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Basses
Mike Lull BBMF5 5-String (new model soon to be released)
Mike Lull Custom Modern 5-String (BB signature model)
Mike Lull Custom Modern 5-String (1999 era)
Mike Lull Custom P/J 5-string
Spector Alex Webster Signature Euro 5LX(AW)
Spector Forte 5-String (Wide)
Mike Lull Custom T-Bass 4-String
Fender Precision Bass (MIM)
Ibanez SRX505, modified with Carey Nordstrand “Music Man” electronics
Heads, Preamps and Power Amps (Live Rig)
Gallien-Krueger Fusion 550
Gallien-Krueger 2001RB
Gallien-Krueger MB Fusion (first gen/original/500)
Speaker Cabs (Live Rig)
Gallien-Krueger RBH410 (4) or CX410 (4)
Gallien Krueger Neo 112-II (1 – small rig)
Strings
D’Addario ProSteels, 45-65-85-105, with 130 tapered-core B
Main, Live Pedalboard
Boss FV-50 Volume Pedal
Boss TU-2 Chromatic Tuner
Boss OC-2 Octave Pedal
(option: Electro-Harmonix Bass MicroSynth)
Xotic Effects Bass BB Preamp
Digitech X-Series Bass Driver
Darkglass Vintage Microtubes (or Vintage Microtubes Deluxe)
Aphex Bass Exciter
Dunlop Crybaby Bass Wah
Boss CE-2B Bass Chorus
Boss DD-3 Digital Delay
tc electronic Hall Of Fame Reverb
tc electronic Flashback Delay
Demeter Opto-Compulator
Xotic Effects EP Booster
Voodoo Labs Pedal Power 2 Plus
G Labs Power 8
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KENEALLY'ING IT UP: Everything Mike says below about this wonderfully bizarre piece of music. But just wait for the ending. đ
THE CONTENT WE NEED RIGHT NOW: Dethklok + Mastodon + Municipal Waste + Die Hard + Rocky + Lethal Weapon? Covering King Diamond's "No Presents Until Christmas"? Yes, we need this, and deserve this. Especially today. Also the holiday season has officially begun. I can already hear Brendon Small saying "you're welcome".
Mastodon + Dethklok + Municipal Waste cover King Diamond's "No Presents for Christmas"
Happy Halloween/Christmas/Channukah! We covered King Diamond with Brendon Small (Metalocalypse! Galaktikon! HOME MOVIES!) but it was Brann's idea. This is ou...CONRAD ST. CLAIRâS FREAK SHOW: In another installment of a continuing âwhoâs really taking lessons from whom here?â series, Conrad St. Clair is back for your mind-blowing pleasure. This time he masters the impossible hammer-on/pull-off ascending licks from Steve Vaiâs âFreak Show Excessâ. Even when I was playing it every night, I wasnât nailing it this smoothly. But then he goes a step further and plays **some of Steveâs guitar solo** on bass. I mean, WTFF?! In all seriousness, amazing work. Follow him, and his stylistically unpredictable but always-deeply-grooving band Kicksville!
And if you feel up to tackling some of this crazy stuff (or any of the stranger tunes in my back catalog) in a Skype lesson, just let me know. I know a guy. đ
THREE YEARS AGO TODAY: I took this picture with an iPhone on a hiking trail near my house. It ended up as the cover shot for "Scenes From The Flood", an album about disillusionment, and human nature confronting hard, unrelenting realities. A lot has happened since then.
VOTE.
So wait, in this remake from the early 1960âs original, Rupert Murdoch is Bill Buckley and Fox News is National Review and The Trumpers are the John Birch Society? The writers, my god.
Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto takes the rare step (for Fox) of cutting into Kayleigh McEnany's lie-filled press conference about the election.
"Unless she has more details to back that up, I can't in good countenance continue showing you this."
