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Paul Wesley

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  1. Yeah, the "heavy" relic thing seems especially odd. I mean, if you're doing an "artist" model, and you want to copy all the flaws of Malcolm's Gretsch or Eddie's Frankenstrat... I think that's pretty cool. Outside of that... just beating the hell out of a brand new instrument...
  2. I realize I'm a week or so late, but I just saw the Don Lemon interview. What a thin-skinned little baby. I mean, has Elon done an interview in the last year where the smallest bit of pushback or criticism doesn't cause a toddler-esque pouting tantrum? He just defaults back into self-congratulations and canned-answer platitudes about saving free speech. Then he runs off to tweet damage-control messages or to attack the interviewer. He seems utterly incapable of defending his choices (especially around censorship vs enabling racist/offensive content) in any real-time conversations. He should have YEARS of experience articulating a coherent viewpoint around topics that are DEFINITELY going to come up over and over again. Nope.
  3. At worst, Ringo was the second-best instrumentalist in the band. He was way more proficient on his instrument than was George or John. *not counting Billy Preston
  4. A spoon can be a weapon. Why don't we outlaw spoons?
  5. Gary P Nunn at a Save Muny benefit. Criminally under appreciated by the crowd. Pearls before swine in pearls.
  6. Haha. Harmonica players in bar bands… white guys with fedoras and diabeetus… just waiting for a solo. At least hippies keep their digeridoos at home.
  7. Hippies, man. They smell bad and they’re off-the-charts annoying (though some of their political beliefs turn out to be right, which is also annoying).
  8. In 6th grade band, I needed to pick an instrument. About a week before school started, my mother said, 'How about saxophone? You should play saxophone!" I ended up playing alto sax for two years. Ugh. Man, I would trade that for ANYTHING else: cello, violin, drums... even oboe or bassoon would be cooler. I'm surprised no one said "fretless bass," because that's another one that everyone else in the room just has to kind of cringe and pray to God that it stays in the case all day. How about a trio of alto sax, fretless bass, and cajon? They could name themselves something annoying, like "Phish."
  9. If bad breath were an instrument, it would be a cajon.
  10. Cajon
  11. I hope we play smart. I can’t take watching another turnover festival peppered with off-balance threes from Disu and stupid hero-ball shots from our guys. We hit only one three because the vast majority of our threes were off-balance and out of rhythm. Hell, Abmas hit that one from the logo, but at least his shoulders were square and his feet were set.
  12. Crazy that our only three the whole night was the halftime buzzer beater.
  13. Avoid: noiseless pickups, heavily modified guitars (you don't know what you're getting, and you might have a hard time selling it)
  14. Whoops. The blonde one was miscategorized. I put American-made as one of the filters but the results included that made-in-Japan model. Still might be a good guitar, but it's not how it was represented.
  15. You're an awesome dad. Personally, I'd look at an 1990's American-made guitar. In my opinion, it was a pretty good era, and they're not perceived as "vintage," so the values aren't too crazy. You can find one in good shape in the $1200-1500 range, and there are a lot of options in there to find something that he loves cosmetically. Stay away from "noiseless" pickups. They suck. "Buy this once" - check "Be nice forever" - check If it doesn't work out, you should get your money back out of it. A few from a 10-minute Reverb search: Lipstick red for $1080: https://reverb.com/item/69542092-fender-american-standard-telecaster-1992-1993-lipstick-red Sunburst with rosewood neck, $1350 and accepting offers: https://reverb.com/item/77910288-1995-fender-american-standard-telecaster-with-rosewood-fretboard-3-color-sunburst Blonde, $1600 and accepting offers: https://reverb.com/item/78163624-fender-50th-anniversary-telecaster-1996-blonde edit to add: Understand that a 30-year old guitar is almost certainly going to have some minor scratches and dings. That's normal. If that feels disappointing to him, then he should get something new or nearly new.
  16. Girlfriend in a Coma
  17. Cinderella wrote some good songs and had a redeeming self-awareness that it was all schtick and grift. "Night Songs" is a decent record.
  18. Yeah, that's what the picture made me think of too.... waiting in a line to get in, then walking around and finding the table for the class you really needed, sitting there for four hours on a tile floor behind 6 other poor bastards waiting for someone to come drop it.
  19. Photo that TM photographer Wyatt McSpadden posted:
  20. Both sound great. The custom definitely sounds meatier and has more low mids. When they started, I thought it was just mic placement (closer to sound hole ---> more boom), but the difference was obvious as they passed them back and forth. I can imagine a lot of recordings where you'd prefer the standard's brightness/clarity.
  21. I agree with all the Willie and Pink Floyd nominees. All remarkable achievements, but for different reasons. Willie did it in a genre where pretty much no one was even thinking about a "concept" album, and he took simple themes (Phases) and narratives (Stranger) and - even with often bare-bones arrangements and instrumentation - turned those into far-reaching epics. Pink Floyd aimed higher in their themes and stories (it seems to me that they set out to make something epic), and also absolutely knocked them out of the stratosphere. I think DSOTM was on the billboard charts for 19 years (!!!!!). I was incredibly lucky that I happened to be in London a few years ago when the Who did "Tommy" at Royal Albert Hall. It was amazing, but that record drops off quite a bit in the back half - they even omitted a couple of of those songs when doing the record in its "entirety" - so that one can't be considered to be on the same level, IMO. It would be even harder to pick a "worst" concept album, because 99% of them are shit. But if you put a gun to my head, I'd pick a guy who grifted evangelical Christians for two decades, making straight trash with zero artistic merit. Then it got worse. He tried to grift a whole new audience with shit that had even less artistic merit. Nothing fails more spectacularly than trying to be outrageous, but just being fucking stupid.
  22. Let's do this.
  23. Was going to bump the thread to post this one, but I saw you beat me to it.
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