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We are in the middle of a zeitgeist of assholery.

Eddie would have gutted that Steve Irwin looking mother fucker and drove off on his motorcycle.

I kinda forgot IBM and Oracle still existed.

Kinda cool that convolution reverbs have made their way into pedals. This Verbera is the one I have and it’s got an impulse response “capture” ability. Hook up its outa to the sources ins and the sources outs to its ins and click a button and you have a capture of the source reverb in the pedal that is allegedly very close. Next time I make it to Austin, can we see what that beast sounds like captured into a $299 pedal, @sidis ?

DemocratingVerb The act of carefully preparing an ornate bed with the finest linens, then shitting in it repeatedly.

Receiving our first fire refugees today from the Aspen Acres fire that is now up to 93,000 acres. https://app.watchduty.org/i/105208?tab=info

Its no bueno up here in Central, CO.

I got to play a 1964 Strat at a high end bougie guitar store in Boston last week. Super nice folks who let me try it out even though I had no intention of taking out a 2nd mortgage to buy one of their guitars. The strat in question was kind of meh. I greatly prefer my late 90s Lonestar strats.

A lot of places in Europe not on anyone's short list of destinations are little, hidden gems. We were going to Madeira once, couldn't land because of the wind conditions, and got redirected to an even smaller island called Porto Santo and had to spend one of our Madeira days there. The day spent walking the tiny island and hanging out in a great bar talking to the regulars and sitting in on guitar with a local performer wound up being a highlight of the trip.

Can Laura Lee Ochoa play one of these in our band?

Looks like a Backlund, I wouldn't ever own one, but I dig that they are at least doing something different. https://eastwoodguitars.com/collections/backlund

Billy Strings live at ACL tonight...

I see the public is still waiting for someone -- anyone -- to grab this party by the pussy and give a shit about the economic problems of people with less than a 7 figure net worth. Keep burning the old growth incumbents to the ground, electorate.

I kinda miss the lawyer talk… https://www.guitarworld.com/gear/electric-guitars/thomann-is-suing-fender

Now make that treadmill a wah filter.

I‘ll answer that for you. The average CEO, aspirant CEO and big money investor is not a wise visionary. They are just sociopaths with access to money.

Anyone need a Bevocaster?

Going to be in Boston next week. Any badass guitar/pedal/music spots I should visit?

The nicest thing I can say about reliced guitars is your heart doesn't drop when you put that first major ding in it.

Maybe the secret is tight, form-fitting frontman pants.

I think the only real answer to this problem is practice hard early, become a guitar god by 25, embrace the sex, drugs and rock and roll lifestyle, and die before 40. This is probably fair advice, too.

Jesus might love him, but the rest of us? We love his mom.

Hey, I am all about the tweaking. Any knobs you put in front of me might as well be nipples, because I am going to play with them all day long. I just know using AI this way is a thing.

I think there are a few things like this starting to emerge that try to use AI to eliminate the fiddling. But... there's no reason you can't set up a project in ClaudeAI or ChatGPT or whatever that you have a file attached to that describes your rig/pedalboard/whatever, and then start a conversation saying, "give me James McMurtry Choctaw Bingo live amp sound with my rig" and it will give you a list of tweaks/settings for your rig to get you in the ballpark. Tomorrow, start another conversation where you say, "Give me a David Gilmour/Pink Floyd tone from 'Time' on Dark Side of the Moon with my rig" and it will give you another list of tweaks/settings for your rig to get you in the ballpark. Still some twiddling, but it can cut it down considerably without having to buy a new product. You might give it a shot and see what you think.

So I had my 3rd gig of the summer and the first after I purchased the zoom Q2n. I really appreciate the recommendation, @tbone_ . Great little camera for less than $150. Had it shut off its recording 6 songs into the set, though. I'm thinking there might be some default setting to shut off after an hour or something? Anyway, glad to get the footage I did. It looks and sounds very good.