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Post by ux4484 on Sept 17, 2007 14:08:37 GMT -5
ummm....I'm gonna take a blind stab and say that deep needs to blow out his browser cache.
...of course how you do that is determined by which browser you use, but it's a good starting point when you have any problems.
The next would be to check your browsers security level. Often with IE, when you install a big patch (like the one posted two weeks ago) it resets your security to M$'s default (too high) level .
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Post by ux4484 on Sept 11, 2007 14:51:17 GMT -5
I've always had a soft spot for Todd, both as an artist and a producer. Heck, he was even stand-in Dad for Liv Tyler for 18 years. I pulled BOOH up on Yahoo Music, I'd forgotten it was almost 10 minutes. I can honestly say, I didn't recall ever thinking the initial Harley sound being his guitar until you mentioned it. When it starts, it sounds like a separate sound effect, but you can clearly hear it mixing with the lead as it goes on. Given the date and tech at the time, It must have been some imaginative studio work, but I'm guessing it was mixed in at the reverb of the guitar amp, because you can hear the notes ringing out with the acceleration sound of the bike which both have the same amount of reverb (very cool). I saw him with The New Cars last summer and the show was a HOOT! What's amazing about Todd is his ability to step back and let other musicians do what they do best. He stood back and let Elliot Easton take every lead, and they did extra solos and even mini-jam sessions on a number of songs (something that Ric Ocasek would never let them do live). He did stand out on his own/Utopia songs they played, but he did a whole lot of blending in to slide right into The Cars "sound" (Though Utopia Bassist Kasim Sulton could not fill the obvious void of the deceased Ben Orr's vocals). It takes an ego in check to move someone else's vision forward for the sake of having a soft spot for a band.
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Post by ux4484 on Sept 10, 2007 17:58:16 GMT -5
About two years from now, when we're (hopefully) done with the basement; (the Mrs. says) I'll be "allowed" a room for my music stuff where I can have it all out and ready to go.
Betwixt all my stuff now, I have the sounds/tone I want (or probably could want) though I do not drag it all out on a daily basis. When I practice something new, I usually practice with the acoustic, if I do use an electric, I usually do it clean and then on "jam" days, I play with getting the effects right. Needless to say, jam days are the most fun.
BTW, I can clearly see this thread going O.T. to a "This is all my gear" tangent.
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Post by ux4484 on Sept 7, 2007 17:20:19 GMT -5
Herb's music is some of the rare vinyl that we didn't mind Mom and dad playing when we were kids. A few of his albums are in my Mrs' vinyl collection as well.
Musical Diversity is.
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Post by ux4484 on Sept 7, 2007 15:03:35 GMT -5
deep, A few years back when the caps started going in my tube PA (after I had stored it in the garage for a few years, the garage had heat, but no AC), I didn't run out to find "vintage" ceramic disc caps or a multi-wound electrolytic. I toddled on down to Newark and bought new cheap same value modern caps after which it sounded much better than ever previously (and took up a fraction of the space). Tubes do actually have a different tone. Unlike monster cable babblings, the average human ear can hear and tell the difference in sound and distortion of a tube amp vs. solid state. like ccso said, thats a reason to have one of each .
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Post by ux4484 on Sept 7, 2007 11:11:38 GMT -5
Well, man, you know, it's a bit insulting for you to repeatedly refer to falling in love and getting married as "stupid". Moreover, "love" is not "infatuation". It's unfortunate that you will never feel it. Quite a bit more unfortunate for you to denigrate it as "stupid". ummm.....I'm kinda with Chris on this one. Infatuation can lead to love, but it is not love and does fade. Love is a wonderful thing, but early Love has a whimsy with it and can cloud your judgment about all that "logical" stuff Chris speaks of (logic is ). My Mrs and I waited for 6 years before we tied the knot, like Chris; once we were both established. Of the 14 or so couples that were dating in our H.S. that got hitched; we and one other couple are the only ones still together, and both of us waited until we finished college to get hitched. If you love someone and they love you back, they'll be willing to wait for a ring and a notarized piece of paper, or to wait to see if it's truly "THE" person for a lifelong commitment. To bastardize a famous quote: Better to have loved and lost, than to have loved, got married and then stripped to the bone in a messy divorce. Because in this country that's what's happening to more than half of all marriages. Back O.T. I went to a technical school (DeVry in "The City"). I had originally intended to go to U of I for engineering, but as I was paying my own way and my parents were retiring (and moving), I needed something I could do in two years time before they left. Having now worked as a tech for over 24 years, I know enough engineers to know that I'm a much better tech than I would have been an engineer. I've worked on everything from relay logic and cam timers to (currently) Digital voice loggers, Public safety radio, and Mobile data networks, with a good dose of electro-mechanical production equipment tossed into the gap. I have always loved what I do, but not always loved the environment I've done it in. Engineers have either been the biggest help or the biggest hindrance to my job. If they designed it, they will defend their design to the end, even though it is dismal and/or barely functional. The best engineers work with techs as equals who see how the equipment actually works as opposed to those who condescend to the lowly "machine oiler" that is griping their design. Over the years, it's been a 50/50 split on average. Being a tech does pay well, working for a municipality, I make more than many engineers that have been working the same number of years as myself. I'd rather fix than manage, so I'm very happy in my position. Engineers are typically on some type of management track (or agenda), I'd never want to get that far from what I do best. The biggest difference between and engineer and a tech: The engineer will explain even the minutest detail of any equipments operation (We poke fun of my boss at one of his first "speeches" as our boss that started with: "Well to understand this, you have to understand electron flow", he's never lived it down, nor will we let him). Whereas a tech usually knows enough to fix the equipment. If he can't fix it, he'll work, study, and research it until he's worked it out (it's tech on the job training). This is why you don't see me posting schematics (or critiquing others) here, once I have something working, I move on to the next project. While I've done my own equipment repairs for years, guitar and amp work is not something I'd want to do every day. Like all consumer equipment, there is just so much junk out there. And for every LP custom that needs a new jack, there's a Hondo that needs an overhaul, and everyone thinks you should do it for a song (Though I imagine the LP owner is willing to pay more than the Hondo customer). How many times have I heard someone bringing a cheap amp to GC or SA for service saying: "I only paid $100 bucks for this amp, and you're going to charge me half that just to LOOK at it" . Most likely, that customer will walk out with another $100 amp, and that's what the retailers count on. That leads to one big down side of being a tech or an engineer, often you get dragged into the sales aspect of the equipment. Techs and engineers are rarely type "A" personalities (like most salesdrones). Nothing is more depressing to a tech than to tell a customer they should buy a new $200,000 box (because management has told them to do so) when all they need is a $20 part (that's typically jacked up to $2500.00 to boot). I was not able to look my service customers in the eye and lie so boldly, it's the reason I left working field service for 3M Medical. Being a tech is also good job security, when companies are culling middle management jobs (where most engineers lurk) to save money, you still have a job (someone always has to fix the stuff). I've worked for 5 companies since I left school, I moved from job to job on my own terms to take the next offer which was always better paying. BTW, the best paying tech jobs are in government, either directly or government controlled/sponsered/inspected industries (pharmaceutical, defense, and food production). A bit more paperwork, but you get to be committed to doing it right, no shortcuts or Rube Goldbergs allowed. *whew* update: wiggy, I was writing this as Chris snuck in and beat me to it.
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Post by ux4484 on Aug 18, 2007 16:11:29 GMT -5
Polly... Yes, on the Rachael Ray!...My daughter cant figure out why I like her. "She talks too much and shes loud" ......I have no problem with that. ;D Plus, she can cook, and she's always smiling! Most aren't like that in real life . oh maaaannn.....we've taken a serious detour....
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Post by ux4484 on Aug 17, 2007 11:37:16 GMT -5
Well...at least he got a new hair cut (to go along with that tongue cut). When I got the "Special" Guitar Center 5150 rag, I honestly didn't recognize him. I think Eric Clapton has broken that "still livin" mold, as did Jerry Garcia (GD's groupies always had pot bellies!) before he died . I've got the pot belly, but no blue hair as of yet thankfully. After I posted this thread, the Mrs says she'd like to go, just to say she saw them almost original (Michael Anthony has defected to Sammy), as does one of my buds who saw one of their first shows in Chicago, and their last show here as well.
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Post by ux4484 on Aug 16, 2007 15:27:30 GMT -5
(Okay, I'll stop being a jerk). O.K. Teach. You would have been a jerk if you'd quoted it so I couldn't edit the original post. Look Teach, no hyphen! Now....the world will never know
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Post by ux4484 on Aug 15, 2007 11:41:25 GMT -5
Eddie used to complain that Dave is too much of a rock star ( duh) Not with that Bluegrass release of VH songs he ain't ;D, what a joke. I'll add a prediction: I think we'll see more press on Valerie's diet than we will about this tour. ....Now just watch.... It'll be the best thing they've ever done and we'll have both missed out on it .
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Post by ux4484 on Aug 15, 2007 11:14:51 GMT -5
About five years ago, I might have jumped (no pun intended), but now it's just anticlimactic.
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Post by ux4484 on Aug 19, 2007 17:21:20 GMT -5
I called them today and canceled the order, and got them to credit the gift certificate back to my Mrs' card. I then headed over to GC (as Sam Ash doesn't stock the FM100H), but alas when I went to my GC, neither store had a FM100H either (turns out the one I played last time was a fluke someone ordered and didn't pick up, it's not regularly stocked there either and had since sold). I played the Vox ADxxVT's again, but while I like the amp emulations, the amp itself just doesn't grab me the way it did a year ago. I'm liking something simpler, and I am on a budget.....SoOOOOoooo, after cutting through all the $300 and under amps, It was the another Fender FM series that ended up grabbing me for clean sound....the Fender FM 212R I'll post my initial impressions in my original thread. $30 cheaper than MF, but I had to pay tax, so it's a wash
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Post by ux4484 on Aug 17, 2007 9:22:49 GMT -5
Still no ship date. MF's site is saying that orders put in today will ship Aug 25th.
*yawn*
I'm getting ancy.
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Post by ux4484 on Aug 11, 2007 13:32:32 GMT -5
Thanks guys, it was suggested I might have better luck to cancel and then reorder, but at this point, I can't be sure of anything.
Sumgai,
Gary is no longer with them, tho his stand-in not only looks like (a younger) him, but also plays exactly like him. Can you imagine that being the culmination of your years of playing, to be a stand-in for Gary Richrath?
Cloning is possible.
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Post by ux4484 on Aug 10, 2007 11:51:14 GMT -5
Rather than cut/paste I'll just link to my existing rant. It all boils down to: NO GEAR FOR YOU!!!
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Post by ux4484 on Aug 7, 2007 9:10:15 GMT -5
Amazingly, Lifeson's sound is quite easy to emulate with the multitude of multi-effects pedals out and about. Digitech has it pegged almost perfect in the included "packaged" sounds they ship with their stomp boxes.
I'm not so much about a tone as a style. What I do regularly as a player is not what I necessarily prefer as a listener....mainly because my ability is not at the level of those I admire. I've always loved the style of David Lindley, especially the stuff he's done for Jackson Browne. We saw JB with Lindley over a decade ago, it was one of the few concerts where I was truly mesmerized by the solo's (especially his slide solo's). I'm also partial to the stuff Jude Cole did for John Hiatt, they were a perfect mix. Lastly, and this is not just as a guitarist, but as a producer of other guitarist's sounds, T. Bone Burnett. The guy is a genius.
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Post by ux4484 on Aug 23, 2007 15:18:10 GMT -5
And strange as it seems, I sort of like Gregorian chant. Carl heh... I too sort of like them NOW, but a 5-6 year old ux, found no comfort in a Mass where the priest talked with his back to you in a language you didn't understand and sang in the musical equivalent of damp toast. ...Some of us were very happy for the reforms of Vatican II. I do have to say, I have as an adult enjoyed the Latin Mass entirely, but IMO, it's just too much for small children to comprehend. I'm glad you found something to relate to in my post. On other religious playing, my wedding band was also the house band for the Lutheran church of our drummer was a member of (they provided our practice space). That was also much fun.....and another story.
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Post by ux4484 on Aug 22, 2007 19:55:41 GMT -5
What HiJack?, It fits right in IMO.
While I am Catholic, when a lad in northern MN we attended a Baptist church for 4 years. The local Catholic priest had to move between 4 parishes (counties apart) during the year, so we had only 3 months of Mass a year....and Mom and Dad needed to get 7 kids out of the house on Sunday morning....much to our benefit over theirs methinks. I enjoyed late 60's early 70's Gospel much more than what I had heard in church before that ("The Church" was still doing the Latin Mass with Gregorian chants in the early 60's). Those Baptist years gave me more of a feeling for music than I ever had previously. Even though I went back into "the fold", I still enjoyed the revivalist spirit of those years. In H.S. I played with a drummer buddy of mine and his guitarist co-worker at his West side store front Church. It's quite the challenge to watch a Minister and catch his cue's to start a riff to build on, it's one of the most spontaneous and challenging musical environs you can experience. When it goes right, it can be amazing. They had no rules except don't be louder than the Minister while he's still talking, but once he started singing, you could wail (even the guitarist with leads) I remember seeing the Blues Brothers with my girlfriend (now Mrs); When I saw the James Brown church scene I had the most stupid-happy look on my face, my Mrs asked me what was the up with me, and I told her: "I've been there, it can be like that" . BTW, on that Bass amp thing in church, after our first week (we were WAYYYY too loud), we scaled back to bringing our practice amps in, and the drummer brought pads to quiet the skins of their drums (the church had their OWN drums, amazing, because they had little else), it was just the right volume (though they were on "11").
I've tried to get on our musical directors good site to add more than the piano and organ to services, but they'll only do it for the kids Mass, which is not held in the church but the school chapel, and a CCD teacher has that gig wrapped up. Once or twice a year, she does play for one of the kids church masses, but she's rarely (or barely) in tune. I picked her up a clamp-on headstock tuner and gave it to her for Christmas a few years back. She was (I think) initially a bit insulted, but you can really hear the difference now when she does play. She has since thanked me for pointing out what she needed in a polite way. She's the nicest lady, but has her own unique sense of timing (if YKWIM). Once daughter #2 is in H.S. the Mrs and I will have more time on our hands and may join the choir, and maybe I can work something in then. I think it's great that mikebell and ccso are able to able to participate, I know something like that would fill the gig jones I've had of late.
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Post by ux4484 on Jul 27, 2007 14:02:40 GMT -5
ux... Quoting from TPOH?....I didnt think anyone outside of Toronto knew of them. hmmmm! The got some airplay here in "The City" back in their day. Such a great song.
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Post by ux4484 on Jul 27, 2007 11:22:02 GMT -5
I've learned that I'm never done learning, even in areas in which I excel (music or otherwise). I've learned to tell the Mrs before tearing apart her (former) guitar to rebuild it. And to counter Quarry's point, I have a saying from one of my Favorite songs ( I'm an Adult Now) I've learned that the saying is really true... "If its too loud, you're too old!" "I can't take too much loud music I mean I like to play it, but I sure don't like the racket" I remember practicing back in the band days and playing so loud that we were all dizzy after a long practice. There is such a thing as too loud. ....another thing I've learned The mandolin is not quite the pansy artifact I used to think it was.
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Post by ux4484 on Jul 19, 2007 10:12:13 GMT -5
Back in the pre-internet day of BBS's (about 17 years ago) a bud of mine I were going to our Comicon . We were members of an anime' BBS who were having a get-together in the same hotel we were staying at. We decided to stop by said get-together. When they answered the door, we took one look and told them we had the wrong place (and slowly backed away). It had been a very civil and informed BBS; but the "get-together" was basically serious underage drinking/drugs with dozens of TV's showing anime' porn. I think we would have been the only people who were drinking age there (actually quite a few years past it).
We both decided right then that online communities are just that...and should remain that way. It became our policy to not mingle (unless you know them in meatspace already).
Not that I think a GN2 thing or anyone here would be that way....but policy is.
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Post by ux4484 on Jun 19, 2007 10:05:00 GMT -5
I hadn't really wandered the beyond the "search recent posts" link I have bookmarked since the re-org. How did I miss this gem? My shop teacher in H.S. had many old P.E.'s laying around the shop from years past....even so, still it took some jarring to remember that rarebit. If anyone would like to see some of Dave Harbaugh's stuff, you can find a bit of it here.
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Post by ux4484 on Jun 7, 2007 11:23:08 GMT -5
I might play my Squire '51 at pools edge...but NEVER a Les Paul. That's the great thing about having a couple decent cheap guitars, you're not out much if you do something stupid after a few drinks.
I imagine he doesn't think he's so cool now.
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Post by ux4484 on Jun 5, 2007 19:50:30 GMT -5
Didn't we kinda do this already a while back?
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Post by ux4484 on May 30, 2007 16:57:03 GMT -5
Karma was a new one for me here as well, I accidentally smote someone once (damn laptop touchpad) early on but I quickly thereafter Exalted them back to their previous Karma.
As Chris would say: "Karma IS"
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Post by ux4484 on Jun 4, 2007 9:50:32 GMT -5
Of all the drummers I've ever played with (not for 20 years now), the best was my H.S. Jazz band drummer. It was like he was in my head when we performed. He was a combination of Gene Krupa and Eli Konikoff . Contrary to most of the other drummers I played with, he was very smart (Honor Student), and became an engineer after H.S. Drumming was something that just came simply and naturally to him. You could set your metronome to him, but he was a good listener as well, If we had to slightly change tempo due to a brass solo gone wrong, he could do it with such finesse that most of the audience couldn't tell. He sat in for a few weeks when our wedding band drummer had sprained his ankle....If it wasn't for our regular drummer providing the practice space, we would have had a new drummer. I haven't seen him in decades, last I heard (10 years ago) he was playing with a small jazz group in the Northern suburbs of "The City". Every time I think of getting some guys together to play, he's the first on my list.
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Post by ux4484 on May 13, 2007 17:13:13 GMT -5
.....just surprised at the amount of late night traffic last night. I shouldn't drink and post
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Post by ux4484 on May 13, 2007 2:28:27 GMT -5
What? you guys don't have enough to keep you busy for Mother's day?
ux
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Post by ux4484 on Apr 10, 2007 10:46:54 GMT -5
I always find myself going back to songs I meant to play but didn't have the time....I was on a Ziggy Stardust Jag a month ago (I'm sure the neighbors were sick of it), and on our trip last weekend the Mrs. popped in "The Best of Graham Parker" CD, and now I'm on a Graham Parker jag... I'm kinda at the point I'd like to have a couple guys to jam with, not for gigs or money, just to hang out and play once and a while. My Mrs. is great, but I don't think she'd be too wild about it.
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Post by ux4484 on Apr 9, 2007 10:51:13 GMT -5
Show them an early shot of John Entwistle, by comparision anyone should be lower . I wear the acoustic up high (think Johnny Cash), my bass with the horn at the bottom edge of the rib cage, about the same with the Tele (looks higher even though it isn't), and the '51 with the horn about 1" below my ribs. Daughter #1 prefers that her friends NOT see me playing the acoustic standing up, and is most critical of me on songs that she knows and likes; If I play a Green Day song, it better be perfect if her friends are around.... I haven't yet been mocked.....at least not to my face....though I'm SURE it's coming. Mainly because I'm THISCLOSE to looking like this:
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