Since 1999 we've provided a home for oddball guitarists that suffer from various excesses and deficiencies. We like ambient, noise, and the avant garde, and so on, but, we still like to rock too.


noise


We started off with a tiny Yahoo group for experimental guitarists that gathered some players from a variety of early, on-line bulletin boards, especially the old Harmony Central guitar forum.


Our first real dot com home was a site called Shred Like Hell (www.shredlikehell.com) which has since been lost to the sands of time.



The totem for this site was a thing called Bofatron Sofasaurus who created a topsy-turvy whirlwind of consternation due to his irreverence and the ferocious density of sound created by hyper-speed techniques. Guitar One Magazine called BoSo a "Chops Monster" but everybody else just wanted to run the thing out of town.


shred


SLH became too crazy and Bofatron was recalled to his home world. The site was rebuilt by Infinite Ego and designated Kronosonic. Kronos was a huge success and, with success, it became a huge and expensive pain in the ass and the whole thing was scuttled and a long chain of slumlord message boards were constructed in a long, drawn-out game of hide and seek. Followers? Forget 'em! Fame? Who needs it? Money? Huh!


Facebook reduced our last message board to a virtual ghost town so we decided to just submit to the corporate overlord and create a group there for our amusement -- and it was great to see some old faces that we had lost along the way. Join us!


oblique


"GtrOblq" (the name was adopted from a Reid / Torn album) was one of our old haunts that we are now resurrecting. Along the way we have gained and lost hundreds of comrades but, for the most part, the core group is still around.