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  1. Thats the same price the local GC quoted me on the one they have. I might try to sneak down there today and check it out. I think the walnut is the best looking offering, but in worried that there's not enough contrast between the fretmarkers and maple fingerboard. I want to play one before buying. It does have black side dots, so its probably fine.
  2. I've sold several guitars recently and was going to reinvest some of the proceeds and surprise you guys with this bass. Sweetwater says they won't have any until May of 2023. My local Guitar Center shows one in stock, but Reverb's sales history says they are going for about double what they were 2 years ago. I dont know that I want to buy during a sellers market. I also saw yesterday that the Marshall head I bought a few years ago now sell for more than double what I paid. It may be time to see what I have to unload. Seems like a good time to be selling.
  3. I celebrate the entire catalog. Most of it anyway.
  4. Wordle 439 5/6* [emoji834][emoji834]🟨[emoji834][emoji834] [emoji834][emoji834]🟨🟨[emoji834] 🟨🟨[emoji834]🟨[emoji834] [emoji834]🟩[emoji834]🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I was just glad to find it.
  5. Vegetarian-ish
  6. You're not wrong. That venue Winters that we played and I love actually has a little studio apartment upstairs that bands can use, but its reserved for the touring band if there is one. Its just a sectional somebody can nap on, but there's a shitter and a shower thats key. There's also a fridge so you can drink cheap byob beers instead of buying them at the bar. He throws samples vendors leave behind in there for them. Good venue and the owner is really about supporting bands and live music. In fact, when it came to light that his bar tender had paid all the money to the opening band who none of us knew, he paid us out of his own pocket.
  7. Is that wrong?
  8. I just have one of those old brown, folding metal chairs.
  9. I always stay to support whoever plays after us. I was happy playing 1st the other night because i was intimidated by the other 2 bands on the bill. Both metal bands full of well known local musicians. Thats why I brought the big orange Gretsch, i was trying to present as not that. Turns out I needed not to be concerned. Vary Mary packed the room, and it was half empty by the time the headliner went on. In fact, i kind got into with the stage manager because id told him we'd go on at 8:30 sharp as he requested. At 8:25 the room was half empty. I look outside and there's a line down the street of our people and I learned they just opened the doors at 8:20. I told him we needed more time and he said he could give me 5 mins or he'd get i trouble w his boss. I said to tell the boss to open the doors sooner and he wouldn't have that problem, im not asking my friends to pay $12 a head to get in only to play while they're still in line. I dont think they're used to an opening band who can draw. The biggest compliment I got was later that night when the same guy apologized for having to be the bad guy and complemented our sound and said SF needs more bands like us. Oh, and I like playing 1st or 2nd. It exposes you to the other bands audiences. When you go last, they've often left.
  10. [mention=6169]Paul[/mention] Wesley Tried quoting your post but it wouldnt format right. That Onion article hit a little close to home! Last 2 shows we did indeed each get 2 drink tickets.
  11. Fuck tapatalk
  12. Wordle 438 6/6* [emoji834][emoji834][emoji834][emoji834]🟩 [emoji834][emoji834]🟩[emoji834]🟩 [emoji834]🟩🟩[emoji834]🟩 🟩🟩🟩[emoji834]🟩 🟩🟩🟩[emoji834]🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  13. Just added Gary Numan to this marathon.
  14. I mistakenly texted everybody what we made on Sunday. I hung out with Jessica and Jessica that evening cause Garrick had to fly home. I rounded up to the nearest $5 when I paid them. I go down into the bar after work yesterday and Sinjin's there with his girlfriend (who's a sweethheart, btw), said he'd come to "scoop up" that money. I came upstairs and counted it out to the penny for him, only regretting that I had told him what we made - I should have divided it so that those who loaded gear in and out got a bigger cut. Oh well, its not like anybody got rich. He's still all excited from the show and telling me he has a drummer he wants me to meet. I wasn't in the place to tell him. I just said we need to talk about it. Like I said, he's a friend. He's just a shitty bandmate. Here he is leading the mosh pit and high fiving me on stage at the Koffs 1st show. I watched a few of these this morning. God, i love everything about being in this band. When we finally got paid for this one, the owner said that our show was the best night he's had all summer business-wise. https://youtu.be/XoN-8JcA6k4
  15. Tough one today. I had to put it down and come back to it. Wordle 437 4/6* 🟨[emoji834][emoji834][emoji834]🟨 [emoji834][emoji834]🟨🟨[emoji834] [emoji834]🟨[emoji834]🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  16. I already have the Osees and Jackson Browne next week and just got invited to Duran Duran. Gonna be a long week.
  17. It ain't big, but its real skinny! Seriously, see if you can arrange one night a week for therapy. Go to a dedicated spot and work on music for a couple hours. It really is therapy. I was frustrated that I couldn't find a band to join, they were all full. A friend told me to start writing and I'd have a band. Thats the only reason I started writing, I'm really not that into songwriting. But it worked. When you meet other musicians you always say "let's jam sometime" and it never happens. When you say, "I've been working on some stuff, wanna come by after work Wednesday and check it out" they do. Otherwise, im not trying to be a rock star, just an outlet for my creative side and motivation to keep at my guitar. Aside from the weekly therapy, a show every month or two where our friends come out is plenty. Our next is an afternoon gig where ill be home by 6. I figure everybody's not LeBron, but plenty of guys play in a pickup basketball league. Of course I'm not complaining if we get to go play Rock Star in Vegas every year at Psycho. That was super fun.
  18. Yep, when I was forming Vary Mary i always said I'd rather make mediocre music with people I enjoyed being around than great music with people I loathed. Jessica even wrote the song Mediocre about it. We had that and still do with the 3 of us. We even kept Garrick company during covid when he moved away with weekly Zoom game nights. Sinjin is actually a friend, so I was stoked to have him join. Its just something in this context. I think he works his daddy issues put on me or something. Thats how I'm gonna break it to him. Im just gonna say that can't be in a band together and still be friends. https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq0LkU3U_ec&feature=share The Koffs are like brothers. I've known Casey (guitar) almost as long as I've been in SF and never knew he played music until around the 1st of the year. Then he started telling me they had this band but needed a bass player because the Vegas thing might happen. Really selling me on it and the guys. I was not wanting to commit to a weekly half hour drive down the coast and couldn't commit to Vegas in Aug at that point. I made excuses for couple months while they tried several bass players. Everytime id get a story of how they sucked and asked to come down again. I finally went, reminding myself not to commit to anything the entire drive down. We were fairly locked in by our 1st break and I felt like I'd known these guys my whole life. By the end of that 1st practice they invited me to join. Its been a big silly bromine since. Our group band text is like a bunch of teenaged girls. They are all well known in that small town, and people always come up and introduce themselves to me when I'm down there. "You're the new bass player! The guys talk about you all the time! So glad to meet you!" Funny thing is, Casey knows fuck shit about playing playing guitar, but just comes up with great simple riffs one after another. Meanwhile our drummer is actually a guitar teacher. None of them know shit about being in a band. I shared our 1st event to my FB page a few weeks prior and got like 40 going or interested, assuming they're follow my lead. Nope. A week prior I asked them to in the group text. They were like, good idea. Did it and we were at like 150 by the next day and packed that place. Same with the buttons. I made all these. Im like, we are the 1st band the 1st day. Nobody is going to remember who the hell we are if we don't leave something behind. We gave them out at our show, and kept them in our pockets to give anybody who asked about our band. That band already has twice as many FB followers as Vary Mary. Oh ya, I had to create the band page. Im like guys, we have to have a way to connect with our audience. Good idea! Great dudes. I got really lucky there. Separately, I just got back from dropping that amp off at the practice space. Serendipitously ran into the musician who wants to work on this concept thing i wrote. He was at the consol putting beats to the Space Odyssey soundtrack and changing its time signature. I had no idea he could do all that shit. He's ready to start recording it as soon as I get back from my daughter's wedding next month. I dont know if i want to that just me and him as a recording project, or invite a few others and build a small show around it. Im super stocked about it.
  19. @Goredho That was kinda the original plan. Jessica had "quit" the band previously because she didn't want to put me in the middle. We worked up sone more material with a different drummer, but switched to relearning all the Vary Mary stuff (she had forgotten most of her parts) when we learned our drummer was coming to visit and we booked that show. Singer showed an improved attitude when we started back to work and even she was talking about reviving it. She had a mini-breakdown Fridsy following a rough practice Thursday, but rallied and killed it. When I texted her that I couldnt be in a band with Sinjin, she indicated that she didn't want to be in a band for a while period. To much stress. I got no drummer, no bass player, and no singer. I got no band! Its time to just move on, take the lessons, and focus on the positives. I've got half of an album written for this real conceptual thing I came up with when I had covid. I shared it with a guy who's probably the most talented musician I know and he's been super excited to work on it with me for months. I also have a bunch of high energy punky/rock stuff written to start a new band with - maybe steal a Vary Mary song or 3. Jessica's 1st call on bass if she changes her mind,, or if she just wants to contribute as a writing collaborator maybe that would be better for her mental health. I've got plenty to keep me busy.
  20. Our guitar player drew this and we were gonna make shirts. I modified it to remove the bodies and made buttons we gave out in Vegas. He asked if he should add Koff last names like the Ramones. I was ambivalent, but said the Linda Linda's do it too. Last I heard of that idea.
  21. Thats exactly it. Our guy doesn't come to most practices because he has to "protect his voice", which has never bothered me because we don't really need him there anyway and he always shows up on stage prepared. Since he's rarely there, he has no idea how much work we put into developing these songs and rehearsing our parts to be ready for a show. It was a slap inn the face to all of us to say you want to skip one, elven more to say it right on stage in the middle of the set. I was up there thinking, "this is supposed to be fun and this guy just killed my fun"! If you don't like something, why not come to work with us some time and help make it better? You have any idea how hard it is to come up with and develop an original song? At least for me it is.
  22. @hullabelew I missed this. Walrus Audio Julia. I don't really use it. I left it one there because it was expensive and there was space for it. I really hope to find a use for it some day. Link I bought the Pitchfork because I heard a use for an octave pedal in the song Waiting when I was writing it nd it had great reviews. I only use it for the very end of that song. It's a hella fun pedal and I love having it on my pedalboard. I use it more when I just jamming alone at home. I have it in latching mode, so its only on when my foot is physically on it. So you can just play a few notes with the effect and bring it in and out. Hope to find more to do with it in the future.
  23. Our singer is super talented, but a pain in the ass to work with. That's why we never bothered finding a replacement drummer. He came back into this with brand new, improved attitude because he's seeing me on stage with other bands and wants to play again. So I thought there was hope of resurrecting it and even had a few drummers in mind. By the time we got to the venue I was 90% sure i was done with him, that turned to 100% when mid-set he turns and asks me if we can skip a song on the setlist he doesn't like. I responded by tearing into the riff and letting him decide if he wants to sing it or stand there looking like an idiot. Of course he was long gone by the time load out came. I texted Jessica in the morning that I couldn't be in a band with him anymore and she replied that she didn't want to do it either. Im gonna have to break the news to him next time I see him. Its not gonna go well, he's still high from the success of Saturday. I wrote a bunch of songs, formed a band and got an album out there. I learned a ton and there's a lot I'd do differently looking back, but there's a lot for me to be proud of and a lot to carry into my next project. I have like 3 that have been on the back burner im going to move on to, plus I have The Koffs, they would love for me to write. Speaking of The Koffs, everybody there is so easy to work with and just glad to have each other. Our singer is almost guilty that he doesn't play an instrument and compensates by helping us load gear and doing everything he can to help. Vary Mary was like that until we let one guy in. Be careful who you into your band. I guess thats a big lesson learned.
  24. My 2nd eagle in a row! Wordle 436 2/6* [emoji834][emoji834][emoji834]🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  25. I posted the wrong song! This is one of my favorites, and I think its the last song Vary Mary will ever play live. Fitting title. Goodbye This one features the Shaggy Screamer for the solo, and a little of how I use my Bigsby. I also noticed my foot is on the Shaggy Screamer in one of the photos I posted above. Great shot.
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