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The best setting is the one that fits your amp and guitar. If you have a guitar with high output pickups, humbuckers, or otherwise, it's going to take more volume from the pedal to get the volume of your rig to go up when you hit the stompbox. If you have a kind of bright fender type guitar you want your tone set a little lower so it's not shrill. If you have a lower wattage amp without a lot of headroom when you hit the overdrive it's going to smack the amps preamp and squish it. That can be great or terrible, depending on your goals. Don't be fooled into thinking there is a secret code

I've told the story here at least once so I'll cut it short; I ran in to him at a bar in L.A. and he was exceptionally nice. I had a drink with him, he's cool.

And herein lies the cracks that reveal how extreme your bias is. The conditions of legality do not guarantee goodness. There have been many depraved acts committed by Americans who were legal owners of the instruments with which they committed the acts, including chasing an unarmed man after being instructed not to and shooting him when a fist fight ensues. This is not the first time you have confused legality with righteousness. The entire history of state societies is rife with the slippage and contradictions between these two conditions.

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Street name? Smart phone. We need to take a pistol out of that holster and put a 3g phone in there. No death, problem solved.

Really?! Much like Wilco fans, it takes all kinds and you never know what you're going to get. I call Binaural, and Riot Act their later classics, self titled a ho-hum album and Backspacer their fall from grace. Also like with Wilco, it's cool that while they're disappointing some people, others are getting pumped.

I started with skepticism, then the punk groove caught my toes, then they had the poppy bridge.... and I'm pumped. So much cooler than the last album already.

In the eyes of that particular jury, in our court system, yes. But the point is that doesn't make it a fact that you can hang up on humanity, or a higher power. The truth often has more to it than that. Just because the law doesn't punish someone doesn't mean in certainty they didn't commit a crime. The reverse is also true.

I doubt it would happen. They have pretty different musical agendas. But don't call Grohl a one-trick pony. Look at some of his other collaborations for the Sound City thing, he can work with Stevie Nicks as well as Trent Reznor. Dude is versatile. I guess what I'm saying is it would never happen, but if it did it wouldn't be like sticking "Monkey Wrench" on top of "Radio Cures".

No matter what, we do know that an unarmed man was shot dead by a man who weighed a good deal more than him. The man with the gun engaged when he was told not to. The one thing to keep in mind, is a court or jury is not a final decider of right or wrong. They decide if there is conclusive proof to punish a wrong. The jury ruling doesn't give Zimmerman a high five, he's not proven innocent. They just couldn't prove him guilty.

What the hell is that supposed to mean? You want Snowden shot in the junk? Because he told you the government is sifting through your email?

So while these details are unclear, and are being debated in a court of law you have already made up your mind what happened. I'm glad you're not on the jury.

It's like the strategy for Sarah Palin. Just ignore, and we'll all move on.

Yeah, I like it. I'm going to have to spin it a half dozen more times before I can compare it to You Are Not Alone. The production is gorgeous. There aren't any songs I dislike. But I'm still waiting to see if it grabs me as a whole.

You have a fixation and it's weird.

Edward Snowden may go to Ecuador, or maybe Cuba, or somewhere else. It is most important that we note at this time: who freakin cares?! Yes, there is some foreign relations gossip to come out of that, but I can't believe how little energy the main stream media has devoted to processing the implications of what he leaked, and the civil liberties issues that are in question here.

I'll say the limited audience skills in the U.S. seem to be a bigger problem every passing year. Everyone likes to have fun and talk to each other, and for this reason they do it a lot. I don't think an unceasing, stoic silence during a rock concert is appropriate, but holy shit if some people don't talk through some of the better musical experiences. There's an art to being receptive and only taking things in, without having to throw your personality out of your mouth. I find movies, live music sets are the best types of places to hone this skill. I can blab almost everywhere else.

I would say if plain old alt-country is not your thing, then you might be more swayed by Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, or Middle Cyclone. They're a good mix of alt country, chamber pop, rock and roll, lots of imagistic lyrics. Amazing albums all around.

Bummer. I wasn't at the show. I did see a conversation that looked like "Man I'm so disappointed in that set." "You're crazy, it was a once in a lifetime opportunity." "So I guess you can't have an opinion on here." It seemed to me like people who enjoyed themselves were countering the complaint with their own opinion. Maybe it was expressed in a less than caring way. I find if this kind of stuff gets on your nerves it's best to avoid most any internet forum, because people's words tend to come out strong on these things. T hat said viachicago is a pretty nice place, nicer than some

I picked up The Pale King, by David Foster Wallace. It was posthumously published with his editor having to kind of decide how to assemble his notes and various writings intended for it in a way that worked. It's weird, but for a book about working for the IRS, the nature of boredom, and without a centralized narrator, perspective, or even a definitive ongoing narrative it's totally accessible and enjoyable. It reminds me of how some of the Calvino stuff is structurally so out there, yet unpretentious in the sense that it's not really about being difficult. It's like an entertaining colle

I'm calling unnecessary snark on that.

I agree with that. And not to sweep East German history under the rug, but overall the way Japan, Germany and Italy progressed in the decades that followed was pretty singular. I think some of the social, political and economic successes there have forever hypnotized the American mind about what greatness can come out of a war. American reluctance to engage with Germany (and the continued commercial exchange between us), rampant domestic racism against Japanese, allying with Stalin, and the use of two atom bombs are where it gets complicated.

It's no conspiracy theory. It's a complicated war. Read about it. People have romanticized it to the point of mythology, but "the only good war" line is pretty bunk.

Until you dig deeper.

"I never saw it as being a hero, brother. It was just doing what needed to be done. Now my friend can live." Holsters gun and looks pensively across the horizon.