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  1. One guy (call him John) was always busting the chops of a rich rancher/oil man (Al) about how cheap Al was.  

    Whenever John died, he had the funeral director put a big price tag on the casket, showing how much he spent on it.  All just to fuck with Al for being so cheap.  John was my hero.  

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  2. On 4/13/2023 at 9:34 AM, Fudge Nuggets said:

    A combination furniture store / funeral home isn't something you see every day.

    I can't count the number of times we delivered furniture to one town, then drove to another town to pick up a body from a different funeral home.  

  3. 4 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

    honestly I wasn't all that excited about the doc but now I am. I was assuming it was going to be "here's Isbell and the 400 Unit recording an album", which would be cool but.... "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart" was an awesome documentary but one that followed Wilco recording Star Wars would probably be boring as shit. I'm super intrigued by the Isbell/Shires dynamic (she also seems kinda fucking nuts to me but I'm willing to believe that I'm not being fair) and the talk in this thread has me excited. As someone who discovered Isbell (Sturgill first) after recovery, I'm down for the full 12 step treatment.

    I actually went to the same treatment center as Isbell.  Baboso on here helped find it.  (If it can get him sober, it can damn sure help you).  Anyway, I was talking to Jeff Plankenhorn before a show in Atlanta  (with Scrappy Jud) just after I got out of treatment.  He then spent a LOT of time with me after the show.  A year before, he had mentioned his sobriety date and I responded that he and Isbell had the exact same sobriety date.  He said, "That's a strange thing to have in common".    He remembered me commenting on that and has stayed in touch since.    

  4. Haven't seen it but Amanda is fun Instagram/Twitter follow.  She is far from a tee-totaller.  

    She is tough.  Hell, she was on the road with Billy Joe Shaver for a while...and he was the one who convinced her to start writing her own songs.  Plus, the time with the Texas Playboys.....at a very young age.    I can imagine she can be very blunt and wouldn't want to get her pissed off, for sure.  

    My favorite quote of hers is, "I can hold my breathe longer than I can listen to current country radio".  

  5. On 4/4/2023 at 9:25 PM, Handcruser said:

    Most harmonica players should throw it away.

    Cory Branan says his wife makes him practice in the yard.   

  6. After a couple of weeks with the Strymon Cloudburst: Background:  I have a Hall of Fame (I think I got it from Paul Wesley) that suited my needs but I wanted something that gave more ambient sounds but stay away from the $$$, big footprint Strymons. 

    I record my grand daughter singing and then add guitars/mandolins to it.  It is fun for both of us and the Cloudburst has all kinds of cool ambient action that isn't a pain in the ass to dial in.  No hidden menus you have to learn by pushing a bunch of buttons and knobs or going through menus.  I have enough trouble playing the guitar without having to learn a bunch of pedal shit.  I also started playing in a praise band at my wife's church.  Probably not going to be doing that much longer, but it is great for using volume pedal swells to fill in the empty spots, something this group really needed.   

    I've also found a couple of cool, always on choices that I'm having a lot of fun with, so the pedal isn't all just about the fluffy, singing/shimmering stuff and by running the HOF pedal after it, I can still add a 'regular' reverb sound.  

    The 'ensemble' switch is very cool.  Off, low and high.   If I play a chord or especially triad with my fingers, the first time it will emphasis one note in the background shimmer...the next time, a different note, and the next time, a different note, so it isn't the same each time.  And it is also sensitive to how hard your pick/strum and where on the guitar you actually play.  

    Fun toy for not much money.

     

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  7. Bono was 23 years old when they played that first show at Red Rocks that everyone has seen.   Touring to support their 3rd album at 23.  He OWNED that venue that night.   But I haven't liked anything since Joshua Tree.  I sat through Rattle and Hum movie and I could see the end of me listening to them.  Like Jimmyjazz, I like the song "One" but probably not as much.  

    Cool Story Bro:  Our company hired an Irish guy to teach use how to quit writing in 'business' language.  We were supposed to submit a sample of our writing.  Most people gave him a work product, but I gave him a concert review of a Maria McKee show where I referenced the "hipsters of U2".  The old Irish dude asked me, "Are you referring to Dave or Paul?"   He was Ali's uncle.  He told me several really cool stories about their early years and some future plans the band had.     

     

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  8. 1 hour ago, Deej said:

    The nice thing about bigger amps for home use is that you usually get plenty of clean headroom, if that's your thing. 

    16 yr old Hulla put the amp in his bedroom and ran a long-ass cable into the back yard.  Cranked that fucker, climbed through the window, closed it, and stood in the back yard and ROCKED the 400 block of W. Bloodworth and the government apartments on N. Ave G to Howard Street.   The sound of rattling windows was better than any pedal ever.   

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  9. In 1978, I bought a Super Reverb.  16 year old me thought it would be fucking AWESOME to have such a loud amp.  It was....for about a week.   That salesman should be pelted with rocks and garbage for selling that to me.   A Princeton would have been more than enough and I would likely still have it.  

    I sold the Super in 82 for what I paid for it.    I've mentioned this before but a friend was just getting in to guitar about 20 years ago.  He orders a Strat and he asks about amps.  Dude is a complete beginner at the time.  I told him, "Whenever they suggest an amp, ask to look at the two smaller amps than the one they suggest and pick one of them...preferably the small of the two.   They suggested a DR.  He comes home with Hot Rod Deville.  He lived in a condo.  He complained it was too loud for his condo.  I told him it would too loud for any place he would ever play and to go back and get a Princeton or a Champ.  He comes home with a DR.  

     

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  10. 54 minutes ago, royiv said:

    So your complaint here is that your wife not only goes out to exercise every morning, but also takes one of your dogs with her? And you might have to leave the house on your leisurely stroll a few minutes earlier to meet her at your designated spot? Failing to see the problem here, Chief. 

    This is a safe place.  We don't turn on our own.  😁

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  11. To update the rug situation.   Yep...just like I thought, "we need to put in hard wood floors in that room before we put the rug down."

    I don't give a fuck what she spends on jewelry, shoes, anything really.  It gives me justifications to buy new guitars.   But her explanations and justifications are entertaining as fuck.    She bitched about me spending $25 on something the other day.   So I dove in.  

    Me:  How much was that bracelet and the ring you bought at that last store in Jerusalem?
    Her:  You don't know?
    Me:   No, and I really don't care, but how much was it?
    Her:  Well, you kept walking away when I was buying it.
    Me:  Yep.....You probably should have walked away as well.
    Her:  The ring was $190 and that's really all I wanted. 
    Me:  And the bracelet?
    Her:  $3,000.  AND, he gave me another necklace for FREE! 
    Me:  Well.  You drove a good bargain.   

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  12. 14 hours ago, tbone_ said:

    From the this is just straight up awesome file
     

    Damn, he sounds like Doc Watson.  I don't think I've ever heard him sing.  That gives me the chills.....WOW.

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