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At least for tonight. It seems I have a general disinterest in everything not related to music (and Scrabble), which curiously includes everything else I do. So let me just give y'all some sorts of an update of matters that have occurred since the last post, mmmkay?First off, much to my chagrin, my rating at the Online Scrabble Club has been dropping. Even though my proficiency has improved, I

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As of lately, I have been on a literary rampage and felt the need to educate. After after unsuccessfully writing a blog entry for 4 hours I have abandoned that desire. However, I shall give you the titles of some magnificent books:-The 1000 Year War -Richard Maybury-World War I - Richard Maybury-World War II - Richard MayburyMaybury is an economist and views both World Wars and the conflict in

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So tonight I got together with the great Stan Lassiter, my new guitar teacher. His method is steeped in Taoism, and it literally immediately changed my approach to guitar. I seriously walked out a different musician than I walked in. And the timing couldn't have been better.I went down to Tootsies to see Mark Matejka play (same guy from the ass-whipping I wrote about two weeks back). I said hello

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DONKEY!!!!

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If you're new to blues music, or like it and never really understood the why and wherefores, here are some very fundamental rules:1) Most Blues begin with: "woke up this morning..."2) "I got a good woman" is a bad way to begin the Blues, unless you stick with something nasty in the next line like "I got a good woman, but she's got the meanest face in town."3) The Blues is simple. After you get

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So the "Selling-Your-Soul-To-The-Devil-For-Dummies" Manual kinda puts it like this:You show up right before midnight at the Crossroads (where Hwy 61 and Hwy 49 meet in Clarksdale, MS). Bring your git-fiddle. At midnight a clean-cut black man wearing a nice suit will show up. You hand him your guitar, which he'll tune and then he'll pick you a song. Then he'll hand you your guitar back, and walk

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I've been talking with some people lately about guitar tone. My take on it is this:"Tone is a guitarists awareness of his sound"His "sound" is the musical manifestation of who he is, whether he's playing on Lower Broadway, eating a burger, taking a crap or gets his hair done. Gear therefore are tools that help him to a) get that sound out (thus preventing him from having to fart into a microphone

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Like a lot of people I go through phases when it comes to listening to music. For a while I might listen to Jimi Hendrix or Johnny Winter and then not listen to them for months. Nevertheless there are some albums I listen to at least every couple of weeks since they never seize to amaze and inspire:UNSHAVEN: Live At Smith's Ole' Bar (Billy Joe Shaver)Hunter Carmichael turned me onto this guy.

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This is my current pedalboard setup. The signal chain is as follows: Barber Tone Press--> Voodoo Labs Sparkle Drive --> Visual Sound Jekyll & Hyde --> Boss GE7 --> Ernie Ball volume --> Z-Vex Super Hard-On --> Line6 DL4 Delay Modeler --> Peterson StroboStomp. The circus is powered by a Voodoo Labs Pedal Power 2.The Barber Electronics Tone Press is one of the coolest compressors I've heard so far.

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Nephew Taylor from Jonesboro, AR has a Flat Stanley project going on at his school, and he sent his Flat Stanley to Nashville. See for yourselves:Here's Flat Stanley with Ed Beaver (left) and Mark Easterling (other left). Ed builds the guitars and Mark plays the hell out of them. Mark can actually (well... very probably) tell you on what date back in 1953 Leo Fender decided on changing tone pot

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Here are my Telecasters. The one on the left, Arthemis, was built for me by Ed Beaver, as a little sister to Kreosote, of which you'll find a description under Stratocasters. I'm not sure what wood was used for the body, but I believe it's ash. She has a maple neck with a 17" radius ebony fretboard. Kluson tuners, Joe Barden bridge. Originally the guitar had a GFS Lil' Puncher in the bridge (

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I've been contemplating my own band. Band names I've come up with so far:"Twisted Sistah" (this would be a black metal band)"Death Row Tull" (psychedelic rap-core with flute)"Sheet Metal""Sheet Rock""Grand Theft FEMA Trailer"I also considered going with Frëd Böekhörst.My friend Jason Murphy, who teaches philosophy at Saint Louis University, in Saint Louis, even though he questions his occupation,

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Here are my Stratocasters. From left to right:A custom built Ed Beaver Stratocaster. I call her Tempest, after Tempest Storm, the stripper. Ash body, birdseye maple neck with a technically and mathematically infinite radius, which I decided to do after a conversation with Mark Easterling, a guitar bad-ass who has all his guitars set up this way. Gotoh 1088TW tremelo bridge, Planet Waves

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Okay... post number one.I have nothing to say, so I'm with whatever you have to say for yourself, preferably to yourself. I will also stick with it, even if you don't.

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