hi everyone,
i'm jim roth, a super noob here! not even a month. anyway, i'm 46, my wife Tara and i just had our first son Eliot in december, and i play in the band BUILT TO SPILL. here is a pic of me after just waking up, on tour somewhere in germany.
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i live in seattle WA (for 17 years), but lived most of my life in Iowa (des moines/iowa city). i played in THE HOLLOWMEN in the late 80's and VOODOO GEARSHIFT through the mid 90's. the GEARSHIFT got signed in 91' to CZ records in seattle and we subsequently moved here in early 92'. after touring like crazy and playing with some great bands for nearly 10 years the GEARSHIFT had had it. we never formally broke up, just stopped playing, in 96'. i went on and formed THE DELUSIONS with my friends dave keppel and matt marti who previously played in the seattle band BONE CELLAR. after several years with THE DELUSIONS i ended up hooking up with BUILT TO SPILL. i joined BTS in 1999 and have gone all over hell with them since.
throughout all that, i'd accumulated a fair amount of musical equipment, which i routinely spent a fortune on to get fixed. finally, poverty/necessity drove me to figure out how to fix a tube amplifier (thanks aspen pittman and gerald weber!!). i've been fixing amps since the end of the last century and picked up pedal fixing/making a few years later. i wouldn't call myself a true builder (i'm not trying to start a business or anything), but since then i've made a few pedals for the band and fix up all our gear too.
through my years of repair i know i stumbled on the old D*A*M forum several times, but i don't usually frequent any sites regularly. i'd just go out looking for something pertaining to what i was fixing or thinking of. i'd never join any. they're all bright white, sterile and seemed strange to me. they'd usually have some info, but too many of the members seemed like total wankers! this place is waaaay different!! everyone respects one another, the conversations are relevant and helpful, and it feels like a community. plus, Sickle keeps the riff raff out!!!
i love jazzmasters, telecasters, orange/matamp, a good fender (tweed deluxe-super reverb) and all manner of fuzz. i have a medium sized collection of stuff...too much to list, but nothing like API or GRAHAM have!!, plus a small but fairly well equipped studio in the basement (2"-24 track!). and like i said, repair any manner of tube amps, and build a few pedals, here and there, between tours and now...diapers. i've posted a thread in the new NEW BUILDERS section,
viewtopic.php?f=31&t=1645viewtopic.php?f=31&t=1645 if anyone has any interest.
i'd like to thank the CAPTAIN for having this place, being totally cool, and making such kick ass pedals! and to SICKLE for everything he does!!
see ya'll round the place!
p.s. here's a couple of shots of stuff
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Sickle moderator edit: Jim is a bashful kinda guy, and I need to step in here and let people know he's got some cool pedals he's built for sale in the new 3rd party area:
http://www.stompboxes.co.uk/forum/viewt ... 45&start=0
Great stuff, I have a BRSSY, a Maestro Brassmaster clone, and love it to pieces..
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) for Apple. I like improvisation and droning and noise and making pyschedelic music. I have a sick obsession with Illuminati conspiracies and the films of Stanley Kubrick. I am involved in three bands: Odhinn (side long space rock jams worshipping Amon Duul II and thee mighty Hawkwind), Sungod (guitar and drums, loudLOUD...Swans & Sleep & Sonic Youth?) and most recently d'Auseil (improvised droning and noise owing to Tangerine Dream, Spacemen 3, and Cluster).
