David Ellefson’s First Metal Church Gig + Primer 55 Rocks Rockville

So, um, and then, um, yeah, I just saw our, our last guest that we had, Terry Welty, uh, who we was just on with Alan from Life of Agony.

He's out, um, [smacks lips] uh, he's been Geezer Butler's bass tech for years, and now he's out with Jeff Pilson, uh, wor- with Foreigner.

So, I just saw him over in, uh, Mainz, Germany, uh, on Sunday last week.

So, it was great to see them and check out his rig.

You know, we were talking beforehand, uh, digital versus amplifiers, right? This whole-

Right

... modification.

'Cause I was down in Italy right before that with Andy Martongelli, uh, my Bass Warrior guitar player.

We were down there working on, um, a tone package.

Uh, basically c- c- pro- they, they, what Shoptones does is they, I guess there's a difference between modeling and profiling, so they were profiling, which I guess is taking sort of a digital snapshot of, of, m- in this case, my tones from over the years, P.O.D. to Rust in Peace, Countdown to Extinction-

Right

...

some Metal Church tones now, and just sort of, you know, to create a, a David Ellefson signature package that we're gonna push out, uh, later this year.

Um-

So, when you, so let me, let me stop you there.

So, when you-

Yeah

... play through those tones, do, does it sound like, "Oh, this does sound like my Rust in Peace era," or, "This does sound like P.O.D. to me"?

It does, 'cause what they do is they take the stems and they-

Mm-hmm

... basically model it, they profile it right off of the actual stem.

Yeah.

So, it, it is the deal.

And here's what I noticed about it.

So, I, I went there and we were shooting some promotional videos and stuff, and I was playing along, uh, to, you know, Tornado of Souls, Hangar 18, um, you know, Symphony, just various things to just, you know, kind of, you know, here I am playing the, the, the tone.