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  1. Paul Wesley
    The Rick James documentary on cable this month (?Showtime) is really good. They assembled quite a number of his family and former bandmates to participate, and their stories are entertaining (though maybe predictable). It's worth watching even if you're not a fan of his music. Definitely worth a DVR. (spoiler alert) There were rumors that he used illegal drugs.
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    Yeah, he's won me over. He was a guest on one of the weekly Longhorn podcasts (?"flagship"), and as always, he comes off as even-handed and fair when discussing the pros and cons of the Texas program ... which is really saying something, given the hysteria of "Texas destroyed the conference," and "It's not fair!" from all of our former and present league members (and yeah, I think 99% of that anti-Texas noise is bullshit).
  3. Paul Wesley
    I’m at a bar but reading lips pretty sure Sark said “run the fucking play.”
  4. Paul Wesley
    AUTF, that was super cool of you. I think I discovered that thread only days -- maybe hours -- after the last one had been claimed.
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    So if I am understanding these announcers correctly, the word out of OU camp is that every player on defense has a chance to be "special," but they can't hold the line of scrimmage or get off blocks vs. Tulane? GTFO. If there's one thing I learned from preseason games vs rented victims, it's that struggling at the LOS is a bad omen for your season. Obviously, game is early, and I expect OU to roll.... but that does not look like the defense of a top-2 football team.
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    Turns out it’s a “700,” so definitely worth fixing.
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    It's a private business, right? Those employees didn't take any kind of oath. I find it 100% credible when the owner says in the email that she and her employees have "worked overtime, to exhaustion, unpaid and underpaid" to try to serve the public, while Owens was actively making their jobs and lives worse. They don't owe her shit. If conservatives have a problem with that, they should just imagine that Owens is gay and Suzanna Lee and company didn't feel like baking her a fucking cake.
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    I have an attenuator… a really nice one, but I guess I don’t love the sound of the amp enough to patch it in. I’m sort of lazy that way… I just want to sit down and start playing. It’s why I spent so much time getting a good pedalboard together… because I hate having a guitar hanging around my neck while I’m fucking with patch cables and 9-volts. Baseball caps and fender amps… I see guys all around me making them look good and sound good, but I just feel awkward and unnatural with either one.
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    I have a Super Reverb, and in order to get it to break up, it has to be so loud that you would never ever sit in the same room with it. Not coincidentally, it’s the amp I play the least. You can pull out a tube, which helps a little… but not nearly enough. I might try some of these other mods: http://fenderguru.com/amps/super-reverb/
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    I have come to expect disingenuous arguments and constant low-level racism from Fox News... but wow. Just wow.
  11. Paul Wesley
    Yeah, I get that. I still think there's a price point for everything where you're better off buying vintage. 5K for a new microphone will get you something nice, but it will be worth 4K the day you unbox it and 3K a year or two later. As opposed to spending that on a vintage mic that is almost certain to go up... many of them appreciate substantially. But you're right that you're on-the-hook for repairs, which are far more likely than with something new. I would also be really interested to hear that guitar side-by-side with a couple 55-year old versions.
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    Is 5k enough to consider an actual 1960’s Hummingbird? That’s about what they run, says Reverb.
  13. Paul Wesley
    Did they register for a nice set of shivs?
  14. Paul Wesley
    Would it upset anyone if I post one more Jetglo Rickenbacker?
  15. Paul Wesley
    I have a set of Telecaster pickups that I pulled off my Telemaster. They are stock wound (the run of guitars that mine came from had pickups and hardware that were all from the Fender custom shop). I replaced these with a set of underwound Fralins. PM me an offer if interested. I'll say yes.
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    It's not nostalgic to me... It was basically given to me and I used it for years to power a pair of NS-10. Those speakers are now being powered by a Bryston that's not mine... so at some point, I'm either going to have to fix the Phase Linear or buy something else.
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    I got an old phase linear power amp -- probably 1970's or 80's -- that just crapped out a couple months ago. Worth repairing? If so, who in Austin would you take it to?
  18. Paul Wesley
    Fantastic rock song. I love everything about it...
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    p.s. If I could figure out how multi-quote works, I wouldn't post three replies in a row like PawPaw.
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    I just looked up the Serus a couple days ago because I thought Rhett Shull's tone was great and I wondered what he was playing. To be fair, he'd probably sound great on all kinds of different rigs.
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    You better trademark that quickly.
  22. Paul Wesley
    Wow. I *really* like that color combo. To me, that color scheme screams "jetglo Rickenbacker," which I think is cool. I like guitars that don't seem to fit easily into a "country" or "rock" or "metal" or "punk" box... guitars that sort of straddle genres and are hard to put in a category. I think this is why I like the Telemasters so much. Anyway, that made me look up Rickenbacker pictures to see if my impression was correct. It's not exactly the Rickenbacker jetglo color template - the knobs and the metal pickup covers are a little different - but it's very close. Would it look as good with a maple neck? That's the question I'm asking myself.
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    Wallflowers (plus Charlie Sexton) at Gruene Hall.
  24. Paul Wesley
    Yeah, that photo was what I had in mind... until I started hearing about ferrules lining up with bridges, which need to line up with pickup magnets, string spacing... I also saw the advice several times that many bridges that have the word "vintage" in the title are NOT actually vintage spaced. And then the website wouldn't let me select a tele bridge anyway. I *think* I figured out the solution (drill for ferrules but not for mounting screws), but I'm waiting for Fralin's advice before placing the order. AUTF - good advice on the neck. Fortunately, that's what I like to play anyway, so it should be OK there. And I also feel overwhelmed by the endless Warmoth choices. I go to their website, I start out excited, then I start feeling uncertain, and finally just close the laptop without ever buying anything. I've been "designing" and walking away from this project for a while now.
  25. Paul Wesley
    Me too.

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