When I got home from work today (editor’s note: I rarely mentioned my job when I was blogging at The Formula Kid‘s site because I didn’t want people to know that we were working stiffs just like everybody else – what a schmuck) I was messing around trying to figure out how to approach the guitars in the chorus of Macarena Shoes. The approach I ended up liking the most was a rip-off-combination of Eric Johnson and Ian Moore.

The guitar rig I used is shown in the picture below. This head is actually a P.A. head but it sounds incredible. I used the Dr. Z Air Brake (the gray box on top) as a master volume so as not to get arrested for disturbing the peace but other than that it’s just the Tele into the amp.

I didn’t get any keeper parts recorded but at least I figured out how I want to approach it. You can download a short clip of the guitars here.

Drew Johnson's Sunn Rig

Yesterday I said I was going to start talking about my testimony, so let’s get started.

I grew up in church. My mom was the organist, a Sunday School teacher, and she sang in the choir. My dad was the director of the church’s T.V. show, a Sunday School teacher, and he sang in the choir too. We went to church every time the doors were unlocked – they were unlocked a lot. Over the years I sang in the kids choir, played in the hand bell choir, played saxophone during the offering approximately 300 times, went to all the youth conventions, joined Royal Rangers (the Christian Boy Scouts basically), you get the idea.

Church is where I learned to play music. I took piano lessons and sax lessons from our choir director. He was a wicked pianist and a lousy sax player but he was cheap. My mom’s side of the family had all the instrumentalists and my dad’s side had all the singers so I really lucked out genetically. In fact, I lucked out in other ways too but I blew it.

Stay tuned – it gets good. I promise.

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