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I think you'll find that this becomes your favorite guitar because it is truly yours. The mojo factor is so thick on homebuilts that you could cut it with a knife!

WOOO HOOOOO!!! That came out great! That pickguard really sets it off. It looks super awesome.

It's probably some sort of DI (direct input box). I don't know if that's of any help.

Thanks a bunch!! Damn, Wilco is ssooooooooooooo good!!!!!!!

The Great Salt Lake is fantastic. I must say, that driving home from work and seeing the sunset and the real great salt lake is pretty damn cool with this song pumping. EATT is far superior to Cease to Begin. I got them both together, and if no one told me, I would have figured Cease to Begin was the older album. Certainly a step back -- not a big one, but not in the same league as the first one.

I am jealous. Just now listening to the show from the last two nights. Damn -- These guys are hands down the best band out there. I almost take it for granted.

I just watched it over the weekend. Very good flick. Sparked a good debate on the right/wrong argument. The last scene in the movie said so, so much.

BTW, Casey Affleck > Ben Affleck.

There was some activity that Jeff talked about recently that he described as "Foundations" or something like that. During this activity, Jeff would be in a sound-isolation booth where the rest of the band could hear him, but he could not hear them. He would sort of "jam" on whatever song he was in the process of writing and the band would do the same thing.

As far as Pro Tools goes, imagine a piece of paper where ever line is a different track, going from left to right. You can add another "line on the page", which will allow you to overdub. So essentially an entire band would never have to be present. One person could do all the recording themselves. Additionally, MIDI is so advanced these days that you can reproduce any instrument with a (piano) keyboard.

Jeff Tweedy did an awesome version of Dreamin' once. I have the mp3 somewhere. Anyway....great little 'converted' song. I've adopted my own way of playing, which is much like Jeff's. Just another idea.

Second that notion about Gretsches. I'm still figuring mine out, and I've had it for about six months. Sometimes it is the prettiest guitar I've ever heard, other times it sounds like total shit. Just feels like there are a million subtleties to master. Not a bad thing necessarily though.

Yep. My Jazzmaster is like that for sure. I just used it on some recordings tonight, and finally got some cool stuff out of it. Really a punchy sounding guitar. Me likey.

I've always wondered why blues songs are usually 12 bar.

 

Any answer from you music theory types?

The devil told Robert Johnson that it's that way, so it's that way. I really have no idea. I'm not a big blues nut, but I find it very intriguing that it "works" and in just about every musical key.

Todd, nice fucking song man.

if you hate them all then tell me, cos i'm not adverse to scrapping things and starting again as you can tell by the fact that there's 4 versions of it so far.

I like "alt take 1" it felt the most cohesive to me. Did you record it soon after your favorite take 1? Sometimes (in my recording) I have found that I get my juices flowing during "take 1" and then knock out the second take rather quickly...or something. Either way, cool tunes.

Got this from another forum, thought VCers might get a little laugh out of it:

1) Most Blues begin, "Woke up this morning..."

 

2) "I got a good woman" is a bad way to begin the Blues, 'less you stick something nasty in the next line like, "I got a good woman, with the meanest face in town."

 

3) The Blues is simple. After you get the first line right, repeat it. Then find something that rhymes . . . sort of: "Got a good woman with the meanest face in town. Yes, I got a good woman with the meanest face in town. Got teeth like Margaret Thatcher, and she weigh 500 pound."

 

4) The Blues is not about choice. You stuck in a ditch, you stuck in a ditch-ain't no way out.

 

5) Blues cars: Chevys, Fords, Cadillacs and broken-down trucks. Blues don't travel in Volvos, BMWs, or Sport Utility Vehicles. Most Blues transportation is a Greyhound bus or a southbound train. Jet aircraft an' state-sponsored motor pools ain't even in the running. Walkin' plays a major part in the blues lifestyle. So does fixin' to die.

 

6) Teenagers can't sing the Blues. Adults sing the Blues. In Blues "adulthood" means being old enough to get the electric chair if you shoot a man in Memphis.

 

7) Blues can take place in New York City but not in Hawaii or any place in Canada. Hard times in Minneapolis or Seattle is probably just clinical depression. Chicago, St. Louis, and Kansas City are still the best places to have the Blues. You cannot have the blues in any place that don't get rain.

 

8) A man with male pattern baldness ain't the blues. A woman with male pattern baldness is. Breaking your leg cause you skiing is not the blues. Breaking your leg 'cause a alligator be chomping on it is.

 

9) You can't have no Blues in a office or a shopping mall. The lighting is wrong. Go outside to the parking lot or sit by the dumpster.

 

10) Good places for the Blues: a) Highway; Jailhouse; c) Empty bed; d) Bottom of a whiskey glass. Bad places for the Blues: a) Dillard's; Gallery openings; c) Ivy League institutions; d) Golf courses

 

11) No one will believe it's the Blues if you wear a suit, 'less you happen to be a old ethnic person, and you slept in it.

 

12) Do you have the right to sing the Blues? Yes, if a) You older than dirt; You blind; c) You shot a man in Memphis; d) You can't be satisfied. No, if a) You have all your teeth; You were once blind but now can see; c) The man in Memphis lived; d) You have a 401K or trust fund.

 

13) Blues is not a matter of color. It's a matter of bad luck. Tiger Woods cannot sing the blues. Sonny Liston could. Ugly white people also got a leg up on the blues.

 

14) If you ask for water and your darlin' give you gasoline, it's the Blues. Other acceptable Blues beverages are a) Cheap wine; Whiskey or bourbon; c) Muddy water; d) Nasty black coffee. The following are NOT Blues beverages: a) Perrier; Chardonnay; c) Snapple; d) Slim Fast.

 

15) If death occurs in a cheap motel or a shotgun shack, it's a Blues death. Stabbed in the back by a jealous lover is another Blues way to die. So is the electric chair, substance abuse and dying lonely on a broken down cot. You can't have a Blues death if you die during a tennis match or getting liposuction.

 

16) Some Blues names for women: a) Sadie; Big Mama; c) Bessie; d) Fat River Dumpling

 

17) Some Blues names for men a) Joe; Willie; c) Little Willie; d) Big Willie

 

18) Persons with names like Michelle, Amber, Debbie, and Heather can't sing the Blues no matter how many men they shoot in Memphis.

 

19) Make your own Blues name Starter Kit: a) Name of physical > infirmity (Blind, Cripple, Lame, etc.); First name (see above) plus name of fruit (Lemon, Lime, Kiwi, etc.); c) Last name of President (Jefferson, Johnson, Fillmore, etc.); d) For example, Blind Lime Jefferson, Jakeleg Lemon Johnson or Cripple Kiwi Fillmore, etc. (Well, maybe not "Kiwi.")

 

20) It don't matter how tragic your life, if you own a computer, you cannot sing the blues.

I liked the essay.

TRY THE USED GUITARS TOO!

Totally. If you're in a large enough market that you can get something good used -- go for it. It'll probably be a little more broken-in too, which is great. And you can get more guitar for the money.

ps.. 31 minutes=8+23.....19 seconds=4+15

this is a stretch, but just havent seen the numbers in awhile...

I think this is probably spot-on. Good call.

the ability to snap a dude's neck with his feet.

"Break dance moves" is what Hurley called it, right?

I heard on ESPN this morning that good old GW has a pardon lined up for Clemens. Not sure if that's true....but it sure does fit.

Another great episode. I'm sticking with the hypothesis that the Oceanic Six realize that their lives are a wreck once off the island, and they're doing all they can to make the the remaining group doesn't get to come back.

BTW, how about the 31 minutes thing? -- very odd.

Actually Canseco did say that more than half of MLB players were juicing at one point. I don't think he has speculated on the percentage juicing today.

 

For what it's worth, Ken Caminiti estimated that 85% of Major Leaguers were on 'roids. That's probably an overestimation, but it shows that in the very least it had to have been pretty common.

In all of the talk of using, the part that makes me feel the worst is that the teams were seemingly condoning this practice, even promoting it. For some reason I find more fault with teams that did that than with players using because they felt they had to. Maybe that's just a cop-out for players who were using....

Though that clown is creepier than just about anything.

I've always found it funny that, on paper, clowns are basically supposed to be the funniest and happiest things ever....and yet, I'd say more people are freaked out by them than made happy. I can't think of anything else like that.

buy a seagull...........now

 

It's too hard for a beginer to know what to feel for, I wish I had help.

I agree. Once a person learns, then they'll know what they want. Even for well-versed players, some guitars just don't jive with some people like they do with others.

Gotcha. I retract my statement.

I don't see the purpose of this, the computer animation looks terrible.

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The whole essay sounded like a "look the other way" type of piece. The reason the people of America do have concern for the government and do want a strong nation are the results of not having to worry that there will be food in the grocery stores and firefighters waiting to help. That's why the US is dubbed as a great nation. America's citizens have the ability to criticize and make claims. That's what the country was founded on. How many large-scale, positive changes were made by accepting thing for what they are and just being okay with them?

Yep. Certainly a big idiot. I'd like to think, at this point, that if Clemens really is guilty he would admit it. Perjury is kind of a big deal This whole ordeal really stinks for baseball.