sixesandsevens

While this is still undoubtedly sad news and everyone who passes deserves to be remembered, is there a specific reason you bumped this obituary thread from 2016?

I got two this morning: 1. The less I'm playing, the more I browse reverb.com 2. If I'm shopping for a piece of gear and I can't make a decision between the alternatives, it means I don't need it that badly.

New strings arrived for my Boden 8. The ones that are on there are still surprisingly fresh given it's almost all I've played for 6 months. I caved and got the recommended strings from Strandberg which are a custom balanced tension set from a collaboration with GHS. Pricier than I would have liked (no free shipping), but looking forward to the string change tho.

Them Crooked Vultures "New Fang" was the last one I listened to. Today it'll be another trip to the BDoMWM:

I never thought I'd say this, but I love playing 8 string guitar.

After geeking out on the Daft Punk stuff on the Tron soundtrack, I stumbled on Dynatron... Also, I'm not generally much of a prog guy, but a bandmate is really into Haken:

To be fair, it is gluten free...

RIP.

Is it with Brent? If so, the video clips should be soon to follow...

I think El was thinking "Chris - I swear I ordered blueburst. Are you sure this one's mine?"

I smell a Shishkov CO coming on...

I agree. Holy sh*tsnacks. Rock that in good health! Edited to add this is one of the only times in my life I've wished I was a lefty at guitar.

I'm with these guys... I wouldn't say yes or no to a guitar just because it's got a figured top. Once it's got a figured top, I judge the top by its own set of criteria, which means it's harder for a figured top guitar to catch my attention than a solid topped one, but still... very do-able.

As long as you like the guitars, I think the beauty of it is that even if you don't win, you win.

Does a deposit on a Shishkov count? If the delivery is next year, can I pick if it counts for this year or next?

Seriously? They kicked Brent out? I don't think I've ever seen such fan of Heritage guitars!

That's all, folks! I'm sure I'll regret asking this, but what happened to cause this implosion?

Congrats polara! I think your guitar made me an Eclipse fan at the last jam that Nathan and El Duave's threw at Rocketeria a while back. Rock it in good health!

Happy Thanksgiving Mike!

HBD!

Sorry to hear you missed it. I'm more sorry to hear that it will haunt you. Sounds like a good time to take a day off, mourn, and rock out on the gear you do have. May your recovery be a speedy one.

Isn't that just, like, dos aardvarks? For me I think it's my placeholder Shishkov air guitar.

You're not alone: It's called "impostor syndrome" among other things. I read an interesting post about it the other day. I'm very familiar with imposter syndrome. It may be one of the most common anxieties you see among college profs; I certainly went through it when I had my first class that was totally mine.Off topic a little, but when you went through that with teaching, what got you out of it? And I hope the job hunt has improved!

My big recommendation is to get your hands on a few before buying one just to see which one works for you. A boomered maple-body Cali is a classic example of a guitar I (and apparently many others) would buy with my eyes, but that my hands would likely be lukewarm about. Fortunately for me, my eyes can't log into paypal and my hands are wise to their controlling position in the matter these days.