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D'Pergos and Fender. I've been enjoying the extraordinary clarity and articulation of the ash D'Pergo AVC Limiteds for these new tunes.
Overdubbing textures on a Gretch Chet Atkins.
Zac Casher doing "TV show pretend recording."
Jesse Williams
Chris Rival at the helm once again.
My usual studio pedal mess consisting of JAM tremelo and chorus pedals, custom Jeorge Tripps/Dunlop Fuzz Face, trusty Maxon AD-900 delay, Occtone boost and modded DS-1, MJM London Fuzz 2 and '60s Vibe, Dunlop Octavio, etc...
I never used an overdrive or boost in the studio until I got the Occtone modded DS-1 and Elmore boost - incredibly natural sounding and feeling pedals.
Young Jessup.
Working title "Trance Groove."
One our favorite clean tone rigs for this session. The vintage RCA broadcast ribbon mic sounds beautiful in front of a small, quiet amp.
Mics on the 50 watt plexi. For the sake of the vintage 25 watt greenbacks in this old cab I'm resisting the urge to use the 100 watt Super Lead on this session after throwing a voice coil out of alignment on the "New Imperial" sessions.
More exciting than a new guitar! Custom Roger Beal bonzer before the first wax.
Blendi's last gig at the later much reviled Dante's corporate blues bar in Marlboro, MA.
Berklee Performance Center October 29, 2007
Jesse Williams
<P>Julien at the <A title="D\'Pergo Custom Guitars" href="http://www.dpergoguitars.com" target=_blank>D'Pergo Custom Guitars</A> booth, NAMM '07.&nbsp; Photo courtesy of <A title=ToneBlue href="http://www.toneblue.com" target=_blank>www.toneblue.com</A>.
Julien &amp; Zac, Berklee Performance Center, August 20, 2006
Berklee Performance Center, August 20, 2006. Julien, Zac and special guest Mark Poniatowski
Bradfordville Blues Club, Tallashassee, FL March 2006
St. James Park, London.
By the Thames after the IGF clinic.
It's a happy band that laughs during load out. Beach Shack, Cocoa Beach FL.
A rare moment caught by the camera - Julien singing! Dives Across the South tour March '06
Moving in for the leg poke cue. Cocoa Beach, FL.
Girls gone wild Ft. Myers Beach, FL. Obviously we kept these hot spring breakers dancing to Jackalope as long as possible! They really enjoyed the series of metric modulations during the head.
From one to three who in this photo has had the most to drink?
We play rock and/or roll music.
Southern most music dive in the USA - at the Green Parrot bar Key West, FL. This place is the real deal!
Welcome home to the AJC the day after London, thanks to Gwenn for capping off a great night of music! You really put the icing on the cake.
Ending Third Stone at the Green Parrot
There is only one way to play this voicing.
Assaulting unsuspecting pirates at the Green Parrot in Key West, FL.
Burning down the Green Parrot, Key West, FL.
Tracking "I am a Centaur." I needed I fresh approach for this tune so I pulled Chris' old Tele off the wall (the strings were about a year old) and we nailed it on that take.
Blendi finds golden tone in "the bass of the Wolf."
The control room at Chris Rival's sounds great for drums so we are playing up there and cranking up the guitar amps in the big room.
Ken Clark nailing a first take Rhodes overdub.
The winning set up for tracking solos on the upcoming CD - Marshall 100 Super Lead screaming on "11," Vox AC30 running with a touch of "hair" on it. Dangerously loud!
Chris Rival
The main clean tone rig for the new CD: Vox AC30, Fender Tweed Deluxe with echoplex, Fender Vibroverb.
Chris and Zac back to back.
Must have been a good take.
Chris Rival busy not EQing anything.
D'Pergo JK model. Go to the links page for more info on D'Pergo guitars.
Ken Clark command central. Hiiiii - It's Ken.
Soundcheck at Russell Hibbard's Bamboo Room. One of the nicest clubs in the universe.
From the "Duck Lodge."
South of the Border
Blendi and Zac taking a break from Zac's "useless English" van seminar.
Blendi and Zac rehearse in the van on the way to Buffalo, NY.
Blendi in front of the Blues Rock Cafe`
Zac lords over Niagara Falls.
The mighty hand of Matt Jenson adjusts the delay - one of his favorite pastimes.
Matt tears it up at Mount Blue.
At Godfrey Daniel's, Bethlehem, PA, Feb. 27th 2004
Ed Spargo, Zac Casher, Matt Jenson, and, in the background JK Band sound engineer Emmanuel Vourakas, and the master of puppets, Julien.
Matt Jenson turns the Acton Jazz Cafe a molten red, October 18 2003
Blowing the roof off of Johnny D's, September 2003.
Matt and Julien on the cross country ski trail in Sugarloaf, Maine.
Ed.
Cafe Boogaloo, Hermosa Beach CA, July 2003
CD release party at the Acton Jazz Cafe, March 10, 2003

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