Red Mosquito

Birds in Hell wrote:Not to blow smoke up the guy, but trag's posts have been great during this album cycle.

No knock against stip but I'm never going to read his in-depth song reviews - it's just not my thing.

Much rather hear trag talk about drums.

Strat wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

Strat wrote:Ed rocking some Fender Deluxe or hot rods of sorts.

They look very much like the 50s tweed Deluxes and Twin set-up he's been using for years, usually two Deluxes either side with the Twin in the middle:



However, they're not his old ones. To begin with, they're obviously new and covered in black tolex and he's also dropped the second Deluxe.

There's also a small badge in the bottom right corner of the Deluxe - interesting, it's in the exact same place as the "Tonemaster" badge on Fender's current digital amp range. That said, there is no Tonemaster version of the tweed Deluxe (or any tweed amp) in the current range.

A few possibilities:

1. Ed had Fender knock up a few new tweed Deluxe and Twin reissues for him but in black tolex for this tour (maybe doesn't want to bring the old ones on the road anymore).

2. Fender are bringing out some new Tonemaster tweed amps and threw Ed a few prototypes to try out. Not convinced about this necessarily, as Fender would almost certainly stick with the traditional aesthetics if that were the case.

3. Similar to The Edge's signature tweed Deluxe, maybe Fender are bringing out a Vedder signature in the near-ish future and these are instead prototypes of that?

I'm thinking 1 is most likely.

My brother is convinced its a tonemaster....

VinylGuy wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:Not to blow smoke up the guy, but trag's posts have been great during this album cycle.

No knock against stip but I'm never going to read his in-depth song reviews - it's just not my thing.

Much rather hear trag talk about drums.

Maybe you two Can like mm talk over the phone then ?

Arthur Morgan wrote:Anyone know how much the band paid Watt for DM? I have no idea and just curious

Birds in Hell wrote:My wife saw me watching the Stern videos and asked why Ed looks so puffy.

dprival78 wrote:

Arthur Morgan wrote:Anyone know how much the band paid Watt for DM? I have no idea and just curious

they only paid with their souls

Grego wrote:Humble question here, not American and never heard of Howard before.

How is this Howard Stern show recorded?

Is him speaking from his home and talking to the band from a screen?

And where is the band? At their own place or in the show’s set?

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

Grego wrote:Humble question here, not American and never heard of Howard before.

How is this Howard Stern show recorded?

Is him speaking from his home and talking to the band from a screen?

And where is the band? At their own place or in the show’s set?

Howard was in his Sirius studio in either nyc or Miami. The band was in their rehearsal space in Seattle. So it was only 6 am for them

brisk wrote:I'm from the UK but you never heard of Howard Stern!? I guess you don't use youtube lol.

Ensign9 wrote:This was probably already posted but Boom was in the room with the guys yesterday morning. You can see him at the 0:38 mark:

scrub12 wrote:Just listened to the Jeff/Stone pod. Stone sounds almost giddy about where the band is right now.

brisk wrote:I'm from the UK but you never heard of Howard Stern!? I guess you don't use youtube lol.

Birds in Hell wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:Not to blow smoke up the guy, but trag's posts have been great during this album cycle.

No knock against stip but I'm never going to read his in-depth song reviews - it's just not my thing.

Much rather hear trag talk about drums.

Maybe you two Can like mm talk over the phone then ?

And deny the people these valuable insights?

That just seems cruel.

Grego wrote:

brisk wrote:I'm from the UK but you never heard of Howard Stern!? I guess you don't use youtube lol.

I use YouTube everyday for 15 years lol

But you know, demographics.. they don’t throw this kind of content over here (Brazil).

Strat wrote:

lvc wrote:Niche subset of this Howard Stern post, specifically the Yellow Ledbetter video:

Close-ups of Mike's pedal board. I can identify the MXR flanger, script logo Phase 90, and UniVibe, and Carbon Copy delay (a surprising amount of MXR -- for a guy who could get any hand-built boutique thing in the world, he has a pedal board you could put together at Guitar Center for like $800 plus that big switcher). I also see a Line 6 delay (hard to miss) and a Boss Vibrato. Can't make out what the golden pedal is or the one to the left of that (black with white writing). And obviously a wah though I don't recognize the logo.

I know there used to be a place to talk gear but it seems to have disappeared. Anyone else geek out to this stuff and have insight on the right half of Mike's board?

I was actually quite pleased to the see the carbon copy delay. i thought he had just been utilizing the digital line 6 for so long now. The carbon copy is one of the best/most affordable delay pedals and i absolutely love mine. It seems to be at the top of most players lists for best all around.

I cant pick out what overdrive he is using though.