Paul Wesley

Bill at Austin vintage has always done me right

I remember seeing him sometime in the early 90's - maybe it was an ACL taping. I told the person I was with, "There's really no reason for me to own a guitar."

Have you considered a cheaper hobby, like breeding quarter horses or climbing Everest?

Yeah, K&M makes higher quality stuff, IMO.

I mean, that could be a flagrant and Nunge is doing his "who, me?" Jabbar act

Unbelievable.

That is just not a foul

100% flagrant

Fuck that meth boy

Yeah, 5 fouls to 1 this half is some bullshit.

Make your free throws

Looking like we're gonna need some quality minutes from the role players - Morris, Cunningham, Mitchell.

Carr has to settle down and quit forcing wild shit with 15 seconds left on the shot clock

As a sound, it's just a muted attack and then instant decay, so that the notes have no body. I think they're getting used more for modern pop - Harry Styles, Taylor Swift - and a ton of indie bands... making guitars sound like plucked harps or like less obnoxious banjos or even just putting enough delay/verb on it so that it seems like a synth patch. It's appealing to me because anything that forces me away from familiar chord shapes and chord sequences -- it's a great way to come up with something new. So I'm anxious to try to write some modern pop stuff with it. I'd like to hear what an envelope filter would do with those little plucked notes, I'd like to see what it does if you played a really gooey, wet part that's heavily modulated like Duran Duran "Come Undone." I'd like to see how it takes delay pedals, especially those that degrade the original signal with multiple repeats. I want to hear how a POG octave pedal treats those body-less transients. I'd like to try all of those things that I just mentioned into a talk box. I don't know what it would do into a muffroom cloud, but I'll bet it's a sound you haven't heard a lot of. Here's the thing: It might be an experiment where every dish turns out to be a big shit sandwich. I still wanna live with it for a few days.

“Listen to the lack of sustain?”

NGD. This is about to be a rubber-bridge guitar. It's a Fender "American Professional" series Jazzmaster. A few years ago, I bought an almost identical G and L Jazzmaster, and I only kept it a few days before sending it back. Ironic that we're talking weight right now, because the main reason I sent back the G and L is because it was just absurdly heavy. Generally, weight is not a make-or-break metric for me - within reason - but IMO that G&L was heavy beyond reason. It was a rock. Anyway, this one has already had some electronic mods done to it and it already had a bridge upgrade (pictured). It was one of those guitars that had been on Reverb for a while, so I think I got it for a really good price. I've got some ideas for pedals that I think might be cool with this plunky sound. If the rubber-bridge thing doesn't work out, then I own a Jazzmaster, and if that doesn't work out, I think I can sell it for pretty much what I got in it. Already ordered some heavy-gauge flat wounds with a wound third, which it what they recommended And the only thing that's not here is the bridge (coming tomorrow), which I bought from waterslide. YouTube video from waterslide:

I mentioned this a month or two ago -- I've been wanting to experiment with a rubber bridge guitar, but the ones I've seen for sale on Reverb are really overpriced. So I decided to get a guitar that fills a lane for me anyway, and then just by a rubber bridge that fits it. That way if it doesn't work out or if I get bored with it, I can always go back to a conventional bridge and have an instrument that I'll use and play. So... new guitar day on Friday.

Agreed.

Arguably, there's no equivalent to Page for 1) authorship of iconic guitar lines, or 2) wide influence. I understand that Jack White gave the filmmakers the low-tech, low-budget, low-fi approach to playing guitar, but I still had the "why is this guy in a documentary with Jimmy Page?" reaction. A lot of his scenes and commentary felt kind of performative (like an affectation). EVH could have represented the whole tapping, whammy-bar, master-of-the-fretboard genre that he pioneered. Maybe he told the filmmakers "no?" I understand the rap on Edge for being a 1-trick guy, but in that film he came off as a low-ego guy and a serious student of the instrument. I suppose Knofler could have provided those things - plus he's pretty obviously a better all-around guitar player.

Pitt is playing (no) defense like it's an NBA all-star game. Every Xavier shot has token resistance at best.

Jabari Rice is a pretty wily player. He's confident and he has an in-your-face demeanor. He reminds me a lot of Cornbread Maxwell (yeah, I'm old).

big shot

Under 10 minutes to go. We have 2 points on free throws and 0 points on threes. That's crazy.

Unbelievable no call

Bullshit