burly
Steve Johnson Pocahontas, Arkansas U.S. Plays: Guitar (47 years)
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Randel- Just got my Digitech Jam Man . bought it from Dave Weiner ( off his web sale). It's cool. It really is helping me already on improvising. It's been years since I played guitar with accompaniment.( being a drummer) You will love your Jam looper...
Weekend almost over. Looks like dry weather is coming for me..Later!!
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Sun Apr 19 '09 3:44:24 pm
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craig North Lambton/Newcastle, NSW Australia Plays: Guitar (54 years)
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GoldenGirl2:-
Milli,I'm convinced the phrase"I'm never drinking again" is our young Mr McKenna's ritual mantra.Hell, it was MY favourite when i was that age too,come to think of it!
Hey Al,drink up,brother.Sooner or later you'll be just like me...Oh! Hang on a minute.That's becoming too scary! Lol!!!
C'MON AUSSIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Sun Apr 19 '09 4:09:33 pm
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Sapanaro
Debra Sapanaro Mooresville, NC USA Plays: Vocals (52 years)
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Hey Joe- I saw you play your harmonica with a hands free harmonica holder. It looked like it was attached to your microphone stand. Where did you find that and where can I get one? I have been looking everywhere. It's tough playing bass and harmonica at the same time. The over the shoulder holders just don't cut it. Any info. would be greatly appreciated from anyone! Thanks!!!
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Sun Apr 19 '09 4:24:33 pm
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cosmic_ape
Aron Ortega Plays: Guitar (25 years)
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Sapanaro, welcome to the forum! If you look closely, it seems that JOE has a little device that holds the harmonica, but the gizmo itself is attached to the mic with tape... It looks like it's something either JOE or his tech MacGyvered... I had the exact same question years ago and I never got an answer...
Perhaps this is an alternative you might be interested in... Or you can buy the regular neck holder from Jim Dunlop, that one looks easier to disassemble and maybe "tweak" to get it to fit around a microphone...
...just a thought...
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Sun Apr 19 '09 5:05:28 pm
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GoldenGirl2
Millicent Moritz Santa Clara, California USA Plays: Guitar (15 years)
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Michelle--I'm lmao from watching that Beerfest clip! Ya sure know how to find great links to the funny stuff!
Alan McKenna---Ya know I'm yankin' yer chain! Shadap, yerself! Some of those Irish "laws" were meant to be set aside for us luni folk! !;-P
gtg catch ya laters....
GG2
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Sun Apr 19 '09 6:46:50 pm
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burly
Steve Johnson Pocahontas, Arkansas U.S. Plays: Guitar (47 years)
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I'm for the old bamboo straws under the fingernails torture for writers of computer viruses. My laptop is sick...I'm trying to use that one for recording with little luck or should I say no luck...Moving back upstairs tomorrow to the trusty ol' desktop.
Is it really true that MAC has very little problems with viruses?..I am a pretty calm guy for the most part, but I think I need to sleep and let my blood pressure subside,...I could scream...This virus is a doozie. It takes over the administrator profile and will not let me log on. Of course it wont let me update virus software from the other profiles...Smart little virus it is. So now I think it has left the door open for others to come in. I understand that you need to remove the hard drive and connect to another computer as an external drive to clean it.
Well enough with my problems..sorry.. But watch out for this virus. Have a great week folks.
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Sun Apr 19 '09 8:19:40 pm
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Blue_Moon
Alan McKenna Dublin Ireland Plays: Guitar (23 years)
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download malwarebytes and avg free, that will clean your system up, dont bother with norton, although norton 2009 has sorted itself out, but norton antivirus is bollocks, mcaffee are alrite now, but avg and malwarebytes free simple reliable software that will clean my problems up, and macs are much more reliable than windows, and less subseptable to virus's yes, but with more and mroe people using macs now, you never know, but genereally yea you have the right idea
and external hard drives are the best for recording, wave files and get to be ridiculous file sizes and if u have ur music u can always transport to the studio easier with a simple hard drive, make sure its fast 7200rpm and firewire 2... 800mbps transfare is beter than usbs 400 and something i forget which type of hardrive storage is the best... google the different formats
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Sun Apr 19 '09 8:22:14 pm
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satchblues
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Do The Stu - I just started listening to Oz Noy a few days ago. I got 2 albums - "Fuzzy" and "Ha!". Hard to separate them out right now in my head without listening a few more times. Both have some really cool stuff, plus some stuff that's a little out there. I'm digging it so far, though. I'd say just listen to some previews on Amazon or iTunes and see if any of it grabs you. Bits and pieces of it vaguely remind me of a cross between Charlie Hunter (7 and 8-string jazz guitar player who plays both the guitar and bass parts at the same time! - and he also took lessons from Satch years ago) and Johnny A.
If you like that, Alex Skolnick is another guy I've been listening to lately, even more towards the jazz side of things. He's the guitarist from Testament but he put together a jazz trio which of course sounds nothing like Testament. It's actually pretty amazing how he can play such a totally different style and does it so well.
Oh and on the subject of recommendations, I have to mention GHS - Frank Gambale, Stu Hamm, and Steve Smith. You may already know about this one, given your nickname. ;) They did 3 albums together of fusion/jazz type stuff. Really great stuff.
Guess I've been on a jazz and fusion kick lately! Of course, Chickenfoot's gonna bring me right back in to some good old rock and roll. ;)
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Mon Apr 20 '09 12:37:47 am
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Do The Stu
Austin Lewis, III Costa Mesa, CA United States Plays: Bass (25 years)
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I just finished my last shift at work. My job is moving to an office in West Covina (aka the Middle of Nowhere), where I would have been required to do work for nine newspapers instead of two, and I decided not to move with it. I've known about the move for about 4 months and decided I wouldn't be going about 2 months ago, so I'm feeling OK. I have a bit of money saved up and I got a small severance package, so I'll get be able to get by for at least a few months.
It feels good to get out, to be honest...I don't know that I've ever complained about that job here, but it's really a horrible and unfortunate situation.
Anyway, I'm not looking for pity or anything like that...I just wanted to share this. And yes, I'll still be going to CHICKENFOOT!!! :-)
scubadaz - I don't know too much by the Cult, but I love what I've heard. I stop by their section whenever I'm in a good CD store, but I haven't bought anything yet. I see they have a lot of those "instant live" releases that look interesting. I'll probably start with Love as my first album, though.
I think we have similar Van Halen tastes...that's good. ;-) I take it you don't have OU812, though? The production on that album isn't the best (as far as VH is concerned) but there's some great music there. You've heard a few songs on the BOBW compilation, but I really like some tracks that didn't make it...Mine All Mine is a great keyboard-driven piece (like Jump but much more interesting and with a faster tempo), and A.F.U. (Naturally Wired) and Source Of Infection are also neat.
elpp - Cool...I'd love to see that Crowd Chant video. I think there's an NHL team that uses it whenever they score a goal (the Phoenix Coyotes, maybe?
pepepersini - Very cool video...thanks for sharing.
burly - Yes, Macs generally don't have virus problems. It's not really true that the computers are built to be immune to them, it's just that Apple has such a small market share that the people who make viruses don't bother making them for Macs. They can infect more PCs.
And I see that Al just said something similar, but I've already typed this so I'm going to leave it. ;-)
satchblues - Thanks for the recommendations...I'll check out some Amazon clips and get back to you. And I'm somewhat familiar with Alex Skolnick...he's another name on the ever growing list of musicians I need to check out.
And you're right about GHS...I like them A LOT. I got the first two albums shortly after I saw Satch live for the first time (with Stuuu).
Astral Traveler is my favorite song of theirs...I love Stu's bass solo there. I really like all their music, though. I've been listening to their first album a lot lately, and Lydia's Love Van is a current favorite. What are some of your GHS favorites?
And getting back to another artist you mentioned...I'm sure you know of and have Eric Johnson's stuff with the Electromagnets? More jazz fusion for you...
Listening to: Joe Satriani - Surfing With The Alien (current song: Lords Of Karma)
...Austin...
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Mon Apr 20 '09 12:59:28 am
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aussiefudd
Big Bad Wah-bit swayer New Lambton, NSW Australia Plays: Guitar (39 years)
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I slapped together a pedal board today. Used some shelves out of the wall unit. It was easier than I thought. Thanks to fatape for the jigsaw, and no, it went nowhere near my guitars. I'll make a fancy one next time, with proper equipment and have all the cables hidden and stuff. Yes stuff, definitely stuff...
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Mon Apr 20 '09 1:29:27 am
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slanshroom
roy marchbank Scotland, Barcelona Spain Plays: Guitar (51 years)
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Well i just loaded the YJM strat with a set o texas specials n guage 13,s.... was surprised how hot these puppys were so sat em flush with the scratchplate about an inch away from the strings & the pickups opened up.... just WOW fingerlickin SRV tone, that red rec has never been so lit
Ozzy_Fudd:nice lil setup bud but b4 y do anything buy some decent 1/4 pedal jacks n guitar leads ffs y just gone n royaly fucked up yer tone with those nasty plastic pedal connections.Velcro is a pain, apart pickin up every dust mite in town yer goin t eventually strip the spec info off the arse o yer pedals if you care t place them in a different order, best idea t stop em movin is super glue in a small square stick either side of the pedal so its tight n snug with a piece o cloth on the inside t stop it gettin scratched if yer heavy footed screw em in place
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Mon Apr 20 '09 3:57:45 am
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burly
Steve Johnson Pocahontas, Arkansas U.S. Plays: Guitar (47 years)
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Alan- Thanks for the info.I'll have to remove the hard drive from the infected laptop and connect to this one with a special cable and use the software you recommended to clean it up.
Scuba-Using the desktop, just hope I don't get it on this computer. I am using Avast but I thing this happened in the time that my McAfee had expired.
Slansh- I had my strat fitted with 013s a few years back. Huge difference in tone, but rough on the fingers over time. I had Carpal Tunnel Release done 10 years ago (glad I did) but during the year to year and a half recovery, I had to ditch the heavy gauge strings...Now I have early stages of rheumatoid arthritis in the middle fingers.So it's 009s all the way.
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Satriella
Satriella Walker Sudbury, Suffolk United Kingdom
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Hi Joe...well good to see some blue and to know you are over here in europe.
Congratulations on the MIPA Award...er.....what does MIPA stand for?
GG2 and Do the Stu - Thanks mates....I think the break up may be off now...emotions are still all over the place...we have made up...but something still feels missing....so its kinda up in the air.
Pip Satrini - As above really....I wrote that on the day that it happened....very high emotions....thought that would be it....but there is another chance on the horizon.
How many "another chances" is the right amount though....
Do the Stu - Great Sammy Hagar Interview...I think he is in love with Joe LOL....Hope when you get a new job, its one you like this time.....and well you gotta still go to Chickenfoot LOL
Burly - Did the amps go to 11 LOL
Ozzyfudd - Enjoy your time off!
Hugs to all Satriella xx
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Mon Apr 20 '09 5:10:42 am
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aussiefudd
Big Bad Wah-bit swayer New Lambton, NSW Australia Plays: Guitar (39 years)
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Thanks for the comments on the pedal board. It is by no means a finished product, I was just trying a few idea's before the real deal. I was thinking Velcro, then just came across this method (bottom of page). I'll have a hunt around to see if I can find these little brackets. As for the jacks, they will be upgraded in due course.
Satriella- I actually got called in to today. The National Boss wanted a copy of a file I'd created. So I ducked in for 10 minutes to send an E Mail. Their lucky I had to drive past to go the music shop.
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Mon Apr 20 '09 5:12:42 am
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slanshroom
roy marchbank Scotland, Barcelona Spain Plays: Guitar (51 years)
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burly:I,ve it tuned down a tone n 1/2 t C# with a reasonably low action so zero hand stress, totaly understand where your comin from tho matey, thats well nasty
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Mon Apr 20 '09 5:14:28 am
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GoldenGirl2
Millicent Moritz Santa Clara, California USA Plays: Guitar (15 years)
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Mornin' uncle roy!
Hiya Guitarvibes--Thanks for the great news about the Dutch forces freeing captives and taking all the weapons away from the pirates! Yeah! The Dutch think things through and act fast! Yeeesss! Common sense rules!
Satchblues--Alex Skolnick....there's a name I haven't heard in awhile. I think he collaborated with Carlos Santana back in the mid-1970s when Carlos was into jazz sessions and recordings. Gaud, I love the instrumental "Europa". I imagine Joe could do a sizzling cover of that one if he wanted to. I enjoy listening to jazz and fusion as well.
Gotta face a tough day today---doctor appointments with my Steve. News of a friend from Santa Cruz hurts! He will be layed off from his tech writing job next month...So sad because he is such a dedicated, honest and hard worker AND he was barely with the company for one year! The company he works for is closing up their nearby ops and moving to either Arizona or Texas. Of course, he doesn't want to relocate because Santa Cruz is so in his heart--a first love! How many more stories like this are to be told before employers tough things out in their present locations and just ride with the financial tide along with the rest of us. I thought we were all in this together.....so damn sad.....we all need each others love, respect and moral support.....what could be more important??????! ;-/ I ask too many questions?
GoldenGirl2
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Mon Apr 20 '09 6:35:38 am
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Blue_Moon
Alan McKenna Dublin Ireland Plays: Guitar (23 years)
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Joe will play satch boogie anyways, im mroe interested in what RHCP song will be done, hagar singing RHCP would be something different
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Mon Apr 20 '09 8:09:00 am
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