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Celery Man

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  1. This feels so good
  2. The tones are starting to get crisp, it’s almost pickin season.
  3. this is why you need new guitars - to get you to finally spend an hour fucking around on youtube and starting to learn some different stuff it's hard to find youtube guitar guys who are the right mix of stupid enough and not too stupid. this guy seems good, I can kinda follow what he's doing. if any of you guys have country guitar youtube lesson guys you like share them. above is lick 3 from the below video. Or 4. I think 3. Fuck, and I still got the rhythm wrong.
  4. definitely not jumbo - "narrow tall" is the spec and that seems an accurate description. I like them, but I've also never been particularly bothered by fret sizes one way or the other. they are definitely skinnier than the jumbo homies on the deluxe tele. Neck is less beefy than that guy too - still comfortable, not skinny but not fat. The aging on the neck has a nice feel - it's got some texture where it's worn in.
  5. So I've had the Isbell tele for a bit. I'm into it. Soundwise, I'm clicking with this one in a way I never did with my other tele - I'm still kinda blaming the n3 noiseless pickups in that guitar for that, and maybe I'll swap them out at some point. This tele feels very teleish. One thing that I like a lot is that the pickups seem pretty balanced - with both the 2013 deluxe and even the G&L Tribute bluesboy I used to have, I never wanted to use the neck pickup. The neck pickup on this one is a really nice sound, has a lot of life to it, and it's pretty balanced with the bridge pickup. Of course the bridge pickup is sharp and tele-like and has that whole thing, but it isn't this completely different thing over here like going from p90s to a danelectro. I really like the satin finish and and double binding and the weight. It's fairly light, for some reason the double binding adds to that for me, almost like it's chambered with a top and a bottom piece. And it feels like it's OK to throw it around a little bit, set it down on the floor, not worry about it. I like the checking which can be found in several places on the guitar but is not super obvious from far away. If I were to pick from a lineup of these guitars I might pick one with different weathering on the lower bout of the guitar - the kinda three notch thing doesn't look super natural. But that's a nitpick. Quality wise, this seems solid. I'm not a crazy harsh critic I don't think, but I don't see any glaring problems with fretwork, everything feels very quality. The one issue is that I've noticed the high E string can sound a little dead if I pick it a certain way while it is unfretted - I think the nut needs to be worked a little bit, I'll probably get it set up. I've read some reviews of these saying they aren't set up well out of the box - this one is pretty decent, although it's from a nice guitar shop where they give them a little TLC before putting them on the floor so I'm not sure how much it came that way. Having owned several Fenders from the late 90s and early 2000s, I'm not a "there's no difference between MIM and MIA guitars" guy - there have traditionally been differences, place of manufacture was just one element about the quality difference between circa 2000 American Standard and a circa 2000 Standard. Both my thinline (mim) and my old dirnt P bass (mim) had some issues with qc and cheaper parts not holding up to rigorous use. This one feels like it is up to a higher level of standard and I'm assuming it has higher end parts - I'm not expecting the knobs to fall off and it doesn't feel like they will. I did have to put a little piece of masking tape under the toggle cover to secure it, but I don't think that that is too unusual. The tuners feel nice and work well. I like vintage style tuners. It feels very alive, I like the tone a lot. I think I'm going to take it to get properly set up and see if I can fix that e string thing, but there's a lot I like about this guitar.
  6. Last Stop Larrimah on HBO Max is entertaining and worth a watch. Premise - there’s a tiny town on a road through the Australian outback, population of 11 people with a pub and a meat pie shop and that’s it. One night, the owner of the pub disappears, and the police begin to suspect murder. honestly I want another one like this. This is one of those documentaries maybe a bit in the vein of King of Kong or Hands on a Hardbody where it’s character driven weirdo drama.
  7. I’m trying to get out of the house a bit today to give my wife some space - I’ve been home a lot while I’ve been between gigs. I took a backpack with my laptop and two travel mugs of coffee with me this morning when I went to drop the kids off, figuring I would run some errands, sit in a cafe, maybe watch a movie, etc. I pull into the grocery store parking lot and my tire pressure sensor goes off. I just picked up a nail. This same parking lot has a discount tire, it is early enough that it is not overrun, and I already needed new tires. What a perfect fucking moment to have this exact problem.
  8. I have a couple of ham hocks left over from making red beans and rice. I’ve never even really liked beans all that much (and certainly don’t know how to cook them) but with kids that changes. I’m envisioning making some easy basic beans, I need to get a recipe for that for enchilada night anyways. May fafo, thanks guys
  9. Do the beans need to soak first? Would this work for black beans too?
  10. Oh shit. Doing that. Serious Eats recipe for 🫘 tonight
  11. I have no context so I’m glad that the documentary bombshells are about farmers. Unless it’s about him fucking 13 year old farmers in the early 80s.
  12. She actually has shown up in this thread or the amp thread previously - she's like a.... Gibson featured artist or something. Someone over there is smart enough to know that when a teenage girl shows up on the internet shredding with a gibbon, you give her some more gibbons. I've seen her posting and talking about her collection on Reddit as well. yeah man those old tiktok videos made you stop... she seems real
  13. Yeah she came up on TikTok. I’m 1000% skeptical of “precocious young guitar player doing boomer music” people and she’s maybe kinda that but I like her a lot. Definitely stopped when I saw some mopheaded kid shredding on an sg in a bedroom. And then realized it was a girl!
  14. I'm both a huge fan of the Replacements and also not that deeply intimate with their discography. In 2008ish, I was deep into my own music and ambitions of rockstardom and was going through a kinda musical genealogy kick. Tracing the influences of music I was into back into the hardcore and alternative rock scenes of the 1980s. I read Our Band Could Be Your Life cover to cover and some of the chapters a bunch of times, including the one on The Replacements. I wasn't even really that familiar with their music, but I felt a connection to their story. My band went on tour right as I was doing that, and I bought some kinda compilation (I think "Don't You Know Who I Think I Was") from a record store near a pier in Baltimore and I remember just listening to it a bunch of times driving into Pittsburgh. And I eventually bought Let It Be and wore that album out. It's funny, I guess I'd say "Can't Hardly Wait" and "Alex Chilton" are my favorite Replacements songs but Let It Be is the album. I Will Dare is one of the greatest opening tracks to an album ever. I'm slowly listening to Danger Boys now. I should read that Jesperson book.
  15. I completely ignored this game because I for some reason thought it was an MMORPG or something, and ain't nobody got time for that. Is this a single player game that as an almost 40 man who has been talking nonstop to a toddler for hours I can then sit down and play without interacting with any other humans?
  16. She loves Russian literature, we went to Moscow back in 2016, it’s on the menu sometimes. Dinner was fine but the range was fucked.
  17. Certainly not drunk. It was a clown show organization. Lots of smart biochemists in business roles where they are objectively stupid.
  18. I feel weird directly referencing the thread in question but it's a spoilered emotion dump on the most recent page of a thread all of the 'mats could have used at one point or another, especially Bob. It's been a marathon year, hoping things fit as well as it feels like they will and I can maybe relax a little.
  19. it's just funny just writing stuff down clears things up - I had clocked that in my head as "he's sleeping outdoors" and so he's living on the streets and seeing some attractive downtown worker or whatever. But yeah, he's broke working class lovable loser which is the whole replacements thing anyways, that fits much better. His house is freezing so he's sleeping in his stupid hat and gloves. I posted a longcat thing in a different thread but I got laid off while I was on a work trip in downtown Minneapolis, and of course that means I had the Replacements station queued up on Spotify and it started playing Skyway after I got the call when I walked out of the convention center and started heading down to the Hyatt Place to pack my shit up and get a Lyft to the airport. Just Skyway playing as I walk down the street before even talking to my wife. And that song (which was not one my big Replacements tracks before now) is maybe the song of this little episode of my life for the past few months (thankfully starting a new job next week, all good and glad to be out of the old place).
  20. I was going to ask @jimmyjazz but actually maybe @Al_4_ISU has good input too - in Skyway, is the narrator homeless? ”In my stupid hat and gloves, at night, I lie awake” he also has the line about bums going into the skyways when it is cold outside. Is that your read of it? Or ( and here is where Al might have some geographic insight) would you wear your stupid hat and gloves in bed at your house if it got sufficiently cold?
  21. She’s probably complaining about me being the backseat kitchen driver on the “husbands and stupid shit” thread over on the kate spade forum or whatever. but this is driving me bonkers and I’m calling my shot. Our electric stove is hot as shit - the middle = hot. But for her, medium heat = as medium as you can position the knob. Cranked is only good for boiling water ASAP. She’s making borscht and just left it like this, it is boiling in there. I’m about to go pick up the baby. Im about 50/50 that I get a text about figuring something different out for dinner.
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