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Paul Wesley

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  1. I’m sure the home audiophile guys are equally ripe for satire, but I don’t swim in those waters. But these two videos land painfully close to home (Charlie Bolois actually did calibrate our Studer).
  2. Old but still brilliant and relevant:
  3. Surlyhorns getting ready for Rihanna...
  4. Yeah, without getting into the substance of his opinions (which might take us to the Cloak Room), it was kind of shocking to me in some interviews over the past few years -- seeing how ridiculously overconfident in himself Waters is, and how quickly condescending he was to the interviewers. Just profoundly unlikeable. Probably the most generous (to him) conclusion I could guess at is that he's always been loudly anti-authoritarian - and in 50 years of being a rock star, being anti-authoritarian doesn't really alienate anyone. Until now, when he just has a very unique impression of which actors in the modern world are authoritarian. Again, I'm trying to come up with a (generous) assessment of Waters other than the one in the Gilmour tweet above.
  5. I thought both Dillon Mitchell and Morris finally looked comfortable with the basketball in their hands yesterday. I've gotten the opposite impression all year (especially with Morris).
  6. Since we're considering Springsteen vs Petty, I took a look on Apple Music at each one's divorce album. Screenshots below. In general, I'd say Springsteen's might be a little more remorseful (I guess having a massively celebrated wedding to a fashion model and subsequently getting photographed on the hotel balcony with your backup singer can do that). Both records have moments of remorse and regret, but also moments of anger. Petty was willing to take a break from the pain and give listeners a pop song ("You Wreck Me"). Springsteen's seems more thematically consistent. You forget how "Wildflowers" opens with five straight radio-friendly songs. Putting five consecutive songs like that on a record is an incredible feat, and it probably tops the consecutive-greatness on sides 1 of "Damn the Torpedoes" and "Full Moon Fever." Despite that ridiculously great opening salvo, I think "Tunnel" might be a better front-to-back record.
  7. The first half love-fest for Huggins reminded me a lot of the Bob Knight era at Tech. Where the announcers spend a big % of airtime praising him while the camera shows him sitting there very passively as his sub-.500 team gets their ass kicked.
  8. (I knew I was gonna want to edit but it would be too late) As an aside, I think Chuck Berry is tough to measure and rank, because he arguably fathered the dominant American genres of music post-WWII, but he also wrote pretty much every song over a simplistic I-IV-V chord pattern. How do you compare that to Gershwin or Duke Ellington - or even Willie and Paul Simon - each of whom wrote songs with a vastly wider variety of tempos, chord changes, styles, and melodic complexity?
  9. Paul Simon Bob Dylan Tom Petty Willie Nelson If you're using objective metrics, like albums sold, radio plays, authorship of songs that are permanently in the American consciousness, people who are/were bigger-than-life icons (e.g. non-musical magazine covers, mentions in non-entertainment media like NY Times), songwriters whose songs are frequently covered... in some order, that's probably your top four, at least of the last 50-60 years, right? I don't know who the next two are... maybe Prince and Springsteen. Johnny Cash was certainly iconic and might get into an objective-criteria modern top 10. Anyway, that's not *my* list, but my guess at seven of the top 10 if you used some reasonable and objective metrics *and* kept it post-WWII. And no one would click on a list like that because it's boring. I'm probably forgetting someone obvious and will wish I could go back and edit this... It gets a lot harder to measure guys that didn't live with modern media... like Hank Williams or Robert Johnson... whose faces most people wouldn't recognize but whose influence was massive. It's also harder to compare guys who wrote in styles that have largely faded from pop culture (or at least faded relative to 21st-century tastes) - e.g. George Gershwin, Scott Joplin, John Philips Sousa, Duke Ellington, Chuck Berry.
  10. If we played OU in Dallas each October and the rest of the conference games rotated on and off the schedule, that would be totally fine with me. I understand that’s not gonna be the outcome though.
  11. This is one of the music podcasts that I listen to, and they just did an episode on muted-bridge guitars: https://switchedonpop.com/episodes/old-style-guitar-shop-rubber-bridge-reuben-cox And I googled it and it turns out it's a pretty widely-known thing (which instinctively makes me not trust the authenticity of the story): https://reverb.com/news/the-rubber-bridge-guitars-taking-over-indie-music They kind of make me want to go full Bill Burr... "When I was a kid, guitars had Floyd Rose locking tremolos, mirrored pick guards, and they were real pointy. And you dressed like a girl and sang about the devil. Now *that* was music."
  12. TV Yellow is just the "right" color for those. Love how they look.
  13. I'm just catching up on this page (which is pretty strong...), so I just saw your post above. Straight Frets is probably who I would have recommended. Danny plek'ed my old Tele and I was very happy with it. The guy I used to use here in Austin is super competent and a great guy, but he chain smokes like mad in his little workshop, and the last guitar I got back from him brought the smell home with it. For a few weeks, when I'd walk into my spare bedroom, I'd catch a faint but distinct whiff of Deep Eddy Cabaret. I've been using Straight Frets since then.
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    Grammys

    Interesting chart. I guess all the disco of the mid- to late-70's is "soul" on this graph(?).
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    Grammys

    "Beyonce is so fine that even if she worked at Burger King, she could *still* marry Jay-Z." (pause) "...but if *Jay-Z* worked at Burger King..." - Chris Rock
  16. Lots of good advice. Just a few things to add: 1. That guitar-mounted DPA mic might sound great... I dunno. But it's about the same price as a used KM184, and for sure if you were going to sell one of them in 5 years, you'll get pretty much your entire $700 back from a used Neumann, and less than half that for the used DPA. I agree with jimmyjazz that the Gefell SDC mics (M300 or M295) are at least as good as the KM184, but they're a lot less plentiful on the used market. 2. You could make a case that if you're also planning to record vocals with the same mic, perhaps you'd be better off with a large diaphragm condenser. If so, I agree with the 414 recommendation. My personal favorite for a secret-weapon LDC is the Blue Dragonfly Deluxe (has to be the green "deluxe" model and not the regular dragonfly... they only made 275 of them). I have owned several of them... they come up used for around $750, and they just murder everything else in that price range, IMO. Poor man's cardioid-only U67. 3. Stay away from the new LDC Neumanns (TLM series). They're straight trash. I'm shocked that such a venerable company puts a Neumann badge on them. 4. If you're not doing vocals, I like the idea of a used Neumann or Gefell, and put the rest in moveable acoustic treatment (wall panels or tubetraps) that will serve you well for both tracking and for mixing. You will get life-long use out of these things.
  17. Who would have guessed that the rest of the league would be rooting for Kansas at home vs Texas?
  18. Did Disu come back in the game after he was favoring his arm?
  19. Carr has to stay under control.
  20. no contact there at all
  21. When I was like 14, I’d play acoustic guitar for the singing portion of the Sunday School service. And so sometimes after church I’d have my guitar with me when dad took us for lunch at Luby’s (full gospel services always ran long, and we arrived long after those restrained and punctual Methodists). In the winter, I didn’t want to leave my guitar in a freezing cold car, so I was the kid balancing a tray while holding a guitar in one hand. It’s a long way to the top…
  22. Has Fran ever lobbied for a call in our favor?
  23. Man, George has some offensive moments where he just gets great elevation and lets it go with a silky-smooth release, even with a defender right in his grill. It's Durant-ish. I suspect Durant shot a much higher %, but still.
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