Roll Call

[zion]

35
Happily Married
Eastern Tennessee
Wildland Firefighter - Hotshot
Likes: Espresso - I've got manual lever machine, a sweet grinder, and an American Chestnut tamper - God, it's good.
Motorcycles - I've had the same one since 1992 and was riding before I could walk. American made, need I say more?
Fly Fishing - I was a guide in college and it stuck. Tie my own and the smaller the stream the better.
Kayaking - While we're on the subject of water, I grew up near the Nantahala, Ocoee, Chattooga, and my home water is the Cullasaja. Like it
steep and narrow.
Biking - Love to mountain and road bike. One of each and a sweet Surly single speed with 4" tires.
Hunting - Turkey is my fav., but I take deer, bear, elk, grouse, and hawg.
Furniture Building - I build rustic furniture in the winter for some extra dinero but mainly for the artistic pleasure.
Reading - I can't get enough information - God Bless the internet. Thomas Rain Crowe is my author right now.
Pedal Building - I've got a handful going.

Would like to talk about gardening, alternative energy, live sound, computer-based recording, cooking (recipe exchange)((seriously)).

[mills]

^ I never bump into that many muscians that fly-fish or hunt too... Usually just get weird looks if they hear about it.

I've always wanted to get out turkey hunting but have just never been able to get a draw around here when I could get time off. Lately, I've been in the city and had to move from hunting to more fishing and tying lately... beating the water to a froth looking to catch a steelhead, and trying to avoid the crowds at all the rivers around here.

[Mr. Mayor]

43
Married - one kid (10 year old son)
Sweden
working as a a Mayor/Counsillor, used to manage some calibration labs for RF and microwave quantities.
Beside guitars, amps and effects:
Flyfishing - living next to a beautiful river, trouts and salmon just around the corner of my house.
Motorcycle - the summer here is to short, I have to ride fast.
Golf - workout by serching golfballs outside fairway.

[cardinal of crunk]

Eric
26
single, just got out of a relationship that was heading towards marriage but the chick kinda turned out to be crazy, like NW's situation.
I'm from Maryland but I'm currently stationed in Valdosta GA. US Air Force. I just moved here after spending 4 great years in Tampa, and I was stationed in North Carolina and Korea before.

I played in bands throughout high school but after I joined the military I just stuck to playing and recording as a hobby. I did form a band in Korea but we just played cover songs downtown in the entertainment district.
Been playing for about 12 years.

I like to run, record music, program drums, jump out of airplanes.

[NewarkWilder]

I like to run, record music, program drums, jump out of airplanes.

Wow man I knew you were a cool/good guy but a big 'ol salute to you for serving. Rock on bro

[justonwo]

Juston
30
Married with an amazing wife and baby girl.

I moved down to LA last April after living in the Bay Area for 12 years. It was a tough decision to leave the Bay since I feel like that is truly my home, but a very promising job offer and proximity to grandparents forced a move.

I was born in West Virginia and have lived in Michigan, Southern California, Northern California, and now back to Southern. I'm working as the product development manager at a biofuels startup called Primafuel. A close college friend started the company a few years ago, and now things are really starting to move along at a steady clip. I'm commercializing technologies for biorefineries that allow them to extract high(er) value compounds from their low value product streams. (For example, food grade corn oil from a stream that would otherwise be used as animal feed.)

The demanding process engineering and product development schedule of a start-up eats up most of my time, though I try my damnedest to spend maximum time with my family.

Besides guitar, my other major hobbies are mountain and road biking, though I've certainly done less of that since moving. And years ago, before getting married, I was an avid snowboarder.

I'm definitely interested in politics. These days, my main interests are energy, economic policy, and sustainable use of resources.

[Bobby D]

i wanna go fishing with Zion!

[seans]

Sean
44
Married with 3 boys

Have been traveling the globe for the last 20 years working as a photographer. For the first 8 years covering conflict for the international press and aid agencies and for the last 12 years for MAG (Mines Advisory Group), a UK based charity that runs landmine and unexploded ordnance programmes around the world. My job has been to document the problems caused to communities by conflict and the benefits provided by MAG and partners, such as MSF.

Until a year ago, I spent about 7 months of the year overseas (six of seven trips). The rest of the time I produced multi media resources from home. Its been tough to be away so much for so long and a year ago I suffered from a serious health problem and have since stopped traveling so much. I have also moved back to the UK from Sweden (my wife is Swedish) to work from MAG's head office here in Manchester. I think my body has been telling me enough is enough, slow down you old git!

Music has always been important to me and I played in a number of bands when I was younger in the UK and Australia. About 10 years ago I started writing songs inspired by my experiences overseas and this led to a band in Sweden called Short memory. I was away rather a lot, as previously described, so we didn’t play as often as we liked but it was great fun. Making music has been a great expressive release for me. Now I have reduced my traveling, I not only have more valuable and rewarding family time, but I have more time to make satisfying noises. I am hoping to get another band together here and will make efforts to do so in the near future - blending the music with the imagery.

A couple of weeks ago I finished making a short film using some of my photos and video footage. The sound track is one take with a subtle bass track. Please check it out and let me know what you think. I did the music as a trial and intended to use my good friend Graham Massey to do the sound track but everyone at work insisted I used my own!

Here it is:

http://www.maginternational.org/silo/fi ... cktime.mov

If you don’t have quicktime, you can click the link on MAG’s home page:

http://www.maginternational.org

Or here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSFt8H9PCNc

The guitar signal is split at the beginning of the chain using an Access BS2.

One signal goes to a Korg A3 (controlled with a volume pedal), which has seven different delays, some in parallel, some in series, to give a shimmering, Daniel Lanois kind of sound. This then goes into an Engl Screamer set clean.

The other signal went BJF PGC > BJF Copper Mini Vibe > BJF HB > EHDMM > Triad (with skreddy echo in the loop) > VOX AC15

Many thanks

Sean

[Kinger]

how about we start this new forum with a bit of a Roll Call....

Name,Age, Situation,Location if not in your sig...
and some things youd like to see talked about here .....


Donner
48 Saint Louis
Married 2 kids
hmmm lots of stuff to talk about - Im always interested in the way musicians view things differently than most other people... and sometimes not so differently........... Relationships, Money, the Future, History,Family, Cars etc........

Totally missed this....

Louis King.
17 years old.
Within 3 weeks of finishing High School, and applying for music degrees.
Melbourne, Australia.

Totally sick of the schooling system, surprised to have made it this far, aspirations to be a full time proffesional musician, am not afaid of poverty :p

Play in a band, called The Phantom Agents (http://www.myspace.com/thephantomagents), about to produce an EP, slowly but surely building up a live following in Melbourne, dudes are all like my brothers, and as soon as school is finished we are going to get up to some serious mischief . Also, headlining a festival in the Victorian "Mallee" region, wheat growing region affected heavily by drought, in front of 2-3,000 people

[thesjkexperience]

I am brand new to the world of BJFe, but jumped in with both feet and picked up a HBOD and a EGDM both due tomorrow! I am borrowing the same pedals right now and they are so addictive. The first pedals that sound & Feel like an amp and not a pedal over an amp. I have been running the HB at a lower than 9 volts and the EGDM from 9 -18 volts, but think 9 volts might be best. I still have so much to discover which is really unusual in a pedal.

Scott Kaufman, 47, full time Dad of 5 yo and 18 month old twins and obviously Married (20+ years) and I live in beautiful Boulder, Colorado. Due to the kids my music/band time is on hold, but I do like to hit a blues jam now and again.

I got my Masters Degree from Purdue University in 11 months (not much to do near Purdue) in Business, but burned out after 10 years and went back for two more years at Colorado University and picked up a Geology/General Science Degree and a teachers certificate.

I like smaller amps that OD naturally and use pedals to add spice or just "more". I play vintage style Stratocasters with different Don Mare pickups and I have a Jazzmaster with Lollar pickups for surf style instrumentals.

I am a bit overwhelmed at all the amazing pedals BJFe has come up with and cant help wondering what I "need" next. I am just scratching the surface of the site, so I cant say what to talk about yet.