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  1. 38 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Need recs on a decent value acoustic guitar with onboard electronics for my daughter.  (No pics, assholes.  You'll have to come see her play.)

    She writes her own stuff and is pretty damn close to phenomenal -- played her first jazz-pop "gig" at a friend's art show on Saturday and absolutely blew away the audience, which included a few well-known local musicians who were effusive in their praise.  She's already stolen my Yamaha S80 keyboard, which is her main instrument, but as it turns out she's written a few tunes on acoustic guitar and stole my Yammie acoustic-electric as well.  I'm tired of her stealing my shit.

    Emphasis is on the sound through a PA.  I could do $600-$750 or so.  Wondering if there are some "value" brands like the old Seagull line, etc.?

    Fender's acoustic are the most popular starter/student guitars on the market currently and you get Fishman elecs in the ~$300+ models.

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  2. I introduced the kids to an old timey game, Catan. They loved it. I've always thought Catan was plodding and staid, but I thoroughly enjoyed it in this 3D version. Maybe I'm easily entertained by bright colors and plastic mountains. (Honestly, table presence has become such a big draw for me. Like, if I take the time to set up a game and get a bunch of people to put aside the time, the game needs to be an event that justifies the effort. Table presence is a big part of that - it can go quite a ways in helping define the experience for me. A game can be a bona fide classic, but if it looks ugly or "beige" I'll play something else and not think twice about it. )363c2ad4bbfb88d947dc610acd3eba77.jpgac6cb4259f8270b547ef8f11a1a12a32.jpg

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  3. These could go here (did I already spam these somewhere?). I recently went and saw a Dallas-based KISS tribute band, Rock N Roll Over, while I was in San Bernadino. Played everything all the way to the criminally underrated Psycho Circus album.

    (Don't tell anyone, but they rocked better than the OG lineup when I saw them during the first reunion tour - though I would go see the OG lineup again in a heartbeat.)

    Drummer plays in a Pantera tribute band, too, so Beth was apparently out of the question.f523cb2f78d20b4f8e1588dd928eb03a.jpgb8f16bb1dedb1095d03365dbb094c7bc.jpg

  4. What's it called? I'm out there fairly often. 
    Astro Record Store, run by this cool Brit that looks like Elvis Costello, which is probably how all record store owners should look.
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  5. There's a cool little record shop in Bastrop that had a lot of interesting records. Well, not as many today as they did yesterday.

    This is a cleanest Dark Side MFSL ('81) I've ever seen, so I had to deal for it. And PSA: Cold Fact by Rodriguez really is a great album. Shout out to the Sugarman documentary for hipping me to this dude.bbcd8773ca65b5f23f39e2c3cbdf2622.jpg

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  6. Look who found her forever home today.
    Alamo Music really hooked me up. Also, did not realize they are the #1 Taylor distributor in the country. Must be all of those YouTube videos.
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    Username checks out.
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  7. I'm slowly and with much resistance coming to the conclusion that random YouTuber with a guitar has chops that shit all over my heroes. Bassists, too. There's dudes out there with 500 subs that can absolutely wreak havoc.

  8. 12 hours ago, Buzzrock said:
    Imma just ignore that Sweetwater news.

    Regarding that Polyphia track: I dig that kind of playing but I need a little more groove. I like stuff like this:


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    Then of course there is the master:

     

    Grooving is why I plucked Polyphia out of this new wave of chops driven math rock. They are skilled beyond whatever level exists 10 or so places above me, beyond what I thought the ceiling was, but they groove. (Like, can you listen to Danny Carey and also not think this Polyphia drummer is on that grooving spectrum? Flippin nay.)

    Polyphia isn't as angry as I'd like, but there is evil is that drummer and bassist.

    Can you listen to this and not feel grooved?

     

     


    Flippin nay.

    (And it's been some time since I watched a band's video and couldn't ID a single one of the guitars. That's kinda cool for a lot of reasons.)

    Chon is another mathy group whose songs tell a story musically. And they quite possibly groove.


    Edit:  hope you like Animals as Leaders (I can take them or leave them), because Tapa decided everything needed to be a link to their videos. (Fixed.)

  9. Ok the Polyphia shit. Took me a couple listens to wrap my head around it.

    Wow. Outstanding.
    It's like someone looked at the calendar and realized it was once again time for someone from the Metroplex to change the way guitarists think about guitars and dropped this Henson dude on us. Like, here you go, have fun with the tab.

    Homes with a plugin ad playing a Jem without the silly handle, I guess, and I'm looking for my credit card to buy more software I already know I'll never learn...



    I mean, how beautiful must his brain be? What must it be like to think in that dimension?



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