Maverick

Who said "Outside the top 50" Thanks for ruining Christmas.

In this case, I have to agree with the complainants. It's one thing for a trailer to make a movie look more exciting, funnier, or whatever, than it really is. A common gripe is that "all the funny parts were in the trailer." But they were also actually in the movie. Showing an actor or sequence that didn't make the final cut is definitely misleading. Whether or not it is worth suing over is another question.

Deceptive in that maybe it shows a product working better than it actually will, or easier to use than it actually is. And then they put small print disclaimers at the bottom of the screen saying "Results may vary." Instant indemnity.

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I will tell my story in phases, a la TheAccountant. #1 - Spring of 1981 - I was 11 years old, not really hip to any bands or music beyond pop. Songs I knew at the time were Whip It, Cars, and Pop Muzik, the later I had on 45. I had received Billy Joel's album Glass Houses on my 11th birthday (May of 1980) and I liked it quite a bit. Fast forward to March or maybe early April of 1981 and I here people talking about a band named Rush and a new song called Tom Sawyer. It's just three people, and it's so good. One Saturday I'm watching tv (not MTV, just regular tv, so I don't know how this happened) and the video for Tom Sawyer comes on. I thought to myself, "This is the band and song I've been hearing about." So I watched it, and I didn't like it. It sounded weird, they didn't look like rock stars, the singer looked like a witch, and what was with that shrieking? (On a side note, late in 1981, or perhaps early in 1982, I probably saw King Crimson perform on the show Fridays. I watched it religiously, and they definitely appeared, but I probably thought it was wacked out weird shit.) #2 - Here's where my timeline is a little bit foggy. Sometime in the fall of 1984 , I was part of the Columbia House record thing. The album of the month that they sent out was Moving Pictures. I kept meaning to send it back, but I missed the dead line and had to keep it. I had been getting into Yes quite heavily, so Moving Pictures just went down in the stack of albums my parents had, along with the few I possessed. In late 1984, was talking to a neighbor friend about wanting to add a band to my listening, feeling that listening to only Yes, I was going to burn out. He suggested Rush and loaned me All The World's A Stage. They have the best drummer and the best bass player, he said (we'll see about that!) After listening to it, I was sold on Neil, still thought Chris Squire was better than Geddy, but not by much, and the guitarist was criminally underrated. Rush was on my radar. #3 - February 1985 - We'd had a pretty good snow storm that had shut down the schools for a few days. We had cleared off our driveway, and the snow plows had come through, and my parents and I went to the grocery store. While they were shopping, I walked next door to the record store, which surprisingly was open. They didn't have any Yes that I didn't already have, so I looked in the Rush bin. I can't remember all of what they had, but they did have Grace Under Pressure. I knew that was the most current album, and I liked what I'd heard on the radio (Distant Early Warning and The Body Electric) so I bought it and listened to it as soon as I got home. I can still remember hearing the last three songs on side two for the first time. I don't remember how many times I listened to Between The Wheels that night. #4 - Spring of 1985 - I was listening to Moving Pictures and Grace Under Pressure, but I needed something more. Since I liked Yes, and loved their longer pieces, I knew Rush had the album 2112, and that side one was the song 2112. So I bought it one day after work, and that was that. I didn't need there to be any good songs on side two (but there were) I just needed 2112, over and over again.

I would have just hit rewind, but I respect flipping the tape, taking a listen, and flipping it back.

Absolutely love her! Her vocal analysis, and her overall knowledge and analysis of music, is very interesting and informative. I watched this last night, and it was great to see her pick up on things right away that we've known for years (even going back to our first listening. And yes, her constant stopping and listening to the same segment 3-4 times can be a bit frustrating, but it's just indicative of how carefully she is listening, and how much she is enjoying it. Now she just needs to listen to some Yes!

Well then, you are pretty well set! If you have access to a 335 and a Les Paul, your bases are covered there. I have two Epiphone 335's that I got last year (both 2021's) and I got my Les Paul Custom way back in 1987 (it was made in 1986.) I really like the 335's. Their bodies are so big, it really feels like you've got something to hold onto. Back in 2020, I got a Music Man Albert Lee guitar with three P-90's, so I'm pretty set there. I bet that '68 335 is sweet!

Damn... She sang my favorite Fleetwood Mac songs.

You can approach it however you feel comfortable, but there really aren't any rules about what type of pickups to get first, or work your way up to. You'd have done great with a Tele, your guitar, or a 335. Having said all that, you did great with what you got.

Right after he announced there were people on Reverb trying to sell the OCD pedals for $800. Part of me thinks they were really just trolling.

When you said "50's" and Goldtop, I kind of figured it was.

After lusting after this pedal since last summer (2021) but never being able to find it except second hand and for exorbitant prices, and after buying the Strymon Brigadier and Timeline delays, I was finally able to land a Suhr Discovery analog delay pedal. It has all the bells and whistles of it's DSP powered counterparts, but it uses real MN3005 bucket brigade chips. It uses a 9v power supply, but it runs at 18v internally, so there seems to be more clean headroom for the delay repeats. They don't get super crunchy like they did on the EHX Deluxe Memory Man that I briefly had, but returned in favor of getting the Strymon Brigadier. Overall, I'm very happy with this. It is definitely it's own thing, not trying to copy the DMM. The Lo Cut and Hi Cut allow me to shave off just the right amount from the repeats so that they don't get in the way. Surprisingly, the Mix knob stays pretty low for me. I like the way it works - as you turn it up from about seven o'clock, it adds volume to the repeats until you get to noon, where the repeats are unity with the dry signal. After that, as you turn up, the repeats don't get louder, the dry signal gets quieter. I tend to stay around ten o'clock. The best thing is, the Discovery, the Brigadier, and the Timeline analog engine all sound different, so I'm not covering the exact same ground with any of them.

It's good you got this when you did. I don't know if you heard, but Mike Fuller announced a couple of months ago he's shutting down Fulltone.

P-90's or Humbuckers?

I'd never heard of them before I went to that show, and I've barely heard of them since.

Contrary to what IbanezJem says about The Call, I actually saw them in concert at the University of Maryland back in 1989, and they played Let The Day Begin. It was a very good show in a medium sized ballroom in the student union. The show was general admission, and my friend and I were standing just a couple of rows from the stage. Again, really good performance, and for having never heard of the band before, I've never forgotten seeing them.

Is that the song you were looking for?

You keep making threads like this, Jackie, and the rest of gen pop won't want you to venture out of SOCN anymore.

Roasted!

Why do you hate guys in lipstick?

Half the time I'm talking about The Cult, I really mean to be talking about The Cure. So there's that.

Mmmmm...do they, tho?

At this point, I just want a Snakes and Arrows or Clockwork Angels themed kufi cap. Is that so hard?

Led Zeppelin - In Through The Out Door