The Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition

That day I was in the mood to try out my current guitar rig with some delayed indie effects.

Here’s how it follows:

-  DigiTech RP155

- Boss CH1 Super Chorus

- Boss DD3 Digital Delay ( I know some people think it sucks, but they are wrong, it’s perfect for my needs )

- Ibanez Tone Blaster 15 Watt amp (Sorry guys I wanted a TBX150 Head but priorities change LOL)

Guitar: My trusty GRX40 by Ibanez, got it in 2004 and wouldn’t change it for anything..

There’s still peeps interested in learning how did I achieve the tone on my Toxicity video, well that depends on the guitar and the rig I was running at the moment, which is no longer active cause my RP50 died a while ago… BUT! my tone libraries got saved in my RP155… great piece of gear, a whole recording studio in one single pedal. Add it to Ableton Live and you’ll be ready to conquer the world!

Soon I’ll be posting a how to video on the song and how do I achieve my tones.

Hello everyone, after a long absence. I’m back! Today I was checking on some stuff and found that Dave Ellefson, the original bassist of the band Megadeth is rejoining them after the departure of James Lomenzo. This is what I was hoping for a long time. According to Classic Rock Magazine, where he spoke about his return, Dave Ellefson received a text from Shawn Drover (Mega’s Drummer) that the moment to speak again to Mustaine was in the moment of Lomenzo’s departure. After that, everything went well and the two Daves solved their issues…

So guess we have the old Megadeth on track and ready to roll… I hope Marty Friedman could rejoin, but with Chris Broderick is incredible too, so let’s see how far they can go with the new lineup.

This week, they are performing at Avalon Hollywood as a fundraiser for the Chi Ling Cheng’s Special Needs Trust, which was created to pay for the big medical costs of the recovery of  Chi. If you wanna help Chi, you may by going to www.deftones.com.

On my behalf, the best of the luck for Chi and his family, hope you get well soon cause we can’t wait to see you back with Deftones and keep the awesome tunes coming! It sometimes seems that the worst things happen only to the good people, the prepared, and the worthy… it’s really sad.

Special! The songs that got me really into Deftones, inf category:

Strenght man!

Hey everyone! Haven’t posted anything in a while… sorry! Well, the good news now, the funk rockers, the Red Hot Chili Peppers are getting out of their hiatus since 2008 to perform on the charity concert MusiCares on January 29 2010.  Last month, the LA rockers went in the studio to record their follow up to their 2006 double album Stadium Arcadium (Charlie FTW!) which is gonna be released next year. That means TOUR!! Hope those guys are able to come to Lima someday, since Maiden, Metallica, Megadeth, The Killers, Franz Ferdinand and Depeche Mode played here and some are yet to play here soon, maybe they can get on the huge wave of concerts that is making Lima the music capital of south america step by step.

To remember the good days! (The Good Days post coming up!) here is the Daily Tunage vid of the day. On the Inf. category…

I’ve heard 3 songs with the same sample in less than 30 minutes WTF???

- Kristinia DeBarge – Goodbye

- Wale (feat. Lady Gaga) -  Chilin’

- Jay Z – D.O.A. (Death of Autotune)

Guess they were fighting to get the copyrights to the sample and a case of bad timing occurred…

Well the truth is that these songs aren’t better than the one they took the sample from. Goodbye is a bubblegum pop song as others in the past, not interesting at all. It’s got all the key elements of a “hit”. Chillin’  has an interesting arrangement of music  BUT! the Lady Gaga’s part doesn’t help to take the song to a whole new level, also, the parts where Wale repeats his name over and over again in fear of being confused by Whale really makes it dumb.

On the other hand, is Jay Z with D.O.A. It’s an  interesting/weird song, but it should have been a lot better since he is protesting against the use of autotune in the latest hip hop music. The sample really loses it’s power when it was included in this song. You know? I used to like Jay Z’s music, I loved Roc Boys (And The Winner Is…), where he used a sample of Make the Road by Walking  by The Menahan Street Band. That’s an example where the song made around a sample really brings it up.  But well… nothing lasts forever.

Rule N°1: Thou shalt not sample another man’s/woman’s song…

…unless your song is a lot better than the man’s/woman’s hahaha

Now seriously…

Don’t sample a song only to get fame by association, if you are a musician, be yourself, and if you are gonna use a sample don’t make it THAT obvious for them to identify it and get your whole song defined by it.

The music buyer right now is really lowering his standards if he didn’t know that they are trying to sell him the same song 3 times in a row. Are they trying to make a fool out of ourselves? C’mon!

Here are the three songs, you decide:

And here is the song where the sample came from:

Today, September 10th, is the Ozzy Osbourne day in West Hollywood! Finally people are giving some recognition to one of the most influential men in Heavy Metal history. West Hollywood Mayor Pro Tempore John Heilman had the initiative to make this day Ozz’s day: “Ozzy has had a sizeable musical impact”, he said “We want to salute all of his contributions to the music industry and to the Sunset Strip”. Later on, he will launch the Sunset Strip Music Festival with a tribute to THE MAN, and on September 12th the one and only will perform in front of thy fans.

So, as I say to you, go out there, buy an Ozzy record, crank the volume and have a great Ozz Day!!!

Just to get you in the mood:

This is also my Daily Tunage song: I Don’t Want to Stop by Ozzy Osbourne. (Inf. Category) This is the version of the video I like the most. The grafics remind you of the 70′s videos with Sabbath (Paranoid, War Pigs, Iron Man). ENJOY!!