mo' gtr shite

so for the pfffft! gigs, i've been using my son-in-law james' squier tele in place of my long-suffering strat. as i've commented before, it's less responsive and occasionally makes me work harder, but listening to the 4.20.2008 recording confirms my belief that i sound the same no matter what shit i'm playing on, so i might actually start using the tele for stoogegigs, too. only non-snazz aspect is either there's a bad fret in the neighborhood of F#/G on the low E string, or something in the hughes & kettner doesn't like those notes for some reason. will have to investigate further. other differences between pfffft!/stoogeaphilia setups: 1) i use reverb and a phase shifter for pfffft!; with the stoogeband, everything goes out dry and phasing-free, and 2) with pfffft!, i've been borrowing hembree's dod distortion pedal to add another color; it's just ever-so-slightly darker and warmer than the marshall bluesbreaker i got from sir steffin.