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Paul Wesley

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  1. Good post, but this last part sounded really familiar. Any chance that in some other lifetime you were Bill in Sinton?
  2. Yeah, that was my first reaction. I've seen both Simon and Ladysmith Black Mambazo separately, but 2 hours of that band would have been pretty bad ass. I saw the Joshua Tree tour in Austin that year. Great show. I saw the Cars on the tour before this one (Heartbeat City), and like everyone else pointed out, it was a pretty low-energy show. Several of these acts I've seen multiple times (Petty, Clapton). The two hall-of-famer acts on there that I never saw live are Bowie and Rush. My sleeper would be the double bill of Billy Idol (who I think is an underrated songwriter) and the Cult (who wrote a lot of great rock songs in the 80's). In fact, I might put that one above Rush.
  3. That's cool.
  4. Yeah, it would simplify your signal path by a lot.
  5. Fantastic. Looks like fun. I need a Volante. You need a Mobius.
  6. I was about to say the same thing. Just endless fucking blathering, one story after another after another after another.
  7. Friend of mine who was a Dallas native took me to see them in Houston in the early 90's. Fantastic bar band.
  8. Love that mini vent. If I had a pedalboard the size of a ping pong table, that would definitely be on it.
  9. I think y'all saw it upstream, but here it is again: I think this photo is a couple years old. Y'all have seen it before. There have been some additions and subtractions since then. 80% of these pedals are permanent. The board itself is from custompedalboards.co.uk They make boards that are exactly sized to use with some of the common pedal switchers like gigrig and Boss. I cut and soldered all my own cables. In order of signal path: COMPRESSION/BOOST That Cali76 is an 1176-style compressor. I'm working on a funk project, and using a Strat with bridge pickup into that gets you to Nile Rogers territory. Outside of trying to be Nile, the Sex Drive has all the compression I would otherwise want. So the Cali76 sometimes gets pulled in favor of an Empress parametric EQ (if the EQ on the amp isn't getting me there) or a little EP boost. OVERDRIVE Love the King of Tone. It's perfect for what I want to do... Very natural low and medium gains that can be combined with the amp's overdrive to add just a bit more hair. Thorpy FX Fallout Cloud - My favorite fuzz. It replaced an analogman sun face (for half as much money), and I think it gives you that sound in a slightly more controlled way (less hiss, squealing, chaos). As much as I love it, it doesn't get stepped on all that often, and I might get a little more use out of another dual overdrive like Duellist or Protein. MODULATION That white pedal on the top right is a Walrus Audio octave pedal -- like a POG with a much smaller footprint -- and I think it tracks better and sounds better than a POG. Thorpy FX Deep Oggin - has already been sold. It's cool, but too expensive and rarely got used. It got replaced by a Boss Dimension C. Because the 80's. Empress phaser - Again, I've been working on a funk record, and this one has some settings with envelope filters so it can quack like a meatball. This is the only pedal where I think, "Too many modes, too many knobs, takes too long to dial something in." Mobius - Damn, I'm impressed with this thing. I'll admit that it can't mimic *every* phaser/flanger/chorus pedal ever made, but I think it gets reeeeeeaaal close to almost all of them... without spending hours deep in the menus. It will never come off the board. DELAY/REVERB Strymon Timeline - Seems like it's become ubiquitous. Hall of Fame Reverb - Kind of "meh" on it, but I have a couple amps that don't have reverb, so I need something there at the end of the chain. Sometimes I take off a modulation pedal and add a second delay, and set that one to a short slap. I also have an old TC Electronic Novadelay, that I think sounds fantastic and has a very simple interface and layout, but it's A) a big footprint, and B) it has a weird voltage requirement (requires its own power supply under the board, which is a pain in the ass). Those two factors make it inconvenient. I should probably sell it. POWER SUPPLY Hidden under that middle row of pedals is a Walrus Audio Phoenix. I wish it had a couple more outputs that provide high amps for all the modern digital stuff, because that is often a limiting factor on what can live on the board at the same time. But I ain't starting over again. ----- My skill as a guitarist falls well short of being worthy of this board. I think I'm a decent songwriter and singer, but I am definitely not any sort of guitar wizard. For me, it's a writing tool, and a source of inspiration... certain pedal combinations and sounds lead to riffs and melodies that I would otherwise never come upon.
  10. This is unreal. After our tourney disaster, I was resigned to mass graduation, a depleted roster, and a season (or more) of suffering. Instead, we are fucking loaded.
  11. I'm not one of those guys with tons of guitars or guitar gear. But I devoted a fair amount of budget towards a pedalboard (easily more than my most expensive guitar). And I love it. I am never fishing around for a 9-volt, or the correct power supply, or another cable, or fumbling with all of the above. I have everything right where I want it... a boost, compressor, a couple of overdrives, a Mobius that I think does a great job on all kinds of modulation, and a delay. It definitely fuels creativity. No regrets.
  12. love those, dcbc
  13. You summed it up better than I did. It's a fucking bat-shit-crazy (and wildly incongruent) belief system.
  14. I mean, I can't even follow her "logic." It's like she put on makeup and pearls, had a pre-interview briefing where she got her talking points from Marjorie Taylor Greene, then had a big fucking stroke and just vomited out this word salad of jewish socialist antisemitism socialism hate crimes democratic antisemitism Cuba socialists and communists are anti-jew. Seriously, I'm concluding that her argument boils down to "People think jews are socialists, so when the Democratic Party talks in *favor* of socialist policies, they are actually making everyone say and do anti-semitic things."
  15. I don't care about the hook 'em thing. I'm more worried that they couldn't find a photo of college students who weren't moving appliances around campus.
  16. Yeah, I've stopped on the SEC network this weekend when scrolling around between games, and it's non-stop homer bullshit. And meanwhile on the Longhorn Network, it's endless spin and excuse-making for whoever Texas is playing. Last night when their pitcher struggled, we heard "It's a blister!" and then "It's a tendon injury" and then when the pitcher air mails one and then just stands there while a runner scores, not a single critical word (which was richly deserved) for a pitcher who throws a wild pitch and can't be bothered to cover home. No way Texas would have gotten that non-criticism.
  17. So even members of a dynastic GOP family - with their presidents and governors - are kneeling before the fascist who colludes with America’s enemies in elections, and who continues to try overthrow American democracy? Yeah, that seems normal.
  18. "perfectly done"
  19. So they've decided it's a tendon injury... with pretty much zero information? Yeah, that argues for "he fucking wilted under pressure." Not an injury.
  20. Book learnin’?
  21. I think I have two extra to Todd Snider tomorrow night in Austin (Paramount). Row 5. Face value (I think was right at $45 each with fees). PM me.
  22. Yeah, I understand that developers want land as cheap as possible, but they want all the land (all of downtown anyway). I'm happy to concede that the selection of these particular sites might be based on brother-in-law kind of bullshit... but that could (?will) happen no matter what sites are picked.
  23. I have no doubt that there may be some very dirty shenanigans in choosing the sites. But having said that, what underused properties within a few miles of downtown have developers *not* been wanting to buy for a while?
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