Barracuda wrote:Having grown up in Olympia, and visited Seattle and Portland multiple times, I prefer Portland as far as general feel. If I were a bachelor looking to party or a college student, Seattle all the way... but I've always found Portland to be pretty relaxed overall. Granted I visited them for different reasons, so that probably biases my opinion... but yeah. Seattle's prettier IMO because Mt. Rainier fucking rules, but Portland has some cool mountains too.
Moving fucking sucks. I'm headed to Portland in a month, and it's ridiculous how expensive it is to move shit. I just wanna burn everything and start over, but I don't think my significant other is too fond of that plan.
I still want to visit Seattle / Tacoma / Oly, its the only area on the west coast that I haven't visited. Theres alot of people talking that area up so I gotta see what the hype is all about.
I feel you on portland being relaxed, thats why I loved it. That and the forest and mountains all around it, reminds me of home.
I feel ya on moving and how much it sucks. Thats one reason I don't want to leave where I'm at.
AxAxSxS wrote:I forget who mentioned "Doom Guides" but that's not a bad thought. Skip, you want to come out here and tour the various cities, you have a place to stay and someone to bring you around. I'm pretty sure we could enlist some city specific peoples and schedule it around killer shows.
Maybe Barracuda can back me up on this, but Olympia and Tacoma are pretty rad too, and I for one, love being in the middle of Seattle and Olympia, 30 minutes either way, and when I get sick of city, I leave.
I would love to come out there and tour around!!!! I think I need to start planning and probing for that idea that we talked about last week.
Would kill a couple birds with one stoned.
I've heard good things about both Tacoma and Olympia, one of the managers where I work grew up in that area and talks about the wilderness and hunting around there being top notch.
misterstomach wrote:Well, I just thoroughly fucked my own face off with the dunwich hm2. It's got so much going on in there. It took a little tweaking to start learning my way around it but it wasn't long before I had that fucker ripping. Once i got the pedal dialed in a bit I went full on entombed style and plugged into the high input on the 2203 with everything on the amp dimed, the way it was meant to be. My ear holes were both melting and orgasming at the same time. It was fucking killer. Unfortunately I'm a huge pussy and I need a clean sound and stupid dynamics and stuff. So then I had to go searching for a second best sound, of which there are many. The overall sound no matter what you're doing is fairly honest about its hm2 roots, but it's very tuneable to what you've got going on with your amp. And it's definitely got more doors open to it than its predecessor. It can be more fuzzy and a bit more wooly if that's what you want, although it retains the chainsaw bite. I looooovvvveee the eq. The two mids knobs are awesome. It's crazy powerful. I didn't try stacking cause I don't want to right now with this pedal, but I think it might be really good for that down the road with this eq. I'm not sure if it's going to dethrone the badascan>ape blaster as my main dirt, but I'm going to try it at practice tonight and maybe use it as main dirt for a while. Eventually I think I'll have to either run another stereo rig so both can be the dirt for an amp or I'll have to start another band for this thing.
I kinda want to start another band with this thing anyway just so I can run it into a wide open jmp. That sound was fucking transcendental.
I just need to become a nomadic drummer, wandering the states where my abilities are needed, lending a helping hand to those in dire straights. They will call me.... Renegade.
