It's been a long, work and kid filled week with little to no recreational drug use, guitar playing or alcoholic consumption.

I'm along the lines of Johnny Thunders, in that I like to hide behind a ton of gain and reverb. And maybe some analog delay. And once in a while a analog chorus. With maybe a Green Screamer tube pedal for some extra gain.

Great call. Chuck's sweet 16, that greatest hits album, is like a primer on how to play any Johnny Thunders/NY Dolls/Ramones solo. Seriously, it's a fucking blueprint on double note solos and rock n roll songwriting. I didn't appreciate it at the time (11-12 year old me wanted to learn Def Leppard, not some oldies…

You mean Bob, right? I also love that solo. It just kills. Stinson is a definite favorite in the Oates house.

That one along with the solo from Bad FIngers "No Matter What" are personal favorites.

Which of those four nerds on the cover is Bill Million anyway? Also, great song. That scale isn't that fast, but doing it perfectly to the click was probably no fun.

Great call. One of my favorite leads, and a great jam song with buddies.

molly man? More like Nancy Boy. Seriously, I love that intro even though I read that Reed made them play it to fuck the record label. Great tone, and it's not really mindless noodling, as you can see they work out the different leads to get to the main riffs.

Time out : you don't have an Ad block plug in of some kind? What are you, using Internet Explorer like a cave man?

Some much of that is the fucking tone of that guitar. It's so awesome, fuzzed but not too much, singing tone, just a great all time sound.

Absolutely. Nothing against Verlaine, but Lloyd is definitely a better guitarist.

Yeah, there is. We also fucking hate Led Zeppelin a ton. Nothing against Skynyrd, tragedy and so forth, but ugh.

Lean on that fucking Wah pedal! Put your weight on it!

No, he meant blaringly playing pentatonic riffs sloppily in a style that Jimmy Page played the decade before. Catch up!

Seconded on the Chilton/Bell love here as well. Big Star was the band that taught me to appreciate playing with a Capo, and really opened my eyes to playing around with chord changes in pop songs.

The secret is the Rockman by Schultz. Guy made his own pre-amp to get that tone and sustain, crazy bastard.

You mean the little lick over the very end, I assume. I always forget who's doing what of the the three in the lead duel/build up to it, although I'm pretty sure Lennon is the third (last) guitar part.

If you mean the new homepage and account management, I'd say it's on a Jimmy Carter level of horribleness.

Blame the shitty new web site and design.

Way to shit the bed with Discus and the new site design.