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Goredho

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  1. I'll trade it for that Hummingbird 😜 (no I wouldn't)
  2. Eh, I do ok when I'm conscientious about buys. Guitars are easy to move when you buy at the right price and have some built-in margin to work with on the resale. That said, I probably lost about $100 on the Charvel with shipping and reverb fees. But I owned it and played it for about 3 months, long enough to really get a feel for it and decide it wasn't what I was after. If I could have rented it for 3 months for $100, I would have. What I really wish existed is a guitar-of-the-month club. $X a month, you get shipped a new guitar each month with a purchase price offer. At the end of the month, if you like it, you keep it and your card on file gets hit for the purchase price. If you don't like it, you ship it back and the guitar continues its journey until it finds a home. I am sure it's a horribly unviable business model or someone would have done it already, but as a consumer, that's what I want. It's still early, and I could eventually decide this isn't what I am looking for, but yeah. I doubt this is going anywhere anytime soon. It is already in strong contention for a desert island guitar for me. A single guitar that could cover just about every style I like to dabble in. You could perform Hendrix's "Wind Cries Mary", Alice In Chains' "Rooster" and anything in between with this and a blue/red channel amp. Throw something like a 5150 pedal in front and you can extend it to Metallica's "Sad But True". You wouldn't want to use it for something like drop C djent chugging, but for everything short of that, it can pull it off just fine.
  3. The Charvel sold so I pulled the trigger on a ‘97 Lonestar Strat. It has got a great neck, and the Texas specials combined with the overwound Pearly Gates in the bridge cover a large amount of tonal ground. Super versatile tonally and feels and plays just right.
  4. Burn it all down.
  5. This needs more attention. Russia is actively attempting to influence our elections AGAIN. At least we're making them pay this time via the Ukraine.
  6. We need a "Company Shenanigans" thread. I'm sure there are more than a few interesting stories. I've got a couple.
  7. I think you are pretty close to accurate, and it matches up to what I see amongst people I know who are going to vote and were undecided and not super passionate either way. I see them calling out the angry bullshit they are seeing from the West Texas MAGA crowd we grew up with in a way that I haven't in the past. They seem to be rejecting what Trump and the Republican Party are selling in response to the criminal trials and extremely concerned about what a vindictive Trump would do with a 2nd Presidency. I think that's why you see Trump grasping for votes and promising everyone the moon and why a lot of Republicans are acting all fucking weird. There are a large number of GOP politicians on the Trump train solely for the power/money grab. They don't believe in his bullshit, but they have seen what he can do with the dumb motherfuckers that do. I think they are now seeing what is forthcoming and are getting uncomfortable and nervous about what the future holds for them and the party.
  8. What you do with that shrimpcaster in the privacy of your own bedroom is no business of mine😜
  9. If any of ya'll live in Austin or visit, pretty much everything everyone has mentioned on their list is likely at Austin Vintage Guitars and they'll be happy to let you see if you fall in love with something on their rack. Gonna add a third to my list, and this one I may actually get. I want a late 90s Fender Lonestar strat SSH with the seymour duncan pearly gates in the bridge to replace a Charvel superstrat I own. Example...
  10. This SchmoredSchmo sounds like a real asshole. I've got the Les Paul, Strat, Tele, Martin & Gibson acoustic that I want and I would have a real hard time finding an improvement to any one of these for what they represent. They all look, sound and play exceptionally. I guess I kind of have a notion that it would be nice to have a cherry red ES-335 in there and a jumbo Guild 12 string acoustic, but I'm out of space and don't want to part with anything to be able to add them, so... Check back in two weeks.
  11. Lol at all the red-pill conspiracy truthers that love Elon and can't wait to let him plug their brainstem into his matrix.
  12. Scared and angry people are easily driven to read, click, share, donate and vote. The exploitation of which would normally piss me right off. But in this case, be terrified and vote like your kids' lives depend on it, because they just might.
  13. The statue of liberty is going to come to life and impale his head on the rays of her crown?
  14. This is worth a read and seems pertinent to this thread. Its about the deportation of over a million Mexican Americans during the Great Depression in the name of jobs for Americans. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2024/02/21/herbert-hoover-deportation-immigration-trump/ The president who deported 1 million Mexican Americans nearly a century ago On Feb. 26, 1931, a sunny Sunday in Los Angeles, hundreds gathered for an afternoon of relaxation in La Placita park in the heart of the city’s Mexican community. Suddenly, a large group of plainclothes officers armed with guns and batons entered the park. Two officers were posted at each entrance to La Placita so that no one could leave. Dozens of flatbed trucks circled the park’s perimeter. Officers rounded up all the people with darker skin, said Joseph Dunn, a former Democratic state senator from California, who researched this forgotten episode of U.S. history. Panic swept through the crowd. About 400 park patrons were lined up and asked to show proof of legal entry and citizenship of the United States. The Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans who could not produce proper documentation were detained. Then, some were put on the trucks and sent to the city’s main railroad station, Dunn said. Once there, they were ordered onto previously chartered trains and taken deep into Mexico, according to Dunn. The raid came at the height of the Great Depression and on the heels of President Herbert Hoover’s announcement of a national program of “American jobs for real Americans” — code words for “‘getting rid of Mexicans,’ who weren’t considered ‘real’ Americans,” said Dunn, whose staff spent three years delving into federal, state and local records in the United States and Mexico to document this little-known tragedy of the Latino experience in the United States.
  15. Needs follow up questioning. How do you know he works for Gaaahd? Has everyone who has ever believed themselves to be on a mission from Gaaahd truly been on a mission from Gaaahd? Why aren’t you voting for Jake & Elwood this November?
  16. When he gets bored with this whole politics thing, he’s got a future as the host of an Americanized “Cunk on Earth.”
  17. Gonna be hard for Elon to top this
  18. If there is one thing our present state of humanity should have taught us is that A) a planet and the life on it is fragile and B) intelligence is very often commingled with hubris. It is far, far, far more likely that intelligent life destroys itself before it ever advances enough to make the universe small.
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