Shane_B.

I loved XP. Yes you are right about the re-imaging. It was a pain. I made what they call a slipstream disc. It was an XP install disc with all the latest/final updates plus other utilities. It worked great because you didn't need to spend 3 days downloading and installing updates in the correct order. You could even embed your install key and didn't have to deal with that either. It was all legit. I think you can even do that with the current versions of Windows even from a thumb drive now. XP was very customizable and DOS application friendly. That died once they shelved XP. I really miss it. I hate Win 10 and the whole forced app thing and talk about constant updates. Uhg.

I used XP until Windows 7 came out. I skipped all of the funky dunk in between. A friend of mine used Vista and said he liked it. The only complaint he had was the constant updates but he said he really didn't have any trouble with it. And yes, I recognize that that goes against everything I've ever read about Vista. It's been a while since I did installs on office copier/scan/printer systems but I seem to recall Vista causing extreme install problems causing some people to have to get rid of 5-6 thousand dollar and higher MFP's. Something about the drivers. Something about it forcing you to use 64bit drivers and the hardware manufacturers flipped them the bird iirc. Vista was a nightmare in a lot of ways.

Damn. I was scrolling down reading the post titles and came up with Fart guitars. Scrolled down a little more and ya beat me to it.

I agree about the jigsaw body style. And yeah that kind of veneer finish on an LP or Ibanez hollow body would be awesome. The action on this guitar was the best on any guitar I've ever touched. I don't known if it's due to the zero fret and or headlessness but it was the smoothest neck I've ever wrapped my hands around. That almost sounded creepy. Lol. I'm checking out some Gretsch guitars now. They don't appear to be leftyphobic and have a very nice selection of lefty's.

I stopped at the other guitar store in town yesterday. I'm friends with the guy that works there and he showed me his new guitar he just got on Amazon. It's an Eart Headless GW-2. $327 bucks. Free shipping. The picture doesn't do it justice. It's one of the nicest guitars I've ever seen. It has a natural finish that's beautiful. Real wood. He said he didn't have to do a thing to it. It was perfectly set up from the factory in China. I plinked around on it a little but it was a righty. The best action I've ever felt on any guitar. No noise at all from the pups. Intonation was perfect. Unreal for $327 bux. Tried to order a lefty ... yeah that didn't work out so well. 😞 It's readily available on Amazon.

That was interesting. I use very light distortion on string libraries in the few recordings I've used them in. It seems to make them sit in my mediocre mixes better.

Awesome! I hope it doesn't get taken down before I can watch it. All the various ways I knew of to download from there have been removed the net. If you know of a way that works please let me know. Thanks!!

So I actually just watched this. I've been seeing people post it all over because of the fantastic music in the video. But not being a fan of them at all I passed until now. All I cam say is rather than screw with the easy target of those trying to save others, misguided as they are, grow a pair you little ***** and go do that in front of the house where all the guys wear Acme vests. Yeah ... didn't think so Dave.

I admit nossing. Nossing at allll. Sorry. It's the only thing that came to my feeble mind.

Hope it goes smoother than Ed's bass delivery. I get attached to PCs too. I still have my old 286 with DOS 6.22 and loads of DOS games. Haven't touched it in over a decade but I can't bring myself to get rid of it. Kept my old DAW and plan on making an NAS server out of it if I can find the time.

It goes in my mouth? No wonder it sounded so muffled. I think traditionally the duck bill end goes in the mouth. But I could be mistaken.

My Duduk ... "A Bulgarian folk wind musical instrument. This is a straight flute with whistle orifice."

Lucky you. We're not allowed to purchase or watch it here in the U.S.. I've even tried to download it illegally and they somehow replace parts of the video with other crap or the audio is completely screwed up and out of sync. Not sure why it's like this. I used to rent it on VHS. His company seems to rule with an iron fist. Just restore it and put it out on 4kUHD. You'll make millions. Jeez. I had an all horror channel satellite dish years ago called Voom. It was a service owned by John Carpenter and a couple other horror icons iirc. It was on one of those channels but they got bought out and shut down by Dish Network and they bricked the hard drive so I couldn't watch anything I had recorded. That's when I got rid of Dish and haven't had or missed satellite or cable since. That was 18 + years ago. I can buy an import region 2 dvd for a lot of money then rip it and remove the copy protection then burn it to a US Region 1 dvd or slap it on a thumb drive but it's a pain in the *****. If you like hardcore over the top comedic gore the best it gets. I love the graveyard/priest scene. "I kick ***** for the Lord!" and a few seconds later ... 🔪

Mine is The Hollies version of Sandy. Far better than Bruce's original. imo

Never cared for Bruce and the boys. I've heard most folk from Jersey don't. Probably because of oversaturated airplay ... that continues to this day. I got that way with XM Classic Vinyl for a while. I swear to God if one of their DJs played Riding The Storm Out one more flippin' time someone was gonna get a phone call and/or an email. Omg.

The Franklin Strap capo. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IG0LG76/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_fabc_QBWD7BVTP8J9DBCJZNR1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 My old clamp style is getting grooves and needs to be replaced. Been thinking about these. The single pack is out of stock but the double pack is readily available. I wish someone made a guitar that felt as good at the nut as they do capo'd at the 5th fret. Probably not possible. It's getting harder and harder for me to play without a capo because it hurts my hand too much. I tried to detune to not actually raise the key but it doesn't sound or feel the same.

I was just typing out what Ed said. Good timing. 👍 It's going to be the greatest thing Peter Jackson has done since Braindead (aka Dead Alive in N. America.) 😁 The lawnmower scene is excellent. 👍

Yikes. Just did a search. No thanks. I can wait to see if it drops in price. The one I won't be able to resist no matter what the cost is the upcoming Let It Be movie by Peter Jackson.

I just checked and yes you are right. I found a 3 CD version without the photo/notes book for $25 U.S.. The Deluxe Edition with all the demos and outtakes and book is now $131. I think there is an ultra deluxe version and I know there is a vinyl version but I couldn't find pricing on Amazon for those. $25 is better.

I wonder if they have a lefty version. Hmm.

Marmalade

Little Orphan Anthrax?

Or promoted to management.

Oh! I'm sorry for the confusion. I was referring to Ed. 🤠

$121 U.S.D. for the 50th Anniversary Edition of All Things Must Pass. I think I'll pass. That's absolutely ridiculous. When I was a kid I used to go to the town dump on Sundays to see what cool stuff people chucked. One of the people in town committed suicide and they just dumped all the stuff from his apartment right at the beginning of the dump. I know this because he wrote his name on the albums. A common thing people used to do. I got all the original U.S. releases of all the Beatles albums as well as all their original 45s and a few solo albums. All Things Must Pass was one of them. It was like Christmas and my birthday times a 100. Many years later I lost them all when my basement flooded. I actually cried when it happened. I'd love to get this set. I've heard the remixes on XM and some on Youtube and they did an excellent job. For the first time ever I can understand all the words. It's like they dialed back the 'wall of sound' and made it more of a George Martin sound if that makes sense. But $121 bucks? My Sweet Lord that's a lot of Wah Wah. 😟