Everything posted by BoomMF
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The Guitar Pron Thread
Probably never will.
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The Guitar Pron Thread
I got that guitar in high school sometime in '93. My family went into the Guitar Center on Westheimer in Houston and out of the blue dad asked which of the guitars was my favorite. Without hesitation I pointed at the Flying V. It was $1700, but it might as well have been $17,000,000. It was just my favorite, not anything I even contemplated owning, our family didn't have $1700 guitar money. Dad walked over to the salesman and after a few minutes the guy drags the ladder over, climbs up, and brings the most beautiful glossy midnight black Flying V down and my heart started doing backflips. Dad looks at me and says, "You better play it. A lot." I might have started breakdancing right there in the middle of the store. Dad had never done anything like that before and hasn't done anything like that since, for me or himself. I found out later the guitar wasn't paid off for several years after. It was a strain for him for some time, though he never let me know that. I don't sell things. I like to collect things or I might just be a run-of-the-mill hoarder. Who knows. What I do know is I'm not selling that guitar. Not THAT guitar.
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The Guitar Pron Thread
I was rooting around the garage and came across some pics of me in a high school band about 80lbs ago. It's like I slipped and fell and got covered in 90s. Nothing says metal like a calculator watch. Still have the V. "Cutlass Nogood" Or we might have been "Albino Meat Machine" at this point. We played the Abyss once, but that was it that I recall. We might have played a party, but that also might have been a slightly different lineup.
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These Go to 11 - The Guitar Amp Thread
I can hear the tone coming out of the picture. Have to wonder why no Corinthian leather lounger in the pic. Seems like the perfect time to drop that bad boy somewhere in the background.
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These Go to 11 - The Guitar Amp Thread
Waza, Waza everywhere. (A little literary humor because I'm well read as fuck.) Killer setup, man. Do you need to borrow my ruler to line the pedals up? DM me.
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The Guitar Pron Thread
David Gilmour is on the Mt. Rushmore of guitar and that dude bends every other note. Jimi, Stevie, Eddie, and Davie.
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The Stevie Ray Vaughan Thread
You're welcome. I don't have the foggiest idea wtf guitar that is, and the backline looks all fucked up too (I see the Dumble, but that's about it.) Doesn't matter. Whatever his hands touch turns to soul stirring blues. Johnny Copeland, Houston's native son, destroys some shit too. EDIT: Ah, Charley. Always thought Charley was just a Strat with a hula girl image, some lipsticks, standard saddles, etc. Nope. Full on custom. This must be before the hula girl.
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The Guitar Pron Thread
Sounds like the studio version. Fuckin hell. Team Bend. Actually, more like Team No Rules. I hate rules. And I especially don't like them in my music. Don't have a "no bends" policy. Bend that shit. If it plays, rock on with it. If it doesn't, don't do it again. Unless you play jazz, in which case do it twice more.
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The Guitar Pron Thread
Looks like Shirley Manson's daughter.
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Five Star Garrett Wilson commits tonight at 8 pm
Does this mean I can overreact now? Asking for a friend.
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The Guitar Pron Thread
Sorry to hear that. Good luck with the pooch.
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Jimbo 2019: The Only Tail Getting Busted is Candi's
Nailed it.
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Your top 5 music talents of all time
Queue @MojoHand?
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Bad songs by good artists
Gonna have that stuck in my head all weekend. Thanks.
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The Stevie Ray Vaughan Thread
I meant to address the seeming over estimation of the health of the blues genre (stagnant and moribund) but I might've got lost there at the end. Bruh it was late!
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Texas recruiting notes 2019
Does that make 2 unaccounted for?
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The Stevie Ray Vaughan Thread
As a commercially viable product, yes. SRV took was done and turned it on its head, revitalizing the genre in the process. Blues was cool again. Blues was mainstream. Blues made its way into Top40 Pop songs. Unheard of things in the decades prior. The closest we had before that was British Invasion type stuff. Blues inspired, but a wholly different genre. SRV was dropping blues licks, straight genuine blues, into radio-friendly Bowie tracks about dancing meant for moms! Just thinking back on the 80s and MTV: I recall interviews and shows with SRV. Don't recall any other blues artist getting ANY stong run, much less exposure like him. He did an Unplugged episode, the only one by a straight bluesman that I can recall. (Did Robert Cray get an Unplugged? I recall his Strong Persuader getting a lot of crossover juice and he might have swung an episode. That was already on the backside of the decade, regardless.) MTV played SRV videos regularly. Did any other blues artist get in the regular rotation? I don't recall any. Crossover chameleons like Clapton got play since, but it wasn't for his blues catalogue. Think about that - Blues was as strong as it's ever been, and the only act to really crack into MTV was SRV and Double Trouble. He was a giant. And the gap between him and number 2 was huge. It hasn't been as cool since. Blues, as a genre, is living in a shadow, trying to recreate a moment in time when a dude from Dallas made everyone care again. Or maybe the argument is SRV never revitalized the blues. All anyone ever cared about was SRV. I can see old school bluesmen taking exception to that...
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The Stevie Ray Vaughan Thread
SRV progressed a stagnant and moribund genre with virtuosity and panache, but gtfo give me the 40s?
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Favorite Drummers?
It's always funny watching skilled drummers sit in with Metallica. When Jordison played with them about 10 years ago he would drive the set hard. Watching Kirk and James try and keep up is hilarity. Don't care though. It's no Metallica without the bitty Dane.
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Cool Pictures of Music Icons
Just finished Keef's autobiography, Life, and he talks about the moment he met Chuck, one of his idols, as being a real letdown. Says Chuck bigtimed them. Acted like a prick. I wonder if he and Mick are talking about farts in that pic...
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These Go to 11 - The Guitar Amp Thread
Since I don't have a pond, I nominate Tbone's place for the First Annual Surly Jam and Pancake Social.
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These Go to 11 - The Guitar Amp Thread
V2, with the power reduction and the reinforced cabinet, make the amp even more legit. It has cathode biasing, too. You can drop any matched pair into it without biasing the tubes. Pretty slick shit for a $300 tone dragon.
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The Stevie Ray Vaughan Thread
There's always one in every group. I mean two!
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Cool Pictures of Music Icons
I can't tell who's singing. Is that David Allan Coe? Fuck that dude.