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Paul Wesley

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  1. Welcome. You will get as many opinions as there are guys on this thread. Buy what speaks to you and inspires you. Fender vs Gibson… The differences in playability to a beginner are probably negligible. Personally, I would buy used - as the closets of America are filled with like-new guitars that were once $1200 and now $700. And like Chad says - whatever you pick, pay for a good set up. I look forward to helping you pick out a pre-CBS Strat and a pre-war Martin in a few years.
  2. Any of you degenerates in Austin looking to build a pedal board? I have two old ones to get rid of. Small velcro one that still has a DC Brick and a quartermaster (lets you make loops so that you are turning multiple pedals on and off at once) -- both already mounted on there. You'd be way ahead of the DIY game. Also a bigger hardshell suitcase with a power strip mounted to bottom. Make me a semi-reasonable offer.
  3. Paul Wesley

    Arc Angels!

    I mean... it's a fantastic record. I've probably seen them live 12 or 14 times. Maybe twice in the year the album was released, and then roughly 10-12 reunion shows. Seems like a failure of someone's imagination at this point (not the promoter's, but maybe mine).
  4. I cannot understand why there was such strong backlash against this art form.
  5. I have only followed this trial peripherally, and this thread sporadically... but I have two observations, which likely have already been made (and which are maybe the same observation): 1. We should have learned from the OJ trial that there doesn't have to be a hero on either side. OJ can be a monstrous wife-beater and a murderer and also Mark Fuhrman can by a racist, fascist piece of shit who has no problem with felony perjury about his (apparently quite frequent) use of the N word. Pretty obvious parallels here where the victims (yes... victims) can be shitty people with shady histories who were actively involved in criminal mischief, while simultaneously Rittenhouse was a wildly unstable kid who classmates openly feared for his "school shooter" potential, a person caught on video repeatedly punching a woman in the back of the head in a street fight, a kid illegally carrying a weapon designed to kill a lot of people very quickly, and one who thought it was a great idea to wear a "free as fuck" shirt and flash a white power hand sign while taking his victory laps. The idea of Rittenhouse as a celebrated hero is just horrifying. I mean, I have no doubt that OJ was guilty as fuck, but I'll die before you see me celebrating or justifying Fuhrman. 2. I cannot imagine the outrage if a black family got some welfare money (pandemic-related unemployment check), used the money and an (obviously, illegal) shill buyer to get an assault rifle, and then his mother (who participated in the gun-buying scheme as a shill "owner") drove him across three counties and a state line in order to drop him off at a "Unite the Right" rally, and all of that predictably ended in multiple deaths. Also, "free as fuck" shirts, gang signs posing with members of his same race, etc. I mean, would this thread still break down along the same lines? If not, why?
  6. I'm not anti-digital or anti-keyboard. I own weighted and semi-weighted keys, plus a few rack mount libraries and a one or two software libraries. They're amazing. But if I had a 7-year old who was showing any kind of interest, I'd make sure I had a "real" option...whether a crap upright or a 9-foot grand. And yes, that guy's comparison video is a COMPLETELY different question. I will absolutely concede that the difference between "real" through a speaker and "digital" through that very same speaker is negligible. But if you were ****in the room**** with him, and he played a beautiful piece of music, the difference in EMOTIONAL CONTENT between the sound of a 7-foot grand vs the sound of a little 6.5" speaker (no matter how good the modeling) -- that difference is gargantuan.
  7. Tricking people on a recording (software vs real instrument) is easy, because you're comparing the sound of something through a speaker to the sound of something else through a speaker. But if you brought us into someone's living room blindfolded and made us guess if we were hearing a digital keyboard though consumer-grade speakers or a real piano, we'd hear and feel the difference 1000 times out of 1000. I agree with a lot of what you wrote. But if the question is "What would inspire my kids?" then my answer is a real piano - even a crappy low-value upright like the one that inspired me. edit to add: if the kids are making a lot of noise on it, then I'd say they're inspired. They'll either get better or give it up.
  8. A real piano will inspire your kids in a way that an electronic keyboard will not. There is something about a real, actual string vibrating that resonates in the soul. Sound coming out of a speaker doesn't do it. Get a 72-key keyboard as a do-not-disturb option, but don't sell the real thing. My .02
  9. fire everyone
  10. Fuck these announcers and fuck this league
  11. Wait, are we doing Canadian one-hitters? I have two of those. First one may not meet the criteria for the thread, but I can name only one song of his, and it has one of the best closing lines ever. "If I had a rocket launcher, some son of a bitch would die." And one more from the glory days of MTV. It's 80's cheese, but I love it anyway.
  12. https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-shot-not-heard-round-the-world/ Great article on Elmo Henderson, who appears throughout that movie as Foreman's hype man and sparring partner.
  13. What a great 80's tune. It's amazing. They only had one hit, but that whole record was pretty solid, and Baerwald had a few more gems in his subsequent solo records.
  14. Tom Cochrane has said in interviews that he was on his way to the studio to do that vocal when he heard of John Lennon's murder. It's a brilliant song.
  15. I think it's a legal play. I also think it's rotten as fuck to take away a KU TD for a veeeery marginal hold 20 yards away from the play while ignoring OU receivers holding on the edge right in front of the runner.... like, for example, just a few snaps ago.
  16. I rewound to see it. You are going to be shocked to hear this: It was nowhere close to the play, and it was a pretty soft call.
  17. Deej, sorry to hear this. You lost mobility because of a nerve injury, or because the joints were affected by fractures? I'm sure you can come up with a work-around.... either a splint that holds those fingers in extension, or a way to tether them to your long finger so they're out of your way. On your team.
  18. Very nice. Congrats on documenting all of this. The scream at the beginning of "waiting" is solid. That Daltrey fellow has got nothing on you.
  19. A lot of deaths are happening because people mix their street-bought Xanax with alcohol -- something they've done recreationally for years -- except now that black-market "Xanax" is actually fentanyl. ...the exact same reckless shit that young people have been doing for generations -- taking a bar of what they think is Xanax (or whatever) at a party... that same action is suddenly WAY more lethal.
  20. Like, say - hypothetically- the chief legal advisor in Texas had multiple felony indictments for corruption, but kept winning elections?
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