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hullabelew

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  1. From a while back, but interesting interview between Bruce Robison and Jack Ingram.
  2. I wish I had the patience to learn stuff like this. I've had that on a Sweetwater wishlist forever and always chicken out.
  3. Thanks @Chad Fuck Never considered that one. I LOVE what I hear on the demos. Exactly what I'm looking for, other than being close to $300 but my wife just bought a really expensive necklace in Israel....so I deserve this.
  4. I have the Keeley Compressor in the Sweetwater clip above. I find I need one setting for single coils and a completely different one for humbuckers. At least for me and my simple brain, they need to do two different things depending on the pickups. For the single coils, I like the quack it gives me, but with the humbuckers, I seem to like it for for the sustain. Anyone have a pedal they like for a rotary speaker effect? TC's Vibraclone seems to be the closest to what I want but it really seems to muddy up the tone. Maybe that is just part of it, but I've never really tried a rotary pedal that does what I want.
  5. My neighbor used to tell his kids they were going to the Atlanta Aquarium. I found out later, he was taking them to Bass Pro Shop.
  6. I just read an article about Dave Alvin and him coming back from cancer. This is the first thing that came to mind when I saw this thread.
  7. Nothing against Charlie at all and if it came off as harsh, it wasn't meant that way. He was a really funny guy. He just lived life and attacked his career differently than his brother. And to think of that many great songs in one family, even including Robyn, is beyond amazing to me.
  8. Gotta look at it like it is a job. To be....that is the difference between Bruce and Charlie Robison. Bruce attacks it like a job. Charlie was a good time dude, just getting by. Nothing against Charlie at all. But Bruce looks at it like a job. And the quality shows.
  9. Mine are SRV, Mike Campbell and Grissom. All unique...instantly recognizable. Next on the list for me. Rich Brotherton. Can play anything, any style........always fantastic....never recognizable. For that reason, maybe he should be first in my list.
  10. Bruce Robison wrote a song about him and the faux British stuff called "It Came From San Antonio" Sadly, not on youtube.
  11. Thanks for the info. She played on that Better Oblivion Community Center project. Never heard of her before that.
  12. I was talking with a buddy from treatment last night. He said, "The troubles I'm dealing with now? I would have PAID for them back when I was drinking".
  13. In the interview, she describes herself as fierce. No shit. And Dave Alvin on guitar. I LOVED that first album of hers....and she NAILS this.
  14. The early unplugged with Jules Shear were outstandingly fun. I think the first one had Syd Straw on it.
  15. I initially read this as you and Carrie went to see Chip Taylor. I was extremely jealous there for a bit. 😁
  16. Charlie, Bruce and their brother-in-law, Lunchmeat, used to have a band called the Weepers. Their tag line was "Sad songs for your happy hour". Lunchmeat is married to Robyn and together, they own Devil's Backbone Tavern. Robyn is also a good songwriter and Lunchmeat plays a killer standup bass. Wade Bowen and Holly Williams recorded a killer version of this song on Vol. 1 of The Next Waltz, but here is Robyn with Kevin McCarthy on her song, Bars Ain't Closin'
  17. Caring for elderly parents. Mom with dementia but still very physically able, trying to keep dad at home instead of getting him into nursing home. He can barely feed himself but his brain is still like he is 40 years old. Every fucking day is groundhog day, while wife is 1,000 miles away, bitching every day asking when I'm coming home. I've stayed off of the dementia/Alzheimer's thread because I would probably start talking about wouldn't shut up and that does no one any good, but the entire situation fucking sucks. I've probably had more stressful, single moment events that pass quickly (being in incinerator explosion, rollover car crash) but this shit is 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
  18. Pick up Bernie Taupin's autobiography, "Scattershot". It will cleanse your mental palate. The audio book is very well done.
  19. I had never heard of him until I started seeing him ads/posts on Facebook several years ago. Did he just self-promote his way into fame?
  20. No. He apparently grew up poor in a small, country town. His dad ran a farm and then they started raising chickens. He left school at 14-15. My brother met him once at a radio interview in the mid-80s. He said, "I really enjoyed you work with..." and Bernie started to say Thanks....and my brother finished, "....with Alice Cooper." Apparently Bernie lit up and they had a long conversation about "From The Inside". Said he was a super nice, humble guy.
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