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After almost 3 1/2 years I finally hear from THE MAN HIMSELF:
Subject: Hi, I'm Rip Glitter
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 07:25:11 -0800 (PST)
From: Matt B
To: Steve
Hi Steve,
My name is Matt, but most people around the net know me as Rip Glitter.
A recent e-mail caused me to do some web searching on where Rip's reviews have turned up, and your site came up. Thanks very much for the compliment! However, I must clarify something: there are only four real Rip Glitter gear reviews: the Peavey 5150, the Jackson Randy Rhoads V, the DOD Thrashmaster, and the Danelectro pedal. All others (like that Dean Markley Pro-Mag) are imposters. You can usually tell because the imposters never link to their e-mail address.
When I found someone impersonating me, it got me hotter than my drummer's balls after a night with a St. Louis waitress.
Anyways, thought you should know. (And yes, I am really him -- you can e-mail me through the HC website if you want!)
Best,
Matt/Rip
So without further ado, here is the OTHER Rip Glitter review, the one I missed in my archive file, the Danelectro DD-1 Fab Tone pedal:
Price Paid: US $50 used
Ease of Use: 10
Okay, really, is any pedal difficult to use? There's four knobs, and in order to get this pedal working, all you have to do is start turning them all clockwise. If you don't like the sound, try turning some counterclockwise. Mix and match to what you want. If you can't figure it out after all of this, try plugging it in. Then start rocking out to your Seven Mary Three power chords or whatever the **** you're listening to, because you obviously haven't attained the brain power to properly operate a light switch, must less attempt anything more complex than a rousing rendition of "Cumbersome."
Sound Quality: 9
You want to know my setup? Damn you're a nosy bitch. 1974 Fender Telecaster through a Danelectro Fab Tone DD-1 into my Fender M-80 combo. That's it. Personally, I don't like having to **** around with 19 pedals when I only have two feet which are usually reserved for helping me run around the stage and leap off my amp during the downbeat of "Whole Lotta Rosie" when my band "Rabid Wolf" rocks out twice a week at the Greenbriar Bowl-A-Rama.
Reliability: 10
You want to know how dependable this pedal is? After I found my little brother Randy messing with the new chrome rims on my Camaro, I rolled my Fab Tone up in a towel and beat him like a stepchild on Sunday, and it was still able to carry me through the solo for Trixter's "Give It To Me Good" without even a hint of static. This pedal is designed for ASS KICKIN' hard rock, so don't even bother looking at it in the store unless you're ready to smash some punk in the teeth when he asks you if you were at the last Sneak Attack show, because that pussy wouldn't understand Sneak Attack if they were rocking out in his bedroom at 3am. So do both of you a favor and crush his skull with a Danelectro DD-1 Fab Tone.
Customer Support: N/A
Overall Rating: 9
If you don't get it by now, you probably never will. This pedal is ROCK rolled up into a neat little ball, and the people at Danelectro have been kind enough to let us have a little lick of the rock. This pedal is PUNK ROCK and HARD ROCK and METAL EDGED and everything else that music should be about -- getting loud, getting WILD, and getting chicks. Sometimes I'll take my Fab Tone and just wear it down the front of my pants, because it feels just as good to wear it as it does to play through it. And if anyone tries to give me crap about it, I'll grab 'em by the front of their shirt and tell 'em how they just walked into the jungle...and I'M THE TIGER!
Submitted by Rip Glitter at 01/09/2001 08:19 |