-TJ-

EHX English Muff'n! What delay are you after, anyway? The EHX is nice but it wont get that sound. It does a good 70's marshall mid-high gain sound with a lot of top end. Cleans up ok, and cuts well (almost too well).... but I wouldnt recommend it for this application. Its not an overdrive, it does not stack well into anything else, but it does respond well for lead tones when you have a TS or low gain OD driving it. Overall fun pedal, but not as dynamic as it could be, partly to the EQ not being very responsive.

You just described the exact purpose of the Wampler Plexi Drive.... The OCD is a nice all around drive pedal... its like the tubescreamer of the 21st century, can pretty much go with any rig and get you decent tones. For the price ($130, its hard to beat)... however if you are looking for something specific like you described, I would get the Plexi Drive. The Menatone KOTB is also good, but I prefered the Plexi Drive for dynamics and touch sensitivity (but theres multiple versions of the KOTB and I only played the big box one).

Not that i consider myself particularly cool, but i wouldn't play one of those Taylor guitars onstage even if someone gave me one for free I seem to remember a company selling a guitar that had a "thumbs up" headstock a few years back. Anyone have an idea which one i'm talking about? I think they had ads in Guitar World about 10 years ago Taylor make some of the finest acoustics on the market, and their electrics arent too bad either. Tyler make superstrat variants. You would be quite fortunate to have one handed to you, they are played by quite a lot of studio aces on tour with some big names... and a few bums like Robben Ford. Of course you should turn it down on principle, a $4000 guitar is surely beneath you. Of course the headstocks look silly, but the burning water I played was a damn fine guitar... you forget all about the headstock when youre playing one.