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Paul Wesley

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  1. I cannot take the sound of Joan Baez's voice for more than about 30 seconds. It's unbearable.
  2. Pedal steel players might like that setup. I think a lot of them use a 1 x 15" cabinet. Maybe it's time?
  3. So maybe I'm missing it, but the ID that Greenberg had made urgently made for Gaetz -- did they alter a birthday or something? I understand that Greenberg is a corrupt piece of shit, but this action (Gaetz using his privilege to get an ID made on a weekend) by itself doesn't seem criminal. Is there something else to make it fraudulent?
  4. It's sad because it's true. We are the poster child for 1-party unchecked corruption.
  5. That Tucker Carlson segment was hilarious. It reminded me of the SNL skit where Neil Diamond is on "Storytellers," and the story he tells about each of his songs is something horrific (his racism, the time he was drunk driving and killed someone). And Neil (Will Farrell) keeps including a band member (John Goodman) in each story, and Goodman keeps giving a nervous laugh and saying, "Hey, leave me out of this one, Neil"), and Farrell snaps, "OH, I WILL LEAVE YOU **IN**!"
  6. Hey, Celery - Glad you took that in the (lighthearted) way it was intended. Backstory: My very first electric guitar was a black and gold Les Paul Custom. I wouldn't settle for anything else. Mowed yards and spent almost no money on anything else for the better part of a year until I could afford one. During that time of work and sacrifice, I overheard some of the older kids at church - who had inspired me to start playing guitar in the first place - talking about Paul Reed Smith this and Paul Reed Smith that. I asked one of them what they were talking about. I very much remember one of them telling me, "It's a guitar that's *better* than a Les Paul." So you can imagine how that was received. I was like, "Yeah, there's no way that's right." The bias lives on.
  7. I would have loved for her to tell the judge, "Sorry if I got emotional, Your Honor, it's just that I get really upset when I have to talk about the time I watched that guy right there commit a murder."
  8. I don't know why, but this memory popped into my head this morning: When I was a little kid - maybe only 8 or 9 years old - my older brother went to a Kiss concert. And the next day, he was recounting how incredible and amazing everything was... breathing fire, spitting blood, the light show, etc. And among the details he related to me with breathless excitement was this: Ace Frehley played a guitar solo, and he played the guitar **so** fast that it started SMOKING!! For years, I thought there was something about electric guitars where if you just played the shit out of them, they could overheat.
  9. I'm going to need chord changes and tempo pretty early on. If I have those things, I can just repeat them over and over (often at kitchen table with an acoustic and a notebook) while working out the structure of the vocals. I would have a hard time writing music if I had a full page of already-finished verse. That feels forced and inauthentic to me. I heard Joe Pug say this once, and I think it nails songwriting: At some point, the part of your brain that *finishes* songs is the same part that solves crossword puzzles. i.e. it usually gets more technical than creative -- working out rhyme schemes, figuring out what chord changes can get you from the chorus back to the intro, etc. It often requires a considerable amount of discipline and grit to finish (two things that are never required to start a song, IMO). Glad to hear you're riding a wave of creativity.
  10. And BTW, what a gut punch, humiliating, beat down of a loss.
  11. I mean, a big part of keeping Shaka a year ago was the recruitment of Greg Brown, right? Greg Brown, who played six minutes last night. Six. Took one shot and hit it. I know he wasn’t the only athletic mismatch on the floor, but he was a ridiculous mismatch for anyone on ACU. And whatever the holes are in his game, he is a high-effort rebounder, which was a brutally glaring need for us. But he hardly saw the court. And yes, I understand he’s had temper issues and maturity issues, but he’s also been on campus for a FUCKING YEAR, and I know someone who made many millions of dollars during that time, and their job description is to mold Greg Brown into a great player, and to win tournament games. I’ll marvel at his athleticism next year when he’s matched up against gifted big men like Miles Turner and Mo Bamba.
  12. so you're not going to call the contact on Andrew jones, but you're going to call **that**?
  13. I was 100 percent sure Ramey was going to launch there
  14. we better wake the fuck up
  15. bunch of ridiculous circus bank shot bullshit.
  16. I was trying to find you a used 65amps "Empire" head online somewhere. Very versatile amp. You'll never sell it. I like tbone's ideas too.
  17. Mine are within a few pounds of each other - the open backed on is actually heavier, but it has a handle on the top... so an easy one-arm carry. The Orange cabinet has recessed handles on the sides, so you definitely need two arms, and you have to lift it almost to chest height to move it around.
  18. Me and tbone leading parallel lives. I also have 2 2x12 cabinets. One open (the 65amps one with the blue badge and two different speakers) and a closed Orange 2x12. I agree that the difference between open and closed is subtle. It's a more subtle difference than you'd assume from listening and reading other guitarists talk about cabinet preference. I have shot them out side-by-side in the studio, and the closed-back Orange wins (tighter) on aggressive high-gain stuff. Otherwise, I prefer the open back. If I had to pick one, it would be the open-back cabinet, and it would be a very easy choice. It's a lot less money and space to buy heads than combos.
  19. That’s where I’ve landed too.
  20. Every Texas team in every sport is not a "country club team" Get the fuck out of here with that nonsense
  21. Paul Wesley

    The Police

    Good comparison. U2 made the same transition from sparse, low-budget records with the punk influences of the late 70's UK (simplicity, defiant attitudes) ---> to giant-budget big arrangements with tons of layers. And both guitarists - at least in the beginning - were into texture and space, and didn't try to be up-front at every moment of every song. I think the Police made that transition way more successfully than U2 (and the Police also quit while they were ahead). U2's records since the late 80's sound more or less like those of Nickelback and Creed, with shit tons of relentless, grid-perfect distorted guitars, and all the sonic characteristics of a chainsaw. Get off my lawn.
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