s strap came off the butt end of his guitar… wtf, George? Haven’t you ever heard of strap locks?!!? The second incident came two songs later, when he stepped on his guitar chord and it came out of the guitar… 1) Why aren’t you using a wireless to avoid this situation altogether? 2) Haven’t you ever heard of looping your chord between the guitar and your strap?
Onward to the performance… George seemed to be fighting his equipment a lot last night. Where you fight the sound and things just seem harder to play. With that said, he was a monster! While I was hoping to see him with the tiger guitar, he rock the shit out of that tele. I mean is sounded great! His playing was better that the last few vids I’ve seen of him. Just a really solid performance that was humbling to watch from that close. The band was very tight and the show was very enjoyable. They said that the new SoW album should be hitting the shelves this summer. I am very glad to see that George will be sticking with this project for a while. The band came out after the show and hung out with the crowd and signed shit and shot the shit. I thought that was really cool. George seems like a very down to earth guy. I enjoyed talking with him.
The things that I really came away with last night: 1) I have a cleaner stage/ gigging setup that George Lynch. 2) It’s nice to see that even guitar gods like Lynch have nights where they have to fight the guitar. Because God knows there have been nights where I have had to fight the hell out of mine. 3) I need to do some serious practicing… lol! He was very inspiring to watch. It made me what to be a better player. And I think that’s great!
As you can see, I was right in front of him!
First of all, they played at a total dive bar. I didn’t even know they were playing until a buddy of mine called my at 8PM and told me. There was zero publicity for this show. If I were George, I’d fire whoever is doing the booking. There are at least three venues that I can think of off the top of my head that would have been far better. Hell, if there were 100 people there I’d be surprised.
I was standing right in front of George for the whole show. So that was really cool. He actually set his own stuff up… which tripped me out a little. I’m not used to seeing a national act do that. He was playing an ESP Tele. I believe that it is the one that he’s playing in the YouTube video where he's tracking the overdubs for “Key of Noise” in the desert. He used a Diezel Herbert, and had a Marsha sitting on top of the Diezel. He also had a smorgasbord of pedals in front of him. I recognized a script logo MXR phase 90, TS808, and his sig boost pedal. There were some pedals that I didn’t recognize, but there were a leslie pedal, rotoshpere type pedal and a delay. His second guitarist was playing a modded plexi… and actually had better tone than George.
A few observations before I talk about the playing. During the first song, George’s strap came off the butt end of his guitar… wtf, George? Haven’t you ever heard of strap locks?!!? The second incident came two songs later, when he stepped on his guitar chord and it came out of the guitar… 1) Why aren’t you using a wireless to avoid this situation altogether? 2) Haven’t you ever heard of looping your chord between the guitar and your strap?
Onward to the performance… George seemed to be fighting his equipment a lot last night. Where you fight the sound and things just seem harder to play. With that said, he was a monster! While I was hoping to see him with the tiger guitar, he rock the shit out of that tele. I mean is sounded great! His playing was better that the last few vids I’ve seen of him. Just a really solid performance that was humbling to watch from that close. The band was very tight and the show was very enjoyable. They said that the new SoW album should be hitting the shelves this summer. I am very glad to see that George will be sticking with this project for a while. The band came out after the show and hung out with the crowd and signed shit and shot the shit. I thought that was really cool. George seems like a very down to earth guy. I enjoyed talking with him.
The things that I really came away with last night: 1) I have a cleaner stage/ gigging setup that George Lynch. 2) It’s nice to see that even guitar gods like Lynch have nights where they have to fight the guitar. Because God knows there have been nights where I have had to fight the hell out of mine. 3) I need to do some serious practicing… lol! He was very inspiring to watch. It made me what to be a better player. And I think that’s great!
As you can see, I was right in front of him!
