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So you don't love her enough to buy it for her? For shame.

So you don't love her an additional $200 worth? For shame. Hmmm... What type of music does she play? If it's straight rock and pop the Privia would do well (and you can buy yourself another guitar with the money you saved -- note that this is how I got into massive amounts of debt). If you add classical or solo piano, the Yamaha P90 would be a better choice (as it is a more expressive instrument). The action is wildly different in these machines and since that is such a matter of personal preference, you might just have to drag her to a music store for some surreptitious research.

You have a bunch of options, most of them involve buying used. (1) Nord Electro -- Used, you could snag one for around $1000 or just over. I hate the piano sound that comes with the 2.0 OS but apparently the 3.0 OS has a much improved piano sound (I cannot verify this myself as I've not played it). Buy it used, upgrade it (for free) and go. Bonus! Among the top B-3 clones plus excellent EPs (really, you get this and you're set pretty much for life, this item is an many professional's rigs including our own Mikael Jorgensen's). Downside: I hate the feel of the keys -- too light for EPs,

Excellent, I did not know that. Thanks!

Thanks! Yeah, this song is actually hard to get down and I consider myself moderately okay at this Carter-style (?) picking stuff. The problem I find is getting up to the B string for the sixteenth notes in time and then just playing the B string. Oh well, practice, practice, practice.

Yeah, but I don't suppose it is as apprpriate to the type of txt file posting we do here. I just have a template like this that I've already saved in MS Word (in Courier New font , of course): 1..+.....+.....+.....+.....2..+.....+.....+.....+...... e--------------------------|--------------------------| B--------------------------|--------------------------| G--------------------------|--------------------------| D--------------------------|--------------------------| A--------------------------|--------------------------| E--------------------------|--------------------------| And rep

Interestingly enough, I quit smoking almost two years ago and I don't really like gin. I've recently become obsessed with the dirty charm of vanilla vodka and Coke, however. The last time I was underneath a table it was sangria. Before that, Stoli Vanilla and Dr. Pepper. I like the sweet stuff.

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So as I was suffering from insomnia last night, I decided to take my own advice. I didn't know the song, but I checked the credits and the one song I didn't recognize was called "Whispery Kiss" by Jeff Tweedy. Interestingly enough though, BMI lists the writers as Jeffrey Scot Tweedy and Jay W Bennett: BMI Listing for Whispery Kiss I'm not sure if this was helpful at all, but at least it's a start. Cheers.

They have to get the rights to every song that appears in the movie even if it's just a snippet, so I would check the end credits of the DVD for stuff that's not familiar and Google the results.

Ah, yes. You looked like you had a good time.

Ah yes, that was me (see above re: hipster). I think the Doris-Day-lookalike-with-longer-hair next to me caught Gary's pick (or at least picked it up off the floor) and crawled on the stage to get one of Mark's picks after the show.

Nah, she had longer hair.

No problem, glad I could help. I really didn't have any snappy thinking, though. I saw that the set list was just within grabbing range when Mark first set it down and I realized that I might be able to snag it. From there on out it was all about boxing out the blonde to my left who was also eyeing it. Yeah, I saw some folks in Wilco or Kaysettes t-shirts and I knew there were VCers in the room, but I'm painfully shy (I probably should have drank more, but then, the Troubadour should change less for drinks).

Nah, I am unworthy of that woman's greatness. I think she got Gary's more legible setlist. I was the wannabe hipster that stood in front of Marc and just reached over and grabbed his setlist in the most ungraceful way possible.

Speaking of set lists... For your viewing enjoyment Cheers

Well, I was about 20% right. Gary had a Hughes & Kettner Rotosphere (three swithces for bypass, stop, and fast/slow -- hence, from where I was sitting last night, I thought it was a multi-effects unit) for Leslie effects (a slow Leslie has a chorusing effect), a Boss TU-2 Tuner, and some green MXR-sixed pedal I did not recognize that acted as a boost.

Thanks! I won't get to it tonight or tomorrow or the next day but soon (probably this weekend if I don't take too many naps).

I saw Marc Olson and Gary Louris from the Jayhawks play an acoustic set last night at the Troubadour in LA. Gary had a couple of multi-effects pedals or something (I was in the balcony and I really couldn't see) and he added some chorus on a few songs and a Leslie sim for leads on several songs (he really, really liked the Leslie apparently). I think he also switched in some reverb and boost a couple of times. He sounded pretty cool and, with the possible exception of the almost omnipresent Leslie sim, it wasn't over the top. I'm going again tonight and I'll try to get a better look at hi

I would guess that most of us just haven't heard the song. If you YSI an MP3, I can take a crack in the next few days.

That's one sweet tele, G. I love Teles and have more than a few. I'll probably sell a couple of them as I am strapped for cash now. My number one is a CIJ 60's Telecaster Custom Reissue with Bigsby (much like Pat plays -- I don't dance around as much, though). I have Seymour Duncan Antiquity pickups in it right now (all of the electronics got swapped out for American parts) but I might try something else sometime soon. I'm making a partscaster with a Squier standard body, Warmorth neck, and Bigsby vibrato (I love the wiggle!) but I've been profoundly lazy lately. I need to put a nut,

Tee hee, I'm just busting you, John. You're absolutely right, though, delays aren't for everybody or every situation. When I saw Jay Bennett solo, he just had a clean boost. But you'll probably use a delay more than a flanger, phaser, or wah-wah (I do at least). I've seen used DOD analog delays on Ebay go for around $60 (the 80's stompbox verson, not the 70's car battery version). You have to like that sound, though. To answer your question, I'd guess Keef was using that on one of the new songs, you know the ones they wrote after people stopped caring about them, or he has it on all

And yet...

I'm not a big fan of multi-effect boards. They do a lot of things pretty good, some things pretty poorly, and nothing great. That said, if it sounds good to your ear, with your amp, that

Be careful what you ask for. The simple explanation: Harmonic minor scales are the same as natural minor scales except that the 7th degree is sharped: E minor: E F# G A B C D E E harmonic minor: E F# G A B C D# E C minor: C D Eb F G Ab Bb C C harmonic minor: C D Eb F G Ab B C