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Dustyn McCormick Topeka, Ks USA
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SuperSwingDog, starting the group didn't involve any red tape. Becoming a business does. I've asked myself many times why exactly I want it to become a business. The truth is I want to be able to dedicate all of my time to the paranormal rather than just my out of day job hours. To do that I need to make money doing it so I can support my family. The investigators on my team have the same needs. However, I refuse to charge anyone that wants us to investigate for them. So the money has to come from other sources. The easiest way would be through donations, hence the non-profit thing. The hardest way is through entertainment venues.
Though to be sure it's only hard for me because I approach this with a high standard of integrity. So that makes selling documentaries, books, and lectures a little bit harder because it shows how boring this actually is. The investigative process is exceptionally boring and it's only exciting when you find something. Well we don't always find stuff. So we could fake like the groups with reality shows and some other famous paranormal people. Or we stay true to ourselves and go the hard road.
As for stories I've got a few that I can share. My favorite is from Fredericksberg Virginia. We went there a few years ago for a convention and got a chance to investigate the Civil War battle field. It was an intense experience. Inside of a house on the field I stood to the side of a doorway generally just watching everyone and got a sudden pain in my back like someone had hit me with a seldge hammer or something. I reached back to rub my back and my fingers rubbed against a bullet hole in the wall. I moved one of my other people in front of it without telling her anything and she had the same experience.
Outside on the battle site we could hear drum cadences, gun fire, and yelling. You could also smell smoke, and what I call death. A sickly sweet smell that is really rather nauseating.
We shouldn't have had any of these smells as it was pouring rain and there was no wind moving. All of that is what we would call a residual haunting. Just something that replays due to the intense emotions of the event.
I'm quickly running out of room but I have lots of other stories. Hybes, we'll be in Oklahoma sometime this summer. I don't remember the name of the town though. I have to get back into contact with the person setting it up.
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El Nicko
Nick Christuchurch, New Zealand Plays: Guitar (26 years)
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"oh ya not really a marley fan, bob dylan,jimi hendrix etc!!! i know most people are!! i really grew up on Guns and roses i loved slash!! then i heard about joe and ive always been into guitar..."
I have to agree to that; a lot of people think I'm nuts for being a guitarist who does not idolise Hendrix, but I've built up a li'l concept for my argument.
I see famous guitarists in generations; Hendrix, Clapton and Beck (and loads others who I forgot or havn't heard of) I label as being 1st generation (rock) guitarists who developed their own unique and signature sounds with the guitaro. Satchy, Vai, Petrucci, Johnson, Gilbert (etc) I see as second generation guitarists, who were influenced heavily by 1st generation guitarists and used that influence to develope their own unique sound. I aspire to become a 3rd gen. guitarist, drawing most of my inspiration from 2nd gen (most specifically Satchy) guitarists to develope my own style and sound. I use this theory to draw influences and expand my own technique. It's a tad silly, but it's all just for fun, haha!
That said, I don't only enjoy 2nd gen. guitarists, I also really like Clapton, and I respect Hendrix, but I don't like Hendrix enough to go out and actively listen to his music.
I better get down to work if I wanna be a 3rd gen. Haha!
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Master Yoda
Neil Morgan York, North Yorkshire England Plays: Guitar (30 years)
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Slanshroom - Well, I got married back in April and then in September moved house, pretty much from one end of the country to the other!!! Working as a peripatetic guitar teacher in schools across Yorkshire now. How are you?
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Tue Mar 3 '09 1:25:33 pm
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Blue_Moon
Alan McKenna Dublin Ireland Plays: Guitar (23 years)
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it will help u play in time and keep a nice rhythm, basicly keep stuff in time, sure all a drummer is is keeping the time signature and making it sound good, :D just dont tell them that
get practicin
anyone see that hijack/shooting thing in pakistan? some lunatics attacked a cricket team on a bus with a poice escort, they shot the escort first then attacked the bus, mad shit
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Tue Mar 3 '09 3:34:17 pm
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Blue_Moon
Alan McKenna Dublin Ireland Plays: Guitar (23 years)
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dont forget the popcorn
does the palce put butter on the pocorn? cause lots of places stopped doing it here since everyone went mad getting tons of it on the stuff, but it was so nice..
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Tue Mar 3 '09 3:41:10 pm
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wolf2
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...hey ,thirs my vitamin,s ! SO GOOOOOODDDDDDD! MY VITAMINS love me ,love me teneder love me true! their the ones in the box that say ex lax ,beside yours and mine schizophrenia mediction we all have it goverment conspiarcy nope were natural! oh natural babie all the way except the 4 gorsia yep ize natural too honey you,res later wolfinator.
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Andrew Longhorn iphone app: RooSatch Australia Plays: Guitar (34 years)
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JS10th and JS2:
Guys I hope no-one bid on that JS10th (501) that was on ebay, I have a feeling it was a scam, I asked for escrow and didn't get a response so I didn't bid.
Also, there's one under the title JS2PRM on at the moment for $37,000 - the facts on the page are quite incorrect. I don't think anyone here would pay that much for that guitar. It is potentially collectable, but not for that much I recon.
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cosmic_ape
Aron Ortega Plays: Guitar (25 years)
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so Al, any news on the lefty RG2550Z yet??? have you called any of those stores to see if it's true... I haven't seen that confirmed anywhere else...
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Tue Mar 3 '09 5:23:30 pm
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Blue_Moon
Alan McKenna Dublin Ireland Plays: Guitar (23 years)
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nope no word, i bet its a mistake anyways, no way ibanez would do that!
sa250 for me please.... im very impressed with my perfected tone and pedalboard so much better cleaner and neater, perfect tones with my strat, loving it, cant wait to jam tomo with it
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GoldenGirl2
Millicent Moritz Santa Clara, California USA Plays: Guitar (15 years)
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Al McKenna--Don't be daft and please read my posts! If yeh don't I'm comin' over there and kick yer butt!
Maritime--I hope you don't fall out of yer chair when I tell you this--I just got that book about Holland by Marc Resch that you recommended. Looks like a great read!
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Dream 3
jamie anderson melbourne, victoria australia Plays: Guitar
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Al - Mc Smartnuts i actually meant that bend sorry for being 2 secs out but forgive me for not watching the blank screen as i listened to it like a normal sad lost person i guess would do but by the time i looked at the song it was on 3-06 so i put ish on the end lol deal with it :)
Sad guitar happy - G3 did tour Australia in december 06 it was the 3 i mentioned Joe Satriani , Steve Vai and John Petrucci and as for where you were i don't have a clue but you missed 2 Awesome Awesome nights they played at the Regent Theatre the 2nd and 3rd i went both nights Platinum package best $700 i have ever spent and they also had an instore signing at Allans music in Bourke st where got to meet all 3 of em and get 1 item signed was AWESOME ..
Js1200 - Thoughts and prayers with ya friends little Bro buddy Oz Eh !!!
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slanshroom
roy marchbank Scotland, Barcelona Spain Plays: Guitar (51 years)
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Master Yoda:Wow congrats bro big changes all round, great t hear yer makin coin from teaching geetar 2! Busy days here, unfortunately one of the 15% & rising unemployed in Spain but its worked out pretty good as me n the missis now have a 15 month old boy n as y may know that comes with constant colds n flu from kiddy picking up virus from the creche bringin it home n well everyone gets it so i,d have been screwed t work in construction anyway with min strength.I knew the economy here was in a bad way b4 this crisis took hold from watching so many let go at work so took the opertunicity t go back t college n train t be a sparky, passed my diploma & currently sifting my way through the troves of people lined up at the jobcentre, nearly another 170,000 lost work last month alone! for the size of Spain that is a LOT o peep
On a major learning curve with my 2nd cd, apart from a decent recording setup and various software t fathom, thinking like other musicians is a bit odd in midiland especially if yer a guitarist, programming drum & orchestral parts is a real-time sponge so i,ve promised myself should there be a 3rd cd in the future it will be live, bollox t this mouse click death
btw have y heard from Clarky recently?
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Ben Kenobi Australia Plays: Drums (30 years)
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Clarky is the one responsible for me gaining music theory knowledge. It's been really good because I've played in a jazz band since and has really helped a lot with understanding and inventing.
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sad guitar happy
melbourne, victoria australia Plays: Guitar (39 years)
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dream3,oh yeah man,you dreamt a reality,.i sort of slipped outa the rock lead guitar scene,gee about 12 yrs ago,it was my passion until i became daddy, n sorta slowed on the guitaring(is that aword)....i went to joes concert last year with my son,hes now 16, at the forum 12/08...oh yes brother.... im back,..and with junior!.
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wolf2
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.... hey their,s this story I have been following on the new,s on the radio hey joe yeah around the same time the new rambo movie was coming out this chinese guy was on a greyhound bus right man pulled out a hunting knife and cut someones head off now,his own lawyer asked for an asessment they found him ncr schizophrenia right let me tell you they want his sentence in a psycahirtic hospital hes trying to plead the mental health act right the guys mother like the parents of the dead and the crown attorney want him in jail whic they cant do if he,s ncr but buddy pleading the mental health act he said god told him to do it to cut the guys head off pleading the mental health act isnot realy the way to go im sure hes talking to his lawyer going you know i will die in prison cant go to jail things like this you should never go for an asessment unless the D.A send syou not your own lawyer certain charges get asessments if you need one like brother everytime i need an asessment i break the law condionatly with ground for a da verified asessment and am always fit never ncr well this dud must be weak to man because over 51% of a foresnic psychatric asessemnt is measuered by strengththis guy must be scared for his life worried hes gonna die in jail their pushing for prison even though he is ncr whic is aginst the law he might go jail weak and afraid of dying buddy i know ive been for a coule asessment occasionaly someone plead the mental health act for a murder they get found ncr, you know it,s cush comfortable and you can smoke to me buddy this guy dont make no sense he should have pased the asessment and did time and went to a high crime prison where the smart guys go not the worse the n psychatric offender medium and minimum secirutity but thie dud would be in a weak prison if he cant pass an asessment you get fuck all for food either way though like for meals budd prison is fuck all let me tell you i got stabbed and assaulted their was a 3 guard walk i grabbed all 3 correctional officers i said you know they tried to fuck me up now im fucking you up and plastered all 3 of their bodys allowver the wall waietd went to seg never ratted anyone out plus i killed the 4 correctional officers i went in to kill fgor stealing off me im always fit brother thid dude plaeding mental health like i say weak and scared later wolf2.
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Blue_Moon
Alan McKenna Dublin Ireland Plays: Guitar (23 years)
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Your posts slightly scare me gg2 i read em but ive no idea what to say back to em ya eejit
and the sa isnt here yet, shud be in a 2 weeks, i really wana jus crank my amp n jam, with my revamped sound, kinda reminds me of the crystal planet tones
i got my song vantage point mastered there in a hd suite, shud get it in a bit... and roy ill be in ur country at the end of march for 5 days usual place
i shud get the train up to barca for fun
+ theres a cool bend in mx at 3.06 too! ...its my world time
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slanshroom
roy marchbank Scotland, Barcelona Spain Plays: Guitar (51 years)
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scubadaz:open tune yer geetar low -high DADGAD 1st finger 2nd fret 3rd string DMAJ fuck around from there, the hours will fly & or stick a screwdriver under the strings on the 2nd fret t give a high action tune low t high DADF#AD n play some blues bottleneck, if y dont have one smash a bottle
Al:Y gotta get t Barca n see the sites sham
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Blue_Moon
Alan McKenna Dublin Ireland Plays: Guitar (23 years)
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The only sight I wana see in Barcelona is you Roy
Oh Yes.
and i don't smoke, ive no idea how that cigar came about the weekend! it was mad, i shud probably stope xplaining my escapades on the weekends here! ..ah well, i kinda treat this as an online blog, i cant keep a physical diary due to lazyness, so this will do! + heart attacks are not good, get well soon
since u got ur guitar in dadgad, learn Ej's a song for george
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