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Paul Wesley

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  1. I really like it. To my ears, it sounds like a *slightly* more modern-sounding Vox... i.e. a little more saturation as it breaks up more and more. It breaks up in a way that doesn't feel genre-specific to me. Depending on the settings, I think it could be perfectly at home in an alt-country band (Stapleton/Isbell/etc) or as a heavy Brian May thing. If I had one complaint with it, it's that the EQ often feels a bit light on low mids, although that could also be an accurate reflection of the guitars that I'm using. I haven't recorded with it much, but it occurs to me that the same low mids that I want to bump up with an EQ pedal might be exactly what's carved out by the mix engineer. I could get down to three amps for the rest of my days on earth and be perfectly content: A Laurel Canyon, a Two Rock Studio Pro 35 (which is the ultimate Swiss army amp, IMO), and a Marshall flavor (either a 65Amps Empire or one of those Marshall 20-watt Plexi-voiced heads).
  2. I'm a Vox guy. I have a couple different Vox-style heads including a Matchless Laurel Canyon and a 65Amps London. I also have a China-made AC30 - the 1-speaker version - that has just been gathering dust for the past decade. So I just sold it online, and before the guy came to pick it up, I plugged it in the other night and ran through it just to make sure it was fully functional. It sounded better than I remembered.
  3. I think the head on the right is the bass player's Thunderman.
  4. I just got a targeted ad on social media for a “mini cajon.” And it kind of made me happy, in the sense of “Well, obviously you data-sucking corporate bitches don’t know *everything* about me, now do you?”
  5. Yeah, the "heavy" relic thing seems especially odd. I mean, if you're doing an "artist" model, and you want to copy all the flaws of Malcolm's Gretsch or Eddie's Frankenstrat... I think that's pretty cool. Outside of that... just beating the hell out of a brand new instrument...
  6. I realize I'm a week or so late, but I just saw the Don Lemon interview. What a thin-skinned little baby. I mean, has Elon done an interview in the last year where the smallest bit of pushback or criticism doesn't cause a toddler-esque pouting tantrum? He just defaults back into self-congratulations and canned-answer platitudes about saving free speech. Then he runs off to tweet damage-control messages or to attack the interviewer. He seems utterly incapable of defending his choices (especially around censorship vs enabling racist/offensive content) in any real-time conversations. He should have YEARS of experience articulating a coherent viewpoint around topics that are DEFINITELY going to come up over and over again. Nope.
  7. At worst, Ringo was the second-best instrumentalist in the band. He was way more proficient on his instrument than was George or John. *not counting Billy Preston
  8. A spoon can be a weapon. Why don't we outlaw spoons?
  9. Gary P Nunn at a Save Muny benefit. Criminally under appreciated by the crowd. Pearls before swine in pearls.
  10. Haha. Harmonica players in bar bands… white guys with fedoras and diabeetus… just waiting for a solo. At least hippies keep their digeridoos at home.
  11. Hippies, man. They smell bad and they’re off-the-charts annoying (though some of their political beliefs turn out to be right, which is also annoying).
  12. In 6th grade band, I needed to pick an instrument. About a week before school started, my mother said, 'How about saxophone? You should play saxophone!" I ended up playing alto sax for two years. Ugh. Man, I would trade that for ANYTHING else: cello, violin, drums... even oboe or bassoon would be cooler. I'm surprised no one said "fretless bass," because that's another one that everyone else in the room just has to kind of cringe and pray to God that it stays in the case all day. How about a trio of alto sax, fretless bass, and cajon? They could name themselves something annoying, like "Phish."
  13. If bad breath were an instrument, it would be a cajon.
  14. I hope we play smart. I can’t take watching another turnover festival peppered with off-balance threes from Disu and stupid hero-ball shots from our guys. We hit only one three because the vast majority of our threes were off-balance and out of rhythm. Hell, Abmas hit that one from the logo, but at least his shoulders were square and his feet were set.
  15. Crazy that our only three the whole night was the halftime buzzer beater.
  16. Avoid: noiseless pickups, heavily modified guitars (you don't know what you're getting, and you might have a hard time selling it)
  17. Whoops. The blonde one was miscategorized. I put American-made as one of the filters but the results included that made-in-Japan model. Still might be a good guitar, but it's not how it was represented.
  18. You're an awesome dad. Personally, I'd look at an 1990's American-made guitar. In my opinion, it was a pretty good era, and they're not perceived as "vintage," so the values aren't too crazy. You can find one in good shape in the $1200-1500 range, and there are a lot of options in there to find something that he loves cosmetically. Stay away from "noiseless" pickups. They suck. "Buy this once" - check "Be nice forever" - check If it doesn't work out, you should get your money back out of it. A few from a 10-minute Reverb search: Lipstick red for $1080: https://reverb.com/item/69542092-fender-american-standard-telecaster-1992-1993-lipstick-red Sunburst with rosewood neck, $1350 and accepting offers: https://reverb.com/item/77910288-1995-fender-american-standard-telecaster-with-rosewood-fretboard-3-color-sunburst Blonde, $1600 and accepting offers: https://reverb.com/item/78163624-fender-50th-anniversary-telecaster-1996-blonde edit to add: Understand that a 30-year old guitar is almost certainly going to have some minor scratches and dings. That's normal. If that feels disappointing to him, then he should get something new or nearly new.
  19. Cinderella wrote some good songs and had a redeeming self-awareness that it was all schtick and grift. "Night Songs" is a decent record.
  20. Yeah, that's what the picture made me think of too.... waiting in a line to get in, then walking around and finding the table for the class you really needed, sitting there for four hours on a tile floor behind 6 other poor bastards waiting for someone to come drop it.
  21. Photo that TM photographer Wyatt McSpadden posted:
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