Nowhere Band News

There’s a new instrument in the Awesome Boys’ rock arsenal! I didn’t have much of a point with this one other than to look at the way unbelievably junky instruments will find their way into bands; Derailleur does have an electric organ that doesn’t work so well, but it’s more functional than the ‘Boys’s organ, and it was free. But it’s not just organs… a friend of mine used to have a bass that was rescued from the trash pile outside of a high school bandroom. Realistically, it should have stayed there. Guitars, also, just accumulate– our practice space features at least two more or less unplayable guitars which just sit around, for atmosphere I guess. If I thought I could get away with it, my workspace here at the house would be just as full of junked instruments. It’s just what happens.

On a technical note, I changed the way I colored this comic in PhotoShop. I’ve been having problems with anti-aliasing eating away the black linework and leaving them looking all feathery and weak. The new process didn’t totally solve the trouble, but I think it mitigated it a little. If you’ve got an opinion either way (or some PS tips), I’d love to hear it in comments here.

We’re back! This week, a quick look at all the places Jon’s amp has been before it wound up in his possession.

This is something that’s always fascinated me– amps especially seem to linger for decades, and I always wonder what all of the backstory is with my used stuff. I bought a couple of my guitars new, but most of the guitars and all of my current amp fleet were around for quite a while before they came to me, and god only know how they got there.

The backstory for Jon’s Twin is, of course, mostly fictional, but one bit– the “‘doped and cherried’ as part of the Rainbow Music amp rental fleet, where it was used by Angus Young” is at least a real bit of sales palaver attached to my friend Grant’s Twin.