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Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone

611 - Pointy-headed guitars, vintage cabs, and German ambient weirdness.

Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone

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🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for Episode 611 of the Chasing Tone Podcast - Pointy-headed guitars, vintage cabs, and German ambient weirdness. Someone is at Maximum ET as the guys get misty-eyed about handheld computing devices from the late 1990s. Richard has found a pointy-headed guitar and is trying his very best not to buy it, but the guys aren't having it and are pushing him in the other direction. Have you ever used more than one expression pedal at once? The guys discuss the...

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0:00.0

Hello.

0:07.0

What's going?

0:09.0

What's going?

0:10.0

Greetings.

0:11.0

We haven't had an alien's greetings in a while, Richard.

0:17.0

I'm feeling very alien at the moment.

0:20.0

I'm probably at max alien right now.

0:23.9

Whoa.

0:24.8

Maximum extraterrestrial.

0:27.7

Yeah.

0:28.1

I just finished a sci-fi show.

0:30.1

I recommend it, Brigh.

0:31.3

It's called Pluribus on Apple TV.

0:35.3

I know you don't get a lot of time for the TV,

0:37.2

but it's a good one. Only because of the concept. It's Vince Gilligan. I saw the Blackberry movie, though, recently. That was really good. The Blackberry movie? Yeah. As in the handheld devices, the Blackberry. Yeah. Well, it's like, I mean, it's supposed to be like documentary style, but it's not. But it's pretty decent. What was the first? What's the gesture? Just like telling the downfall of the country. Do they still exist, actually? They do, but they don't sell phones anymore. Oh, interesting. They sell screen protectors. That would have been a good move for them.

1:12.8

I forget what they sell exactly.

1:15.7

If it was some sort of software for businesses or something.

1:22.8

I think it's high time with all this nostalgic 80s and 90s stuff coming out that we revisit the Palm Pilot.

1:29.6

I was literally about to say, guys, what was the first handheld computer that you had? And mine was the Palm Pilot. The Palm Pilot? Wow. Mine was the iPhone 3G. Black and white, well, black

1:36.0

and green Palm Pilot with its own little stylus, big old battery pack, touchscreen,

1:42.0

but it was one of those old spongy touch screens, you know ones yep yeah what was yours Brian I never had a Palm Pilot no I had I had you have a blackberry some of the construction guys had blackberries my wife had a blackberry I had a I want to say an LG something or I don't even remember what it was now. I had a little keyboard on it thingy. The sidekick? Yeah, it wasn't a sidekick. It was before that. We're talking 2004, 2005. I don't even remember. I still have it somewhere. 2004. I actually like the tactile keyboards.

2:18.4

I like the way they feel, man.

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