Anti Pedals (Non Pedal Effects You Have To Hear)

[@jhspedals]

Hey everyone! Please check out the full description for info on the gear in this episode, the white JHS amp, Josh's guitar and strap and links to gear and the record in Record Time. Thanks for watching!

[@mannishboy1]

About time! I thought you forgot us...

[@acebone2]

Back in '85 (or around that time) I had a Boss walkman-sized headphone-amp. It had built-in distortion, tone-controls and chorus/flanger/verb. I actually used it in my setup, on bass, to get a really heavy distortion going on. Do you know that unit? Unfortunately I don't recall it's model number, but it would be awesome to see it reviewed/demo'ed :)

[@mattmorgan2400]

Cool video. Albums: Big Country - Steeltown is insane. Also Simple Minds - Sparkle In The Rain. Both produced by Steve Lillywhite. Both are crazy good.

[@eddie4maiden]

I want to recommend you New wave's band called Modern English. Album: Pillow Lips and songs like Take Me Away or their biggest hit I Melt With You.

[@BassToTheFaceMan]

Great albums from the 80's… any Oingo Boingo album would do.

[@bearclan]

Josh, I've been playing guitar for over 50 years & I'm still riding a high from seeing Hendrix in Detroit in '69. I'm disabled and on a very limited income, but my guitar helps me cope with pain and the tribulations of life. Your videos are entertaining and educational. You've helped me find less expensive ways to get great sounds and your enthusiasm inspires me to find even greater joy in making music. Thanks for the work you do, and for sharing your joy. Peace & blessings!

[@fletcherroles5207]

hope ur doing well!!

[@ThreeBeingOne]

Thanks for sharing and reminding me of what’s important 🤘🏾

[@BrandonOutside]

Daaang, that Danelectro reverb sounds beautiful!

[@jas_bataille]

Yeah, but that MilkMan....... ... shit

[@albertf.9198]

Lera Lynn sounds like she's gonna start singing any second...

[@willhammond04]

Sounds heavenly with those p90s

[@StonefieldMusic]

I walked into a new nightclub in Melbourne, Australia last year. Turned out to be a cocktail bar; not really my thing and I wasn't crazy about the menu ... then I saw a Leslie cabinet sitting on the stage. I hadn't been in the presence of a real Leslie in 20 years. I stayed. The physical experience of a real Leslie is something that no pedal or emulator can even come close to. Your Leslie gets my vote.

[@goodun2974]

AK, blues-rock powerhouse Tab Benoit hosts a 3-day *free* music festival every October in his hometown of Houma Louisiana*. There were two Leslie's on the stage ( one for a backup/ spare), and about half of the bands used it. And yeah, THAT SOUND! Ain't nothin' else like it! Some years back I saw a quadruple-bill show featuring Tommy Castro, John Hiatt, Buddy Guy, and BB King. BB had a huge guy, Tommy T I think they called him, playing a Hammond B3 thru a Leslie, and I practically levitated! *the Voice of the Wetlands festival. Excellent mix of local and national talent. A boatload of great guitar players and several worldclass bassists....the multiple-guitarist jams, and after-hours get-togethers, were fabulous, and it was free! And Tab Benoit himself, my oh my....he's like a two-legged Anti-Pedal ! A battered Tele Thinline and two Category 5 amps. No pedals or effects, unless you count the snarling alligator head on his amp where he keeps a slide, spare earplugs, and some rarely used picks (plays mostly with his fingers like Jeff Beck does, the picks often get thrown to the audience).

[@Jacob-lf7sd]

I live in Melbourne! which bar is it?

[@StonefieldMusic]

@@Jacob-lf7sd It was Jaspers, right next to Paris Cat. I can't recall the name of the band though.

[@patmccrotch5373]

100% agree.. NOTHING like a leslie sound.

[@stevecarter8810]

Yeah every time I see a Leslie online I'm like "it doesn't work unless you're in the room with it!"

[@OuijTube]

“The Sun Always Shines on TV” is criminally underrated

[@Ndlanding]

Actually, that was the main song they were famous for in the UK, and rightly so. "Take On Me" came out afterwards, and had a lot of people saying, "That's not English!" Good song, but played to death, even today. Must dig out my cassette, if it hasn't self-destructed/destroyed/disintegrated.

[@CL_Audio_Tuning]

Hunting High and Low is truly epic as well! That whole record is awesome!

[@JakeCuster]

The Leslie speaker weighs 1,000 pounds, but that is much smaller compared to the footswitch that weighs 10,000 pounds

[@vexguine]

that switch is roo much badass

[@eronackerman565]

I can honestly say that was the best chorus sound I've ever heard (not a big chorus fan in general). So I guess the question is, how many hundreds of pounds/ dollars better is it than the top chorus pedals?

[@m0j0b0ne]

The typical Leslie 122s toted by most rock bands of what I like to call 'the era', were actually less than 120lbs, but bulky enough you'd need a box truck or a trailer to move the whole rig, and The Hammond, at 400+ lbs, depending on options, was a two-man carry, with the not-in-the-least-bit optional cradle, and particularly not where the load-in included flights of stairs, with a landing between. My spine throbs at the very thought, but we hauled those magnificent bastards, and Altec-Lansing Voice Of The Theater speakers and the custom folded-horn subs with the Crown boat-anchor power amps, because that's what the Allman Brothers did, before the Grateful Dead followed suit; thus began a stampede, of sorts. Difference was, the Allmans and the Dead had roadies.

[@patmccrotch5373]

@@m0j0b0ne at one magical moment I got to hear and play a hammond B100 (could've been an A100) with a leslie 122 (I'm pretty positive that was the combination) I've literally never heard a 'GROWL' like that (in person) to that point.. or since.. it shook my buddies whole house, and switching the leslie on and off gave me absolute chills.. a VERY cool moment as a musician I'll never forget, because my chances of playing a combo like that again are pretty slim. I will try to recall the actual combo the next time I talk to my buddy, and report back to you hahaha, all I do know is it's a HIGHLY sought combo of organ and amp.

[@patmccrotch5373]

@@m0j0b0ne my whole point of the first message (before I started ranting) was to 100% agree with you about the weight of them damn things.. the organ to be specific, even the chopped ones were a two man job... or a very heavy job for one strong man with a busted back afterwards Haha. Cheers!

[@homerdomer73]

That stuff is amazing. Moral of the story; never sell anything.

[@marshabradcoe417]

amen

[@michaelmattson3515]

I had had a real Univibe & some really cool weird gear & great amps from the 60s & 70s.

[@E-Biz]

The massive size of the footswitch for the rotary box is ridiculous and amazing.

[@christisgod3354]

That is the 2nd biggest footswitch I have ever seen......

[@wesleyzimmerman94]

@@christisgod3354 Fuck, dude.... you can NOT say that and NOT tell us what it is

[@chrisdebarge7138]

Pretty sure it's also the tube preamp for the Leslie in there. Still ridiculously big.

[@E-Biz]

I'd love to have that for just one gig just so I can be that guy that takes up all the room on a tiny stage in a small bar. "Excuse me, guys, you're going to have to move that keyboard to make room for my one button pedal."

[@vexguine]

You can use that switch to lock the wheel of your car on slopes

[@gougav]

That Danelectro spring reverb sounds absolutely fantastic !

[@TimMer1981]

The Sun Always Shines On TV is great indeed, definitely one of the biggest 80s classics for me. :) Hunting High and Low itself is also a great song by the way. If you like the real 80s sound definitely check out these albums by Talk Talk: The Colour of Spring (1986) and It's My Life (1984). The other 80s albums by them are also cool, but these are the best. One of the most original and best bands of the 80s if you ask me.

[@MisterNiles]

Color Of Spring is so good. I love Spirit Of Eden and Laughingstock just as much.

[@valvenator]

@@MisterNiles Living In Another World is such a freakin' awesome powerhouse of a song!

[@TimMer1981]

@@valvenator Indeed, especially the London 1986 live version :) : kzbin.info/www/bejne/lYnCfqyahLqJabM

[@jdkimple]

@@MisterNiles Yes, love "Laughing Stock" - such a milestone album. Good heavens, I love that.

[@mastersteve78]

That Leslie is the most awesomest ever! And Black Hole Sun with it?!? You made my day, now I'm happy. 😁😁😁😁🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@HiVizSmiley]

I physically gave you a round of applause when Black Hole Sun started. Great episode as always!

[@ZRobertson91]

12:17 - "Black hole sun, won't you come, and wash away the rain?"

[@giovannim.7529]

Great! O thought It was just me that noticed...

[@DMSProduktions]

Ass hole son, what a bum...

[@magicianASMR]

@@DMSProduktions what a buuuuuum

[@DMSProduktions]

@@magicianASMR Ass hole son, ass hole son, ass hole son...

[@magicianASMR]

@@DMSProduktions what a buUuuuuuuuuum

[@dclange]

That Leslie has "No Quarter" written all over it! And possibly the best footswitch of all time... Awesome episode Josh...keep it going, more weird stuff please!

[@domidigital]

Exactly, it has this wobbly-ness that no pedal can really replicate.

[@valvenator]

I wish they had more than two speeds built in, and you'd need a roadie just for that footswitch!

[@ThomasBorghus]

I have a Yamaha Leslie from that time and I'm almost certain that is what the zep guys used on NQ - but I might be wrong. The sound when it's played in this video, reminds me more of Soundgardens 'Black Hole Sun' :)

[@ThomasBorghus]

I stand corrected: "Jones used a Hohner Electra-Piano. An EMS VCS3 was utilised to create the underwater 'wobble' effect on 'No Quarter'. Jones ran the audio signal of the Hohner piano through the filter, and modulated the filter with a sine-wave LFO. This made the filter rise and fall rapidly, creating a shifting tone not unlike a phaser, or Leslie speaker."

[@DustyMuzzle]

Wall of Voodoo - Call of the West! "I'm on the Mexican radio, I'm on the Mexican, whoa-o, radio".

[@neilhackett529]

Agreed, has my favorite lyric :) "I wish i was in Tijuana eating barbecued iguana"

[@RobFlaxMusic]

"There was a new type of rock invented..." [Beat] [Beat] "...Fraggle Rock." I lost it.

[@tomhill9066]

I was thinking thrash metal. Anyone else?

[@wyndsrfr16]

You can see how pleased he is with that joke - trying so hard not to smile.

[@silvertongues2]

Classic Dad joke!

[@milesanderson3682]

Was that the greatest or what? Perfect comedic timing.

[@WhoWouldWantThisName]

I actually did a spit-take on that one. Perfect Josh-ism.

[@copheart]

I read that Johnny Ramone never learned how to tune his guitar and left it up to his road manager who used that strobe tuner thing. He complains about it in his book, On The Road With The Ramones.

[@DMSProduktions]

That's just typically PUNK isn't it?

[@creamcannon825]

If you liked that book, I would recommend a look at Commando. It's Johnny Ramone's *auto*biography although it was released posthumously. It's excellent

[@copheart]

@@creamcannon825 Yeah, it was good. I read all of 'em. Dee Dee's book was the best

[@johndiloreto3738]

Yep. I read the book last summer. Johnny was apparently very strict about it, insisting that "No, you MUST use the strobo!". His tech secretly switched to a different tuner, and Johnny was none the wiser.

[@MisterNiles]

That A-ha record is so underrated. The song "The Blue Sky" is amazing. Great playing and song writing. I even like the dated sounds. My brain is broken and I got nothin for mid 80s. but a couple 81 records come to mind that don't get enough attention from guitar players and musicians in my opinion. Everyone loves Marquee Moon, but nobody seems to listen to Dreamtime by Tom Verlaine. Tin Drum by Japan is another album that I not enough people know about. Incredible rhythm section. As exotic as an Eno pop album. Also: Speaking of anti-pedals. I sometimes use old reel to reels as distortion "pedals" Sound crazy good and are approximately as portable as a Leslie. Thanks for the videos.

[@stevieray1507]

One of my favorite 80s albums is Schon and Hammer's Untold Passion. I also love King Crimson's Discipline and Three of a Perfect Pair! Leslie's are awesome! I wish I had one!

[@jdkimple]

THREE of a Perfect Pair is a phenomenal album!!!

[@Barry101er]

Mid-80s genius from Prefab Spout: Swoon or Steve McQueen: perfect!

[@hugolanza4372]

Ha! Prefab Sprout was my 80's pick as well!

[@JohnNoirSmith]

That Milkman reverb sure was smooth!

[@nicophile]

Favorite antipedal= the leslie And the 80' Album? Kiss me kiss me kiss by the cure♥️ Robert Smith is an underated ambient/texture guitar player.

[@Twirlyhead]

A-ha got saddled with the boy pop band tag in the UK and to be fair they did encourage that to some degree but musically they were way above that. The 1986 album, Scoundrel Days, has some real class on it: Cry Wolf, I've Been Losing You et al.

[@jasonkirkham550]

I had the boss OD10. And I have regretted selling it since.

[@uhhmaybe]

Re: the record time question about a mid-80s album -- it doesn't get any better than Talk Talk's Spirit of Eden or Tears For Fears' The Hurting

[@valvenator]

I loved Talk Talk's song It's my life when it came out but for some reason never looked further into their music till quite recently. Within a month I had all their albums. Just an amazing band from start to finish even though album one is light years different from their last. Maybe I need to give Tears for Fears another look since I love 'the Big Chair'.

[@enkiea8322]

Spirit of Eden is my favorite record EVER. ❤🤙

[@diablilloperdio]

April 5th is a jewel.

[@jettramel]

Talk Talk, Tears for Fears the Hurting, I had it when it came out, but now it's rather dark when I listen to it. I would have to ad Icehouse, some great music from that era, I feel real bad I sold my 80s cassette collection & I had tons of great music I should have ripped to my PC & cleaned up, from Ah-ha to U2 & every new wave / pop group for that period. Good times.

[@CLaw-tb5gg]

Was speaking to the manager of the estate where my parents live recently and he told me he played keyboards on Spirit of Eden (Michael something). That was a bit random.

[@MartinCliffe]

Agree about The Sun Always Shines On TV. Stunning production, particularly for the 80s. Killer band.

[@MEGAMIGA]

The Leslie! You have an INSANE collection!!! :O

[@alexmurphy5289]

Pedals pay well apparently

[@TheChadPad]

Seriously, The Leslie!!!

[@jiminskipt8836]

The Outfield "Voices of Babylon". Please keep making these great gear nerd videos. Cheers!

[@hwunch8563]

"Big Stuff is Cool" and "Loud is More Good"

[@robcerasuolo9207]

"Big is More of Small!" 😁

[@imannonymous7707]

Good choices

[@youflatbro7498]

Yeah, those quotes made me subscribe. LOL

[@mountainstartemple6041]

I thought these were reasonable slogans to live life by until that fateful day when the angry elephant came trumpeting around the corner towards me

[@eronackerman565]

Gotta add that one to the Ten Commandments of rock

[@burresseffects]

My anti-pedal of choice is the original Tom Scholz ROCKMAN. I really wish someone would make a pedal version of it for me. It's an integral sound of almost all music made in the 80's, and being born in '83, I just can't live without that sound in my tonal color palette.

[@johnmcevoy3598]

Blending even a little of it with another amp lends a squashy sugary saturation like banana taffy.

[@descendinguniverse666]

I`d pick up Danelectro and Ibanez, where`s the Anti Pedalboard though?

[@ben87219]

Space Expire Audio ...when you say “Anti-Pedalboard” do you mean the massive shelf behind him, for example?

[@ChrisDavis1975]

The anti pedalboard for all these units is a flatbed tractor trailer. 🚛

[@descendinguniverse666]

@@ben87219 nope

[@Darm0k]

The floor.

[@jamespierce8786]

Rack?

[@evazquez0625]

Every time I watch a video, I end up buying another piece of gear. My girlfriend is growing concerned, but also love this channel.

[@josephfelice601]

Cocteau Twins - anything, but Blue Bell Knoll fits your 80's request.

[@SimonJohnOwen]

I love Bluebell Knoll, such a great album

[@rstuartcpa]

at last....something decent from the 80's...most of the other suggestions are too pop for me.

[@1004ninja]

Would have to say "Treasure"

[@duncan-rmi]

any of the 4AD stuff. I'm out after that.... bluebell knoll is terrific though.

[@habsi70]

80s Albums - you cannot forget Talk Talk - It's my life. Maybe a bit too early (1980) of course Scary Monsters - David Bowie

[@hunterthompson2206]

Good call on Talk Talk - I love the last three albums. The more "difficult" they became, the more interesting they sounded.

[@JonathanLindsay]

@@hunterthompson2206 after you listen to Eden and Laughing Stock and then go back to the pop albums, puts them in a new light. Amazing music.

[@eddylozanomusic]

me: :leaves work early: boss: where are you going? me: Josh told me to go play guitar. boss: who? me: :gone:

[@darrellmcdonald7883]

Gotta do whst the man said to do.

[@rstuartcpa]

but you have to work to earn money to buy the pedals to play the guitar

[@philgutherless5802]

Best 80's album that gets overlooked due to a 'one hit wonder'.....Thomas Dolby's Golden Age of Wireless. The hit was 'She Blinded Me with Science' which I hated, but the rest of the album is so good, I would dare label one of the best kept secrets of the 80's.

[@dwightgarcia9197]

I swear Josh Scott IS the Mr. Rodgers of our time. And of pedals. All the pedals. All of them. 🖤💜🖤💜

[@valvenator]

I'd love to see him walk into the room, put on a sweater and sneaks while singing Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood :) ...it's a beautiful day for a pedal,...would you be mine?...could you be mine?

[@rstuartcpa]

Bring on the puppets!

[@hunterthompson2206]

@@valvenator I second that! Josh, time to get a cardigan sweater and a pair of Keds!

[@MitchGurowitz]

Favorite band from the 80’s (who are still playing great shows to this day) are The Smithereens. Guitar rock rules!

[@thewickedwizard]

Tears For Fears - Songs From The Big Chair. Great mid eighties album!

[@shckltnebay]

The Hurting gets my nod for their best

[@ultratone]

Every Tears for Fears album is amazing, songs from the big chair still totally holds up.

[@KurtLorenz]

Agreed!

[@MagicPants647]

They’re such great songwriters. Like the Lennon and McCartney of the 80s

[@pauldietrich9787]

Absolutely!

[@HaydnMowbray]

Great to see the HD1000. On the list of 'things I shouldn't have sold'. 80s album? Talk Talk's Spirit of Eden - a band doing a very firm change of direction - a very cool interesting band in both pop and experimental incarnations. Keep up the great podcasts and pedals!

[@FFGG22E]

Kramer guitars were also located in Neptune NJ. I worked there in the late 80early90s. Lot of guitar history in Neptune.

[@baldersackthethird768]

I still use my Kramer and it has the Neptune New Jersey plate on the back.

[@shanewright2772]

Bonus fun Neptune fact - it's Jack Nicholson's home town.

[@neilpatrickhairless]

I used to own a white Kramer single p/up deal that was a Korean? import but still had the Neptune NJ neckplate. Had a Kramer branded neck that was supposedly made by ESP on it but I am not sure on the legitimacy of that. Body was broken in half, and the neck was later stolen.

[@baldersackthethird768]

Yeah pretty sure my Kramer is Korean made too. Heavy like a Gibson, which is getting a bit much for the back these days, so I tend to use my Epi Broadway more.

[@MitchGurowitz]

Nj has a great musical instrument history, Guild is another.

[@sourceaudioeffects]

Slightly under the radar 80s records? XTC - "Skylarking" or "English Settlement."

[@joseevildead666]

Daaamn those Boss rack units sound awesome. Instant 80's tones. 👍🏻Although nothing beats that Leslie.

[@jordandangelo180]

Yes it did. I was blown away by that unit and I want to buy one if it’s available to purchase

[@mendBOT]

My thoughts exactly! Oh my god, as a Boss fanboy I really need to find one

[@jordandangelo180]

there are a lot of videos on KZbin of people demoing them. There distortion and chorus two separate units. they are either going to be cheap because it’s old tech or really expensive

[@sparkyguitar0058]

When I saw those, 1st thing I thought of was Rockman's anti-pedal original stuff. All the half rack noise those things made. Would be cool again. For about 10 minutes, then get sick of it again

[@markhamburg5535]

I had the RDD-10 and RSD-10 and loved them.

[@cortical1]

So. Since I'm older than you, Josh, I can tell you something about that a-ha album that you might not know. The title track Hunting High and Low was released with a music video on Mtv that was so over the top, even for the 80s, that the complaints made Mtv remove it from their rotation. I personally never knew what all the fuss was about. So it features a man who turns into an eagle, then a man again, who turns into a shark, then a man, who then turns into a lion that breakdances. Pretty standard 80s stuff. Honestly, Living a Boy's Adventure Tale and Here I Stand and Face the Rain are both great songs from that album. Cheers.

[@simongunkel7457]

I guess it was the part where the shark gets harpooned with plenty of blood in frame...

[@davidpggarrett]

My mid-80s guilty pleasure is World Machine by Level 42 😉

[@SimonJohnOwen]

First album I ever bought, on cassette of course

[@jonathanstewart5269]

Hi Josh, I may have already asked you about this, I am hoping I'll find someone who can tell me about it without having to go to TGP (shudder). If I did ask, then I apologize for asking again. Any who... this episode reminded me a little of my old Ibanez UE400 Muilt-Effects unit. I don't know much about it, but it's 4 stomp boxes placed in a rack unit with a foot controller that turns each of them on and off, made sometime in the late 70's (I think). On the rack unit, you can place the pedals in an order you want. There is even an effects loop, that can also be placed anywhere in the order. There's a compressor, overdrive, phaser, and stereo chorus/flanger, and apparently they are 10 series pedals. Can you shed any light on this? You'd like it, it's too big, impractical, and the connector for the footswitch is ridiculous.

[@TyCrawford]

New Clear Days by the Vapors, known for its hit "Turning Japanese" is overall a KILLER album overall. Trains, Letter From Hiro, Sixty Second Interval, all great tracks. Would recommend

[@shaunw9270]

I really wanted that LP at the time ! I was only like 11 .. I think I bought the Lambrettas , Beat Boys In the Jet Age instead lol 😊

[@TyCrawford]

@@shaunw9270 i managed to find it in a goodwill and snagged it immediately

[@TheEdWebb]

I love that album a lot-Turning Japanese is in fact one of my least favorite songs on there.

[@jettramel]

I still might have the album, but I do have the CD, it was fresh. Letter from Hiro & 60 Second Interval some great songs off that, your right. Now that you bring that up, there are a lot of bands like that, Record company went with the pop song but other songs as good or better, the Knack & Blind Melon jump out at me, but I could come up with tons more. Jump over my Sharona & listen to the rest of the album. Good insight Ty.

[@marin4311]

Boss distortion: this is more than heavy. It's an Earthquake.

[@Duckeezilla]

I mean, after Fraggle Rock where do you go to be honest? ....but for pure, concentrated 80s give "In Your Room" by Yazoo a listen (comprising Alison Moyet, who coincidentally did guest vocals on A-ha's MTV Unplugged album; with Vince Clarke (of Depeche Mode and Erasure). It's not ALL synthpop. ;) "The Innocents" by Erasure is another super 80s album!).

[@mcbrodz1663]

Fraggle yazoo is beautiful

[@FFGG22E]

you may remember Austrailia's The Church from their hit "Under the Milky way" , but in 1985 they released an album called Heyday which is brilliant guitar wise from open to close. One of the best live bands I've ever seen, the band used their effects to ...well... great effect. Sorry. Here's 'Night of Light" kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y6OTkoCKjMZ3mNE

[@thatellipsisguy8984]

FFGG22E The Unguarded Moment FTW

[@uuuUNUuuu]

Where is the bass pedals episode? C'mon!

[@uuuUNUuuu]

@MomoTheBellyDancer Real bass don't give a single slap about, what real bass needs.

[@jameshill2015]

Thank the tone Gods for modern pedals! They all were aweful until you got to the monstrosity that can not be duplicated.. The Leslie type cabinet.. That was a unique tone that I am sure in person is amazing..it puts out a TRUE dimensional sound/tone/vibe you are not going to duplicate with a stomp box. Good vid..Thanks

[@georgesuarez1949]

Great/Forgotten 80's album......The Alarm - Strength. Great riffs and songs. Bit more testosterone than the A HA guys.

[@Covinaman-00]

The Alarm..yes

[@jayreimer6851]

Don't forget Midnight Oil (Diesel and Dust, Red Sails In The Sunset albums). And The Church. And House of Love (She Shines On, I Don't Know Why I Love You). And World Party. So much good stuff. But yes, The Alarm was great, and also responsible for a good chunk of my hearing damage. I saw them on the Raw tour and they were so loud, you couldn't hear the jets flying over. The old Starlight Bowl in San Diego is under the flight path; I had no ear protection at all, and they just annihilated my ears.

[@jettramel]

If your down & need a pick-me-up, pout on the Alarm, big fan, Strength is a good album, great guitar parts.

[@hunterthompson2206]

My mid-80s album pick is "The Crossing" by Big Country. Everyone knows the song "In A Big Country" but the rest of the record is great too. Very 80s production and guitar sounds but in a good way.

[@mypal1990]

I can't wait for an episode titled "ANTI-AMPS." Watching the video right now. Thanks guys!

[@TheeCapN]

it would probably consist of small diy altoid can amps or effects and amp sim racks

[@thBrilliantFool]

Cough cough kemper cough cough

[@matthewwinter5780]

@@thBrilliantFool technically and definitionally anything that amplifies signal is an amplifier, if it goes in one side and comes out louder....it's an amp. Sorry

[@thBrilliantFool]

@@matthewwinter5780 no need to apologize. No argument here.

[@TheRealCaptainFreedom]

Anti-amps: carpet samples.

[@ashersolomon9560]

Personally I love rack effects, they just look cool and make you pROfeSiNaL

[@taatsmusic]

"Men at Work - Business as Usual" a really great 80's album that gets overlooked due to a one hit wonder.

[@BrendonMacintosh]

Have you heard Collin Hay's (singer and Guitarist from men at work) solo work... I first heard a song of his on the Garden State soundtrack then looked up his whole discography some amazing stuff.

[@taatsmusic]

@@BrendonMacintosh yes, he is an awesome songwriter and never lost it

[@davidkastin4240]

Men at Work are not a one hit wonder band. They had a nice run of hit songs. Check their Greatest Hits album

[@ScottAmpleford]

If you’re looking for a criminally under appreciated artist, you can’t do much better than Thomas Dolby. The novelty hit “She Blinded Me With Science” sort of overshadowed his career. But his albums “The Golden Age Of Wireless” and “The Flat Earth” always sit amongst my favourite albums of all time.

[@xebio6]

"Aliens Ate my Buick" is a fave of mine. He was like Prefab Sprout's fifth member, responsible for how great "Steve McQueen", "Langley Park to Memphis" and " Jordan the Comeback" sound.

[@rasmusolesen5307]

Til Tuesday : Voices carry. Extremely eighties. But very cool. Especially since it haven't been played to death for 30 years.

[@johnnysimes5082]

The guitarist for Til Tuesday was Robert Holmes, from Boston. He was a fabulous blues player who formed his own band, Ultra Blue, which played great rock, nothing like Til Tiesday. He played through a Leslie and sounded great. So Josh clearly understands the cosmic connections between all these 80's bands and anti-pedals.

[@dddccc14]

Oh shush

[@liamtahaney713]

Weird I just heard that song on the radio and thought about it for the first time in a really really long time. And here it is.

[@loulasher]

Yes, I think that and their second album, Welcome Home are great. Maybe they sound dated, but I still enjoy them a lot.

[@rogerio_guitarist]

I had that record when CDs didn't exist yet, and I loved it. Production may get dated but Great doesn't.

[@AlexB89]

Hunting High and Low is one of my favourite ever records - it’s magic from start to end. As for further recommendation? The Circle and the Square by Red Box is insanely great.

[@NewFalconerRecords]

Good luck getting that tuner onto your guitar headstock!

[@horizontalblanking]

Back in the 80s I got a FREE Boss RPD10 delay with the purchase of a Roland DEP5 reverb rack. Gave the delay to our keyboard player. That was a dumb idea. As far as 80s albums... The Fixx “Reach The Beach” is great. The super compressed, and crystal clean sound of Jamie West-Oram still has a place in my heart.

[@rocknrollmonkey8668]

Christopher Clement to this day I will use 'One Thing Leads To Another' to check my PA system. The production was so clean amd still really holds up.

[@Capitanmez]

You forgot the Fender Reverb Unit. The only and first reverb. 6G15

[@druwk]

Milkman reverb/tremelo unit. Peter Gabriel’s third melted face album. Frip’s guitar sounds amazing. No cymbals

[@FakingANerve]

6:55 That Boss sounds AND looks like 1985!

[@Grindian]

Those old boss half racks were dope! I love my Mesa Boogie V twin preamp rackmount... any record by The Cars!... those synth sounds!

[@bpabustan]

I bought A-Ha's Hunting High & Low on December 1985. My favorite songs there aside from the two songs you mentioned are Train Of Thought, Living A Boy's Adventure Tale, And You Tell Me and Love Is Reason. If you are searching for more mid 80s albums, I recommend The Adventures' Theodore & Friends, The Colourfield's Virgins & Philistines, The Cure's The Head On The Door and Standing On A Beach - The Singles, The Jesus & Mary Chain's Psychochandy, Everything But The Girl's Love Not Money, The Smith's The Queen Is Dead and Hatfull of Hollow, The Housemartins' London 0 Hull 4, The Bolshoi's Friends, and Gene Loves Jezebel's Discover I like the Multi-Echo though it was the first time i saw it on this video. If I can pick a good anti-pedal, I would go for the first rackmount releases of the Eventide Harmonizers. I would love to get my hands on them, if only to replicate accurately the solo on Owner Of A Lonely Heart.

[@chrisdrake447]

First 1980s non-metal albums I bought: The The ‘Infected’; Thomas Dolby’s ‘Golden Age of Wireless’; and Bauhaus ‘The Sky’s Gone Out’

[@MisterNiles]

Check out the Blinded By Science Ep. I think it's better than Golden Age.

[@trebleboost7]

And ... The Flat Earth album. brilliant.

[@mackymcklusky5138]

I hated the skys gone out at first and then I became my favorite bauhaus record.

[@ExperimentIV]

the sun always shines on tv is incredible and so is morten's voice!!! amazing taste

[@IsothermeMusic]

Josh, Thomas Dolby’s The Flat Earth (1984) is a masterpiece.

[@trebleboost7]

Yep.

[@silvertongues2]

I used to take a 760 to gigs, it would entirely fill the back of my VW Golf!

[@PhilHeesen]

Thomas Dolby "The Golden Age of Wireless" - so great!

[@2good2lose2day]

That album A-ha recorded, wasn't on digital audio tape ? If not, it was done on a 1 inch reel to reel, which still records in higher fidelity than the best digital system. It may have been recorded on a Fostex 1/4 in. reel to reel. Those record higher fidelity than anything digital until 2014. ATR continues to develop tape and heads and other electronics. Digital recording is now about 20 years behind in it's ability to record sound data. Digital playback can is only 1/10 the quality of a reel to reel. Play "Eruption" on vinyl or tape, and listen to the delay trails (analog tape delay "Echoplex"). Then listen to a digital version.

[@karimvillalobos6933]

I’m a huge fan of this channel, just wondering why the TC electronic brand is never mentioned in any episode??

[@almightytreegod]

Karim Villalobos He did do one on Behringer, which from my understanding is the same company.

[@markferguson3745]

Because they don't make anything unusual or exceptional?

[@karimvillalobos6933]

Hall of canons, that makes sense, but I’m talking about the pedals themselves like the Hall of fame, Flashback, even the politune, or the mojo mojo used by Paul Gilbert and Johny Hiland, there are some good and famous tc electronic stuff

[@Superjet113]

Ive seen him show TC pedals before, like the TC 3rd Dimension chorus..

[@alexmurphy5289]

He's had tc electronic pedals on

[@mootbooxle]

“I thought you said you tuned this guitar?” “You got CONN’d” ok im sorry

[@LTJR.]

Straight from the mouth of Norm Macdonald

[@davidozab2753]

CONNNNN!!! Straight from the mouth of Tom Servo.

[@RichardGroulx]

Come on. Chuck Norris wouldn't carry the Leslie to a gig. He would simply throw it from his studio directly to the stage where he'll play next. :P

[@rstuartcpa]

No, he'd move the stage to the Leslie

[@hallamhal]

Chuck Norris doesn't need a Leslie, he rotates his own speaker

[@muddymike10]

Mid-80s Boss shred...your greatest 20 seconds on U-Tube... favorite early 80s unsung Lp? 1982's "Code Blue " from Code Blue of course. Featuring former Motels guitarist, former bassist from Vibrators/Roxy Music, and former drummer from Mud Crutch!

[@duncan-rmi]

I was once offered a precision bass that had belonged to gary 'mr' tibbs. had to pass as I was cleaned out after buying a '63 p-bass off eric stewart... :-)

[@nex]

"Too much is more more." - Tim Marcus, probably

[@skipdawg9681]

My favorite obscure mid 80s record, Die Kreuzen either October Files or Century Days. Props to guitarists use of looping delay on track titled Number 3, (Century Days). Saw him do that live and was hooked

[@MrMatt55551]

"You don't carry it to a gig" Hahaha, so true!....wait my band carries one to every gig...

[@jettramel]

I know these guys that had a Christian band back in the late 70s & they carried one & I have a friend in Houston that take it & his Hammond to gigs, he's very sought after player, must have some serious roadies / Sons to move that stuff around. lol

[@rpc66ish]

The Multivox MX-312 Multi Echo and the Leslie. I would love to hear those together!! Concrete Blonde is a band from the '80s that was overlooked. The singer is incredible and the guitarist is no slacker either. Loved their first Lp, the "hits" were on subsequent LPs. They're a bit melancholy at times, but Johnette's voice makes you forget that the music just made you sad.

[@grateful4068]

I've waited so long for the EHX fetish film, and it just never comes. 😭

[@m0j0b0ne]

SO much 80's vibe here, where too much of a good thing = perfection. I tend to risk good money on anything Univox/Multivox at yard or garage sales, because when they work or are broken 'just right' they're amazing. I have a friend who repairs Leslies for churches, and you'd be shocked and amazed how big they can get; probably for the same reason as pipe organs. Louder is more better. Or something.

[@paulroberts3547]

love this guy and his vids o and makes pretty good pedals as well ,,

[@TheBlackham]

Another great episode man......one of my.favorite overlooked 80's albums is "So red the rose" by Arcadia.....crazy good if a little indulgent lol

[@CarlosSaavedra-fw3pi]

A lesly speaker!? Come on! Great stuff as always Josh!

[@TheRealCaptainFreedom]

*Leslie

[@mixedmediawoodwerks7246]

Wow!! A Conn Strobotuner...I faced one of those to tune every day, 2 times a day my senior year of High School. Concert Band and Stage Band. It was of course permanently tuned to A# (except for those of us who preferred to tune to A) . Those were the days.... (1977)

[@mstrassnig]

A great forgotten (I‘m not sure, is it forgotten?) mid-80s album is the 1984 Echo & the Bunnymen Record „Ocean Rain“. Great songs and reverb!

[@shckltnebay]

Heaven up here is their masterpiece imo

[@khonsuthecore4788]

7:26 I forgot music existed for a second and I was very intrigued like "Igneous 2: the electric boogaloo?"

[@stemmers]

Alesis MicroVerb - classic late 80s/early 90s room/hall/plate reverbs

[@melvins1992]

No Fender Satellite SFX? I had to sell mine but man, what a cool multieffect slave amp cab thingy they are.

[@boaleman6894]

'The Seventh One' by Toto is an absolute banger album front to back!

[@MagicPants647]

the album Juju by Siouxsie and The Banshees is a great 80s album. John McGeoch was an awesome guitar player.

[@machmen1000]

I always like the album After the Snow by Modern English. Yes it has the hit “Melt With You” I always fast forward through that song.

[@KurtLorenz]

machmen1000 I listened to that album recently, after not hearing it for 20 years or more and I was shocked at how good it is!

[@tomhill9066]

my pick as well

[@davemabee5798]

"fast forward"???

[@julienklettenberg5816]

I saw a-ha play in February last year, just before the world went into lockdown. They played the entire “Hunting High and Low” album, from top to bottom (which meant that they opened with “Take On Me”, and we could then get on with enjoying the show). They’re still a great band. I’m glad you like them.

[@ragingchimera8021]

Pfft... Chuck Norris doesn't carry the Leslie to a gig, the Leslie carries him.

[@joseislanio8910]

Raging Chimera he doesn't use rotating speakers, he rotates the whole crowd while he plays statically

[@xebio6]

Prefab Sprout "Steve McQueen". Check it out if you haven't.

[@mattgilbert7347]

The Blue Nile "A Walk Across the Rooftops" is a great mid-80s record.

[@squarego1]

I was just about to write that! 1984! Tinseltown in the Rain is prob the best known track from the album - kzbin.info/www/bejne/aKKYdHqCfa9ga5Y

[@muffevans5667]

@@squarego1 One of my favourites! Just that line though, - Hey, there's a red car in the fountain. What?

[@hermansiebers1030]

I like 'Hats' by Blue Nile

[@blakemcnamara9105]

The Alesis Midiverb is really cool as it was used heavily on the first Stone Roses album.