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Hello gang. I just thought I'd write a little note before I crash down for an early evening's sleep before a twelve hour drive from Vancouver to Calgary. Hurricane and the Hooligans is heading out for our first road trip of the year, and here in Western Canada, spring hasn't exactly sprung. That means I'll be looking at a whole lotta' pineapple express-style torrential rain for the first four or five hours of driving over a mountain range. Or, at least, I hope I'm looking at rain, because we might be looking at snow instead and that would suck.
Years ago when I was touring all the time I had a little tradition of speaking to the greater powers in the universe and making nice before every major haul, you know, basically accepting my fate should I die in a flaming vehicular crash that day.
Now that I have a wife and child, I don't feel quite so easy about the thought of expiring quite so soon, so I suppose I worry about the travelling a little more.
Anyway, I'm all packed to go. I'm bringing the vid cam, the laptop and my DAW, so I can use the seven hotel room days to the fullest, so I'm looking forward to posting from the road for the first time! How twenty-first century of me!
I'm also toting along a brand new Fuzz Factory clone and my Garnet stencil/Carvin 4x10 piggyback rig out for it's first road trip! My experiences with modern Fender printed circuit-board based amps have lead me to dread taking my Deluxe reissue on the road. The old Garnet is a dead simple point-to-point wired circuit and could be fixed by anyone who ever repaired a radio. It also has no name-plates, so my whole rig is anonymous! And it looks super cool...
Time for me to get some shut-eye. Reports and vid to come soon!
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Off On Another Quixotic Journey
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| Time to haul this bad-boy up the highway! |
Hello gang. I just thought I'd write a little note before I crash down for an early evening's sleep before a twelve hour drive from Vancouver to Calgary. Hurricane and the Hooligans is heading out for our first road trip of the year, and here in Western Canada, spring hasn't exactly sprung. That means I'll be looking at a whole lotta' pineapple express-style torrential rain for the first four or five hours of driving over a mountain range. Or, at least, I hope I'm looking at rain, because we might be looking at snow instead and that would suck.
Years ago when I was touring all the time I had a little tradition of speaking to the greater powers in the universe and making nice before every major haul, you know, basically accepting my fate should I die in a flaming vehicular crash that day.
Now that I have a wife and child, I don't feel quite so easy about the thought of expiring quite so soon, so I suppose I worry about the travelling a little more.
Anyway, I'm all packed to go. I'm bringing the vid cam, the laptop and my DAW, so I can use the seven hotel room days to the fullest, so I'm looking forward to posting from the road for the first time! How twenty-first century of me!
I'm also toting along a brand new Fuzz Factory clone and my Garnet stencil/Carvin 4x10 piggyback rig out for it's first road trip! My experiences with modern Fender printed circuit-board based amps have lead me to dread taking my Deluxe reissue on the road. The old Garnet is a dead simple point-to-point wired circuit and could be fixed by anyone who ever repaired a radio. It also has no name-plates, so my whole rig is anonymous! And it looks super cool...
Time for me to get some shut-eye. Reports and vid to come soon!
- New Workshop
I have moved workshop - but I'm just next door to the old one. The new place is still down the alley between the buildings at the top of Khyber Pass Road. But now I'm at the end of the driveway. Walk 10 paces past the old workshop and there it...
- Electra Outlaw Mpc X620. . . . . . .
Looking more like a Starship than a Bass!!! This is one I have had some time and mentioned before but never got around to taking any shots of it That was until today, when the sun finally came out, after what seems like four weeks of solid...
- Ephemera And Updates
Garnet Stencil head. 4x10 open-back cabinet comes this week! Lookout Vancouver! Hello everybody. Once again I have let a significant period of time go by without posting anything new. I know how much this makes me crazy when I'm...
- A Tale Of Two Tours- Part 2
Sandybone and the Breakdown, Tilting at Windmills Tour 2012 ...
- Birthday Lashes
This week marks my forty-somethingish birthday, twenty-three years since my first club gig and a dozen years since I went out on my first three month road trip. What a long, strange trip, indeed... I got a good dose of humility as...