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Today, we will talk about the majestic beauty of music.

When I say music, I don't mean "music," I mean music, in it's most complexly layered form. There are bands who will have vocal, drum, bass, and guitar. Then, there are bands like Radiohead.

Really, no matter what other bands I will grow to love, Radiohead will still always strike me, like, every time I listen to them, I grow on them, and their musicality.

It's truly a beautiful thing, really. When no one else will speak to you, music will, and it will speak to you in the ways you want to be spoken to, ways that some people would never.

Lets talk about layering. I'd love to point out that layering, and depth add immensely to a song. Now, this doesn't mean that Radiohead doesn't have simplistic songs, because they do, and even those songs make me want to make love, but still, there's something about them, especially those heavily layered songs, they're beautiful marvels. Lets say we have Thom's voice, Jonny's lead, Ed's rhythm, Colin's very obscure and lightly volumed bass, and Phil's drumming. That combination alone is amazing, but, when you add in electronically modified/played pieces into the song, it adds a depth that is unthinkable. You can have a synth playing in the background of the band alone, and it's like pure ear sex, but when you add even more than a synth; the band, synth, electronic beats, MIDI modulation, and ring modulation, fuuuuuuuuck. It's just indescribably beautiful.

I'm guessing another factor of the beauty would be the various effects which Jonny and Ed have to their guitars. Jonny's effects are based on his guitar's capabilities, these effects are run going from his guitar, pedalboard, and finally to his amp. These guitar driven effects come in the form of metallicly encased boxes which are turned on/off through a footswitch, and are fine tuned to specific calibrations through knobs (See the bottom two pictures, my pedalboard is like Jonny's but not as large as his, because I'm not rich enough to afford everything), he also has 3-4 keyboards, all with different purposes, on stage. One is a simple keyboard used for more basic songs. Another is a "French Connection," which is like an ondes martenot (One of the first "synth" instruments; besides the fact that it's a keyboard, it can play notes to no end, for lack of a better explanation, a sustained note/s.) and two others can process Thom's vocals and further process the guitar. Jonny first used an original Ondes, but over time, he acquired the French Connection which is a much more modern Ondes, and is much more practical for use in the band. He also has a Mac running Max/MSP, which again is another effect processor.

Ed on the other hand has his effects based on Thom and his guitar. He has very complex effect pedals which can manipulate Thom's voice to, in itself, add effects to Thom's voice. He has a Fender Strat modified with "Sustainiac" pickups which like the ondes, creates sustained notes, so, instead of strumming a chord with the pick, he can simply put his fingers in the chord position, and the guitar will play like a synth. Ed is very complex, but I haven't read as much on his as Jonny.

I'm sorry lqtm, I can get really carried away with this kind of stuff, it's majestic in its own way..

Below, are my effects so far; the topmost (Black pedal labeled; "Shredmaster,") is the newest acquestition. The bottom is all my other pedals besides the Shredmaster, since it was the last one I bought, and I don't have a picture of all of them together, so just imagine the two pictures combined (: . I also have a self custom build Telecaster, which, besides two small things that I need to add on, is exactly like Jonny's guitar, which is a late 80's Telecaster Plus.