and a lot of Gossip. and a lot of Slayer. I guess some music producers can't be defined entirely by one of the performers they've worked with.

Jimmy Page's drumming is one of the things I love most about Lead Blimp!

when you think about it, aren't 80's Genesis and solo Peter Gabriel the dark side and light side, respectively, of the same general sound?

oh, is that the one with… sorry, can't think of any songs on that album. and I used to own it. all I can recall about the album is it's cover, which I think was a repurpused Man Who Fell To Earth Poster anyway.

mod-padge.

the AV Club should invent a compressor mic and patent it.

I thought they just hired someone to perform those hits on the drums.

you're thinking of Screamin' Jay Hawkins.
https://www.youtube.com/wat…

that's a shame. and all this time I took him for a feminist.

they're encased in metal, and built like tanks. they're meant to be stomped on. and most of them are solid state devices with no moving parts. I hear wahs can wear out, but I'm thinking even a collection of 30,000 stompboxes requires less day-to-day maintenance than a couple of guitars.

wait, there's upkeep to be done on guitar pedals?

he turns out a lot of very good work. his share of crap too, but that's a damn decent batting average I'm looking at there.

some would argue they're prerequisite.

Adropov-Goldensen?

don't most rock stars have a dude whose only job, for years, is to take care of their gear?

wait, they found an unreleased Vanity album in the Prince vaults?!

yeah, I don't like any of these albums either:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

Sir William of Idol will take the stage at midnight's hour.

he looks nothing like Richard Nixon.

I thought he'd hit hard times, what with selling a bunch of his shit on Reverb:
https://reverb.com/shop/the…