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Monday Meanderings…

Posted in Guitars, tagged thoughts on February 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

On Master Volumes, Variable Power, etc… A friend of mine recently got a great tube amp, and one of the options he wanted to have added to the amp was a half-power switch. I spoke to him about it and said it really wasn’t necessary since he almost exclusively plays clean, so his main concern [...]

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Saturday Project: Arrange the Studio and Re-arrange My Pedal Board…

Posted in Guitars, tagged thoughts on February 4, 2012 | 3 Comments »

Yikes! Can’t believe how piled up my man-cave got, so I started arranging stuff so I could feel less cluttered while recording. It’s going to be a two-day job – there’s A LOT of stuff to move around; not just mine, but boxes of my wife’s books and sports equipment, etc. In the end, it’ll [...]

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The Power of Vulnerability

Posted in Guitars, tagged performance, thoughts, vulnerability on January 22, 2012 | 5 Comments »

I belong to a men’s fellowship group at my church. Ostensibly, it’s a bible study group, but it usually extends far beyond just discussing the particular bible passage that’s the topic for the week. This past meeting, the subject turned towards vulnerability, and we all agreed that much of our success in life – no [...]

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The Risk of Reviewing

Posted in Guitars, tagged thoughts on January 12, 2012 | 3 Comments »

A fellow blogger who focuses on wine recently got a hate letter from a winery owner who went a bit overboard with an email response to a review that he wrote of her wine. There was some pretty lively discussion around the letter, with people in support of either the author or the winery owner. [...]

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On Stairway to Heaven and It’s Affect – At Least On Me

Posted in Guitars, tagged thoughts on November 9, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Yesterday marked the 40th Anniversary of the release of Stairway to Heaven, a tune with a riff that whether or not you’re a Zep fan is a moral imperative for any guitarist to learn. As for myself, I was never that much into Zep. I dug certain tunes like Stairway, Black Dog, and Lady, but [...]

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Honesty Is Like Cold Medicine…

Posted in Guitars, tagged guitar, guitarists, Guitars, Music, musicians, thoughts on November 7, 2011 | 2 Comments »

…We know it’s good for us, but we don’t enjoy the taste. That’s a corollary on a saying my cousin shared on Facebook: Truth is a bully we all pretend to like. It got me thinking about some feedback I gave to a young singer/songwriter this weekend on her playing, which was not very good. [...]

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Reminiscing on Apple and Steve Jobs

Posted in Guitars, tagged apple, GarageBand, steve jobs, thoughts on October 6, 2011 | 3 Comments »

This actually isn’t an article on Steve Jobs specifically. But after reading a Time Magazine article on Steve this morning, it struck me just how important Apple and especially the Mac have been at least to this author. For years, I had been doing home recording with a variety of systems; starting with dedicated recording [...]

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On the Strat Middle Pickup

Posted in Guitars, tagged fender, guitar, guitar gear, guitarists, Guitars, Music, musicians, Stratocaster, thoughts on September 22, 2011 | 5 Comments »

My American Deluxe Strat is the very first Strat that I actually liked. A lot of it has to do with the pickups, which are Kinman Hx noiseless single coils. These have a bit more output than stock Strat pickups and they make a HUGE difference in the tone of the guitar; fattening up the [...]

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Tuesday Morning Thoughts…

Posted in Guitars, tagged guitar, guitarists, Guitars, Music, musicians, thoughts on September 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve been on the job hunt these past few weeks, which is why I haven’t posted as much as I normally would. And in my search, interviewers have all asked the standard question: “Why did you leave your last position? You were there for three-and-a-half years.” My original “pat” answer was, “It became too political.” [...]

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The Perfect Guitar…

Posted in Guitars, tagged guitar, guitar gear, guitarists, Guitars, Music, musicians, thoughts on September 12, 2011 | 7 Comments »

There are “go-to” guitars and there are “go-to” guitars. But do you have one that’s just.. well… perfect? I do. It’s my Gibson Les Paul Standard 1958 Reissue. To me, that tea burst is absolutely sexy, but more importantly, when I play that guitar, I feel that I can do just about anything. The neck [...]

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