Recent content by middy

Meh. Clark Terry said imitate, then integrate, then innovate. A lot of famous musicians never get past integrate and I’m not convinced that Stevie Ray ever did.

Good choice. The Warmoth tort is real celluloid and looks awesome.

That’s not true. I’ve never had a Warmoth body and fender pickguard fail to fit each other.

To be fair, most of them preferred heroin to alcohol for performing impaired.

Why does this topic keep coming up? We’re not supposed to talk about drugs on this site.

You’re supposed to haggle!

Do yourself a favor and plug an SD-1 into the normal channel, all knobs at noon, volume at the edge of pain. Rawk

It’s a ritual with a physical object with physical waveforms frozen in vinyl, played back through diamonds and electrons… what’s not to love? You invest some time into appreciating a collection of songs instead of hitting next on your 10,000 hour shuffle. It’s just different.

I’ve spent thousands of hours on video games, most of which I want back. I can’t play for more than an hour or two at a time anymore. I get bored. I prefer 1-4 player turn-based RPGs, single-player Minecraft, action games like tomb raider, and single-player or multiplayer-coop vs AI FPS games...

Why is everyone always posting pictures of guitars without the headstock? Does nothing for me.

Yes

I only have one band t-shirt anymore.

“Don’t worry! They’re not terrorists, only morons.”

As Tom Bukovac would say, learn every Beatles song.

People think they can pay for extraordinary tone, when really most of it is in the fingers. It’s easier to shop than practice. You guys should see what vintage Fender Telecasters go for…