Dannyalcatraz
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Welp…it looks like I was right about ME. Apparently, the dude hisself is moving from England to Japan, and whatever you can find on the market is all there is, at least for now. I went looking for a Zig Zag and a Lonely Robot (souped-up RAT), and found…a single used Zig Zag on Reverb. It’s currently on its way to my house.
The stores that sell new (listed on ME’s Stockist menu) have a lot of “Sold Out”/“Out of stock”/“Backordered “ tags.
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On 6/25/2022 at 6:08 PM, Caevan O’Shite said:
Well, then-
"Ladies and Gentlemen, in the Center Ring... "
That’s the first one I’ve seen in this thread I’d consider “divisive”.
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AFAIK, ME is a one man operation.
And supposedly, he’s contemplating a move which may cause him to shut down for a time…or permanently. So I’m STRONGLY considering getting the ME pedals on my GAS list. The Zig Zag would be one.
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Magnetic Effects is one of those companies that simply does good work. I’ve got several. They’re kind of like a smaller, English version of Keeley.
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Don’t know how new it is, but I found this after checking in on Magnetic Effects- I hadn’t for quite a while.
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Saw this late last night- the title track from The Mars Volta’s new album:
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The difference between the undeniable flexibility of a Variax and a pickup swapping system-especially one like this- is that the latter gets you the precise pickup qualities you want because you’re actually using those pickups.
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I don’t clearly recall, but I wouldn’t be surprised. But I can see the logic for both.
Single pickup swaps have more “fine tuning” options, no question. But I bet the wiring for that is pretty complex. An all at once swap probably involves fewer wiring and construction issues. It also may be less “fiddly” because of its larger size.
Of course, if the pickup makers and guitar builders just started talking to LEGO…
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Tone Pod: Jon Kammerer’s modular pickup swapping system. I have six of his axes, but this is new and something I haven’t seen.
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On 5/27/2022 at 10:49 PM, surfergirl said:
Anyone familiar with Golden Age Parsons Street Humbuckers from Stewmac.
I actually have a fairly high end guitar that came with STEWMAC Golden Age humbuckers.
That’s a semihollow guitar from Jon Kammerer (the model name has changed over the years as he’s tweaked the design). When this one was made, he was using the Golden Age and Seymour Duncan pickups as his standard options. Since I bought this guitar, I have definitely spent money changing or upgrading pickups on other guitars with products from Lace, Bareknuckle, Tesla, Vintage Vibe, and The Creamery, but I never took these out. I don’t feel the need.
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On 6/4/2022 at 12:01 PM, Caevan O’Shite said:
1977...
That was my intro to ADM.
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So far, no concert dates near D/FW.
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12 hours ago, Larryz said:
Everybody has a tune or two they really like while others wonder why?
Absolutely!
My personal collection is over 5k CDs, covering a huge swath of time and musical genres. I’d have more if practical matters like $$$ and storage space didn’t impose tyrannous limits. And I can guaran-damn-tee that anyone browsing the racks would eventually find something that would cause them to doubt my sanity.
And of course, that’s not including the stuff I HAVEN’T bought!
Hell- there’s stuff I absolutely don’t play for certain people.
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20 hours ago, Caevan O’Shite said:
It's catchy, it's silly, it's 'lite', it's no progressive masterpiece but it's good songwriting. Simple can be good.
What about "Give Me Back My Wig" by Hound Dog Taylor? Gad I love that song!
I wonder how many polydactyls actually get into music…
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Gotta say, as a former cellist (20 years), owner of an eBow and owner of a few but not all of EHX’s 9 series pedals, that new one interests me as well!
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20 years? DAYum!
I can’t say I was a big fan of pre-split Genesis. By the time I discovered them, the two camps were already forging distinct identities. And for me, Genesis’ forays into pop were really good for the genre. Their prog sensibilities brought a gravitas to pop that had been lacking for most of the genre’s history. They undoubtedly changed the boundaries of what younger pop musicians could do without having to reinvent themselves.
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I have an odd relationship with booze. I’m not an alcoholic, but I could have become one very easily.* And with my blood pressure meds, one drink feels like 2-3, so I’m not going to be knocking them back anytime soon.
We have lots of alcohol in the house, and I really do enjoy it, both as a beverage and as a cooking ingredient. We drink more wine and spirits than beer, but there’s definitely at least a dozen beers of different kinds in the fridge. And if you look at what we have on the liquor cart or the wine rack, you’ll see our bottles are dusty.
I probably drink more than my parents combined…and I don’t drink that much. Had a beer with pizza last week, and that was the first alcohol I’d consumed this month.
Some beers I miss:
Dragon Stout: a Jamaican beer I stumbled on in a bar. Dark, but with a sweetness to it. I used to have 1 with dinner after going to bar review class. Sadly, it hasn’t been available in Texas in more than a decade. I don’t know if it’s even made anymore.
Razin brewery products: I got to tour the main brewery in Moscow around 2005 as part of an MBA program class. When we arrived, the entire staff was flying high because they had just been bought out by Heiniken about 2 weeks prior. So when our class reached the end of the tour, they brought us into the boardroom and sat us down at the big wooden table. At EVERY seat was a bottle of EACH of their 11+ different beers from ales to stouts to porters to something called kvass**, and a plastic cup- the tasting had begun. It was 10:30AM. When I got back to the USA, I looked for their stuff. Never found it. In fact, Heiniken may have actually shuttered the company.
Lindemann’s: this Belgian company sells lambic beers which are dark of body and fruity of flavor- we’ve had cherry, raspberry, apple, and peach. They’re sold in individual serving bottles as well as some the size of wine bottles. Not sure as to the alcohol content. But they’re becoming harder to find. Those places that still sell them typically only have one flavor in one size.* it’s a story I’m fine telling, but I’m not going to unless asked.
** kvass is a low-alcohol beer made from fermented cinnamon raisin bread, and tastes a LOT like Dr. Pepper. It is even served as a fountain drink besides western soft drinks.
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Oh, I know Britney isn’t one of those who writes any meaningful percentage of their own songs. Nothing new about that. We could probably do a nifty thread about songwriter/musicians who have done great work for other artists as well as their own recordings: Bob Dylan, Prince, Niles Rodgers, Lady Gaga, Pharrell, Babyface and Michael Bolton spring immediately to mind.
That said, I wish Mr. Thompson had done it as a straight up madrigal cover. It would have fit in nicely with all that bardcore stuff on the Internet.
Point of Information: Bardcore is a “genre” of covering music in folk/archaic musical styles far divorced from their original forms. In some cases, the lyrics are even done in the language appropriate for the older genre of the cover. Ritchie Blackmore’s band with Candace Night- Blackmore’s Night, surprisingly- sometimes covers his Deep Purple and Rainbow songs (and others) as folk tunes with minimal electric instrumentation, so (sorta) qualifies:
And then there’s stuff like this:
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My personal interaction with music is that almost any band that can make a blip on the cultural radar has done at least one song I genuinely like/don’t actually hate. I don’t care for Britney Spears, but I loved “Toxic”. I’m not a fan of Meshuggah, but I frequently track down “Bleed” on YouTube.
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1 hour ago, Caevan O’Shite said:
I highly recommend it! I might have to- I am very likely to- also obtain a Keeley 'Super Phat Mod', the first of the three variations of Keeley-branded Super Phat Mod stomps that are initially based on Robert Keeley's combination of modifications that he used to make to customer's Boss BD-2 Blues Driver pedals.
OK, you have my attention!
i have the Keeley Katana Blues Driver, which is their production take on the BD-2 mods. That is a niiiice pedal. It fascinates me that RK was able to improve on something Boss clearly nailed. (It is pricier, of course, but not ridiculously so, IMHO.)
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7 hours ago, Caevan O’Shite said:
I could get some similar sounds from my beloved Keeley 'Retro Super Germanium Phat Mod'. Some. Maybe not quite identical, but really close at the least. But this ThorpyFX Scarlet Tunic pedal will do things that the RSGPM wouldn't quite, and maybe vice-versa. I bet they'd go well together, RSGPM stacked into Scarlet Tunic... In any case, I really like it! I kinda want one! And I bet it'd be great for stacking with other pedals, fore and aft!
Keeley is one of those companies with a solid product line, across the board. And if you’re paying attention, they usually have a bit more control or some trick up their sleeve that you don’t really see in similar pedals. And while their stuff may be pricier than the bigger brands’ stuff- Boss, EHX, etc.- they’re still usually cheaper than the “boutique” builders like Chase Bliss or Strymon. I have quite a few Keeley stompboxes, but not that one.
For the curious, ThorpyFX is in that same category of pedal builders for me. The ones I have bought have seemed to have very nice controls. They’re pricier than Keeley, but part of that is they’re made in the UK. They’re also built to be used by abusive guitarists, VERY sturdy.
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4 hours ago, Scott Fraser said:
Correctamente. It's distortion that doesn't feel some odd need to utterly obliterate chord voicings, like so many others. And the tone controls REALLY have a massive effect. A serious tone shaper, and as always for me, the most interesting part is just the first few percent of harmonic distortion. Of course the problem here is that Andy could play a real POS bit of crap gear & make it sound like a million bucks.
I’m pretty sure Andy would NEVER use his powers for evil.
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I’m not an opera fan, but my Mom’s a music teacher AND an opera buff. Luciano was one of her faves. But we both laughed off the performance I mentioned above.
OTOH, there’s a few singers in metal with operatic training who make it work- Rob Halford probably being the most famous example.
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18 minutes ago, p90jr said:
I just watched a vid that Rick Beato posted about this act, who he found on MySpace back in the "Stone Ages" and produced, and how it is unjustly ignored and obscure... a classical guitarist making pop music... and I'll be damned if I can't stop listening to it...
Personally, I find that the skills and aesthetics of classical instrument players translate MUCH better to non-classical genres than do those of classical vocalists. Pavarotti singing along with BB King on “The Thrill Is Gone” is pretty comical, for instance.
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Lost & Found Recipes
in Now We’re Cooking…
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We all have them in some way: dishes people around us cooked, but time and tide have taken away our access to them. Perhaps it was a dish a now deceased relative used to Cook. Or maybe you moved across country and can’t cook it yourself. Maybe the ingredients simply aren’t available where you are.
But sometimes, you’re able to do some sleuthing and experimenting and rediscover the magic…or at least get close enough.
i started learning how to cook when I was 7 or 8. But it was many years after that before I started trying to prepare some of my family’s more unusual dishes. Several have been lost; few have been rediscovered.
My great aunt .Muriel made a great cake, but nobody had made it in decades since she passed. And someone asked me to make it, We had a recipe she had written down late in life, long after the last time she had made it herself. And as I made it, it was clearly not accurate. Fortunately, I was able to figure out what was wrong p, and saved it.
My paternal grandmother-Muriel’s sister- made a ham, potato and thyme soup that was fantastic, but nobody else liv8ng seems to remember having it. I’ve been experimenting for years now, and have come up with some really nice recipes, but none are true to hers.
Now, I’m getting ready to go through the process again. My last maternal aunt died a few days ago, and there were a few holiday dishes she absolutely nailed. 3 in particular were in high demand, and it’s going to be down to me to figure them out: sweet potatoes, deviled eggs with shrimp, and a glazed ham. I’m tackling the last one first- her sons are in town handling her affairs, and none of them have time to cook the stockpile of food in her freezer. So I figure feeding the horde is a good use of my time.