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  1. I saw two of these in a store yesterday. They looked better than the pictures. Not good, but better than the pictures. Still wasn't interested.
  2. Dude's enthusiastic as hell, loves the hunt as much as the acquisition. Doesn't just file this stuff away - he actually plays it. Has a sense of humor about himself, too. He's put together a killer band every time I've seen him. I think it's as much jealousy as anything. And HC - he played that Standard at the end of the show I saw a few weeks ago.
  3. He was awesome on Vai's "Sex & Religion" album. RIP, sir.
  4. They will brutally show you how off your timing may be. I've found the easiest way is to play a bit before starting to record the loop. Trying to hit record on the first downbeat never went well for me.
  5. Michael Manring, "Snakes Got Legs".
  6. It never hurts to have a finger stuck in one? 😳
  7. I've heard that one usually hangs different than the other, so...
  8. That's why SRV preferred a left-handed whammy bar.
  9. Something happened to Johnny Ace????
  10. True story - my buddy has said he's leaving everything to his niece. One day, she said to him, "Uncle Ricky, are you really leaving everything to me?" He said he was. She said, "Will it make you happy to know that I'll enjoy it?" He said it would. She said, "Wouldn't it be better to just give it to me now so you can actually feel that happiness?"
  11. I can't argue with the advice. My parents keeps saying they want to downsize all their stuff so we don't get stuck dealing with it - my mother has said it since her mother died and she had to deal with what was left. In most cases, we will know better what the worth of our stuff is, and we'll know who we can trust to give us good advice on selling everything. So we'll be much better prepared than our kids to maximize what we can get out of our gear w/o getting lowballed by semi-scrupulous parties. Personally, I go back and forth on the idea. Is it better to gradually cut down to the special pieces and take the best deals I can work out financially? Or is it better to enjoy the rewards of what I worked for, searched for, and ultimately acquired and get the most pleasure out of them? Then I think about my kids having to deal with all this stuff after, and knowing that they won't want to take the time out of their lives to maximize what they can, let alone do the work to find out who they can trust for advice. But then I think about the times they misbehaved, the broken curfews, the lies, the worry they put us through, and I realize I have to weigh all that against the joy and rewards of parenthood, and ultimate it comes down to one question. Do I want to leave this burden with them, or do I want to get the most financially out of my gear, then watch them squirm as I spend it while they wait for me to die.
  12. Suffered a cardiac event on the Outlaw Country Cruise. RIP, sir.
  13. My buddy is kind of OCD about stuff - he got better about it after he had kids, but he was the kind of guy who wanted all his CDs facing the same way. Not the cases - the CDs inside all had to be oriented "correctly". We used to aggravate him by moving stuff on his desk by about 1/4" just so it wasn't quite square. When his dad died, he had to go through the house. He said his dad was a hoarder. He found things like years' worth of mail - in the oven. Mostly junk, but he had to go through it all because there was the occasional check or important document. He found a two-liter bottle of Pepsi. Clear. Not Pepsi Clear - regular Pepsi that was so old it had gone clear. He found an old car console from a car his dad had gotten rid of decades before. With a wallet with a couple hundred bucks. As he said, "Dad took the license and credit cards and left the money?" The two things that amazed him most were a kayak/canoe paddle - his dad never owned a boat or even went out on them much - and a propeller. A regular airplane propeller. His dad not only didn't own a plane, he had nothing to do with planes. He still has no idea why his dad had either. You'd think he'd take the attitude like "not doing this to my kids". He said, "Now I'm wondering what kind of odd thing I can acquire and stash away and leave for my kids to find." I said I was thinking about stashing a note that said not to throw a certain book away before they went through it, then listing a book I never owned. On a more serious note, when my grandmother died, my mother had to go through her house to clean things out, and she swears she doesn't want to leave that to me and my sister.
  14. Maybe for the throwback vibe since this is the original G3? Just guessing here. I'd have loved to see this, but this tour is nowhere near me, so I'll be settling for Vai/Satch in a couple months.
  15. The guy w/the beard who shows up in those thumbnails is the incomparable Bryan Beller. Dude is an absolute beast. He's been in Satch's band, Vai's, Dethklok, Z (w/Dweezil Zappa), various Mike Keneally project, and is 1/3 of the Aristocrats.
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