The Strokes.

[KJ]

Don´t know why but i love that retro style band. The warm sound of their distortion sweet to my ears man. However, do any one know what effects or pickups they use? Thanks.

 

[boofeng]

dunno... hee.

how cheap can i get in raising my posts.... lol

 

[boofeng]

dunno... hee.

how cheap can i get in raising my posts.... lol

 

[boofeng]

OOPS!!! above was a double post... i know why i always double post liao...



when i press back and then forward it double posts! one more step away from techno-idiothood! yay!



NOTE: this is not another cheap attempt to raise posts. its an "honest" mistake... hehe

 

[boomdoom]

good band

 

[AgingYouth]

Don´t know why but i love that retro style band. The warm sound of their distortion sweet to my ears man. However, do any one know what effects or pickups they use? Thanks.

The Strokes is a couple of rich boys who paid a producer good money to make them sound like a punk/ New Wave band from NYC in the late 70's. Much of the sounds are tweaked in the studios (at least, for Is This It?) rather than specific equipment to sound lo-fi.

But in any case, in 2001, both guitarists were using the Visual Sound Jekyll & Hyde (v 1.0)

 

[boomdoom]

one of them is a son of singer-songwriter Albert Hammond
who has the hit "It Never Rains in Southern California".

 

[AgingYouth]

Yeah, Julian Casablancas' (gotta love the family name) dad owns the Ford modelling agency in NYC. Good stuff...

 

[rearviewmirror]

Yeah, Julian Casablancas' (gotta love the family name) dad owns the Ford modelling agency in NYC. Good stuff...

"my dad owns elite model agency"

wonder why he decided to dabble in a band instead of just taking over his dad's work. blessed man.

 

[AgingYouth]

Oops... wrong agency! Hurhur...

 

[Guest]

i love the strokes!!!

one of my fave bands!

 

[boomdoom]

Yeah, Julian Casablancas' (gotta love the family name) dad owns the Ford modelling agency in NYC. Good stuff...

"my dad owns elite model agency"

wonder why he decided to dabble in a band instead of just taking over his dad's work. blessed man.

rock and roll is the ultimate fun

 

[embryo]

...and i lurve aging youth! hehehehe

 

[boomdoom]

strokes? I have a stroke

 

[kentheman2000]

I preferred their first album, where by the sound is much more vintage than modern. Yup...

 

[Guest]

is this it and first impressions are the better albums. not rly a fan of room on fire.

but the whole of is this it is actually listenable unlike first impressions, where it gets boring after the first half :?

 

[AgingYouth]

...and i lurve aging youth! hehehehe

Flattery gets you everywhere, DAH-ling... :wink:

 

[AgingYouth]

I preferred their first album, where by the sound is much more vintage than modern. Yup...

I've only the 1st album. Ahem, interesting cover. Prolly, the model talent on the cover came fro free. Heh.

The whole vintage sound is rather fake but still interesting. I think the embryo has some tales to share about 'em eh?

But though their entire career (okay, at least the 1st album) is based on Television, I feel that they do it better than Television.