Balch: For the California Crossing sessions, I showed up with an old Marshall and a Big Muff, ready to track, but there were a lot of cooks in the kitchen during the recording of that record. When it’s Matt Hyde [producer of Slayer and Monster Magnet] and Nick Raskulinecz [engineer for the Foo Fighters and Rush] telling me what to plug into, however, I’m not going to debate them. Those guys had us using a ton of different amps—Orange, Laney, Marshall, etc. But for We Must Obey, we went back to what we thought Fu Manchu should sound like, and mostly used old Marshalls and fuzz pedals.