Random (Music and Guitar Related) Thoughts Thread

[specialk]

“The Rolling Stones were the mummy’s boys – they were all college students from the outskirts of London. They went to starve in London, but it was by choice, to give themselves some sort of aura of disrespectability.”

-Lemmy

[HSB0531]

On 2/19/2024 at 5:22 PM, woodpile said:

If it's a Real 1862 Strat, the headstock label would be engraved with gold paint and it would say C.F. Martin, with WagonCaster below that, because C.F. Martin was the first company to build electric guitars.  The WagonCaster name was chosen for the current transportation technology. Covered wagons helped "cast" settlers across the country.  Unfortunately, guitar amplifiers did not exist yet, so the electric WagonCaster guitar did not sell well and eventually, Martin Guitars sold the rights to a young man named Leo Fender around 1947.  Fender kept it a secret for many years, and, using the basic idea to create the Broadcaster in Spring of 1948, and then introduced the WagonCaster when the jet age began, renaming it, the Stratocaster.  So there you have it!

 

[HSB0531]

2 hours ago, HSB0531 said:

If it's a Real 1862 Strat, the headstock label would be engraved with gold paint and it would say C.F. Martin, with WagonCaster below that, because C.F. Martin was the first company to build electric guitars.  The WagonCaster name was chosen for the current transportation technology. Covered wagons helped "cast" settlers across the country.  Unfortunately, guitar amplifiers did not exist yet, so the electric WagonCaster guitar did not sell well and eventually, Martin Guitars sold the rights to a young man named Leo Fender around 1947.  Fender kept it a secret for many years, and, using the basic idea to create the Broadcaster in Spring of 1948, and then introduced the WagonCaster when the jet age began, renaming it, the Stratocaster.  So there you have it!

 

Hey DaveH it's true, it's really true, it is.......really...

[Dave Scepter]

[django49]

[django49]

[specialk]

[django49]

How to defer a neck reset......Rout the top of the guitar!

 

[HSB0531]

On 2/22/2024 at 11:16 AM, Dave Scepter said:

So here we have a girl who I'm sure we would All  like to strangle...over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.

[G Man]

9 hours ago, HSB0531 said:

So here we have a girl who I'm sure we would All  like to strangle...over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.

Yeah, cause nothing makes me angrier than a person with strong principles standing by their convictions, and wanting a better planet to live on.  Really makes me want to bring violence on a child.🙄

[mathman]

9 hours ago, HSB0531 said:

So here we have a girl who I'm sure we would All  like to strangle...over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.

No we ALL would not.  She has to live in this world after I am gone. She has every right to expect it to be in a livable condition.

[specialk]

10 hours ago, HSB0531 said:

So here we have a girl who I'm sure we would All  like to strangle...over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.

 

[hamerhead]

With 8 billion people on Earth, we need about 1 billion just like her just to keep the planet alive. It's not really that hard - just common sense over greed.

[kizanski]

20 minutes ago, hamerhead said:

...just common sense over greed.

Well, I think you've just explained why it won't work.

[hamerhead]

Sad, innit?

[kizanski]

1 minute ago, hamerhead said:

Sad, innit?

A wise man once said to me, "I'm just glad I'm closer to the end than the beginning."

[HSB0531]

5 hours ago, specialk said:

 

Specialk & kiz: you both got it. 

[HSB0531]

6 hours ago, mathman said:

No we ALL would not.  She has to live in this world after I am gone. She has every right to expect it to be in a livable condition.

Livable yes, but not under her version of.

May I allow my spokesperson to offer his counterpoints:

 

[mathman]

Love George Carlin.  A scientist he is not.  Also, How many years ago was this.  The situation has changed.  Whether you believe it or not.

[kizanski]

Just now, mathman said:

Also, How many years ago was this.

Well, he was alive, so...

[mathman]

I watched.   1992…

[velorush]

I certainly do not wish any child harm regardless of their views.  

And any response I would make to the views expressed, while purely economic in nature, would be most assuredly received as political, so I'll just not. 

 

To end on a "Random (Music and Guitar Related) Thought," after forty years of playing 10-46 strings, I'm still trying to get used to playing on 9's.  I've been trying 9's since Beato came out with that video, just as an experiment.  Hard not to bend them out of tune. 🙂

[mathman]

1 hour ago, kizanski said:

Well, he was alive, so...

And looking a bit spritely...

Edited February 29, 2024 by mathman

[Dave Scepter]

So I bought a kit 😃

[HSB0531]

6 hours ago, mathman said:

Love George Carlin.  A scientist he is not.  Also, How many years ago was this.  The situation has changed.  Whether you believe it or not.

Yes I loved his comedy too.

Yes while he didn't have a chemical engineering degree, he was quite smart.

To me, he was a great comedic entertainer that I disagreed with as well as laughed with.

That video is from 1992.

And yes, you are correct, the situation has changed.

U.S. air pollution is now far less than it was in 1992: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1225626/air-pollutant-emissions-reductions-us-by-type/

We rank 99th. by the way:  https://www.iqair.com/us/world-most-polluted-countries

And then there's plastic waste in the oceans: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/visualized-ocean-plastic-waste-pollution-by-country/

So, yes the situation has changed, and, for the better in the USA.

It has sadly gotten worse in many others. 

I hope everyone enjoys the George Carlin video, and, I hope you enjoy this one below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWUXzGGcShM