Jim85IROC

A band with a vulgar name and no talent. They're definitely going places.

If GC does this right (they won't), it could be very successful. Thomann is making boatloads of cash on their Harley Benton line because they're huge bang for the buck guitars. With Thomann pulling out of their US warehouse setup, they've effectively left the US market. If GC can do these right (they won't), they could fill that gap and then some. I'm assuming this "customer designed" crap is just their way to get people talking. They'll release some limited run of wangcasters along with their regular production line to build more hype over the regular stuff. If they're smart (they aren't) they'll evolve that into collabs like Harley Benton had with Agufish & Guitar Max.

there's a lot of wisdom in this post! I'm a dinosaur so I still buy CDs, and I always force myself to listen through the whole CD no less than twice before I toss it on the "never again" pile. Like you, I learned that not everything is something that I'll love immediately. I'm more a creature of habit who doesn't tend to like new things. I prefer familiar things. When I get a new album, more often than not, it's not necessarily what I expected, so there's always that period of regret or buyer's remorse. Many, many times, by the time I got to the end of the 2nd listen, I would have a different perspective on the music, and usually for the better. I noticed the same thing here with this band as I became more familiar with the music through a few of the videos that I've watched about it.

I couldn't stand it the first time I heard it. Sounded like out of tune noise. But, as more of the youtubers that I watch kept analyzing it, I found that it was starting to grow on me... or wear me down. I'm still not sure which, but I dislike it way less than I did a week ago. It's interesting, it's different, and it's of a high quality. I'm not sure I'm ready to buy the album and put it on repeat, but I'm starting to find myself enjoying it in short bursts.

That's pretty common. Multiple Japanese resellers will post the same guitar. If you buy it, they go buy it and ship it to you. Often if you do a reverse image search you can find the original store's website they pulled the pics from and buy directly from them for less.

A properly cut nut avoids all this nonsense.

hope all went well!

I tried to get them to name it the "Rock & Roll That 3 Dudes on HFC Approve of Hall of Fame" and was denied.

I'm not even upset with this year's nominees, except maybe for Sade. I really like Sade, but other than 1 or 2 radio hits, her success has been on the smooth jazz channels, not the pop channels. But that brings me to the rest of them. While we all may have a different opinion of what "rock & roll" is, R&B and pop music are absolutely part of rock & roll. I think Mariah Carey, Luther Vandross and New Edition all fit. But let's be honest, the RRHOF has been a biased joke for decades at this point.

I'm having a hard time thinking of any album in which the album cover was much of any influence. The music, sure. The bands, sure. The albums, sure. The cover? Most of my favorite music I borrowed from friends and copied to cassette, so the album covers were never an issue at all. That said, the album cover I've spent the most time staring at, and the one that I have the most copies of (multiple CD pressings, re-releases, remasters, DVDA, multiple vinyl pressings, 180g vinyl and even on a t-shirt) would be the Hotel California album.

I got 3 of them. #10 I got instantly, but that's no surprise. It's my favorite song by a mile and I know every single note of it.

Wow, I never saw that before. Not that I missed much!

it's very obvious that each one of us posting is showing our specific age by what we're posting. Conspicuously absent is anybody that's younger than Gen X, which isn't surprising considering that Gen X was probably the last generation that grew up with TV theme songs.

had to add some more: and pretty much anything that Mike Post was involved in. Magnum PI was my favorite of his, but this one probably had the most commercial success:

by far the best, and it's not even close: 2nd best: Honorable mentions: