MXR Yngwie Malmsteen overdrive...

I was not expecting to see this Buddy Guy wah pedal. There must be something with these mojo dots.

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Forget about "Who is a Yngwie fan?" (I have met one): who is a Joe Bonnamassa fan?!

I knew a guy about 20 years ago who was a huge Yngwie fan. He worked in a local music store, was a chain-smoking alcoholic Strat-loving cartoonist who quit the music shop to move to Canberra to become a spy. He was one of the nicest blokes I ever met despite being an Yngwie fan. His idea of lunch was a can of diet coke and three cigarettes. His wife's family told him he should grow up, sell his guitars and get a real job. Apparently not long after moving to Canberra he died. I always felt his story was tragic. He was always funny, charming and frank and I quite miss him. When the first Yngwie pedal came out he loved it. He told me he knew what it was but for him it worked.

But for sure, he was the only person I ever met who admitted to being an Yngwie fan. Now to find a Bonnamassa fan...
 
I like Far Beyond the Sun, Black Star, Dream on and Gimme Gimme Gimme. I also watched a fascinating interview a little which really humanized him to me, and he seemed like a good storyteller.

Which is why it's also fascinating to me how he could come out with shit like this

I'd like to quote a Youtube comment about that video:
Gorgeously tasteful guitar playing from the best.
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YMMV, I suggest everyone give it a listen for themselves and see how they feel about the tastefulness of the guitar playing there!
 
I apologize for the spoiler, but there's no way this isn't a DOD250 clone. Look at his previous YJM308 pedal. It had a 1nf input capacitor and used one half of a 4558 op amp, but was basically a stock 250 circuit:

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joeyd said:
I had to look up who Randy Rhoads was during the dist+ thing the other day. Then I had to look up quiet riot. Is he well known for anything other than that, playing crazy train, and dying violently in a plane crash? I don't really get it. I know yngwie from the puffy shirt.
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That’s funny- I never realized he was in Quiet Riot. I only know him from the first two Ozzy albums. Really he kinda rips. Does a lot of neo-classical, but not so much as to be in Yngwie Territory. if I don’t think someone’s tone is on-point, I can still dig their playing.
 
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Honest/ignorant question: Do these artists actually use these pedals that bear their names? or are they just for kickbacks?
 
jessenator said:
Honest/ignorant question: Do these artists actually use these pedals that bear their names? or are they just for kickbacks?
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some do, some don't, i would assume most do it for the kickbacks (tbh i would lol)

then there's people like paul gilbert, appears to be actively engaged in the development of the products and then actually enthusiastically rocks his signature gear all the time.
 
How does a self-obsessed dude suck up as much space in RaWk-couture to get signed-scrawledge on a pleth-aura of pro-ducks?

I suppose ...

The same way nobody listens to saxawfullest KeLaimey Gee — and yet he continues to produce the sonic equivalent of "processed" baby-pablum. I just wish they'd stop calling his laxative-effluence "Gee-azz" — it may be smooth as re-constituted formula, but "it shore-ass-sheeit ain' Jiasz".


I'm not into Malmsteinerdude, but if somebody likes the peg-a-ninny note-flurries, fine whatever — but Kill-me Gee? I don't ... I just can't... I refuse... to ... yeeshhh...



As for Bonne-ego-massive, there are a few of his fans on this very forum. I might've been a fan possibly almost could've maybe been, but then he came out with his Bobble-head and spamming-merch emails for too-much-ego-merch — only true fans will have the booble-hed...

Holy crap, I was about to post a pic of the bawbble-hedd and... he now has MANY MANY piggledywiggldysties of booblehede...



Oh, and there is won moere thing. That Buddi Guya Wah, it's actually just a Randee Rods model in dissguise...




YMMV; pack-aging may have settled for LCD duraring sheepdipping and hand-lings...
 
Fama said:
I like Far Beyond the Sun, Black Star, Dream on and Gimme Gimme Gimme. I also watched a fascinating interview a little which really humanized him to me, and he seemed like a good storyteller.

Which is why it's also fascinating to me how he could come out with shit like this

I'd like to quote a Youtube comment about that video:

YMMV, I suggest everyone give it a listen for themselves and see how they feel about the tastefulness of the guitar playing there!
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There is an understated tastefulness on show here, but you have to search it out. He strikes me as innovative and shy. He really seems to need some help to come out of his shell. Somebody needs to encourage him to play a little more.
 
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