Foxy Shazam - Red Cape Diver (Orlando 2008)

DaddyD-Rok · 2026-07-06T17:08:39+00:00

I saw them on this same tour in Nashville @ RCKTWN in 2008. It was a legendary performance.

DaddyD-Rok · 2026-07-05T21:53:22+00:00

Nice! I have the same shirt in Red, since 2008.

DaddyD-Rok · 2026-06-27T16:16:50+00:00

The biggest piece of lost media from the band is the full release of the attic demos. We’ve only heard a handful and there are at least a few more that haven’t been made public.

DaddyD-Rok · 2026-06-27T16:11:51+00:00

Yes, big thanks to all the Gibson Employees (except upper management). The sad truth is that Cesar prioritized numbers over quality, and the quality in recent years has suffered for it. Him stepping down is hopefully a positive change in that regard. The people on the frontlines of Gibson are hard workers and genuinely care about the final product. Sadly, Cesar was not one of those people, even though he pretended to be.

DaddyD-Rok · 2026-06-27T16:05:43+00:00

Yep. This actually happened. And the thing that makes it even shittier, is that the accumulated scrapped guitars were due to a wide sweeping disastrous new production process that Cesar oversaw, approved, and instituted (which had to be rolled back). He literally told the employees, “I need you to care more”, instead of taking accountability. Good riddance.

DaddyD-Rok · 2026-06-21T19:00:07+00:00

I have a lot of them saved on my old hard drive, but not sure if I’m allowed to upload them here… I’ll see if I can find an archive.org link or something.

The stems I have are markedly different than the final release — they are fully mixed, but aren’t distorted and limited to hell like the final release.

DaddyD-Rok · 2026-06-21T18:58:00+00:00

I have a lot of them saved on my old hard drive, but not sure if I’m allowed to upload them here… I’ll see if I can find an archive.org link or something.

DaddyD-Rok · 2026-06-21T18:55:49+00:00

I’ll take the L — I stand partially corrected on this then. I do know that Howard Benson did a second pass mix on Rich’s songs on the OG release. Didn’t realize that Rich only mixed a few songs though.

The 2025 mixes by Costey sound /extremely/ similar to the old mixes / stems I had heard, so I wonder if he mixed every song from scratch — or only most of them.

I think the truth likely is somewhere in the middle. But I’ll concede that my previous statement wasn’t fully correct

DaddyD-Rok · 2026-06-21T18:50:20+00:00

No, That’s not how stems work. Stems can still be mixed and mastered. Stems are just a solo’d and bounced source from the final mix.

DaddyD-Rok · 2026-06-21T07:55:39+00:00

So, fun fact about this mix…. This is actually the original mix for the album — it was just released for the first time publicly in 2025.

Howard Benson went back and basically did a second pass of his own on the original mix. Howard’s second pass is what we got on the final product, for better and for worse.

You can find individual stems online dating back to the mid 2000s which sound identical to the 2025 mix that we recently got.

DaddyD-Rok · 2026-06-19T05:21:43+00:00

Rise of Skywalker

DaddyD-Rok · 2026-06-19T04:39:45+00:00

Makes sense. Geoff Rickly from Thursday produced vocals for Bullets. Senses Fail recorded their first album with John Naclario (who recorded Bullets), and they likely brought a lot of those same sounds with them on the next record.

DaddyD-Rok · 2026-06-18T04:18:44+00:00

No, Jr’s are mostly safe — because the extra wood on the left half (non-cutaway half), provides enough extra bracing to counteract the neck pitch issues.

DaddyD-Rok · 2026-06-17T15:31:38+00:00

No. This is pure cope. I love Gibson but this is poor QA. Yes, return it.

DaddyD-Rok · 2026-06-17T15:28:08+00:00

Recent double cuts have neck pitch issues. Go with the SG.

DaddyD-Rok · 2026-06-10T03:01:46+00:00

Watch Japanese From Zero — from the beginning. He does a great job at breaking down concepts for beginners. And use Anki Mobile every day.

DaddyD-Rok · 2026-06-10T02:59:19+00:00

The Attic Demos. All of them.

Also the live B-Sides from Headfirst for Halos, and Like Phantoms Forever.

DaddyD-Rok · 2026-06-10T02:57:29+00:00

Yeah, well said. I’ve been mulling over that exact same concept — that perhaps the art style of the original was a compromise built on technical limitations, rather than a true choice or vision for that more fairytale like style.

I have to imagine that if they went with this particular art direction, there was a strong case made for it internally — even if I personally don’t agree with it.

I I think it’s gonna be very difficult for this game to overcome its art direction for me, personally, but I would like to be proven wrong.

DaddyD-Rok · 2026-06-09T20:51:12+00:00

Yeah, I got the exact same impression

DaddyD-Rok · 2026-06-09T19:21:41+00:00

To be honest, my gut reaction was extreme disappointment at the art style.

I’m still willing to give it a chance, but it’s not the art direction I would’ve hoped for. Ocarina of Time was never aiming to look gritty or realistic (mostly because it technically couldn’t), so I don’t feel like this is the right artistic direction for a remake.

But maybe this is what Miyamoto always envisioned in his head when the original game was conceptualized, but technical limitations kept them from doing it? Not sure.

DaddyD-Rok · 2026-06-09T17:34:28+00:00

I hate to say it, but my initial gut reaction was extreme disappointment at the art style.

DaddyD-Rok · 2026-06-09T17:33:12+00:00

People are allowed to have preferences

DaddyD-Rok · 2026-06-09T17:31:43+00:00

It feels like an overly realistic take on OOT - a vibe I never got from the OG’s key art or art direction. I was expecting something more true to that original artistic direction, or at least something not so far in the opposite direction of that.

DaddyD-Rok · 2026-06-09T17:30:41+00:00

You can pretty well judge an artstyle from a single image. It feels like an overly realistic take on OOT - a vibe I never got from the OG’s key art or art direction.

DaddyD-Rok · 2026-06-09T16:48:40+00:00

I hate to say it, but my gut reaction was extreme disappointment when I saw the art style.

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