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From: rblander@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca (Robyn Landers)
Subject: Re: Stupid Marshall/Bassman tricks???
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:21:00 GMT

In article <BzH86H.Mu0@cmptrc.lonestar.org> neal@cmptrc.lonestar.org (Neal Howard) writes:
>In article <1992Dec17.175025.12741@verity.com> dnj@barbeque.verity.com (Dave Johansen) writes:
>>
>>Last night while purchasing a Marshall Bluesbreaker (JTM 45)
>>the guy I bought it from had an interesting setup. He had the
>>cord going into input I, but had a short lead running from the 
>>second lead I into the upper input of II. This appearred to increase
>>gain/saturation/something which I found pretty cool.. well anyway
>>I also have a Bassman ('59 reissue) and I was curious if anyone
>>has tried this trick w/o adverse effect on the Bassman.. I use the
>>old turn up the second volume (normal) while plugged into the
>>bright for a slight gain effect.
>>
>
>On the old Marshalls (JTM's, Mk II's, etc with the four inputs), the internal
>wiring from the two pairs of input jacks to their respective two preamp stages
>was wired so that by adding this jumper, you would cause the two preamp stages
>to be daisy-chained together, in effect feeding the output of preamp I into
>the input of preamp II for a net result similar to the single channel JCM 800
>series single channel amps. 


As far as I'm concerned, the main benefit to "channel-jumping" my
old Marshall is that I can balance the volume of channel I (bright channel)
with volume of channel II (normal channel) and get a lot more
control over the tone (since channel II is so bassy), compared to
just using the tone controls.


-----
Robyn Landers
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Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: mcdowell@iies.ecn.purdue.edu (James M McDowell)
Subject: Re: Guild "Duane Eddy" Model
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: 21 Dec 92 13:55:04 GMT

Steve Askew says -

   "I think Duane played mostly a "Duane Eddy" model Guild guitar".

Yes, but only at live performances and for album cover/publicity photos.
He did very little recording with the Guild because he couldn't get the
same sound with it on record as he could with the Gretsch 6120. The Gretsch
was used almost all of his records except for the few acoustic things and
several early songs that were done on a Danelectro 6-string bass.

Jim

Newsgroups: alt.guitar,rec.music.makers.guitar
From: cbolton@csd475a.erim.org (Chris Bolton)
Subject: Stand Alone Tapes [REVIEW]
Organization: Environmental Research Institute of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 21 Dec 92 22:59:23

THE FACTS:

  For my birthday, I got this instructional book/cassette called "Stand Alone
Tapes".  It is a 60-minute tape, with 12 songs, and the booklet has the chord
progressions to each song, and the appropriate (or at least *some* appropriate)
scales that can be used to solo.  The music on the tape is the rhythm section
only.   You provide the solo.  There's also a section for each song that tells
you when to solo, etc.  For example, song #1 might look like this:

Verse 1:  INTRO VERSE.

Verse 2:  You solo.

Verse 3:  STOP TIME VERSE - you solo.

Verse 4:  PIANO SOLOS.

Verse 5:  You solo.

Verse 6:  2nd GUITAR SOLOS.

Verse 7:  You solo

Verse 8:  You solo.

Verse 9:  ORGAN SOLOS.

Verse 10: STOP TIME VERSE - you solo.

Verse 11: You solo.

Verse 12: LAST VERSE - LONG ENDING.

  There are three different tapes/booklets:  Blues, Rock, and Fusion.  They
are "A National Guitar Workshop Publication", and the address on the booklet
is:
			 Alfred Publishing Co., Inc.
			 16380 Roscoe Blvd.
			 P.O. Box 10003
			 Van Nuys, CA 91410-0003

The price for the set is $9.95 (US).  (That includes the tape and booklet.)

MY REVIEW:

  I personally agree with the line on the booklet cover that says, "The most
effective practice tools you will ever use!"  I had *LOADS* of fun with this
stuff!  The music sounds great, not cheesy, low-production stuff like alot of
other similar material.  The songs are very long, so you can try out different
things, figuring out what works and what doesn't.  I got the Blues one, and 
while the scales are relatively simple, I still found it to be a bit of a work-
out, and I'd say I'm an intermediate/experienced guitarist with quite a bit of
theory under my belt.  I plan to get the Fusion and Rock sets next (if I don't 
already get them for Christmas).  
  Bottom line:  I highly recommend these tapes for anyone like me, who needs 
practice soloing with a real band, but doesn't have a real band to practice 
with.  At $9.95, they're less than the price of a half hour lesson in most
music stores, and *WELL* worth the price.

[Disclaimer:  I have only tried the Blues tape/booklet.  I assume the others
are as good, but I cannot be certain at this point.]

			-Chris Bolton
			 cbolton@csd475a.erim.org





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Subject: Re: Stupid Marshall/Bassman tricks???
From: terry@pride386.PP.COM (Terry Lyons)
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 07:21:36 GMT
Organization: Pride Plastics, inc





Hmmm as I recall the instructions (suggestions) on the fender 
"FUZZWHA" said to plug directly in to the plain channel(Showman) 
or into the "Bass" channel and set your minimum volume there 
then to the fuzzwha and in to the bright or effects channel
just a side note
terry
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Newsgroups: alt.guitar,rec.music.makers.guitar
From: neal@cmptrc.lonestar.org (Neal Howard)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: Mesa Boogie problems
Date: 31 Dec 92 19:36:50 GMT
Organization: CompuTrac Inc., Richardson TX

In article <1992Dec31.143901.29083@cas.org> axt54@cas.org writes:
>
>      I have a 50+ Mesa Boogie combo with a rather peculiar problem.  After
>about an hour of play, the volume begins to fade in and out noticebly.  At
>first, I thought the main tubes were going bad, so I had them replaced.  That
>was a little over a month ago, and the problem did not recur again until last
>night.
>      If anyone knows what could possibly be wrong with my amp, please shed some
>light.  Thanks in advance.
>
>Andreas
>     
Could be a couple of different things. First, check to see if all the tube
filaments are still glowing when the volume fades out. If one is not fully lit
when the volume is faded, then you could have a loose connection in or around
the tube sockets where the filament power is supplied (or another bad tube).
If all filaments are still glowing normally, try flipping the standby switch
a few times. The high voltage power supply to the tubes' plates is switched
thru this switch and sometimes they wear out and make intermittant contact.
The fading out could be the tubes running on what charge is left in the
filter capacitors when the current is cut out by a faulty standby switch.
If the problem is tube filament related, the fade-out will be somewhat
gradual in the amount of time it takes, if the problem is in the high voltage
supply, the fade-out will occur much more rapidly (about as fast as if you
unplugged the power cord while playing).

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From: binghay@acs.bu.edu (JANE PAULEY)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Charvel/Surfcaster?
Date: 26 Dec 92 00:38:58 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Originator: binghay@acs.bu.edu

From: binghay@acs.bu.edu (JANE PAULEY)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Charvel/Surfcaster?
Summary: 
Followup-To: 
Distribution: world
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Keywords: 
Hey, does anybody out there have a Charvel/Surfcaster for sale? 
I've been looking for them, I would prefer one without a trem. but whatever...
I prefer in the Boston or Wash. D.C. area...also if anyone has an early 80's 
B.C. Rich Mockingbird for sale i'll take a look at 'em...email me dirctly at
binghay@acs.bu.edu
Thanks ...
From: jonathan@vinnie.cuc.ab.ca (Jonathan Levine)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Chapman Stick information
Date: 22 Dec 92 03:12:24 GMT

Here is the new (as of a year or so ago) address etc. for Emmett Chapman
& co.:

Stick Enterprises, Inc.
6011 Woodlake Ave.
Woodland Hills, CA 91367-3238
voice 818-884-2001
fax   818-883-0668

Forget Stanley Jordan; Emmett did it first!  10 strings rules!


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Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: blave@netcom.com (David W. Blevins)
Subject: Re: Ottman WHO?
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:56:05 GMT

His name (but maybe not the spelling) is Ottmar Liebert; he's got about
four CDs out including a recent Christmas release which has Xmas standards
done in his style.

The Santana song he does is "Samba Pa Ti" from the Abraxas album...

Blave.
From: richardw@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Richard Wolle)
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:00:43 GMT
Subject: Re: help w/ SOB
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: alt.guitar

In alt.guitar, jhalvers@plains (Jon Halverson) writes:

> 
>   A limiter is a common effect. It's job, basically, is to set a volume
> limit of that which the will no longer excede. It sounds like it's doing
> it's job, but I have never seen your particular amp, so don't take my word
> as law.
>                                         Jon
 
Newsgroups: alt.gothic
From: locklin@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Scott Locklin )
Subject: Re: Buried Dreams
Organization: Campus Crusade for Cthulhu
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 03:08:53 GMT
X-Posted-From: titan.ucc.umass.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <8RZawB5w165w@cyberden.sf.ca.us> melantha@cyberden.sf.ca.us writes:
>This album by Clock DVA is a fine album to conduct any form of ceremonial 
>or ritualistic magick.  So long as it's played as a background 
>enhancement and not blasted about like one was listening to Metallica or 
>AC/DC or something.  Also, although some out there may scream "Ahh 
>Christianity!"  I find that Gregorian Monk chants can be extremely 
>evocative (or invocative, depending on one's focus).  Most Medieval 
>instrumentals (if you can find them) and Tibetan monk chants are equally 
>eerie.  I am having difficulty finding an entire album (tape) devoted to 
>Tibetan monk cants; I have found collections with one or two tracks.  
>Anyone with ANY information on Tibetan monk chants should e-mail me 
>forthwith so that I can trot right out and buy them!  I will send a 
>cornucopia of gratitude your way! 
> 
>                                   Melantha the Muser,
> 
>                                   Embracing the dark as usual.
>
>__________________________________________________________________________
>   |       /         |\
>   | H E   \ Y B E R |/ E N            [ melantha@cyberden.sf.ca.us ]


Also good for ritual magick is Jonathan Briley's "At the Mountains of Madness"
& various works by Randy Greif.
For shamanic trips try the Australian aboriginal musickal style "Dijeridou"
or some Zoviet France (Especially "Loh Land")

yrs under the elder sign...
-Scott
Newsgroups: alt.gothic
Subject: friendship books
From: beth@nermal.SantaRosa.Edu (Beth Winegarner)
Date: 25 Dec 92 13:05:37 PST
Organization: Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA

Hi all. (boy, the title looks blank!)  I've been reading through this
newsgroup for a month or two.  I've been in a really gothic mood though I'm
on the outskirts of several movements at the moment, none of whome truly get
along.  Anyways, I'm friends with someone who sends me lots of friendship
books (I'm assuming most of you know what they are--the little booklets
where you do a page of collage or writing that is "you" and send it along...
the ultimate point is to find penpals of like interests and most of the fb's
I've seen are goth or goth-related with some punk tones), and I don't have a
lot of close friends who are into that.  If you like friendship books, send
me some e-mail, to beth@nermal.santarosa.edu and send me your mailing
address.  I'd love to do more than I do now (I turn most of them down
because I have no one to send them to).  I hope to find some people who like
this!! 


Newsgroups: alt.gothic
From: chris@castlab.uucp (Christian)
Subject: Re: Phrump
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
Distribution: world 
Date: 25 Dec 92 15:12:11 CST

In article <5540@disun39.epfl.ch> grigis@disuns2.epfl.ch (Christian Grigis) writes:
>
>	Hem, sorry but I don't agree ... during all the Cure concerts I went 
>to, they played "A Strange Day" (I've been to three), and on most of the live
>performances I've heard, they performed "A Hundred Years" ... so they DO play
>songs from Pornography even on tours. :)
>
>Christian

Take your word for it... I just never heard 'em play it.  They are pretty damn
depressing though....

-Christian
Newsgroups: alt.gothic
From: Greg Clow <ecurrent@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: friendship books
X-To: BETH WINEGARNER
Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 17:54:00 GMT

beth@nermal.SantaRosa.Edu (Beth Winegarner) writes:

>...Anyways, I'm friends with someone who sends me lots of friendship
>books (I'm assuming most of you know what they are--the little booklets
>where you do a page of collage or writing that is "you" and send it along
>the ultimate point is to find penpals of like interests and most of the
>fb's I've seen are goth or goth-related with some punk tones), and I 
>don't have a lot of close friends who are into that.  If you like 
>friendship books, send me some e-mail, to beth@nermal.santarosa.edu and 
>send me your mailing address.  I'd love to do more than I do now (I turn 
>most of them down because I have no one to send them to).  I hope to find 
>some people who are into this!! 

Friendship books.  Now *there's* a blast from the past!  Whow!  I spent 
about 3 years of my life in the mid- to late-80's submerged in the "gothic 
pen-pal underground" of which friendship books were such an integral part. 
I've often wondered whether the "network" still existed.  I have a lot of 
fond memories of my pen-pal days, although I've lost contact with pretty 
much all of the people that I used to write to.  Perhaps my favorite part 
of it was the fact that I was one of about 10 males that were involved in 
the "network", and there were a couple of hundred females, so I was pretty 
popular. :-)  (this probably explains my continuing weakness for young 
goth girls... don't tell my wife, tho'... heh...)

Was anyone else out there involved in this "subculture" back then?  Or are 
you still?  Anyone recognize names like Radia?  Belladonna?  Grim Reaper? 
Vandal Lament?  Sanity Assassin (that was moi...)?

This seems like a weird co-incidence to me, 'cause I remember thinking of 
alt.gothic as a computerized version of the ol' "network" when I first 
discovered it.  The more it changes...


Greg
ecurrent@zooid.guild.org
sizone!ecurrent@ee.ryerson.ca

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Newsgroups: alt.gothic
From: bbs.doktor@tsoft.net (Katie Nutt)
Subject: The Damned
Organization: The TSoft BBS and Public Access Unix, +1 415 969 8238
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 20:16:49 GMT


Does anyone know wot The Damned are up to lately?


Internet: bbs.doktor@tsoft.sf-bay.org   "The birds of leaving call to us
UUCP: ...apple!tsoft!bbs.doktor          Yet here we stand
                                         Endowed with the fear of flight"
                                         --Dead Can Dance
Newsgroups: alt.gothic
From: chris@castlab.uucp (Christian)
Subject: Re: The Damned
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
Distribution: world 
Date: 29 Dec 92 01:27:59 CST

In article <q7DiwB1w165w@tsoft.net> bbs.doktor@tsoft.net (Katie Nutt) writes:
>
>Does anyone know wot The Damned are up to lately?
>
>

Damned if I know!

(Sorry, I'm a bit loopy, and I couldn't resist.)

-Chris
From: beth@nermal.SantaRosa.Edu (Beth Winegarner)
Newsgroups: alt.gothic
Subject: Re: WHAT'S THIS ALL ABOUT? (RE)
Date: 25 Dec 92 21:18:08 GMT
Organization: Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA

>> 	I Think people seem to have a much different concept of what it 
>> means to be a goth from me. I think people nowadays "go goth" just as sort 
>> of a cool, image thing. Being a goth doesn't mean wearing all black, or 
>> wearing plastic vampire fangs, or wearing lots of dark eye-shadow. 
>
>I quite agree.  I don't do any of that.  Actually, I look quite
>"normal" (whatever that is).

Me, too.  I wanted to reply to Andy's original message but couldn't find it. 
I'm glad someone else responded.  I dress fairly "normal" but I just love
the dark, beautiful, mysterious, magical.  Around here, though it's
hicksville, there is a burgeoning "goth" scene--"goth" in quotes because
it's a lot of dress-up and very little truth.  These are people who practice
bad black magic (meaning they do it carelessly), do a lot of drugs and snub
everyone else at concerts.  I'm a bith of the gothic within... I am always
drawn to the icons of the gothic movement--the vampyres, the dark candles
and beautiful clothes, the outlook (melancholy... to me, being always happy
is too bizarre.)... everything.  But you probably wouldn't know it by
looking at me.
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.gothic
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 01:28:51 -0500 
From: "Benjamin L. Peal" <bp14+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Nephilim

  Re: Rubicon
  
  I got "What Starts, Ends", the new album by Rubicon, and it seems very clear
  to me that the "brutality" side of Fields of the Nephilim came not from
  Carl McCoy, but from the rest of the band.  "What Starts, Ends" is very
  much a rock album, and not much like Elizium.
  
  "What Starts, Ends" is pretty good, but Rubicon still needs work.  In general
  it's slightly overproduced and a bit choppy.  Basically, the band needs to
  develop itself and get sone cohesiveness.  They've got a tendency to go off
  on a speed metal tangent at times, and the singer (who I think has a pretty
  good voice) needs to learn when to use the different styles of singing he
  uses (melodic, deep, deepish husky).  They've got some great stuff that just
  needs to be used right.  "Crazed" is the best song on the album, primarilly
  because all their cylinders were firing.  It's cohesive, cleanly done, it
  doesn't break into unnecessary tangents, and the singer uses his voice right.
  "Brave Hearts" is also well done, but it doesn't have the strength of
  "Crazed".
  
  If you don't have to pay high import prices and you're either a Nephilim
  completionist or like heavy rock music, I'd get "What Starts, Ends".  If
  you have to pay high import prices, I'd try to find someone who has it and
  give it a listen.  Failing that, get the "Crazed" single and base your
  purchase decision on that.  (I bought the single, then bought the album)
  
  
  What's the latest word on when Carl McCoy will be releasing his new stuff?
  
  - Ben Peal
  blep+@andrew.cmu.edu
From: jjeffers@lust.reed.edu (Jemiah Levon Jefferson)
Newsgroups: alt.gothic
Subject: dead can dance
Date: 21 Dec 92 23:05:40 GMT
Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR

Can anybody send me anything like a Dead Can dance discography?  I need to  
know all the songs so I can get them all; I've just gotten into them  
recently.  Forgive me if they aren't considered goth... sometimes I can't  
really tell, they are a bit into 16th century spanish dance songs...
BTW, I like _The Sky's Gone Out_.  I couldn't stand Bauhaus at first,  
either; now I wonder how I lived without them.

The blood is the life,
eeyore (jjeffers@reed.edu)
From: beth@nermal.SantaRosa.Edu (Beth Winegarner)
Newsgroups: alt.gothic
Subject: Re: Nephilim
Date: 26 Dec 92 19:56:48 GMT
Organization: Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA

>Not yet, though I've got Crazed by the remainder of the band (now called
>Rubicon).  It's fairly clear that the brutality was Carl's influence, while
>the rest of the band was pushing more for the sounds you heard in Elizium,
>since Crazed pretty much follows suit.  The new singer had rather large shoes
>to fill in Carl's place, and...well, at least he's unobtrusive.  If I was
>forced to make a comparison, I'd say he sounded a bit like Danzig but
>without so much the Morrison twang.
>
>--the Dragon
>More frothings from a maddened fan...

I'm glad there are people out there that know more than I do about this
band.  Where I live, hardly anyone's even heard of them.

I'll look for _Crazed_; I loved the music the band played, even without
McCoy's, ayou put it, "brutality."  I suppose this means he's probably
working on new music as well; but does this mean that Fields of the Nephilim
are no more, or they're just pursuing separate projects at the moment?
From: ssimpson@zeus.calpoly.edu (the Dragon)
Newsgroups: alt.gothic
Subject: Gyuto Monks (it were "Re: Buried Dreams" once, tho')
Date: 1 Jan 93 08:22:50 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Minor Deities for Elvis

AS.GMH@forsythe.stanford.edu (Gina) writes:
>melantha@cyberden.sf.ca.us writes:
>>Anyone with ANY information on Tibetan monk chants should e-mail me
>>forthwith so that I can trot right out and buy them!  I will send a
>
>There is a group called the Tibetian Tantric Choir which I have
>heard and really like....I don't
>remember which label it's on, but good luck finding it.
>

What I have here is called "The Gyuto Monks:  Tibetan Tantric Choir" which
is on Windham Hill Records (WD-2001).  The first track is pretty cool; the
second would be pretty distracting if you're trying to concentrate, though.
Each track is about 25 minutes long.

(Trim them followups, folks, please!)

   --the Dragon

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From: melantha@cyberden.sf.ca.us
Newsgroups: alt.gothic
Subject: What the Damned are up to...
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 21:32:29 PST
Reply-To: melantha@cyberden.sf.ca.us
Organization: Indescribable Creations

I don't know..but isn't it about time for that reunioun tour again?  Time 
for rent and a few thou to store away in the bank>
 
(just kiddin' y'all) (The Damned take me way back to those lovely early 
goth days.  But their last "reunion" tour...made me sad.  I mean Dave 
seemed to forget ( or not care about?) the words to more than a few 
songs.
 
.."Someone shot Nostalgia in the back..."
 
Taking a slow road, 
  
                 Melnath
                 (That's "Melantha" I mean)


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From: grigis@disuns2.epfl.ch (Christian Grigis)
Newsgroups: alt.gothic
Subject: Re: Phrump
Date: 25 Dec 92 13:02:01 GMT
Reply-To: grigis@disuns2.epfl.ch (Christian Grigis)
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne


	Hem, sorry but I don't agree ... during all the Cure concerts I went 
to, they played "A Strange Day" (I've been to three), and on most of the live
performances I've heard, they performed "A Hundred Years" ... so they DO play
songs from Pornography even on tours. :)

Christian