MCChris

LOL! Yeah I think I shook off the last of the cobwebs about an hour ago. And I didn't even work yesterday. REE-shard is a wrecking machine. Period.

Yeah, when I saw that baby in the living room I half expected your silly ass to appear as a surprise guest!

Bruce's.

Right back at ya. It was my first time meeting you and Jeff, and thanks to you guys my rig has never sounded better. Loved the Joe Perry-esque backline: heads, cabs and combos of seemingly every size and configuration piled up randomly and sounding KILLER!

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Holy crap, what a night! No one puts on a jam like Bruce. Everyone was in great form last night, but Jeffro and BillW were especially on fire. I'm off to the highway. Tons of fun. I needed that.

Two songs into the jam, and the drummer shows up. He's left-handed, so we're on break. Sounds good so far! Jeff naturally migrates to the classic 4-3-2-1 Club Bulletin Board pose. In the groove. We dubbed our rhythm section the Young Republicans. Here's proof that badgers and cajuns can coexist.

Details? It's obviously new given the inlays. Very cool. We're partying over here, so I'm dropping more innuendo, less knowledge at this point.

That's the old blonde stripper from last night, sans wig. The guitar is something Ted dropped off.

Lou?

Happy birthday!

Get out of here. And I don't mean that like "Get outta here! You're kidding!" I mean it like, "get the hell out of here."

Sounds like a que to pick up one of his guitars, throw it through the windshield of his car, kick him square in the balls and say, "Thanks for the education, a$$wipe, how do you like the way I've applied it?" I like this side of you, Badger. So Craig, were you asked to speak at Ben's funeral? Biggest dick move like that I ever pulled was when I was riding from New York to New Jersey with my drummer, his girlfriend and her sister. Sis was driving, I was riding shotgun, the other two were fucking in the back I think. Anyway, I was rummaging through her cassettes in search of some tunes and found a copy of Supertramp's "Breakfast In America." Without hesitating I rolled the window down and whipped it onto the interstate. She was LIVID! I replied, "I just did you a favor." Sorry for the derail.

I only use ODs/distortions to add compression for leads; everything else I get what I need from my amp. Right now I'm liking the Bad Monkey and have rediscovered the simple pleasures of an MXR MicroAmp.

We had business cards printed up that directs people to our website. That seems to be working well.

File that alongside Ty Tabor's reverse-body Cali. Both very cool guitars!

+1 Plus he's got a pretty impressive pedigree. His bio at the link below indicates his band was produced by one Alex Lifeson: http://www.cbs.com/primetime/rock_star2/

Lukas is the man. Discuss.

+1. She's hot and all, but a terrible TV host. And please Brooke, stop using the word "rocker". UGH! Expected response from the Carnie Wilson fan ....

You're a tough nut to bust, Lou. Agreed about the wardrobe though. Horrendous stuff. Makes it easier to picture her naked though.

Atta boy! She seems less wooden this year. I, of course, will be quite the opposite, thanks to her.

I agree with all of this. In fact, there should have been many more "that sucked" comments, but you can tell the after-song segments are heavily edited, so who knows? Ape Boy has the whole package, image and vocal talent, certainly more so than any other contestant at this stage. He's got that Udo Dierkschneider appeal to him. It's something I never thought possible, as who knew any existed in a Nickelback song, but the Canadian chick sucked all the power out of "How You Remind Me." She or the "Roxanne" butcher are the obvious choices to go. Add Navarro to the list of guys who were better/cooler when they were on heroin. Newsted should have been the new bass player in Gov't Mule. Lee is precisely in his element.

BTW thanks for saying this. IMO the two greatest compliments one can give to a guitar player.