i was listening to the soundclips of that head, and thats definately the new part of stephens distortion. i saw them last saturday and it sounded like his distortion had more nuts than it did before (hard to believe) and because they dont have amps on stage iwth them i couldnt tell why. this is definately a piece of the puzzle.

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