paulo

7 hours ago, Clovis Ramsay said:

I just ran across guitar strings made by Amazon selling for

$6 a pack.  Now who remembers when Wal-Mart started selling strings, electric guitars  and Casio keyboards??  If you don’t then its probably because it only lasted for less than 2 yrs back in the mid 2000’s.  

Musicians, we may be a peculiar type of human but that doesn’t mean we want our tools for creating music to be unspecialized and mediocre garbage from Walmart.  We will always choose convenience to most things in life like hot pockets and Chinese take out, but when it comes to my craft, I will drive as far as I must to a music store!  I will even take off from work, call in sick, or fake my death if It is required of me to get to a music store.  

Music derives from deeply personal feelings within and I just feel “whole” knowing my strings are the perfect size, weight, tone, playability just for me.  That the makers spent time developing the best methods to get the most out of the materials used, cryogenics anyone?  

Amazon getting in on this market is a terrible thing, as for one, it forces the reputable string makers and startups to gradually start cutting corners to maintain profit margins once Amazon increasingly eats away at the market share.  I really do hope they stay out of developing software and computers because a world in permanent  mediocrity just isnt a world worth living for.  

When Rome fell, In came the dark ages so all the bath houses and public facilities running water 2000 years ago stopped flowing.  No one knew how to build and maintain the aquifers.  No more incredible built architecture, no more city apartments, no more rations of bread and meat per month per citizen…..all forgotten and never rediscovered for 1000 years.

welcome to the jungle baby, the Amazon jungle 

Fixed.

Farewell fred, it was nice knowing you.

8 hours ago, Notes_Norton said:

Butthole Surfers

The String Cheese Incident

Dishwalla

The Vibrators

Aņåľ Cùʼnť

 

 

Oh well, there goes the fred.....?

9 hours ago, Bapu said:

@paulo Far more basses than I need? How about drum libraries, orchestral libs,  EQs, Compressors, Reverbs and Delays?

There isn't enough room in the fred to get into that.

I can't believe that you need to ask.

5 hours ago, RobertWS said:

Worst band names ever?

Anthrax.

The Dead Kennedys.

Dumpster Juice.

 

My band once played on the same bill as a band called Dead Pigs Under The Church Floor.

The lead vocalist was a dog.

I kid you not.

5 hours ago, emeraldsoul said:

Ed, here's your next basses...

That's clearly just a thing for someone who has far more basses than they actually need.

You're right. It would be perfect.?

21 minutes ago, Bapu said:

He's a well respected man about town?

Hey, it's just glasses and a beard. I can't do anything about the other stuff..........

7. Break up 2 months later.

8. Form new band with all the same guys in it except the one that nobody really liked.

9. See 1-5.

10. See 7.

11. See 8, then 1-5.

17 hours ago, Notes_Norton said:

Naming a band goes through these phases:

1. Everybody suggests their cleverest or most artistic name, but since everybody thinks their own name is the best, none of them get picked
2. Everyone is hurt that their name didn't get picked, so to keep from getting hurt again, they submit a silly or stupid name, and it doesn't get picked, but since it wasn't soul revealing, it doesn't hurt
3. Somebody suggests something completely non-committal that neither says anything in particular nor offends anybody in particular, so they settle on that.
4. Nobody is really happy with the name, but they are getting a reputation so they can't change it

 

5. Just as you're starting to get less embarrassed actually saying the name that nobody really wanted ( remember kids...democracy means everyone gets what most people didn't want)  somebody suggests changing it again.

6. See 1-5.

13 hours ago, Shane_B. said:

Not one mention of BiaB.

Many moons ago I visited my then favourite retailer of all things musical. Nice guys who knew their stuff. I was still pretty new to the whole DAW thing and what I wanted was a better set of sounds to replace the GM type stuff that I had been using from my keyboard workstation. I had no real idea what was available, so went in search of guidance. Back then, when you bought software it was still physical media. Trying to describe the kind of thing I was looking for I said......basically a band in a box.

Suddenly, It was like the room temperature had dropped about 10 degrees and they looked at me in ways that are hard to describe, but basically imagine the face of parents if you told them that actually their first born and every little thing it does is actually the most boring subject on the planet. It's not a miracle, it's just a baby and not a very nice looking one at that.....

Anyhoo, the atmosphere became less frosty as I further explained what I wanted and eventually an East West library was bought and everyone was happy.

Only later did I discover that there was actually a thing called Band in a Box and came to understand why you should never mention it. 

11 hours ago, Bapu said:

If only.

Hmmm.........needs a goatee...........and some shades.......

When in doubt.......

56 minutes ago, Bapu said:

By the way that was right after I got my haircut that had been last cut on 19 Dec 2019 (yes 2019). 

Bapu '21.....

2 hours ago, 57Gregy said:

Nice collection. Do you have sound examples?

Mostly they go.....bom, bom, bom, bom in Am.

7 hours ago, craigb said:

Gotta laugh at Paulo!

(He thinks you're into S/M Steve! ? )

No, I just thought it was impolite to suggest that he might need the larger size.

12 hours ago, SteveStrummerUK said:

But I'd have only let myself down when I got to 'P'

Which one is the EZ bass?

I'd need to see the options for all the other letters of the alphabet before I could say.

Hands up who thinks Fleer must be really bored today.......

Meanwhile over at Gillette HQ  an important decision has been agreed.......

"Make it a different colour and stick another blade on it."

Hey Celine.......why the long face?

21 hours ago, Bapu said:

Just had a chat whiff Jonbouy

On the smellyphone?

5 minutes ago, InstrEd said:

Should of been Polish Sausage

Polishing your Sausage is not a suitable topic for a forum frequented by 5yr olds.

Please report yourself to the forum police asap.

I can't do it 'cos I'm not a snitch.

15 minutes ago, Doug Rintoul said:

Cue Dire Straits "I want my ESI".

Your nectar for nothing and your squares for free........