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I’m conflicted about TPS. Annoying personality traits aside, in their favour there is now a generation of amateur guitarists that knows which order to put their pedals in, how to combine gain pedals etc. On the other hand, they also think that the minute tonal differences between Tubescreamer clones should be pondered endlessly as if they’re fine wines (or track frames). I don’t have the patience to watch an hour of that.
I enjoyed their interview with Graeme Coxon, because he wrong-footed them completely. They were chewing their knuckles off when he explained how he got his sound in the early days - essentially ‘Someone gave me a Rat and it was ok, but it wasn’t loud enough so I added another one’. Then he explained how he played the solos on Coffee & TV - basically just smash it a bit and bend the strings until it’s in tune (a la Ira Kaplan), stomp on pedals at random. More staring at their laps, and realising that their carefully curated gear choices count for naught.