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JesustheDarkLord posted:I'm back with more stupid music poo poo! My wife's aunt asked if she could keep her organ in our studio because the club closed and she had to get it out. fuckin sick
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Mar 28, 2022 19:17
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izagoof posted:oh man, jealous. how heavy is that thing? ~450lbs for the organ and maybe 200 for the speaker, which is a lot of the reason I don't expect it to move anytime soon We fired it up last night and both rotors in the Leslie seemed to work and the organ seems to output properly but I think four of the five tubes are burned and it was too much hum I was also very specifically told which tubes you pull for various overdriven sounds and not to tell the repair guy
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Mar 28, 2022 19:35
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I bet the repair guys are insufferable as hell
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izagoof posted:I bet the repair guys are insufferable as hell Full grognard for sure
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izagoof posted:I bet the repair guys are insufferable as hell Repair guy weirdness tier list S+ Organ Repairmen S Piano Tuners A Band instrument techs, guitar amp techs B Luthiers and orchestral instrument peeps
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Mar 29, 2022 13:01
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All five dulcimer makers and repairers whom I know died so I had to glue my bridge back on myself. The organ guy is retired but apparently is willing to come out for this one.
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My girlfriend is making me a dulcimer with weird details like a wider fretboard for bends. I tried to get her to do a warlock style headstock but I don’t think she’s going for that.
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Techs are all weird because they're all either 'musicians who didn't manage to become pro musicians', or the even weirder subset of 'people who aren't musicians but still want to work with musicians instead of normal adults??'. Nobody voluntarily gets into this industry unless their brain is broken in very specific ways. I'm Type 1, just for info.
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Snowy posted:My girlfriend is making me a dulcimer with weird details like a wider fretboard for bends. I tried to get her to do a warlock style headstock but I don’t think she’s going for that. Hockey stick instead
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the real stupid music poo poo right now is how backlogged my local techs are. im glad they're not at risk of going out of business but last time i went the wait on some simple setup work went from a week or less to like 3 weeks
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My stupidest music poo poo lately is that I had the idea to make a sort of electric guitar version of a dan bau so I could play it with an ebow. Was gonna hack it together with poo poo from the hardware store, etc. For those not familiar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3HUT7KGcVo Then I realized my guitar has a hole for a tremolo bar so I essentially already own one.
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darkwasthenight posted:the even weirder subset of 'people who aren't musicians but still want to work with musicians instead of normal adults??'.
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darkwasthenight posted:Techs are all weird because they're all either 'musicians who didn't manage to become pro musicians', or the even weirder subset of 'people who aren't musicians but still want to work with musicians instead of normal adults??'. Nobody voluntarily gets into this industry unless their brain is broken in very specific ways. I'm reliving the whole thing right now because we're getting the personnel for the band together for the very first time on Saturday. I've gotten my old buddy that I played in the Progressive band back in the 90's on board now, he joined the band this week and the other keyboardist was released. Apart from him everyone I've met on this journey to get back on stage is new to me and some things just don't change. Musicians are weird. There is so much insecurity and ego in everything we do to attempt to assemble a team, actually create a good product, and then scrabble to get some of the limited gigs that are out there. When you look at it up close it does feel bizarre, surreal; in my case because I've been pre-occupied with making a career at the airport for so long that jumping in feet-first like this has been jarring... this process is bringing back a lot of the very specific concerns wanna-be performers have to content with and I'd forgotten about. It's just funny being reminded so immediately how everyone is so tied up in their need to be valued, to be recognized, that it makes us all a little crazier than we already are to begin with. It's not all bad. The good news is most of us are this way because we want to be very good. Or at least better. The material I am learning right now is a treasure trove of great guitar parts. Sure, plenty of garbage too, but even dumb songs sometimes have great, fun guitar hooks. I really hope Saturday goes well. I'm in the woodshed as much as my fingertips can take. I want to kill it, even though I've already got the gig. Three more days, and I still have about five last songs to learn before we move to the next batch. There's not one adult I've met so far I would consider "normal." Normal for a musician, sure.
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That old saying about being in a band being like trying to navigate four simultaneous marriages at once is mostly right, they just forgot to mention that at least two of the other people will have bpd, two will have substance abuse issues, and everyone will have crippling parent based psychological issues.
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a band is just a polycule where you never get laid
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Kingo Ligma posted:That old saying about being in a band being like trying to navigate four simultaneous marriages at once is mostly right, they just forgot to mention that at least two of the other people will have bpd, two will have substance abuse issues, and everyone will have crippling parent based psychological issues.
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Kingo Ligma posted:That old saying about being in a band being like trying to navigate four simultaneous marriages at once is mostly right, Isn't that Fleetwood Mac?
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Dr. Faustus posted:Bro don't doxx plz lol
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Mad Dragon posted:Isn't that Fleetwood Mac? Mister Speaker posted:a band is just a polycule where you never get laid Doesn't check out.
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Encountered what we call a 'fail state' on a valve while filming a demo on my lunch today. Not supposed to look like that. Back to the testing bench! 
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Hell yeah a Squier
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darkwasthenight posted:Encountered what we call a 'fail state' on a valve while filming a demo on my lunch today. Not supposed to look like that. Back to the testing bench! Shouldn't have payed a tritone, went and opened a portal to hell
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darkwasthenight posted:Encountered what we call a 'fail state' on a valve while filming a demo on my lunch today. Not supposed to look like that. Back to the testing bench! Your amp was so despondent over being used for bass solos it decided to apply for work as lighting/pyro.
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OK that's actually pretty dope. I should have known, if there's anyone in the world who can pull off an instrument like that, it's Steve Vai. More than a bit noodly for my tastes (twelve years ago I would have loved every minute of it), I just kind of skimmed the video but it does sound incredible, especially the half-fretless bass. What are some of the more out-there features on the thing? I saw him twiddle a knob at some point that seemed to rapidly cycle the guitar neck through some weird timbres. Doesn't it also have a button called "THE CLIMAXINATOR" or something on it?
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duodenum posted:edit: nm This performance is why I love Steve Vai. It is also the reason why I don't listen to anything other than old DLR band Steve Vai, Flex-able, and Passion. Everything after that is, I am sure, pretty damned great except for the album I will not mention. There are a couple tracks on this one that I actually am strangely attracted to hear again (this one really has grown on me, because I feel like i "get it.") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkrmzVMWlLo It's still very Stupid Music poo poo. We get to have our Steves and eat them, too. I have seen the Hydra performance, I appreciate it, I will probably never watch it again unless I get bored. Your post was fine.
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Heck I can one up duodenum with an even worse opinion: I don't listen to any of the "classical shredders" because even though it's high level guitar skill I'll never have, I find all the noodling boring as hell and forgettable. Steve's hydra performance was neat, but it's a day later and all I remember is a lot of harp hits, and not too much going on with the bass due to the nature of the instrument he's created. I too probably won't watch it ever again.
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I love this thing for the fact that it just exists and looks pretty neat. I'm not into whatever subgenre of elevator music Vai specializes in but I'm pretty impressed he can keep this thing held up by his cock.
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sigher posted:I'm not into whatever subgenre of elevator music Vai specializes in It’s kinda like 80s-90s generic corporate video music. The loving Champs were good at whatever that sound is E- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY4Aimi-lhQ Snowy fucked around with this message at 00:32 on Apr 4, 2022 |
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I don't know how Vai keeps track of what's happening where. I'd have my hands crossed up immediately. He's all over the place on that thing but super fluid movement. Seriously impressive. Seeing live tour footage should be interesting.
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Snowy posted:It’s kinda like 80s-90s generic corporate video music. The loving Champs were good at whatever that sound is Oh this is dope as loving poo poo.
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Snowy posted:It’s kinda like 80s-90s generic corporate video music. The loving Champs were good at whatever that sound is
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I mean, let's face it. Anyone who's followed Vai knew that it would inevitably lead to something like this. (Also, I kind of want to see what MAB could do with this thing.) Clayton Bigsby fucked around with this message at 17:27 on Apr 7, 2022 |
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I'm all about Vai now honestly. I find his music boring and I don't want to listen to it, but the dude himself is a huge nerd, amazing player and just wants to do weird rear end poo poo to entertain himself and others. He needs a Hydra that spits acid (green goo) periodically, while his shoes shoot out fog and light up the stage. gently caress it, dude is awesome, be loving weird, nerdy and crazy.
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Agreed. He's not worth listening to, but he's absolutely living the life I wish I had.
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Steve Vai has made some cool poo poo over the years and keeps at it, I like Steve Vai, like some of his music, really enjoy some of his supergroup performances over the years & he's stayed involved in some way with my dude Devin Townsend which I also think is cool. I could not disagree more that he's not worth listening to, but to each their own.
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