About the music: Grunions My "test bed" for trying out amps and guitars. Find out more about this tune here, but the short version is that this is two different amps on very different settings, all with the same Telecaster. When You're Green Again Fred Chalenor played the bass lines on this one. Interestingly, there are no loops used here - everything was played the way you hear it, especially the things that sound like loops. Guitar is a Fender Pro Tone Strat through my 18 watt Marshall clone. Bloody Hero of the Sidhe features my Interocitor II (schematic here) and my Mexican Strat. I received an email from someone who really liked "that cool octave pedal" in the solo section, but alas, it's not a pedal - those are real harmonics. More bass by Fred Chalenor, who was slumming that day. :-) Pteranodon Summer and Krakatoa use my home made Marshall 18 watter and my newly rewired Mexican Strat. The rewiring allows me to do wah-like effects and also makes switching easier. The dripping guitar in the picture is one of my two beloved Warmoths. All of these songs were recorded with amps I made - tube amps. Nothing sounds like tubes to me except tubes even though I think all the amp emulators, plug-ins, and virtual Bassmen are fine things. But nothing has what tubes have for me; tube amps are fascinating in the same way that fire seems to captivate people, but they sound great, too (well, they do if you make them right, anyway). Somebody else who agrees with me is Finnish amp maker Risto Kivioja, who makes absolutely gorgeous amps. Here's one of them, with a link to his site: