Welcome to my personal page!

Well, I guess I'll tell you a bit about
my music :). We'll split it into sections...

The Gear

Here's a list of the gear I'm
currently using:

Fender American Telecaster (black)

Fender Acoustic (Electrified via Dean Markley pickup)

Samick Strat (modified)

Samick Jazz Bass (sunburst)

Samick Solid State Amp (60 Watts)

George Dennis Blues Driver

Danelectro Fab Tone

Boss Distortion

Boss Tremelo

Alesis Microverb

Sansui Preamp

Farfisa Analog Synth

Explanation

Just some info about my stuff and where
I got it...

My Samick is my first guitar I ever
got. It has an awful maple neck but
someone had replaced the pickups before
I bought it, so it sounds quite nice.
My mate Tom once had a cheepo Session
guitar with a gold pickplate, so I stole
the pickplate off him when he sold the guitar.
The pickplate added a nice metallic punch
to the guitar's tone, and now it sounds half
decent.

My samick bass is the first bass guitar
I ever got. I originally wanted to play
bass, so I got this as a christmas present.
I still play bass, and this bass guitar is
quite nice. It has a good sound and excelent
playablility.

I got my Samick amp (see a pattern here?) from
a pawn shop. Not many people may believe this, but
a guy from Grover Allman (a pickmaking company) actually
tested the amp and told me it was a piece of shit.
I still bought it though, and as for sound, I believe
it sounds closes to a nice fender twin amp, because
it has a nice muddy quality to it, as well as the
trademark 'splashing' reverb that is best heard from
Jeff Buckley's early LP: 'Live at Sin-e'. The amp
has seen numerous gigs, and played in front of 600
people at 'Robert Blackwood Hall', at Monash Uni.
What is lacks in loudness, it makes up in tone.

The George Dennis blues driver was an un-intentional
buy. My dad found out there was a music shop sale, and in
classic family tendencies, we drove all 150km to see it.
We arrived 5 mins before it closed, and I bought it
because I needed to buy something. It makes my samick
amp sound like a nice tube amp. Nice and warm.

My Telecaster was a stroke of luck. I got it at a 1/3
of the price it was originally intended. I love it,
it has a tone to die for and it looks and feels great.
It is also the only electric guitar of mine that was
bought brand new.

My other stuff was either borrowed or aquired from
second hand shops. The alesis Microverb is my brothers
and is the very same that Jeff Buckley used (well, nearly).
The Fafica weighs about 40kg and is an old analog synth. My
brother got it from an op shop and it sounds warm but hisses
like crap. I got my Danalectro pedal when my music influences
were Greenday (???) and Jebadiah (what was I thinking??).
I went to the same school as The Living End and after they
left, I took their position in playing music for the school
production. My last production consisted of me and Adam
(pictured above) tearing up our 40 odd sheets of music and
throwing it into the audience before breaking into a riff
of Song 2 by blur. Those were the days :).

This page is best viewed at a resolution of 8332x5803 so the
writing is so small you can't even see it.

Woof.

Ok, bye bye.