deepseacatfish

Well that takes care of one Christmas present

I'm not on the list. Guess that makes me cool or something.

Vibes for you and your cat.

Have a great one

The Dots are pretty good for their price, I don't know too much about lower priced Gretsch's specifically. With any guitar under $500 the key is to go to a store and actually play on them, they are going to be variable in quality and finding one that you like is important, as well as finding one that has good workmanship. Some of them have cheaper electronics, but that can be switched out if you want. Another thing to consider is finding an older used hollow-body guitar--often the workmanship on these is pretty good and some have aged quite nicely, but just play around and see what you like

Yes. A lot of the albums on this list were well before "indie" even became a music term. I mean "Another Green World" is great, but I certainly would never call it indie--they're probably just using it as a catch phrase for "hip." It's just not cool to say the 100 "Hippest" albums these days or something. Also, Slanted and Enchanted doesn't beat out Daydream Nation. Also, my list would be named differently and look different, but Wilco deserves is place (and probably a few more up too).

Wilco's and specifically the Tweedy's generosity towards both their fans and causes like this amaze me. They are great people. I won't be able to make this, what with the school thing and all, but I hope that everybody who goes gets a chance to enjoy a really wonderful performance.

Glad you're enjoying the band, if you get a chance to see them live, go for it.

I will be there

Thanks for pointing that out, I overlooked it before because it was in Chicago! I'll definitely be there.

Yeesh, that sounds traumatic. Shipping Hollow-body guitars, particularly vintage ones always seems like a risky gamble to me. I'm glad that in this case it worked out pretty well for you (and not as terribly as it could have for the guitar). Glad you got a guitar that suits you though...that's the real important thing. A Barney-Kessel would be neat, but I'm thinking the college student budget will be prohibiting any serious guitar purchases for me right now. I'm sure someone will be interested though, once repaired that guitar deserves a good home (and hopefully a better trip there)

So a pair of people I work with at Grinnell have some sort of conference in Chicago and they needed a ride, so I volunteered after their other options fell through. Which means I'll be in Chicago this weekend from Friday through early-Sunday...wooo! I've been a number of times, and I took a glance through a couple different sites like the Chicago Reader to see what was going on, but if anyone has any recommendations on the following I'd greatly appreciate it: reasonably priced lodgings, favorite restaurants that I may have missed on other trips, and anything happening particularly Saturday

Wilco Calexico The Sea and Cake Akron/Family William Parker Quartet

I do like vindaloo though.

Huh, that's interesting, because I thought that this new one and the Woman King EP were the best things I've heard from him, period. I think the music just thrives with all the layers (particularly with the varied percussion to drive the texture). The older stuff is good too...but I like this a lot more.

Yeah, pretty much sweet, nuff said.

Haha, yeah, I saw that. Count me in.

These were my favorites of this year so far, can't really rank them yet, and there's still time for plenty of shifting. Battles-Mirrored The Sea and Cake-Everybody Radiohead-In Rainbows Andrew Bird-Armchair Apocrypha Wilco-Sky Blue Sky Deerhoof-Friend Opportunity Iron and Wine-The Shepherd's Dog Low-Drums and Guns Spoon-Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga David Vandervelde-The Moonstation House Band - I do want to pick up copies of these before too long, but I haven't gotten around to them yet. The National-Boxer New Pornographers-Challenger Kevin Drew-Spirit If Bon Iver-For Emma, Forever Ago Thurston Moore-

Solid State Technology might work as well for a place to post this. Sorry, Iowa is a little far from Berkeley

Send me this and I'll let you know--I would love to have one Seriously though, I'm under the impression that these are especially good for creating really out there sounds, so if you're not looking for crazy sonic color this may not be that useful. I've heard they're great in tandem with an E-Bow, but you can also probably get some more subtle warbly distorted sounds with it on a lower setting, maybe just play around. Trio's definitely have the potential to sound weak, but there's a couple things you can do to aid that. Yes, a strat is going to sound thinner in the mix of things, but thr

I'm a team player. Ps. No poo promise.

I think I'll save that hour for Monday morning

Slotted for this afternoon: Battles-Mirrored Yo La Tengo-Painful Tortoise-Standards Archer Prewitt-Three

That would be the Geraldine Fibbers-Butch.

I do like the Big Muff for straight up distortion, but if you don't like fuzzy sounds you probably want more of an overdrive pedal.