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I've had and used an SR-16 since high school. The learning curve is never steep, and if you want, you can just roll with the standard patterns and fills to back you - Start/stop kind of stuff. If you have a simple footswitch laying around, you can use it to switch A/B patterns in real time like how Billy Corgan did in the early Smashing Pumpkins days (he just sold that actual SR-16 he used on Gish on Reverb a few years ago). It's surprisingly easy to get a good and inspiring backing drum track with that thing. And they are popular enough that you don't have to look far for a used one, and cheap too. Also, don't discount YouTube backing tracks.

That game looks epic. Never played a long form war game like that. In other news, met up with a friend at Dragon's Lair for a game of Nemesis. The game is pretty hot and rare right now and a few of the employees and many customers would stop and watch us play it. The crew at the next table were playing Photosynthesis, but would pause the game and watch us for bit before continuing. Cant blame them, the game looks cool on the table.

You just got 7th Continent?!? Very nice. Congrats. (It took us about 11 hours to complete the Voracious Goddess. I've heard it's the longest though. The kids have been clamoring to start the next one, so we'll probably do that in a week or so.)

Next up, the super heavy On Mars. I have a bottle of Advil at arm's reach, so here we go.

Team Fantasy Grounds. Let's rumble! Got to meet up with@TexArcher today for some Scythe. I was reminded how much I like this game. Good people, good food, and a tie for the win, so not a bad way to spend a Saturday afternoon. We need to do it again.

He's dropped the character and this is what he's up to now. Why's James crying? 'Cause he just got dunked on!

Doesn't even seem real.

I didn't need to see this today. 339 is one of the last pieces to the puzzle of life.

This is the national anthem.

Terrible news. Neil Peart dying of brain cancer... yeah, that figures - Dude's knoggin was on a different level. This is some devastating shit. RIP

omg fuck you

I'm outside of Elgin, so pretty much. And, yes, I'd be down for a board gaming action meetup. For sure. In other news, this was my gaming haul this Christmas. Still going through it, but looking forward to finally seeing what all the fuss is with Gloomhaven! I got Nemesis early so I painted it up and brought it over to the in-laws for the holiday. They think Monopoly is the height of board gaming technology, so needless to say their minds were blown. We stayed up until 4:00am playing! Back home, we played the game I was anticipating the most, Edge of Darkness. It's a blast. Very unique card crafting system with a bit of depth to the gameplay. Side note, I refuse to bring a game to the table until the minis are painted, but that takes an age to do right. So going forward I think I'll speed paint the nameless armies, but continue to do up the named characters and whatnot. Yolo, fam. Next up, Cthulhu: Death May Die. EDIT: Fucking Tapa.

Awesome amp! Congrats. No need for a standby switch. And apart from testing shit at the board level, there's no reason for a guitar amp to have a standby switch and there never was. There are safer ways to mute your amp without hot switching those bajillion volts. Standby switches are vestigial remnants of a design by a genius who liked to open up and monkey with the innards of his own amps impulsively - A guitarist should never need to drop the circuit into "standby." I realize we are guitarists and thus slaves to tradition, but I would suggest you worry more about which shop you intend to take your new amp to to have a wicked relic'ing job done to it. Spring for the coffee rings. You'll be glad you did.

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I was never a big fan of whichever band they got to back up Tawny Kitaen in her videos, but Bernie is legit.

Norway is killing it.

Two types of guitarists, those that love Bluesbreakers and those that haven't realized they wanted one yet.

New Year's Day? I watched this last week. (Still have it on Plex. [emoji41] ) It was great, as expected. Would have liked to hear more about dual lives Henley and Frye were living during the transitional Stone Poneys years, they sort of glossed over the relationship between Ronstadt and those guys as the Eagles started ascending. She was something else.

If you are needing some peeps to add to your subscriptions: https://www.musicradar.com/news/the-8-best-online-guitar-personalities-in-the-world-today?utm_content=buffer32419&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer_gfb Notable omissions: Rick Beato Tyler Larsen (Musis is Win) Jared Dines Ryan Bruce (Fluff) Drop any more you think should be added. I'm always looking to add to the family.

Compression to this manageable degree is a bother to those who are not driving the few valuable modern guitar markets that are growing. And many of that lot might agree the gains far outweigh the losses, or "loss," really, because they too are, more and more, seeking out solid state solutions. Fender Tone Master at the door should have told you.

Yes, for nitro. Cool effect.

Yeah, I would have lost the bet that the DSL40C/R would have been on that list. Up until a year or so ago, it was the go-to entry Marshall and Marshall's only real modern gigging solution. And it had an army of vocal proponents who used it in some prominent roles. I wonder just how disruptive Katana has been regarding the DSL40's - DSL40C was top 5 or something last year, IIRC. Also a little stunned the Blues Jr. was able to hang on to number 1. I would have put money on some flavor of Katana running away with it. Now, I'd put money on 2020 being the year the little solid state amp that rewrote the rules takes home the gold.

Painted all its minis and have been playing the new hotness, Vindication. Fantastic mid-weight Euro with a rich theme and production value up the yingyang.