For most of recorded rock, amp tone was a one way door. You picked the cabinet, you placed the mic, you committed. If the mix later told you the guitar was too thin or too woolly, your options were to live with it or to book the band again. The device that quietly dismantled that […]
The Paisley Underground had no shared sound. What held the Dream Syndicate, the Bangles, Rain Parade and the Three O'Clock together was a 1972 compilation and a handful of terrible clubs.








