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Paul Wesley

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  1. Wallflowers (plus Charlie Sexton) at Gruene Hall.
  2. Yeah, that photo was what I had in mind... until I started hearing about ferrules lining up with bridges, which need to line up with pickup magnets, string spacing... I also saw the advice several times that many bridges that have the word "vintage" in the title are NOT actually vintage spaced. And then the website wouldn't let me select a tele bridge anyway. I *think* I figured out the solution (drill for ferrules but not for mounting screws), but I'm waiting for Fralin's advice before placing the order. AUTF - good advice on the neck. Fortunately, that's what I like to play anyway, so it should be OK there. And I also feel overwhelmed by the endless Warmoth choices. I go to their website, I start out excited, then I start feeling uncertain, and finally just close the laptop without ever buying anything. I've been "designing" and walking away from this project for a while now.
  3. Me too.
  4. Damn. $400 almost worth buying just to test drive the prototype. Also, I want to hire Chad as my guitar sommelier.
  5. Appreciate y’all’s input. As for ferrule spacing, I think wider is better for lining up with P90’s, right?
  6. I have close friends and immediate family who served front-line-combat military deployments, who work for the State department in Ukraine, who were career CIA, and who teach public schools. Not fucking one of them "sucks at their job." So maybe rethink your theory.
  7. Thinline tele shape, alder body, chambered, rear-route controls laid out like traditional tele. Hardtail. Will get Fralin hum cancelling P90 soap bars. I'm a maple neck guy. Maybe Birdseye. This color is satin-finished metallic blue ice. I kind of like the copper metallic color too, but I don't think the copper lends itself well to neck/pick guard/pickup color combos. Haven't decided on color of knobs (black vs metallic), bridge (?stainless), or pickup covers (stainless or white). Pick guard will probably be that off-white mother of pearl stuff. So cosmetically it will be very close to the color combo of my Strat. The only detail I haven't ironed out is the type of bridge and the string spread. My plan was to drill it for a traditional Tele bridge (like an ashtray), and then put in a short tele bridge (hipshot and several others make them), but the option for that bridge is "ghosted out" on the Warmoth site because they want you to know that you can't order an ashtray bridge and also a P90 bridge route. I also sent an email to Lindy Fralin and asked him which string spread is optimal for his P90s... I might just get Warmoth to drill for the ferrules and leave myself a couple of options for the screw pattern of the various bridges, but I'm not sure if I should put the ferrule spread at .416 or .430 or .441 It's my first foray into the build-it-yourself world. I'm just not that wild about my off-the-shelf options (Casino or Midtown). I've found a couple guitarsthat are close to what I'm thinking... like this one: https://reverb.com/item/33054086-paoletti-nancy-lounge-thinline-2p90 But that is 1) really heavy for a chambered-body guitar, and 2) kind of ugly, IMO. Not to mention that I can build exactly what I want - with better electronics - for about half that price. Warmoth says 12 weeks for a metallic finish body and no binding. I might take it to Danny Shoemaker and have him assemble and Plek it as soon as it's put together. That all means I'll be lucky to finish it by the end of this year. If I'm gonna have NGD before then, I'll have to join AUTF in the 000-28 club. Way more info than you wanted, right?
  8. "When I Let Go" was my first record, which hulla was generous and gracious to mention. https://music.apple.com/us/album/when-i-let-go/304922304 I wanted my next record to be less "reflective songwriter" and more electric-guitar album rock... like a Stones record somewhere between "Sticky Fingers" and "Some Girls" (I'm not saying that's where the songs are all gonna land, but that's what I'm aiming for). About four years ago, when I was about eight songs into this rock album, I was feeling frustrated at the pace of my songwriting. On a lark, I decided to get the studio pros (who are brilliant and who I had already booked for a session) to use that day on some different original material -- one Philly soul track and one disco number. So on that day in late 2016, the disco project started with me going to South Austin Music and buying a wah pedal and a vocoder. Then there were nine more songs, four+ years of string arrangers, hired orchestras, horn arrangers, marching bands, gospel choirs, multiple percussionists, and an extensive search for the right vocalists... It is about as ambitious as a musical project can be. Last week I handed off a hard drive of the final disco/funk sessions to the mix engineer. Edit: obviously I was not successful enough for iTunes to disambiguate me from everyone whose name is remotely similar to my own. The only songs that are mine on iTunes are the ones listed under that album title. If you click on my name, none of those other people/songs are me/mine.
  9. Thank you. Much appreciated.
  10. The player who was the most out-of-control on the court was (by far) Ben Wallace. Yeah, he took a hard foul... but I'm not sure that foul merited his complete lose-your-shit meltdown. He was out of control for way too long, ending with him throwing things at Artest -- definitely making the Detroit fans feel empowered to *also* throw all kinds of shit at the Pacers (which they did).
  11. Agreed, and I am looking for some tonal inspiration to help me write the last few songs of a guitar-centric album rock project. I'm about to order (Warmoth) the semi-hollow electric with P90s that I've been wanting.
  12. How about making your biggest fans the unsuspecting victims of the joke? Is that a dick move?
  13. When the longhorn games were on the country station (?98.1), I would often get in my truck the day after a game, and get immediately assaulted by Bro country. And I’m not even sure that station is especially focused on a younger “country” audience. I would listen for a minute, then think to myself: “*This* is the worst song ever written. And I would open my SoundHound app just to find out who it was. That happened so often that if a stranger were to look at my search history on the app, they would conclude that I have a strong affection for modern country that has loops of sampled drums and auto-tuned white guys singing about trucks, blue eyes, and the praises of simple people in small towns.
  14. There are definitely a lot of guys on this thread better than me at amplifying acoustic guitar. My non-expert impression is that a lot of the built-in factory pickups have come a long way in last 20 years.
  15. All six open strings would be rolled off. https://fretsuccess.com/what-are-the-guitar-string-frequencies/ And a POG generates octaves from all the strings… not just the low strings. I’m all for forging your own path and defying convention, but I’ll bet this would sound awful.
  16. All that, plus a healthcare premium surcharge of roughly 10k/year per unvaccinated person who wants the rest of the insurance pool to pay for their personal choices. And hospitals should double the bills of the unvaccinated and give the money to all the housekeepers, clergy, cafeteria workers, and nurses — who are quitting instead of being needlessly put in harm’s way with no end in sight.
  17. Guys, I want to be in this club.
  18. Pretty sure SEC wanted to keep a numerical balance while simultaneously adding the Texas footprint with the addition of A&M, and it made geographic sense. Their league expanded to the west. Mizzou was in the right place at the right time (their football team was in a good place at the time as well). I don't know if they'd have been admitted without an Aggie program eager to get out from under the shadow of UT.
  19. Exactly what Skipper said. The smaller schools in the Big 12 have focused 100% of their anger on the last two locomotives to give up on pulling the fucking train, and not the numerous other schools (the three you mentioned plus Mizzou) who ACTED ENTIRELY IN THEIR OWN BEST INTEREST AND SPLIT A LONG TIME AGO. I have never held any personal ill will toward Oklahoma State, Tech, or Iowa State, but the more I have to listen to hysterical and irrational bullshit about mean ol' greedy Texas, the less I fucking care about the fate of their athletic programs.
  20. Not much of a baseball mind, but it seems to me like you'd send they guy who just struck out the side back out there.
  21. I think Sammy Hagar had a similar quote about being at a sound check and Eddie wasn't around, so he plugged into Eddie's rig... and sounded like Sammy. But yeah, we don't think about "tone" as much with bass players, but I'm sure the sound is just as much in the hands as the rig.
  22. I'm sipping coffee and scrolling this thread, with ESPN on in the background. ESPN just did a segment with Finebaum (I know, I know) and Dinich, and they nodded their heads in agreement as the host said, "We may remember this as the biggest day in the history of college football," and went on to say how OU and Texas joining the SEC was going to cause massive and permanent realignments. I think there was a chyron that made the same statement. I mean... try to reconcile that actual, real-time national ESPN reaction to Liucci's contemporaneous claim that Aggie going to the SEC "elicited the same coverage." No, it fucking didn't. He's just hilariously and objectively wrong to claim that Aggie got the same coverage.
  23. This cannot be quoted enough. Aggies were coming off multiple NCAA sanctions and were known to be major offenders. FOUR DAYS after their most recent sanctions had been announced, they FedExed cash (obvious hush money) to a disgruntled former running back, who took it to the Dallas Morning News to open it. The return address was from the Aggie coaching staff, for fuck's sake. I mean, it's no different than Clements' "we had a payroll" shit at SMU. They were going to keep right on cheating as long as the program existed (which they obviously did).
  24. Haha. I was actually going to reference Maryland and BYU. We played Arkansas for purely nostalgic reasons (?2003), and they came in here and whipped our ass. I’m certainly not advocating for Incarnate Word or Chattanooga State, but our SOS in this theoretical new SEC won’t need any marginal lifts by going back to the altar to flirt with a jilted Stillwater, Ames, or Manhattan (as opposed to playing regional teams like Tulane, Rice, or *maybe* SMU).
  25. That guy is an idiot. UH and SMU at numbers one and two? So the Big 12 should try to *exactly* replicate a financially non-viable SWC (which we already started by adding TCU)? I just wrote a long post about this on the "What killed the SWC" thread, then clicked around to see this tweet. Ugh.
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