Moe_Syzlak

D'oh! That's what i get for posting on theory when home sick with a head full of the 'Tussin. Thanks for the correction.

Well I haven't heard the straight sbd, but I do feel that I, personally, would like it better than this. This is not bad, don't get me wrong. I just prefer the crispness and the aud elements are very apparent to me. FWIW, I have very unusual hearing. I have a congenital hearing "disorder" where I hear high highs and low lows well above normal and hear the mid-range below normal. This makes it difficult for me to hear individual voices when there is a lot of background noise and causes me to very clearly hear the compression in MP3s below 256kbps (at least that is where I try to set my minimum

That's probably more the result of the completely sterile, no warmth sound of the post-Brent GD. Seriously though, I'll be the auds of the same show sound gawdawful and I doubt you'd improve the mix much by adding aud to the sbd. Sorta like the old air freshener ads. "now it smells like BO and roses!" I feel you end up with the worst of both worlds most often.... at least to my ears.

FWIW, the solo version (of Muzzle of Bees) I am working from (don't have the date) is capo 2. That picking patern is tough. From the sounds of it, Tweedy struggles with it too.

I agree that when bands play small rooms, you can sometimes end up with very poorly mixed sbd recordings, but I don't think that's the case here (or often in rooms larger than a bar). I have never understood people's preference for aud recordings, but to each his own. It's rare that you don't hear some crowd bleed through the on stage mics to give you that live feel and if I could improve on the boomy, often muddy sound in most venues and have it sound as clear as my home stereo, I would. Why wouldn't you!?! But again to each his own.

I've always advocated (although usually when someone asks about learning modes) the following order of understanding: - Make sure you know your fretboard (be able to find any note on any string instantly) - Understand intervals - Understand triads (basic chords) - Understand arpeggios (for extended chords; adding the 7th for example) - THEN understand modes Chords are just stacks of intervals and scales (modes) are really the same thing as chords. As far as understanding chord progressions, well that's a bit trickier. Sure there are standard progression such I-IV-V or the ii-V-I in whic

Looks fun! My party last night was off the hook too.

AJ Jacobs is hilarious.

Yeah thanks, I will. BUT I didn't intend this thread to be just making a recommendation for ME. I hoped people would post something that they are particularly enjoying at the moment AND write a little synopsis. There is SO much posted in the Now Playing thread that it is impossible to try to hear it all and perhaps this is place that will allow folks to get a sense of what the music might sound like before seeking it out to hear for themselves. So I hope people will post what THEY enjoy with a mini-review, not what they think I (or anyone else) would enjoy. Make sense?

Yeah, I know what you mean. Despite the fact that I grew up with the Grateful Dead and wasn't a huge "modern music" fan in the 80s and early 90s, I didn't really "get" Wilco until YHF. I've been through just about every musical phase there is and now do enjoy a lot of the so-called modern music that seems to be so popular around here. I have the releases from last year of all of the bands you listed, although only the National really grabbed me. The Caribou, Animal Collective type music I keep trying, but it really isn't what I'm into these days. I think the stuff I most enjoy these days is wh

One of the big reasons I visit this board is to see what similarly-minded music fans are listening to. I check the Now Playing thread probably more than any other. BUT that thread is often just an image of the album cover (sometimes impossible to even tell what album it is) and rarely much of write-up about what the music is like. I thought this thread might provide a spot for a more detailed description of music that is currently under your skin that you think others might enjoy as well. I'll start. While not new (about a year old), Menomena's Friend And Foe was my favorite album of last ye

I haven't heard much so far this year, but so far... 1. Malkmus - Real Emotional Trash 2. Cloud Cult - Feel Good Ghosts 3. The Raconteurs - Consolers Of The Lonely 4. Gnarls Barkley - Odd Couple

After one listen, You Don't Understand Me, Old Enough, The Switch and the Spur, and Carolina Drama are the stand-outs for me. I feel like a lot of this album sounds a lot more like the White Stripes than Broken Boy Soldiers did. BBS was one of my favorite albums of '06. So far, this one isn't grabbing immediately the way that one did, but perhaps, as has been said, this one is more of a grower.

Okay, so let's assume those were the only kids taken. There were still other people on the list taken, right? Adults? It just seems like no one is paying any attention to them. As far as no one in the front knowing people were taken, I don't buy it. Aside from Bernard, Ana Luciia, Eko, Libby were living with the front folks for a bit. Never did they tell the fronties the stories of the first few nights when tailies were taken n the night? Never did Ana Lucia and Eko tell Jack and his clique about the list they found? I don't buy it. They know people are missing (at least two of them kids) and

Well not only them. There were, what, 250+ people on the plane? How many survivors? The kids were on Ben's list and were taken in the first couple of days. Were there no parents? Does it seem in keeping with Jack's character, for example, to just abandon them? It's like the Losties totally forgot about them.

One thing we were talking about is where are the kids? I know they are supposedly at the temple, but why weren't there some people that when they are thinking they are about to be rescued don't say "what about the kids"? Presumably some of the background Losties are the kids' parents, right? Wouldn't they be freaking out about leaving the island without their children?

I have but it's been 15 years. It's not huge, but also not small. I saw Phish there in '93 and remember feeling like it was a big venue for them then. There are cool little opera boxes along the sides that aren't the best scenario for a bunch of whacked out Phish fans. I would imagine Wilco would be a little better in that respect. I honestly can't remember if that show was GA or not. If it wasn't GA, I don't think I ever went to my actual seat. I think H is 8th row, but I can't be sure. I'll ask the lady friend (who is originally from Colorado Springs) if she knows and post an update if I f

We got 4 tickets dead center, 8th row ORCH for Colorado Springs! Woohooo! I haven't been to the Pike's Peak Center since seeing Phish there in '93. Really looking forward to this show.

Listening to a mix I just made. Quite atmospheric if I do say so myself.... Star

A very nicely arranged solo at that. I would say listen to the studio Limb By Limb for a more straight-forward solo as well. There is some arpeggio work in that one that makes my head spin. Also, for those that said they like guitarists that are more subtle, check out Bill Frisell. He's been mentioned in here a few time (but not nearly enough). Okay here's mine (I know I can't count): inpo Bill Frisell Jerry Garcia Trey Anastasio Rodney Jones Tony Rice Django Reinhardt Steve Morse (with the Dregs at least) David Gilmour Mark Knopfler Grant Green Jimi Hendrix Wes Montgomery Joe Pass Len

Agree with this completely. I liked BAitUSA better than SBS.... MUCH better. I am also a huge fan of O'Rourke's solo output too, though. The funny thing is I like most of the songs on SBS a lot, but the arrangements seem lacking somehow with the exception of You Are My Face. I think the absense of O'Rourke is real issue (at least for me).

This is, in fact, what I did. Thanks!

So if I change the extension will it screw up my seeding on Dime?

I still have these tickets available.