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  1. 1 hour ago, Schulz2.0 said:

    Russia and China are aligned in hating a US/Western led world. After that, they don't really trust each other.

    a fisherman always spots another fisherman from afar. 

    or in this case, a corrupt, autocratic, rights violating and fucked up government always spots another corrupt, autocratic, rights violating and fucked up government from afar.

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  2. 1 minute ago, G650 said:

    I think most people have the correct opinion the EHX makes cool pedals that are built amazingly shitty. I've had a black Russian Muff since it was new. I love it, but I've had to repair it innumerable times, including just this past month. Had to have my buddy the pedal builder send me some 100k pots.

     

    Surprised you are using reverb on a Bassman, they have so much natural resonance with that cab.

    have you ever wanted to power strum one chord and let the six minute decay begin, set your guitar down for a little feedback, walk over to the other side of the room, and play something along with it on the piano or drums?  because that's the perfect setup for doing so. ;)

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  3. jack white is definitely making a run at being the new joe bonamassa in the sense of an insane amount of digital ink being spilled over their merits as a guitarist/musician/etc... for someone i could not care less about.  in the case of joe b, i literally had never heard of him before this site.  in the case of jack white, i have never heard a song by the white stripes in my life that made me think "i need to hear that again, that was awesome."

    not hating on jack white, don't really care.  but i definitely am not a fan of the musical stylings coming from the white stripes.  it was cool during the euros in 2012 when the fans started the whole seven nation army stadium chant theme.  other than that, the biggest "meh" of all time.

    as for fuzz, hate on electroharmonix all you want but i love my big muff...paired with a tube screamer or klon and a reverb/delay pedal through my fender 59 bassman, it is my favorite hard rock tone of all time (that i can make).

    for today's outrage at the assault on human decency from the r.s. controversy-generation list, gibbons at 102, stevie vai at 127, and bill frisell at 154 feel a little offensive.

  4. 1 hour ago, Chad Fuck said:

    Goddamit.  They used a picture of "Robert Johnson" that's been fucking proven wasn't Robert Johnson.  The man who influenced countless guys on that list and they can't even get his fucking picture right.  

    For the record, here are the three known pictures of Robert Johnson:

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    28 minutes ago, Deej said:

    "The middle picture is Dave Chappelle"

    -Katfid

     

    Damnit, that's the one i used for my little RJ silly tune.

     

  5. 22 minutes ago, Napoleon said:

    I hope that we don’t have to ever read another “When Clapton saw _____ play, he left in frustration because he knew that he would never be able to play at that level.” comment again.

    The video of the fat lady plucking away made me chuckle.

    get it right...that idiotic mythology goes:

    "when asked what it is like to be the world's best guitarist...clapton said 'ask prince.'"

    list totally invalidated by not having @Goredho and @Celery Man in the top 50 imo. 

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  6. On 10/12/2023 at 7:20 AM, NoRagrets said:

    Some Mac update has my Mac not connecting to my docking station (large screen and keyboard) not my USB mixer thing (Strindberg).

    Help! Can’t record now…

    you probably just need to check the manufacturer of your mixer to see if they have a driver update for osx sonoma.  

    any time you do one of the major osx updates from one name to another, you are usually going to slightly jack with those.  it usually takes all the plugin and hardware companies about a month to update their software to play nice...so it is a good idea to wait for a month or two before updating your mac to new osx version if you are using it heavily for music.

  7. You knew it was coming...as will all the eye rolls of the lists' perceived slights and errors.  But regardless...

    https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-guitarists-1234814010/chuck-berry-14-1234814185/

    getting the outrage controversy started...my submission is the notion of SRV at 20 behind some of the people in front of him is silly.  

    i will go ahead and voice @BrickHorn's outrage of prince being 14 even thought it is one i'd probably agree with.

  8. Just now, G650 said:

    You are just doing what Brisket is in this post. These aren't the only two options. To engage in Realpolitik will take a lot more than this into account and choose a complex nuanced path of many actions.

     

    In my opinion there have not been any true examples of realpolitik since the 19th century anyway, Kissinger and a few Soviets are the only one's who have even played footsie with realpolitik since.

    you do make a fair point that there are an infinite number of alternative realpolitik paths that...frankly, would end much better than the current path.  the u.s., the e.u., and the gulf states could impose some good alternatives.  but it would be necessary to engage at a rational and practical level for those and that's simply not realistic in the short-term unfortunately given the impassioned moral and ideological states of the belligerents.

    unfortunately, those are the choices once a direct response is executed.  in any alternative you propose that isn't simply idealistic, there is certainly suffering.

  9. 1 minute ago, G650 said:

    The issue is they don't pose a realpolitik inquiry, but absolute emotional impulse. Good and evil? Jesus.

     

    Funny you bring it up though because I was considering trolling Brisket with an Bismark reference but thought better of it.

    of course it does.  maybe brisket's hyper-emotional and dramatic language characterizing a revelations like battle for the soul of humankind confuses it, sure...but there remains a legitimate inquiry.

    you've been ruthlessly attacked by an aggressor.  that aggressor strategically retreats behind civilians.  you hold categorically that above all things, no civilians can be harmed.  

    you're then faced with the inquiry...accept the violence perpetrated and say sorry as chainsaw has suggested or respond in-kind with violence knowing civilians will be inevitably harmed as brisket suggests?

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  10. 14 minutes ago, DixonHur said:

    Not sure if this goes here or the Ukraine thread, but IMO he is dead on with his analysis.  

    I'm probably being a little reactionary, but I truly believe we are headed toward a world war.  And I worry it will come with a side of civil war.  The Russians have their hooks in tight on the American right. 

    r/WhitePeopleTwitter - The crisis is escalating due to Putin.

    I volunteer to be responsible for assessing exacerbated cleavages. 

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  11. 8 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:

     

    cross posting this from the cr thread in response to your tweet.

    israel is faced with deciding whether it wants to buck the notion that there is no military solution to counterterrorism.  it's not that there isn't a solution...it's just that it is not palatable to most of the western world.  other parts of the world have less queasiness about it.  ask the tamil tigers in sri lanka.  but roughly 20k civilians were killed as a result.

    if israel goes this route, they are going to have to be ready to go full out war because such action will result in a full engagement of iran not only through hamas but also from the north through hezbollah who has a whole bunch (between 100k-150k) of long range missiles that can overwhelm the iron dome...as well as militants in the west bank engaging.  with that type of three front situation, israel will be potentially forced into engaging iran directly in order for it to pressure iran to call off its henchmen. 

    the magnitude of the civilian hostages that were seized makes the calculus much more complex in the near term.  if third party back channels don't do a lot of work to get some resolution on this and finding some fall guy trophies, this is going to get even nastier.  the u.s., gulf state, and iran unofficial lines of communication need to get something done.

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  12. 43 minutes ago, Porterhouse said:

    I just can’t believe that’s how anyone would look at the current developments and distill it down to this. This is an insane distortion of the facts who should bear culpability. 

    i think this line appropriately applies to anyone trying to distill anything related to israel and palestine to anything simple and one-sided.  just a reminder...

     

  13. 4 minutes ago, Patricio Swayze said:

    Besides SA making a statement that blames Israel, has there been anything else from them? They obviously have supported Hamas before, but as it has been mentioned, they are at odds with Iran.

    A few years back I worked for a Saudi owned company and one reason I left is I didn’t like the idea of working for those fuckers (how women, Jews, etc are treated). And again, I find myself working with them (not for them) and I still don’t much like the idea.

    saudi arabia officially severed relations with hamas in 2007 and has not been friendly since.  s.a. largely sees them as an arm of iran and the muslim brotherhood which they treat adversarial.  that said, hamas has been making an effort to thaw relations with them for the last few months and they are both "sunni."

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  14. israel is faced with deciding whether it wants to buck the notion that there is no military solution to counterterrorism.  it's not that there isn't a solution...it's just that it is not palatable to most of the western world.  other parts of the world have less queasiness about it.  ask the tamil tigers in sri lanka.  but roughly 20k civilians were killed as a result.

    if israel goes this route, they are going to have to be ready to go full out war because such action will result in a full engagement of iran not only through hamas but also from the north through hezbollah who has a whole bunch (between 100k-150k) of long range missiles that can overwhelm the iron dome...as well as militants in the west bank engaging.  with that type of three front situation, israel will be potentially forced into engaging iran directly in order for it to pressure iran to call off its henchmen. 

    the magnitude of the civilian hostages that were seized makes the calculus much more complex in the near term.  if third party back channels don't do a lot of work to get some resolution on this and finding some fall guy trophies, this is going to get even nastier.  the u.s., gulf state, and iran unofficial lines of communication need to get something done.

  15. 1 minute ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

    Google maps shows the distance as the crow flies at around 1,150 miles. As you see, I said just over a billion. I used San Diego because it is a large, well-known city. But yes, technically it would be around Yuma, AZ. Or if you go the other way, you can say Orlando, FL.

    if you want to give me $150 million ameros, i will take them.

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