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Is It a Sign?

Posted in Guitars, tagged thoughts on May 7, 2012 | 3 Comments »

I recently watched “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy and thought that my ’59 Replica Les Paul was much like Sauron’s ring; always finding a way back to its master. The reason I was thinking this is because ever since I started making a concerted effort to sell it, the sales have either fallen through [...]

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When Someone Is THAT Good, They Change the Game…

Posted in Guitars, tagged thoughts on May 1, 2012 | 3 Comments »

Back in my younger years, about 35 years ago, I was an avid skier. I lived for the sport and spent every red cent I had for equipment and lift tickets. To me, there was nothing like carving perfect turns down a slope; and as I got better, taking on challenging pitches that few would [...]

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What If Jimi Hendrix Somehow Came Back to Life? Would You See Him in Concert?

Posted in Guitars, tagged thoughts on April 19, 2012 | 4 Comments »

Before I go any further, watch the following video of Tupac Shakur: This footage was taken from the 2012 Coachella Hip-Hop Festival. WTF? 2012? Yup, they somehow found a way to resurrect Tupac. For sure, the technology used to do this is nothing short of amazing. The digital wizards even had Tupac saying stuff he’d [...]

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Having the Guts to Be a Great… whatever…

Posted in Guitars, tagged thoughts on March 2, 2012 | 3 Comments »

I was reading what was a ostensibly a big ad on learning to be a great singer, when I read the following words: “Singers are only singers because they have the guts to be one! What about natural talent? You may have heard that if you were not born with it, you won’t have the [...]

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You Learn Something New Every Day

Posted in Guitars, tagged guitar tech, thoughts on February 24, 2012 | 1 Comment »

Coil Splitting vs. Coil Tapping My good buddy Phil sent me a link to an article that discussed coil splitting vs. coil tapping. For years, I thought they meant the exact same thing. But according to the article, which was written by a Fender tech, they’re completely different animals. Coil splitting is usually associated with [...]

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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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