Thermos H. Christ

That's why I've been throwing some money Beto's way, and would encourage others to do the same. Beto's biggest obstacle to victory right now is that people haven't heard of him. Money is a particularly effective tool for solving that specific problem.

And I mean from practically day one, too. His campaign had just barely begun when he spent multiple entire news cycles railing about how he was going to destroy everyone at NBC for fucking with his off-brand beauty pageant. At the time I foolishly thought that was a sure sign of a candidate totally unable to stay on-message, unable to avoid flashing his glaring personality issues, and utterly doomed to failure on the big stage. I hope and hoped - oh how I hoped, that his whole campaign wouldn't crash and burn before I had the pleasure of watching him attempt to participate in a televised debate. And boy, he was every bit as bad as I had imagined. And he went on to do one thing after another that should have instantly and permanently doomed his political aspirations. But somehow we're in opposite land now, and none of it mattered.

See this is what really brings it home how shitty of a person he is - he's super duper smart. He knows better.

Camp Cope Live at the Wireless Most of it kills. I’m mildly obsessed with the bass in particular - the playing isn’t fast or flashy or technical or anything but it’s always a cool riff anchoring the song. http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/live-at-the-wireless/camp-cope-latw/9714558

Of course Nirvana was punk, especially live Nirvana which is their best output imo. But punk is rock. Most punk probably has more in common with Chuck Berry than bands like Yes or Pink Floyd did.

lol remember when that one guy said Nirvana takes a backseat to Charlie Daniels Band in the rock pantheon

The argument about whether Nirvana is the best is all well and good. I’m still amazed at someone’s hot take that Nirvana isn’t rock. Also: it’s wild that I’m maybe the only one that even mentioned more than one contender from the early aughts indie/garage rock resurgence. I think that’s the latest stuff that has had a chance to stand the test of time, but there’s still great rock music being made. Rock is quietly having a moment right now. Women are getting in on it to a greater extent than before and it’s largely based around a DIY scene/ethos rather than being a commercial juggernaut, but young people are listening to rock music and making rock music for each other, getting inspired by each other just as much as by rockers of yore. Rock is not the defining sound of American culture like it once was, but it’s very much alive and healthier than it’s been in like a decade or more.

Nirvana’s best album came out in 2009

Nirvana obviously. Neutral Milk Hotel made one album amazing and influential enough to be right up here. Some honorable mentions with smaller, less consistent, or less influential overall catalogs who nonetheless made some of the very best rock songs and albums: The Breeders (“Pod” is insanely good, and arguably the purest example of Steve Albini doing his thing) The Unicorns (only four years in existence, dropped one of the best albums ever in year 3) The Shins The White Stripes Green Day (in the mid 90s) Smashing Pumpkins (in the early-mid 90s) The Distillers The Yeah Yeah Yeahs The Strokes The Decemberists Voxtrot (purely on the strength of their first EP)

I've heard a million stories about their horrible quality control in recent years, and their prices are outrageous. They're putting out guitars with serious fit and finish issues, often playability issues, that cost as much as Fender Custom Shop stuff. Morale within has been notoriously low for years (seriously read glassdoor about working at Gibson, it sounds like a nightmare). See also endorsers jumping ship because they can't be bothered to listen. Plus apparently their minimum buy is outrageous if you want to sell them, to the point that many mom n pop shops have had to drop them entirely. And on the side they're trying to be a general consumer electronics company. Sure, guitar-centric music isn't the all-encompassing cultural juggernaut it once was, but people are still buying and playing guitars. Plenty of them. This isn't that hard. Follow the Fender plan. Sell versions of all your iconic models at basically every imaginable price level, and take advantage of the advances in CNC to deliver really high quality instruments at a price point previously undreamt of. By all accounts, Epiphones are pretty decent. But you gotta get people talking about them the way they talk about Squier Vintage Modified - having their minds blown by the professional-quality instrument they got for $300. You can still sell $3,000-$5,000 guitars to a tiny number of people, but the boomers are dying off and millennials are poor as shit. You have to make it where people can buy an LP worthy of the Gibson name for like $600. And you definitely can. Other people are doing it. The "Standard" Les Paul should not be $4,800. And when you're asking someone to pay $4,800 for a guitar, it has to be perfect. It has to be beyond perfect.

Wait MajorHarsin was Canadian?

I hadn't checked in on the cloak room lately. Tonight I did and at a glance it seemed like most of the people still posting are the alt-right/pizzagater types. Wonder how many of them are bots still going through the motions.

I mean I suppose it's one of the cooler things I might expect to see hanging on the wall of an accountant's office

Today I learned that Joan Jett was younger circa 2010 than she was in the 80's (70's?)

John Mayer is so awful that he singlehandedly makes Dead & Co. completely unappealing to me. He's obviously very technically proficient but his voice and even his guitar tone are just nauseating. Actually now that I think about it he is kind of the PRS of guitar players. Sure it's well made, there's clearly skilled craftsmanship and attention to detail going on, but somehow it all just adds up to being really bland and offputting at the same time. Look at this thing. Fuck this thing. It looks like how John Mayer sounds.

I see it and raise you

Dear lord, this thing on Craigslist in Austin right now... looks like a bargain at a $900 asking price. https://austin.craigslist.org/msg/d/rare-2008-fender-aerodyne/6544537849.html