Ibanez Tube Screamer TS9

Today is bittersweet. On one hand, one of my best friends, and a guy I have played guitar with since high school, is coming over for a jam. We haven't played together in a long time and I'm really looking forward to it. Rosco last played with me one drunken night at The Shaft (my old local) when I was playing there with Sledge. He got up and played two songs with us, both Poison songs, Nothin' But A Good Time and Unskinny Bop. It was great fun and I know it got Rosco itchy to get playing again live.

The two of us have played in bands together since we were fifteen, and one band in particular was really good but unfortunately just crumbled because of..... jealous girlfriends, but not in the way you were thinking. More to do with my girl being better looking than the drummers girlfriend and her being jealous of that and causing trouble. But anyway, jamming this afternoon will be fun. As we have gotton older our guitar collections have grown, and Rosco will be bringing round his new 6/12 double neck SG and I'll be jamming on my PRS SE. One of us will be going through my Marshall and the other through my Fender Twin. Only goodness can ensue.

However there is a sad side to this. Rosco will be taking back his TS9 that I "borrowed" almost four years ago. I borrowed it when I started playing with Sledge for some additional kick in my solo's. Once I got the Marshall I stoppped using it as I had the fourth channel on that set up for leads. But since Sledge finished and I've been radically changing my stock tones I fell in love with the pedal. The way that it can add that extra character to a cleanish sound is just heaven. The sound of it in conjuction with my Tele and Twin is just heaven.

I'll be said to see it go, but I'll replace it with the Behringer pedal. It uses the same internal components and sounds remarkably similar. We'll see how it goes.