Pretty much anything that reaches a critical mass now gets manipulated. Web 2.0 saw to that.

Oh, highly recommended! I didn’t realize you were asking for yourself. If I’m looking at it right you’re probably looking at a couple of hours work for your first time (that includes time rewatching a video of someone else doing it to make sure you’ve got it right). Someone that’s done it a few times could probably knock it out in under half an hour if they don’t want to change the strings. I’m pretty careful with my work so the last time I did a swap it probably took me 45 minutes from grabbing my tool bag to tightening the strings back up.

It’s not difficult if you can solder. I’ve replaced several pickups over the years. But I’ve got a hundred other projects. So it never made it to the top.

They left out the good shit. The Apocalypse of Peter preaching universal salvation and the Enoch books with all the cool stuff in them.

I’d have to go look but I think that was in the gospel of Philip. Apocryphal, but interesting.

Same, bud. My drum stuff is super basic. My bass stuff is too busy. And I’m a mediocre guitarist. But I’m having a blast doing it!

I also use Superior Drummer with an electronic kit as well. That Tama is cool!

But! A lot of times I’ll use my edrum kit but mic up a real snare. I’ve got a Mapex tomahawk snare that I’m in love with. I put a contact on it so I can get something for the SD overheads, but I record it dry as shit with a 57 then pop it in Sound City Studios and goddamn it sounds amazing. Like that is what a snare is supposed to sound like to me.

I know the tomahawk isn’t what people think of when they’re recording drums unless that’s all they have, but there’s something about it reamped in Sound City with another steel shell in the OH is just what it’s supposed to be to my ears.

Absolutely. That’s why I like the idea behind the Strat-o-Sonic so much. I’ve got an extra fat strat running around and for about $80 I could at least give it a shot for a while.

I mean we’re (we as in local taxpayers, not me personally in this case) already paying for the infrastructure they use in increased bills. We’re paying for their tax holidays while they’re talking about all the new jobs they’ll bring (lots of short term construction, 25-50 long term employees once the tax holiday runs out, so very little money in the local economy). We (all of us) are paying the price for the mothballed coal plants that are coming back online to support them. We are paying for federal government contracts on them.

It’s corporate welfare all the way down.

I’ve been deciding between a Les Paul with P90s, this one, and the Squier Strat-o-Sonic. Then I think I’ve got plenty of guitars and should just drop one of the humbucker sized P90s in one of the fat strats. Then I give up.

I hope you’re loving it! Play it for me!

I completely forgot about that shit.

Bellville is an hour west of Houston in a town of 5000. Houston has several very large venues that could host festivals. Either it was so poorly planned that they didn’t get any of them on time, the attendance is expected to be so low that the venues wouldn’t deal with them, or they’re trying to stay out of the mainstream spotlight because they’re embarrassed about something.

It’s still close enough that people from Houston, especially on the west side, could easily go, but there’s got to be a reason they went an hour west instead of up in The Woodlands at Cynthia Woods or right in the middle of everything at Toyota or even a smaller place like White Oak Music Hall.

It is important. Extreme austerity kills the soul. We couldn’t afford an envelope haha.

I think the worst one, worse than electricity getting cut off (we had well water so at least we could go manually pump), worse than half a bar s bologna sandwich every day for a while, was the time my dad got a decent check but we didn’t have the money to get gas to go cash it. We had to live on beans (who has two thumbs and nearly shits himself inside out every time he eats more than a spoonful of beans? This guy) for two days while we waited for a family member to get back in town to lend dad a few bucks to get gas to drive into town.

I guess my point was that I had no idea how to budget because the only thing I ever saw was survival, not real budgeting. But then I got lost in an ADHD trip down memory lane.

Most notable in gaming, no question. You’ve also got Yamaha (probably the most diverse) making guitars, motorcycles, wheelchairs, electric surfboards, air conditioners, and about a hundred other things. Nokia made rubber boots or some shit before making an indestructible phone.

But I think the most notable is a Korean company, Samsung. Semiconductors, phones, TVs, and other related electronics. Also sentry guns. Also the Burj Khalifa. Also, a theme park (Everland).

I guess to your point, not just Japanese but they do seem to have a greater tendency.

I grew up so poor that there was no such thing as a budget. It was just prioritizing what was necessary for survival and if anything was left over you spent it immediately because it was getting taken one way or another. The math class where they taught us to budget in school was only for people who weren’t very good at math. And that’s why I didn’t learn how to budget until I was almost 30.

I haven’t stolen a street sign in about three decades but I’ll admit I’d seriously consider taking this one.

You must be a sys admin. I used to be and that was my first instinct.

“Give me the fantasy villain trust-fund baby look.”

“I got you, fam”

I would assume that the texture of the onion is part of the appeal. So if you grill it you’ve got to either toast the bread or add a few chips to get that crunch.

I mean, yeah.

However, in this particular case I think the CEO was running this as a pump and dump for nearly a decade, claiming to be fully funded and having no board (because he claimed it was self funded), and giving himself massive raises year over year.

So a private equity firm bought something hollow. I have some guesses about it. Probably a friend of his, probably got it cheap, and is about to gut whatever is left now that the guy who did own it got out with what he could. Why would PE buy it otherwise? There’s no goodwill or name to cash in on like what’s being done with Native Instruments.