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This may be shameless self-promotion but it's for a good cause: Your viachicago board-mate/mortal enemy, me, ginandcigarettes, James, will be sitting-in as guitarist for SpongeBob and the Hi-Seas at their next show. Yes, THE SpongeBob Squarepants, or, at least, THE voice of THE SpongeBob Squarepants, THE Tom Kenny, playing music from THE SpongeBob Squarepants album, THE

Good points, all! A Tube Screamer and its clones (Full-Drive, Route 66, 4,000 others) are industry standard for any rock guitar gig (though I recently replaced my Full-Drive because I got kinda tired of that creamy sound and went in a more AC30 direction). A tremolo is something to have, but don't ignore the cheap Danelectro Tuna Melt ($20 or so on ebay) -- It's good enough for Bill Kirchen. Strings are right up there with pickups and amps; 10's will get you a good twangy sound, though whether this is the tele tone you have in mind depends on your tele heroes: James Burton uses a hybrid se

There's probably more voodoo surrounding the tele than any other guitar. That's not to say that it's unwarranted just that almost everything in that went into the original nocaster is reputed to be essential in getting great tele tone. A whole boutique industry has popped up based on the voodoo. Whether the voodoo is true is totally up to your own ear and I won't seek to dispel any of it, but here are some thoughts on the things that were mentioned and some stuff that wasn't: Brass saddles are generally considered part of the tele voodoo supposedly because the extra mass provides more sus

I get it. I really do. And I mostly agree with you. I don't think there's much distance between us at all. But I think that most of the problem you have with digital effects isn

The Nord Electro is very good. The velocity switching is almost imperceptible. Plus you get a great B3 and Rhodes. I find it needs a little compression and a tube in the chain to warm the whole thing up, though. The Yamaha Motif and Motif ES (and their cheaper siblings with the same sounds -- S90 and S90 ES) are also excellent and give you a few more options if you like to play with that stuff. Kurzweil is probably number three in my book. I don't like Roland's or Korg's EPs, but it might just be prejudice (something about the EQ). All these things run at least $1200. You could p

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No problem. I'm glad I could be of help. My mounting credit card debt is your gain! RE: the Silverlake part: Yeah, I love and hate my own hipster-ism.

I have a Korg CX-3 (new) and it is very, very good. I've also owned a Nord Electro until I sold it to my bandmate (so I still get to use it at gigs). The electro is also very good. I like the basic sound of the Korg as well as the layout of the controls. The 1' drawbar is a little shrill, but the Leslie sim is to die for. It's also pretty tweakable and just about every parameter is editable. Also, the CX3 has reverb, which the Nord doesn't have. The Korg's overdrive leaves a bit to be desired, though. The Nord has better chorus/vibrato (at least to my ear it sounds more like the re

I play lead guitar and some keyboards in the breakups: www.myspace.com/thebreakupssuck If you're in LA, check us out at Mr. T's Bowl on July 23rd. I also play piano, organ, and synth with Biirdie: www.myspace.com/biirdie Biirdie is talking about touring in the fall so I'll keep you posted when dates and locations are set.

Oh yeah, you're right, Drop D capo 2 is much easier. Thanks, socbret. It also exposes an error that I made in the original tab. Luckily the tab tansfers over so easily: 1..V.....^.....V.....^.....V.....^.....V.....^...... f#-------------------------------------------------| C#-------3--3--------3--3--------3--3--------------| A--------2-----------2-----------2-----------------| E--------------------------0-h3--------0-----------| B--------------0-h3--------------------------3-----| E--0-h3--------------------------------------------| 2..V.....^.....V.....^.....V.....^.....V.....^.....

Didn't someone already take a stab at this? Actually, I've never heard this version. Is there an mp3 floating about?

This is true

Thanks! Glad I could save you some trouble. Cheers

I waited almost a whole week to give others a chance to reply. Oh well. Maybe you can give "Patient With Me" a shot: Patient with Me (new song) tabs Oh, wait.

I'll make two passes at this song, first, just the chords for the beginners and then the fingerpicking for the intermediate class. With capo on the 3rd fret: [C] [F6] [E7] [F] [Em] [C] I should've [F6]warned you, [E7] I'm not [F]well, I can't [Em]tell [F] Oh there's nothing I can [G]do to [F]make this easier for [Em]you You're gonna [Aadd9]need to [bb6]be [G7/B]patient with me [C] [G] [F6] [C] I'm this [F6]apple, this [E7] happening [F]stone, when I'm [Em]alone [F] Oh but my blessings get so [G]blurred [F] at the sound of you [Em]words I'm gonna [Aadd9]need to [bb6]be [G7/B]patient w

Save your bows for some one more worthy; I don't even know how a bouzouki is tuned.

It's called "not having a girlfriend." And thanks.

PageTheSage1275 transcribed a pretty accurate version of the

I saw him play Junior at the Troubadour on the Palace at 4 AM tour. He solo'd so much on the song that HE HAD TO SIT DOWN to continue solo'ing. It was pretty cool, though.

In the indie-rock scene in Los Angeles (I'm such a hipster -- kill me), I've noticed a preponderance of Rockstand pedal cases by Warwick. They go for $120 but they used to be considerably cheaper ($90?), so if you find one in a store like Sam Ash (which caries them), you can probably talk them down a bit.

Thanks.

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Yeah, I'd totally trade mine for the smaller version. The big guy takes up too much real estate.

It's a little interesting how little my pedal board shares with Jeff's. Actually, it's not that interesting at all. Just the Boss Tuner snd the Volume Pedal (though, I've the larger version).