kizanski

MP3 is easiest for me to work with.

Any one of us who lived through teh '70s and '80s already knows how to butcher a vintage guitar. We've seen it all; Strats routed for humbuckers, Les Pauls routed for Kahlers, Hamer Standards routed for Floyds... The list goes on and on. No video instruction needed.

Paging @Jeff R

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Let's take a minute to consider how this video is taking over the internet. 1,200,000 views in 12 days. And 10,000 comments. Seems a lot of people are sharing this video with their friends. The comments are gold, by the way. "It's abundantly clear that these guys are on the frontlines of whatever this is." "This is the Future we were Primused" "Finally, music 2 has dropped" "when even the riff has a french accent" "Best sounding salt and pepper shakers on the current market"

...chest pain, discomfort, or pressure caused by reduced blood flow to the heart muscle... Reminds me of when I was a kid and was playing King Crimson's "Discipline" on a loop. On one occasion, when the title track was playing, my mother called to me from the other room. "Michael...what is that?" "It's King Crimson" "Well it's making me nervous!"

ok...here's the thing... I've watched this several times now. I can't seem to stop. The drummer (who is an animal, by the way) is cracking me the f**k up with that acetylene tanks helmet and his dangling nose penis, swaying as he plays. I sent the clip to a non-musician buddy of mine because I knew he would pee himself laughing at it. He asked me if they were serious. I didn't understand the question. "I mean," he said, "do they know they're ridiculous, or are they trying to be serious?" I said, "I think if at any point in your life, you find yourself applying polka dot paint to your bare feet before a performance, you've pretty much thrown 'serious' out the window." He said he hadn't. noticed that, which I found curious in itself. ...and what's up with the frets on this instrument? ETA: "Angine de poitrine" in English is angina or angina pectoris. It refers to chest pain, discomfort, or pressure caused by reduced blood flow to the heart muscle, commonly resulting from coronary artery disease. It is often described as a squeezing or tight feeling in the chest.

Awesome. Looks like hot coals.

Was at some record store (pretty sure it was only records back then) with my stepfather and saw this one on the rack with the thousands of other records and it jumped out at me. I was only 9 or 10 at the time. Didn't know who or what ELP was, didn't know any of their music, but I knew this was cool. I asked my stepfather to buy it for me. "How do you know this band?" "I don't." "...Ok." Brought it home, put on the headphones (you know, the BIG ones we had back then), and I got lost in it. Still to this day, one of my favorites that I play from start to finish. A masterpiece discovered by a 9 year old because of an awesome album cover.

lol - It starts rocking at the 3 minute mark. This is the kind of music they play in Hell when you're trying to get to sleep.

Totally agree.

He's probably heard a wah and heard of a "wah wah" but never seen one.

So, here's some "Inside Baseball" for you HFCers... My account on the WordPress/HFC site is F-ed, so I can't create the page until it's all worked out. I was working with Ted on this and he is not pleased with the web host's lack of urgency in fixing a number of issues, namely my ID and the barrage of 503 errors we had last week. One agent told him, "The page is still loading in under 10 seconds," implying that was an acceptable page load time, when in Internet time that's an eternity. I do have all of the songs, though. When my ID is fixed, I'll get back into it.

I know, I know! I'm just in the middle of answering emails from HFCers sending me audio files for The Best of the HFC V, so I was on guard. Also there is some issue with my account, so my ears were already up.

Oh... just realized this was in the "Shishkov Guitars" category, so that Mike. carry on...

Mike? ME Mike?

Must have been the 4th "o" in Soooo that I missed.

With a neck repair? He'd have to come down another $1,000 and then we'll see.

Yeah, it's a shame but the "modification" doesn't bother me as much as a Kahler would, for example. I bet you could even paint that pickup and mounting ring to match the graphic and it would just about disappear.

Oh no... wait.. that's a Rechts. I didn't make that one. There it is! Oh no. I didn't make that one either. That's not it. Zoom zoom zoom!! Or that one. Ok, here it is. Poe laughs at you. Oh, here it is!!

Well, I've played with @Stike and @elduave, if that counts! (...and @edgar_allan_poe, of course). Above: The first chambered Standard (2004, korina with ebony board) with custom Rio Grande pickups. Below: 1972 Telecaster and the now infamous "Dad Jeans with White New Balance Sneekers" look.

You can.

...to scratch up your tailpiece.