The Fox Theater

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Here's a QuickTime VR of the Fox Theater, where all the general sessions were held

Insane Guitar Graveyard

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"It Looks Like a Guitar Center Exploded in 1965"...
The Insane Guitar Graveyard

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...I don't know if the web-res film does it justice but this is just the most amazing thing: the attic of The Chicago Store which is actually in Tucson, AZ.

I'm not really sure how this happened as I've not gotten the straight poop from Craig or anyone on the weirdness of it all. As one person said last weekend, "it looks like a bomb went off at Guitar Center in 1965"...

The attic is probably around 4,000 square feet and almost pitch-black in some places. Everywhere you look there are just literally PILES of guitars, drums, cases, amps and what-have-you strewn helter-skelter as well as hanging from nails on the ceiling. Lots of 60's Sears Catalog-type ripoff guitars and so-forth, many of which are missing some parts. Some of 'em are REALLY interesting and most are not priced. If you had a flashlight and a full day to spare you could probably go through and cherrypick out the good stuff and end up goin' home with a shitload of really cool-ass funky vintage gear for your money. Craig kind of set this up for us but apparently they wouldn't let you up there normally at all.

The basement is about 1/3 as big and equally full of discarded musical riff-raff.

Gnarly.

Tucson Panoramas

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Here are some panoramic shots with captions in and around the Tucson area...


The hotel pool





Hotel Congress at night





Craig's live room at Wavelab





Craig's piano room at Wavelab





Craig and a wacky old tape echo





The Wavelab rack!





Jeff and Sasha checkin' out Craig's scene





Cracker rockin' the Hotel Congress





Myself and Martin Baird look on as Mark Rubel shows us the new Zombification Plugin during our Digital Performer panel





Bob Weston shows mid-side technique on a piano





Mid-side technique on a drumkit—she was an amazing drummer, too! From Matt Ward's band.





Get on the bus, Gus.





The 2:00 a.m. peanut butter and jelly sandwich+milk gorge fest in the hotel lobby.




Craig shows some isolation tips involving figure-of-eight patterned microphones and null points for recording a singer playing the guitar simultaneously.