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  1. Here's what I wrote about it, should anyone want to endure a long post:
  2. @Steve Haynie and @Biz Prof are right. People, at least around these parts, love some "Jessica". We also do an instrumental version of "Beat It" as a horn feature. As long as it isn't a 20 minute, two chord jam, folks are usually cool with a few sprinkled in here an there, particularly if you use them as transitions. I think it's more a question of how many vs. which ones. If you can pull of "Cliffs of Dover," most anyone watching a rock cover band will be down with that. But if they came expecting more singing than not, there probably isn't a three or four song run you could do of anything that wouldn't start to make them antsy to hear something to sing along with.
  3. I've run mine through everything from a 1x12 to a 4x12. Sounds good through all of them. You can play at bedroom volume all the way to getting removed from your favorite soundman's Christmas card list. It works well through everything I have put it through.
  4. I have one of these (that I might have bought from you). Awesome amps. Great for practice, keeping in the car for a back-up, or just gigging with in general. I take it to almost every gig. I can also confirm they can take a lot of rain, dry out, and work just fine the next day, lol.
  5. I had a three night run a couple of weeks back that was a four hour gig the first night and then two three hour gigs the next two nights with no set breaks. I was really wishing I played less by the end of that. And to be honest, I think to the degree it matters is mostly on paper unless you are going to open one up. But then, I can't imagine anyone doesn't check the caps are drained, regardless of how it was turned off, if they are working on one.
  6. Seeing them Saturday and listening to your podcast led to a serious deep dive. I know the basic story and have been a casual fan for decades, but I've never spent a ton of time looking through their stuff. I know they are "the best band who never fully made it," but I never really got why they are as adored as they are. Saw this last night, and DP's speech in the middle of this is about the rawest thing I've ever seen someone do on a stage this big, particularly after knowing more of his story now. Kinda subverts the whole feel of the song from when it first came out. I think I get it now.
  7. Ty Tabor is actually from one town over from my hometown and used to play at one of the churches in Brandon somewhat regularly when I was in grade school and middle school. Pretty sure a couple of friends of mine who were a bit older than me had a guitar lesson or two from him as well. They got a pretty good bit of play in Jackson, MS, as a result, at least back when DJs actually got to pick what music was going to get played.
  8. I didn't know he played with Guy Forsyth until right now. Guy has a couple of tunes that just gut me.
  9. My #1, which I've had since 1999, has mostly sat on the wall after being pretty much my only guitar for more than a decade. For the longest time I had a Pearly Gates and a Seth Lover (I think) in it, but at some point around 2012, I started flipping pickups and pickup rings. The more I screwed with that combination, the less I played it. I settled on some Lollar Imperials High Winds for a bit, but they just didn't do it . The Shishkov has the most versatile pickups I own, though I have gotten quite into a lot of DiMarzios as of late too. I wanted something a little more special than an off-the-rack set of DiMarzios though for this guitar. I sent Josh an email asking about getting some pickups, and he asked I describe what I was looking for. Below is the absolutely ridiculous explanation I sent: Well, finally got them in last week and gigged my old Lester for two nights of a three night run at the Tin Roof in Memphis. Holy Shit, did he nail it! I haven't had that much fun playing that guitar or, to be honest, any guitar in I don't know when. It was like an old friend showed back up after being away for 10 years and we just fell right back into things. Here's a clip from last night:
  10. Pups is gone! @JGale - My GF is from Roanoke. We get up there on occasion.
  11. I've got the following odds and ends for consideration. Prices include shipping CONUS. Venmo or PP gift preferred if you know me. JHS Unicorn Vibe Pedal V2 - $155 JHS Kodiak Tremolo Pedal - $145 Lollar High Wind Imperial Bridge/Imperial Neck Set - $125 for both Pedals are self explanatory. They were on my board for a bit and have velcro. Used, but not abused. The neck Lollar works fine and has 10" of lead. I think the bridge needs a new lead. Jimmy Somma installed these in a Les Paul for me after taking them out of a Talladega and had to solder extensions in for both. The Neck still reads fine, but I think the 4.5" of lead left on the bridge has been handled too much. Jimmy does fantastic work, but it is all cut to fit. I think the 2-conductor lead probably has a short in it after being handled so much, as it the reading on the multimeter is in and out. But hey, if you know how to run new leads to pups or want to give it a try, now is your shot. I think that's about what just the neck goes for on Reverb.
  12. She wants to get beaten with a stick? I've never read those before. High adventure was had.
  13. I'm surrounded by humbuckers and feeling chesty. What can I say?
  14. Shit... I forgot to tell Josh I wanted some courage in the pups he made me. Me and my guitar will never defeat the Nazis now.
  15. This particular song is about a grad student who graduates and goes on to nuke the world.
  16. It's hard to believe that Fortus was third in the pecking order of guitarists during the pastiche GnR years. Buckethead is Buckethead, but nothing about his playing is secondary to DJ Ashba, Bumblefoot, or Robin Finck.
  17. I was in Spain for the last month leading a study abroad program, and our Madrid leg happened to coincide with their stop there. Given that tickets were about $250 cheaper per ticket to see them in Spain at a stadium than equivalent seats in Nashville or Biloxi, I went. And it was fucking amazing! I saw them back in 2016 at the Superdome in NOLA, and that was a pretty great show. Over the last seven years, I'd definitely seen the evidence of Axl's voice declining further, but I figured if ever there was a time to catch them one more time, the first stop of their European tour would be the night. I was not disappointed. They played from 9:30 to 1:00 a.m., which, in and of itself, is a statement. Axl is 61, and Slash and Duff are only just barely in their 50s still. They definitely aren't phoning anything in. You pay a lot, but you get three-and-a-half hours of them playing their absolute asses off. Axl's voice, well, it works. He definitely has changed what he does, but he is also far better at it than he was in 2016 (at least at this show). He does still sing very clean in his upper register most of the time, and he also hangs out in his lower range more where he can. But in those signature moments, he growls it up and can still do a pretty good version of early 90s Axl in those signature moments, for instance, the the last "mine' in "You Could Be Mind." He actually seemed to lean into a bit more as the night went on. It's a compromise, and it can sound a bit off at times. But overall, I think the crazy old bastard has found a way to keep doing these songs in a respectable way given his current age and the fact that there was absolutely no way singing in that upper falsetto and distorting the top end of his vocal chords at the same time was sustainable for decades. At this show, he was covering it close enough and nailing the important bits well enough that it felt as good as it ever did. Plus, there are a lot of guys from his era that just can't do it at all any more and either cheat or get up there and make you feel sorry for them. The guy still runs all over the place on stage and really never sounds winded. He's rough enough that I have no reason to believe I was listening to pre-recorded vox, but it was impressive. Hell, I can't do that, and I'm 20 years younger. If I jump up and down through one verse when we play, I am ready to pass out. Slash is probably a better guitarist now than he ever has been. I imagine having Richard Fortus on stage with you is a real kick in the pants to keep your chops up because that guy is a flat out killer. Duff is still great and pretty much timeless. Frank Ferrer is as solid a drummer as Matt Sorum is, and I think Melissa Reese brings a lot. They don't do much programing, but I noticed the band has another voice that can sing the high parts. The band is very smart with the way they use her. She fills out a lot of the top end here and there where the parts are where you them, but it mixes well with Axl. The end effect is that everything is there without it sounding like someone else is singing. And Dizzy Reed - that guy has to be one of the greatest cases of hitching your wagon to a star. He's fine at what he does, but man, to think the guy with the second longest amount of time in Guns is Dizzy Reed... that's wild. My only knock would be the mix kind of sucked. They had been in Dubai and Tel Aviv before coming to Europe, and it sounded like they were fighting some gremlins all night - maybe some issues due to the first night in Europe. It seemed to me that some of the speakers in the main arrays that were supposed to handle highs were in and out all night. Likewise, the rear field speakers used to fight the slap back and time delay issues in the large venues never seemed timed out quite right. It wasn't bad enough to ruin the show, but you had to make an effort to ignore it to not let it do so. Que sera - stadiums don't usually sound great at the best of times anyway. Would I say go? Hard to say. It's a pricey ticket, and Axl has definitely sounded pretty bad here and there as well. I'm not sure I would have been as eager to go were this not the first night of that run. However, they do take a lot of time off between shows, and they do have a lot of songs that are just classic. Even the Chinese Democracy stuff is pretty damn good with this lineup. As far as the lineup, at seven years, this has to be the longest run of all the same people in Guns ever, so they should be pretty good at it now. Last thing I'll say is seeing them do "Civil War" in Europe was absolutely haunting given the current events and the chosen graphics they used for visuals. A lot of folks throughout the stadium went arm and arm swayed back and forth together, singing all the lyrics. It made my hair stand on end and reminded me that, when he wanted, Axl really could write some timeless lyrics. I think that song hits harder today than it did when it came out. Set list below: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/guns-n-roses/2023/estadio-metropolitano-madrid-spain-5ba6ff64.html
  18. As Archimedes said, "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall fix this headstock." Torres 10 Brandy. It is now all gone... run into a chum and whatnot. Ran to the hardware store down the alley. They had, well, travel-guitar-quality wood glue. ...and yes, it did seem to work!
  19. Worse, I made sure to put it on top of one that was already full of suitcases to avoid having someone smash it and to generally be a good citizen. No need to take up space when it can fit on top of carry ons just fine. So some jagoff took theirs out during the flight and THEN threw it back on top.
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