"Not Worth its own thread" Thread

[KnightBrolaire]

My mom wanted to go to Paisley Park. It was alright. They only had some of Prince's guitars and gear on display (and even less that I could photograph). Some of the stuff doesn't seem like his gear too.
I don't remember Prince ever using an Iceman or a Jet City.
Also they had this shit for 10k lol

 

[Crungy]

And Burton a lead singer...

(I actually liked him on the albums, but here he's making Labrie sound good...)

I think that was easy for Burton to do live, no matter the singer. And that's coming from a huge FF fan lmao

 

[thebeesknees22]

Damn you roaches!!!

damn you straight to hell!

gah, had to take one out that made the mistake of crawling into my office.

 

[nightsprinter]

Come on, WMI/Schecter..... could stash dope in the fret slot!

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And the other schecter I got in recently had the Schecter Special- low string nut slot cut so low the string is bangin' off the first fret.

Schecter imports are always so close to getting an entire instrument right but just fall short somewhere.

So update on this one- sent it back and got a replacement. The replacement has no issues aside from a super creaky truss rod but it works so I'm keeping it.

As far as the other one with the badly cut nut, it had some raised burrs and even a cracked finish blister in the satin sprayed neck. Schecter was more than happy to replace that one for me, so I'm waiting to see what door #2 has behind it when it comes in.

 

[crushingpetal]

My mom wanted to go to Paisley Park. It was alright. They only had some of Prince's guitars and gear on display (and even less that I could photograph). Some of the stuff doesn't seem like his gear too.
I don't remember Prince ever using an Iceman or a Jet City.
Also they had this shit for 10k lol

The purple tolex Mesa cab is tight. I'd go if I was in the area, but I know the drill. It's been years, but Graceland was kinda' weird and kinda' money grubbing.

 

[STRHelvete]

I randomly remembered I had a bunch of stems and multitracks in a folder somewhere. I went through looking for all the Marilyn Manson ones but stumbled upon some Machine Head ones I forgot I had and never listened to. Dear lord the guitar tone they had was great. I know people have said that for a while but I never paid Machine Head a whole lot of attention past a few songs and in the mix for some reason it doesn't sound anywhere near as good as isolated. I think this is the only time I've really ever dug a 5150 tone.

 

[nightsprinter]

Not sure if sharting first thing in the morning is an indicator of "the worst part of your day is now over" or "buckle up, bitch".

 

[Crungy]

Not sure if sharting first thing in the morning is an indicator of "the worst part of your day is now over" or "buckle up, bitch".

I'd take it as a challenge of never trust a fart when you normally would trust a fart. Keeps you on your toes.

 

[Crungy]

I randomly remembered I had a bunch of stems and multitracks in a folder somewhere. I went through looking for all the Marilyn Manson ones but stumbled upon some Machine Head ones I forgot I had and never listened to. Dear lord the guitar tone they had was great. I know people have said that for a while but I never paid Machine Head a whole lot of attention past a few songs and in the mix for some reason it doesn't sound anywhere near as good as isolated. I think this is the only time I've really ever dug a 5150 tone.

Which Machine Head album was it?

 

[brector]

I'd take it as a challenge of never trust a fart when you normally would trust a fart. Keeps you on your toes.

Like I tell my son, there is no safe fart

 

[Crungy]

Like I tell my son, there is no safe fart

That's really the best policy. That said, I'm a gambling man.

 

[Randy]

Question for the vocalist in the audience.

Stamina. Particularly during normal ranged singing, talking about the stuff that just above speaking range and projection.

Heavy vocals, gutturals, falsetto and even head voice not really an issue. Pretty comfortable with false cord, using your mouth and singing from your diaphragm.

That stuff in the middle and down low where you're definitely using some of the throat just feels like absolute torture after not very long. Is it a warm up thing, a training thing?

 

[TedEH]

I'm not a vocal expert by any stretch, but I've found that any time stamina is a problem, for me it's usually because I'm breathing from the wrong place. Whenever I run out of steam, I catch myself breathing from the chest, which doesn't give you much to work with.

 

[STRHelvete]

Which Machine Head album was it?

The Blackening

 

[narad]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/19/science/spacex-polaris-dawn-jared-isaacman-spacewalk/index.html

"Polaris Dawn". Cool.

Yea, I feel like this photo sums it up well...

Millionaires cosplaying 80s movies

 

[Randy]

Taking bets they come back with some sentient viral black goop that jumps from person to person

 

[Crungy]

Taking bets they come back with some sentient viral black goop that jumps from person to person

 

[SalsaWood]

Looking into buying my first house. Again. I'd have bought last year, but got entirely jerked around by a realtor and the contract fell through. God, I fucking hate realtors.

Found a few promising holes, none of them as close to my area as I would like but I'm not even sure I like this area anymore. They're all fixer-uppers or off-grid adjacent of course, but I'm cheap and minimalistic. Hopefully it's still ok to move to mid WVA without a pill and/or meth problem.

 

[jaxadam]

Looking into buying my first house. Again. I'd have bought last year, but got entirely jerked around by a realtor and the contract fell through. God, I fucking hate realtors.

Found a few promising holes, none of them as close to my area as I would like but I'm not even sure I like this area anymore. They're all fixer-uppers or off-grid adjacent of course, but I'm cheap and minimalistic. Hopefully it's still ok to move to mid WVA without a pill and/or meth problem.

I would love an off-grid adjacent spot out in wild, wonderful West Virginia.

 

[SalsaWood]

@jaxadam I think a lot of people like the idea of it for a vacation, but not a year round dwelling situation. WVA has some completely ridiculous weather patterns due to the vast forests and mountain geography, and usually made worse by the lack of state/county infrastructure. The town I live in now has more snow trucks than most counties in WVA, so when shit goes down it can really go down.

With that kind of lifestyle, basically any time anything at all goes wrong you're on your own. Lots of services just don't exist out there in those areas, like Uber or Doordash/delivery, kiss that shit goodbye completely. If you need 4WD to go there you're probably going to have issues with property services too such as propane. I had a couple issues with getting inspectors back into one place. A lot of folks rudely find out the cheaper "off-grid" living situations they formulated in their own heads do not line up with the actual philosophy of that lifestyle. Saving money on electricity by using solar, still costs a lot of money. Saving money on digging a well by using water from the creek, still costs a lot of money. Waste management, either really shitty or really expensive- don't gamble. Rebuilding the driveway and/or erosion abatement, costs a lot of money. Either due to maintenance or replacement it all adds up, and it's almost always more expensive because you are paying to do it for yourself out in the middle of BFE.

Then when you're shopping for one of these properties you'll find realtors who totally don't give a shit. They really just can't be bothered, it's a ton of work or shoulder shrugging (counts as work for them) because the deal is small potatoes compared to their Travis Tritt mansions or whatever the fuck else they do all day.