Effective Slam

EFFECTIVE SLAM in Richmond, VA was INSANE!! Thank you all for showing up, playing pedals, and proving why Richmond rules. Thank YOU Andon @lanternmanufacturing for organizing such a great event, for your hospitality, kindness, and opening your home for us to visit and mingle after the show. Thank you to @stonebrewingrva for hosting in such an incredible space, thank you to friends both old and new for visiting with us. Thanks to Jamie for making the trip down with me and helping with the table and helping remember new folks names in the chaos of it all. Thanks to @relicmusicshop for manning the booth so I could take a breather, and thanks to new friend @gearnerdinaminiskirt for some of these photos and for hanging out, and thanks to too many homies to tag for your hangs!!! It was so nice meeting some of my internet homies for the first time!!! I love you all so much!!! I have 10 Slowly Melting left from the event that I plan on putting in the Big Cartel this week at some point.

Holy moly, RVA showed up and Slammed! @effectiveslam year one was a massive success, and a ton of fun! Thank you so much to everyone who came out, thanks to all of the companies and builders who took a chance on it (listed below, IG won't let me tag that many people!), thanks to MAI WAIFE for her support and help, thanks to @holy_moly and @johnrichmondmartin for helpin' out, thanks to @madeininkland for the sick posters, thanks to our neighbor Steve for helping with shaping the Slam board, and thank you very much to @bradleymaki and @stonebrewingrva for helping make this years-long dream become a reality. Let's Slam again next year. THANK YOU: Acid Rain Pedalworks Alexander Pedals Asheville Music Tools Audio Cultivation Project Baltimore Sonic Research Institute Brad Maki Brandon Peck Caroline Guitar Company Champion Leccy Damnation Audio Dead Air Death By Audio Deep Space Devices Dirge Electronics Does It Doom Dusky Electronics Earthquaker Devices Electronic Audio Experiments Enduring Audio Fowl Sounds Fralin Pickups John Martin Lantern Manufacturing Made In Inkland MAI WAIFE (my wife) Mask Audio Electronics Non-Human Audio Obscura Manufacturing Old Blood Noise Endeavors PCB Works Ray Raydecker Steve Stone Brewing Vaderin Pedals Voltic Electronic Devices

Richmond, thank you. I may have been born overseas. I may have been raised in Texas. We live in South Carolina. But I only started growing the f—k up in Virginia. Thank you for making it feel like home again. @lanternmanufacturing , thank you for the courage to give this a shot and the follow through to make this happen. We all came because *you* asked. @stonebrewingrva , thank you for hosting all our band of nerds and weirdos. Friends and peers, thank you. I wish I could have spent more time speaking with each of you. I’m grateful for all your kind words and support and encouragement. Glad to make the goods for you. May they deliver joy and inspiration.

Awesome day @effectiveslam ! Hung with Philippe @carolinegco while finally getting to try an @electronicaudioexperiments Halberd! Love meeting friends in the industry who are also amazing humans and help me understand their craft too! (Philippe seen reading the ol’ Richmond rag which was dissing his band in spiteful style)

RICHMOND VA!! EFFECTIVE SLAM: WE ARE HERE 12PM-5PM AT STONE BREWING, COME OUT!!

Also available today at @effectiveslam Caroline Guitar Prototype 2, serial number 002, by @shockthefox and us. Come say hello, try it out or take it off our hands. It’s amazing.

*all sold out. Thank you Richmond.* Now, there were days way back when I felt a little bit bruised by the old Richmond Music Journal. When one of their writers said my band and I would be playing the weddings of our female fans to “the insurance agent or retirement planners of their dreams” you could peel those layers of cultural and professional resentment like an onion. (Now, I would TOTALLY take that gig! Anybody getting married?) But I also loved reading it. I loved that in the mid 1990s, in a small city market, you had enough people who cared so much about local, live music that it could support a free rag that was thicker than the Sunday Style section or the weekly mag of a national paper today. Every issue that ended up in that newsstand got devoured. Some of the hate was justified. In hindsight, a lot of our bands did kinda suck! Often it could be a bit much. But then you’d see you and your friends get ranked somewhere between the 8th and 15th best guitar players in town. I discovered bands and players back then that I wouldn’t have found otherwise (Tom Ilmensee from Frog Legs in particular was a wizard.) It was part local gossip rag, part long form interviews treating a band that played for twenty people on a Wednesday like they were Pearl Jam, and some aspiring curmudgeon getting their reps in on a pre-Pitchfork 0.0 meets the review of Citizen Dick in “Singles” writing style. Images courtesy of VCU’s Digital Libraries. A percentage of sales proceeds will be donated to that archive so future generations will know that we weren’t exaggerating. We made twelve of these, and we’re never making more. Come see us at @effectiveslam

@effectiveslam tomorrow at @stonebrewingrva ! And these 18x24 Big Muff Pi posters turned out so good! Available in 5 color variants @lanternmanufacturing

Weeee see you tomorrow in Richmond from 12pm-5pm at Stone Brewing for EFFECTIVE SLAM!

Two more Bloody Getts engraved and ready to go for @effectiveslam on Saturday. Swipe for the reverse panel and action packed video of destruction to personal property that shall henceforth be known as the process of how I lost feeling in my thumb. #championleccy #thebloodygett #effectiveslam #bloodygett #handengraved

FULL CHUNG THIS SATURDAY AT @effectiveslam RICHMOND VIRGINIA

RVA, we cannot WAIT to see you this Saturday @effectiveslam 🎛️⚡️⁠ ⁠ Join us on March 14th in Richmond, VA @stonebrewingrva from 12–5pm.⁠ ⁠ Ollie and Heather will be there with a full table of DBA pedals for you to try, including some special one-of-a-kind colorways by @fedowitz for you to take home. In celebration of Pi Day, we're giving you 14% off + some free goodies too 🥧⁠ ⁠ FREE admission, all ages. See you there!⁠