Buying my Boss.
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006Whew. I just ordered a Boss GT-8 Multi-effects processor! A chunk of it was paid for by profits from CD sales of “Tempus”. My music is starting to pay for my music! Yay! I’ve never had any really decent guitar effects pedals, so this is long overdue and much-needed.
I’ve been planning to get this particular pedal for a long time, but I always stall big purchases like this because, well, it’s a big purchase and I like to let the idea sit and stew. But I’ve had a pretty uninspired day, and haven’t gotten much done, and felt the need to really do something, so I just went for it. Ordering things over the Internet really is different from a store purchase - the latter being more difficult to go through with.
Due in a few days, the newest addition to the bedroom studio and hopefully a source of new sounds and inspiration:
I’ve had “Going Mobile” by the Who stuck in my head for pretty much all of today. I’m at the beginning of what may become a serious Who phase. (This was partly triggered by a very interesting VH1 Classic documentary about the making of “Who’s Next”, among other things.) I’ve always been really drawn to their music but haven’t seriously dug into it yet.
My walls need something new, and this poster is very tempting. I don’t really endorse the whole guitar destruction thing, but it’s a great photo and would probably stand up to long-term display. I keep thinking of how the Lips played with Pete Townshend on his girlfriend’s ‘net show the day before I saw them last month (it feels like much longer ago), and Steven made him play a crappy half-broken synth guitar. I remember Steven holding this synth thing and telling me “Pete Townshend played this”, and me thinking - why would Pete Townshend play that? Oh, because Steven took the nice guitar. Yeesh!
I’ve not been keeping this blog up-to-date at all. There have been a few great events recently, primarily Prog in the Park at the beginning of the month and a recent trip to the symphony in NYC. I’ll write about those retrospectively at another time.