LucSulla Posted January 24, 2018 Author Posted January 24, 2018 On 8/17/2017 at 8:45 PM, Tortious said: I got a new EVM 12L delivered tonight. Picked up the box and it was moving around. Crap. Opened it, the cheesy styro piece inside had fallen apart, little bits of busted styro all over the speaker, and creases in the cone. Filled out a return/exchange request. I hope the next one doesn't arrive the same way, but seeing how that was factory packaged, I'm not hopeful. I hope the MBA who thought it was a good idea to save half a cent and use such poor packaging for such an awkward, heavy speaker drives the BMW he got with his bonus money into an abutment. Years ago I had a Rivera M100 112 with one of the original EVM's in it. That's one of the few amps I wish I had kept. If I ever get an operable speaker I hope to get something close to that unique sound. I guess they're not made in the US anymore, so I'm not even sure on that front. Rather aggravating. I have an old EVM from an 88 Mesa Mark III combo collecting dust. I keep meaning to sell it but then keep forgetting. If you're ever interested, let me know. Quote
LucSulla Posted January 27, 2018 Author Posted January 27, 2018 When you are told to bring the bigger rig because the venue is large. Bog finna eat! 1 Quote
LucSulla Posted February 12, 2018 Author Posted February 12, 2018 I often wonder if it's really GAS or if it's the actual acquiring and then moving along gear, thus creating a never ending stream of something to do with your gear, is really what guitar collections end up about. Quote
LucSulla Posted February 13, 2018 Author Posted February 13, 2018 Brian Wampler's YouTube Channel is endlessly fascinating. I'm addicted. 1 Quote
LucSulla Posted February 27, 2018 Author Posted February 27, 2018 (edited) I haven't really listened to the most recent Van Halen album until this week. Maybe it took me 10 years to get over the Michael Anthony thing. Good lord! It kills! And as corny as DLR is, he just writes far more clever lyrics than Sammy. I've come to terms with it. DLR is the Keats of childish lyrics about getting laid. Edited February 27, 2018 by LucSulla 2 Quote
Steve Haynie Posted March 9, 2018 Posted March 9, 2018 Can you really use this skill in a song? Quote
LucSulla Posted March 11, 2018 Author Posted March 11, 2018 On 3/8/2018 at 6:25 PM, Steve Haynie said: Can you really use this skill in a song? Maybe the club is on fire, but you can't stop rocking, so you need to play the whole set in one minute. Quote
Steve Haynie Posted March 11, 2018 Posted March 11, 2018 9 hours ago, LucSulla said: Maybe the club is on fire, but you can't stop rocking, so you need to play the whole set in one minute. In other words, Great White could have finished their set and got paid for the gig. Quote
LucSulla Posted March 11, 2018 Author Posted March 11, 2018 2 hours ago, Steve Haynie said: In other words, Great White could have finished their set and got paid for the gig. It's possible! Quote
crunchee Posted March 11, 2018 Posted March 11, 2018 On 3/8/2018 at 6:25 PM, Steve Haynie said: Can you really use this skill in a song? I lost interest in his playing even faster than his playing. I just did three short 'jumps' over the entire video rather than play the entire thing, it was much more than enough for me. Quote
Thundersteel Posted March 11, 2018 Posted March 11, 2018 (edited) On 3/8/2018 at 6:25 PM, Steve Haynie said: Can you really use this skill in a song? I've seen videos similar to this. I've also seen another video that explains how these are faked! Using software, different parts of the video image can be edited, sped up/slowed down, to make it seem like they are playing really fast. This video meets all the criteria: "fast" guitar player, some other person in the same room in the background, and either a clock or other parts in seemingly "normal" time. Notice how fast the person walks by the window at 1:41. Edited March 11, 2018 by Thundersteel Quote
diablo175 Posted March 11, 2018 Posted March 11, 2018 On 2/12/2018 at 1:37 PM, LucSulla said: I often wonder if it's really GAS or if it's the actual acquiring and then moving along gear, thus creating a never ending stream of something to do with your gear, is really what guitar collections end up about. I'd say you might be onto something... something I hope I can side step in the years to come. I learned today of the potential impending demise of my cover band which has been running since 2010. Faced with no gigs, I wonder how I will deal with the GAS and the revolving door of axes that it oft creates. Quote
LucSulla Posted March 12, 2018 Author Posted March 12, 2018 2 hours ago, diablo175 said: I'd say you might be onto something... something I hope I can side step in the years to come. I learned today of the potential impending demise of my cover band which has been running since 2010. Faced with no gigs, I wonder how I will deal with the GAS and the revolving door of axes that it oft creates. I tend to spend more on less when I'm gigging. I've got really top notch gear at the moment, but I actually own less stuff. I run through more guitars when I'm not gigging because I don't know what I actually want to play as none of it gets used for playing out. I find gigging pretty quickly makes clear what I have just to have and what I actually prefer for making music. 1 Quote
diablo175 Posted March 12, 2018 Posted March 12, 2018 For the record, EH's Synth9 and B9 pedals f*cking ROCK! Whole new sonic world has opened up and my songwriting is re-inspired! 1 Quote
LucSulla Posted March 18, 2018 Author Posted March 18, 2018 Honestly, any time I walk into a bar and Gibby Haynes isn't on stage swinging a microphone around, I am really let down. One day... Quote
LucSulla Posted March 20, 2018 Author Posted March 20, 2018 Your band will always have that one guy. That one fucking guy. 1 Quote
Tortious Posted March 21, 2018 Posted March 21, 2018 Yeah. Sometimes I wondered if that was me, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't. That's one of many reasons though that I avoided the band thing for 20 years now. Back to that EV saga at the top of this page, B&H had EV send me one directly, it got here intact, they were really good about it. Finally got around to putting it in an Orange PPC112 a few weeks ago, got a Quilter Overdrive 200 to go with it. Very impressive. I no longer need to lament over that Rivera. Getting a tc reverb pedal for it this week too. Kinda wish I lived in a more remote setting than a damn condo so I could have at it for a much longer period of time, but it's all what I hoped it would be. For a change. Quote
LucSulla Posted March 25, 2018 Author Posted March 25, 2018 Yet another show where I bring three guitars and still end up playing the Shishkov for 75% of four hours of music. Quote
Steve Haynie Posted March 28, 2018 Posted March 28, 2018 If you cannot play an instrument you can still make money with musical gear. 2 Quote
LucSulla Posted April 5, 2018 Author Posted April 5, 2018 Jesus, the Mesa Mark III is bring out the morons on Reverb. "Is it loud since it's only 70 watts?" 1 Quote
Steve Haynie Posted April 5, 2018 Posted April 5, 2018 5 hours ago, LucSulla said: Jesus, the Mesa Mark III is bring out the morons on Reverb. "Is it loud since it's only 70 watts?" Tell them that if they add two cabinets it will make up for the low wattage. 1 1 Quote
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