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Hey now...leave us drummers alone...

...but I too signed up months ago and never go the email either.

The site does seem a little dodgy. I imagine they may have lost funding to get this off the ground completely.

I highly recommend the 72 Custom Telecaster:

http://www.fender.com/products/search.p ... 0137502306

I bought mine about 5 years ago - great feel and a variety of sounds.

You can get them for about 700 bucks these days...

Best Alex Chilton story ever. Read and see about halfway down...he shuts Gibby down cold...

Brain Detox Friday: The Butthole Surfers, Nick Cave, Alex Chilton, and four-way acid tabs : Tynan's.

When I heard the news, I went straight to the studio and recorded a version of Thirteen. For some reason I also videoed myself tracking vocals and put the whole thing up on youtube. The recording and such took a little more than an hour. Watch it now before I become too embarrassed and take it down...

Our guitar player (Joe Jack Talcum - Dead Milkmen) used one for many years in the late 80's/early 90's. He has the rotary switch / Bill Lawrence model (Joe still owns it). Great guitar! He also played (and now is back to) playing SG's.

So, I've recently decided that it might be a good idea to put out a number of releases on cassette. I'd like to sidestep the discussion about whether the format is still viable... uh...who exactly still buys cassettes? I don't think you can sidestep the point. I don't know anyone who buys/uses cass...

Probably above your price limit but the DW Fearn VT-7 falls into the "stupid crazy amazing" catagory:

http://www.dwfearn.com/vt-7_compressor.html

I have the extreme good luck of having access to one when I need it.

I just hope that it won't be bought by some wealthy individual or corporation and turned into a "Beatles Museum" or something like that...

I hope it remains a recording studio...at least long enough for me to record there someday! :D

Thanks for the link - that was really nice. Love the "drum line"!

Here is a review of the device from last year:

http://recordinghacks.com/2009/03/16/kickport-review/

the finger genius wrote:your avatar is freaking me out. big time.

Me too - so in Firefox you can right click on it and block images from that location...

An Orange Micro Crush:

Hey Chris - years ago I saw Lets Active and they did a rocking version of "Classical Gas". Does Mitch still pull that one out sometimes?

cgarges wrote:"In The Court of The Crimson King." Mitch Easter's band is learning it for two shows in NC next week. Mitch is actually going to be playing Chamberlain on it!

Wow! That's cool!

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I've been listening to "Wilco (the album)".
Also St. Vincent's "Actor"

Both of these are favorites from 2009.

C?leste Boursier-Mougenot French artist C?leste Boursier-Mougenot creates works by drawing on the rhythms of daily life to produce sound in unexpected ways. For his installation in The Curve, Boursier-Mougenot creates a walk-though aviary for a flock of zebra finches, furnished with electric guitar...