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Celery Man

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  1. Someone else here has one of those, right? Supposed to be great.
  2. man one of the all time greatest "gigs" of my life was when I was 13 years old, I had my strat and one of those little battery powered Vox AC1 amps and my friend had his pearl export series drum kit and somehow we were signed up to man the salvation army Christmas donation bucket outside of Best Buy. Fuck them bells, drums and guitar. I have no idea what we even played but we probably raised $27. We later formed our first couple of bands together. He went off to study music in college and then conservatory and lets see what weird shit he's up to now
  3. The original title in Swedish always strikes me as so awesome, and I may have only noticed it the first time when I was watching that movie with subtitles. "Men Who Hate Women". I should go watch these again. I remember feeling like the casting in this movie for both Salandar and Blomkvist felt more real. Or maybe, Rooney Mara got sufficiently weird as Lisbet to pass but Daniel Craig was still a bit too Daniel Craig for the chain smoking beaten down disgraced journalist.
  4. yeah they were good. it's been a million years - the books were really popular in about 2009, that was right around when Netflix started doing "Instant Watch" in addition to DVD by mail, and in addition to every weird documentary ever the swedish Girl with the Dragon Tattoo movies were on there. The actress who plays Lisbet is really great. I also can't believe they never managed to make the rest of those movies with Mara. I think they got stalled somehow and then made the second one with... the woman from the Crown? and it sucked? Would have loved to see that trilogy completed.
  5. you could accomplish the same result for a fraction of the cost by returning mailto:derka for every request
  6. the conventional wisdom is that the d28 is the choice for clarity, while the hd28 has a bit more complexity
  7. Also just cause I have them - hd28 and d41 side by side. They are highly similar guitars, sonically - I love them both, it is silly that I have them both.
  8. I hauled a kiddie pool home from ace hardware this weekend.
  9. There have been changes in bracing and placement, "forward shifted" versus not forward shifted, etc over the years, and so this description of the difference is only mostly correct So, Martin introduces the D28 in the 1930s. It has certain characteristics and herringbone purfling around the top of the guitar. WWII breaks out and the herringbone goes away because that part came from Germany, and around the same time they switch from scalloped bracing to straight bracing. In the 1970s, a market has developed for pre-war Martins and so Martin figures out how to make a pre-war spec 28 and also realize that the bracing shifted towards ths soundhole in this period. So they introduce the HD-28, which has scalloped and forward shifted bracing, as well as the herringbone detail on the top of the guitar, meant to have the more open and dynamic sound of pre-war Martins. People also still love the tight and powerful sound of the 1950s Martins and so the D-28 remains on the market. The D41 came out in the late 60s. I'm not sure the exact timeline of that model, but generally speaking (and for sure true of bogey's as well as mine from 2001) it is highly similar to an HD-28 with different cosmetic appointments and with wood pulled from a higher graded stack. Scalloped bracing, forward shifted, spruce (for sure sitka, not sure when they switched from east coast appalachia adirondack to pacific northwest sitka) top, east indian rosewood back and sides. Abalone on the top, fretboard, headstock, and string pins. Cool looking pattern inlay on the back strip. The D45 in comparison has abalone on the back and sides as well as the top, and is pretty identifiable by the abalone outlining the part of the fretboard that sits on the body. The wood is graded visually, I don't know exactly what characteristics they look for in the spruce to be rated more highly. Curious what the ebony is like these days on standard d/hd28s vs d41s, wouldn't surprise me if the 40 series Martins get the jet black and the 28s have a bit of white on them.
  10. the engineer who thought to describe the loose wiper problem as an automated system for airspeed based aerodynamic optimization didn't buy a single drink that night
  11. she's the best
  12. I’m trying to find the funny and relevant Hustle and Flow gif but that was just a good movie. Whoop that trick.
  13. Slept in, Father’s Day lunch with some running shoe shopping for the wife at REI mixed in. Toddler pulled the checkout line stanchion down on her head so we got a bandaid and had to fill out an incident report. And change shirts.
  14. Absolutely this is the guy, thank you lol. Be high mid day glued to the floor of my sublet at campus estates off riverside eating hot dogs and freaking out
  15. hell yeah
  16. if it's another big muff you don't have to wait to open it
  17. I think in some cases you could maybe fuck up a nitro finish. Like, if there was some huge temperature/humidity differential between where the guitar has been and your home, it could craze and/or get cloudy. But I think that this is highly not likely to be an issue in June in Michigan.,
  18. who was the gray haired professor looking guy who would go on these crazy raves and there would be all kinds of psychedelic effects on the video/audio?
  19. i've spent my entire life being a proponent of top over and now find myself switching the rolls around in the bathrooms used by the little demon.
  20. ok i'll bite - what is woke about renaming your band after a chevy
  21. 335. I don’t have a 335. In the acoustic side, a D18 and really a J45. I have a J45 but it is a J45 custom with rosewood back and sides. I don’t have an all solid mahogany body spruce topped dreadnought or jumbo.
  22. Those things look like ninja stars. Which made me try and remember if there was a guy playing guitar in the Foot Clan hideout in the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. And in retrospect goddamn the Foot Clan was so cool i want to join this club now lol that's sam rockwell kinda off topic for this thread but I'm having a.... I guess I'm old enough where this is maybe just a slight mid-life crisis, or at least I'm reflecting on my early adulthood and wanting to take ownership for the good parts as well as the bad parts. Anyways, I framed some albums and stuff and am going to start trying to collect more concert posters, I'm really loving the vibe it has added to my room
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