Getting the perfect metal guitar tone represents a lifelong, never-ending quest for some guitarists. As amp and processor technology continues to improve, the options to tweak your guitar tone follow suit, growing exponentially seemingly every day. Do you need the latest Axe-FX to sound good? Should you stick to a classic, like a Peavey 5150 or [...]
Buffalo chicken dip rules. For me, it's a food group of its own, a cheesy, spicy, creamy blend of perfection. I first tasted buffalo chicken dip as a freshman/sophomore in high school. My family headed to my cousin Blainey's house for a UFC pay-per-view event, and he had whipped some up for the occasion. Love [...]
Black Crown Initiate murders me. Check my most-played songs over the past six years, and you'll see tracks from the band's debut 2013 EP Song of the Crippled Bull as well as plenty of offerings from their first two full-length albums, The Wreckage of Stars (2014) and Selves We Cannot Forgive (2016). So when Black Crown Initiate dropped Violent Portraits of Doomed [...]
It's August of 2010. Home before college kicked back into swing for the fall semester, I sat down inside my childhood house, patiently awaiting the latest mail delivery. Online tracking tells me my present should arrive today. And when you pre-order an album, you want it to arrive now. It did. At 1:04 p.m., the mailman [...]
No, not those Wiggles. Jesus. These wiggles were better. It'd make a better story if I could tell you how I got there, why I was in a bedroom looking at my aunt locked in a spiritual trance. But such is a memory from 1995-ish, yinz. I don't know what led to this. I was, like, [...]
Crock-pots suck. I made that pretty clear when I called them "the most despicable appliance in culinary history," and I stand by the sentiment today. Thing is, I received some significant blowback for that post. You crock-pot clingers just couldn't accept that your beloved plug-and-go appliance might actually make you a bad person. Which it [...]
You have a craving only a fried chicken sandwich can satisfy. To your left sits a Popeyes. Just beside it is a Chick-Fil-A. Either restaurant will satisfy your need. But which one does it better? Yeah, I wondered that too. So I went to both places, ate 'em side-by-side, and shared my verdict. This was a [...]
Oh, Fallujah, how you frustrate me. This Bay Area group is like a mix-and-match six-pack of four Head Hunters and two Bud Light Limes. Reach in and pick a beer. Ooo! A Head Hunter! Tasty. Time for another? Pick again. Womp womp. Bud Light Lime. Boy, I bet you’re disappointed, huh? Especially after that Head [...]
That’s a title, huh? It’s the kind of title that pops up after a night of drinking and a brisk walk I needed beer, and beer sales cut off at 2:30 a.m., apparently. Boo. around one of the coolest cities on earth. I’ve been here two days, and I’m ready to give it [...]
Harmonics just sound awesome — and there are several different ways to do them. In this video, I walk you through four of my favorite techniques — natural harmonics, pinch harmonics, tap harmonics and the Dimebag Darrell squeal — helping you understand the best, easiest way to execute these wicked sounds. Then, I throw in [...]
