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  1. 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.

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    Eric Carmen, who rose to fame as the lead singer of Raspberries and then found greater commercial success as a solo star, has died of unspecified causes at the age of 74.

    "It is with tremendous sadness that we share the heartbreaking news of the passing of Eric Carmen," his wife Amy posted on Carmen's official website. "Our sweet, loving and talented Eric passed away in his sleep, over the weekend. It brought him great joy to know, that for decades, his music touched so many and will be his lasting legacy."

    Born in Cleveland, Carmen co-formed the power pop pioneers Raspberries in 1970. The group released four critically acclaimed albums before breaking up in 1975, and reached the Top 5 with their 1972 hit "Go All the Way."

    Following the Raspberries' breakup, Carmen's 1975 self-titled solo debut spawned the Top 40 hits "All By Myself," "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again" and "Sunrise." However his next three albums failed to reach such lofty heights, and he withdrew from the industry for the first half of the '80s.

    Carmen returned in 1985 with the Top 40 hit "I Wanna Hear It From Your Lips," and reached even greater heights with "Hungry Eyes," his contribution to 1987's Dirty Dancing soundtrack. After following up with another Top 5 hit, "Make Me Lose Control," the following year Carmen retreated from the public eye again, briefly re-emerging in 2000 as a member of Ringo Starr's touring All-Starr Band.

     

    RIP, sir.

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  3. 1 hour ago, BillW said:

    I feel like I should be into them. I honestly...just dont do well with them, my timing is off on the button pushing or something ...it just never works right for me.

    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.

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  4. 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?"

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  5. On 2/7/2024 at 12:23 PM, DarrenD said:

    I work in real estate and various house estate sales.  In regards to collections and "valuables," I often hear people say "I'm going to give it to my kids when I die" or something to that extent.  I will tell you this:  Your kids or close family will not care about your guitar collection nor 99% of the stuff you thought was valuable or sentimental.  They don't have the time or energy to get top dollar from it online.  They don't know the market or the slightest clue how to sell guitars.  The best they can do with your collection is give it to Guitar Center for chump change.  To them, it's a nuisance and problem to solve.  This relates to 99% of collections from what I've seen.  

    Sell your collection online to someone who actually wants it.  Yes, you don't know this person.  They aren't your kids.  Who cares -  they want it.  Let them have it.  Keep a few guitars/amps and call it a day.  We all have release our gear back into the wild at some point.  Because, you know, we will die and pieces of wood/metal can surely outlive us.  If you want, keep trying out new things - just sell something before you buy.  It's psychologically difficult because we spend so much time searching and researching the things we want, but I promise you it will be a relief once you downsize.  

    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.

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  6. 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.  

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  7. 3 hours ago, Travis said:

    I don’t know why, but I’m a little surprised Steve is playing his Legacy amps. I guess I would’ve figured he would play his Synergy Signature modual amps. But, perhaps those are only for the studio, or only for the endorsement income since Carvin is no more. 

    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.

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  8. 3 hours ago, Willie G. Moseley said:

    Cool. So who are the bass players?

    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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