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LSP said:
Describe, thoroughly, your love for Paula Marshal.

Also: Paula Marshall or Marshall amps?
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man, i just think she has a very natural pretty face and a smokin body and a sassy attitude ... just gotta love a gal over 40 who still has it goin' on ... total MILF action in full effect ... she has a total vibe of the kinda woman you just might see at the bus stop when you are pickin up your kid some time .. and then will suddenly cause you to volunteer to do pickup every day for a few weeks, especially in warm weather

and i do not think she has ever been in a program that i would have willingly watched if she was not in it .. and alas, i have not seen the nude scene in californication .. the fact taht it ends in vomit is enough for me not to seek it out ... i think ....

i've never played paula marshall and i've only played a marshall amp once, so i will have to err on the side of a potential new experience :D
 
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Okay, I hope this doesn't fry all the forum circuits and cause a total meltdown (ala the Scott_F forum deletion), but I'm going to step completely out of character and ask a serious question (Run to the HILLS!):

To what do you attribute your exceptional ability to ask the right questions and immediately get right to the heart of nearly ANY forum brother's issue AND provide useful advice?

Is it your management experience? Life experience? Spiritual experience? Or a combination thereof?
 
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LesStrat said:
To what do you attribute your exceptional ability to ask the right questions and immediately get right to the heart of nearly ANY forum brother's issue AND provide useful advice?

Is it your management experience? Life experience? Spiritual experience? Or a combination thereof?
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goodness gracious .. that's quite a compliment, there stephen ... thank you, but i have to admit that i am not sure i deserve credit for that much insight or usefulness ... i just try to call em as i see em ...

i've been a questioner all my life ... drove my parents batpoop crazy when i was a wee one, and later my teachers ... i took to heart the notion that there are no dumb questions 'cept the unasked ones ... my engineering training taught me to do it too ... it seems to me a normal starting point to get all the 'knowns' onto the table before exploring a path into the unknown ... also, questions about the true nature of the destination seem important to try to nail down (if we don't care where we end up, it matters little which way we travel, right?) ... and i think i have a tendency to start at first principles in building up to a desired endpoint .. too many times i have observed that folks build up a grand strategy only to fail when some initial assumption (usually unspoken) was wildly misaccounted for) ...

in my own life, i have certainly come to learn that many of my biggest regrets/mistakes/disasters/etc all can be traced to a failure to get the starting conditions right ... and usually, it was the thing staring me right in the face that i had personal psycho-emotional blinders to ... so when i ask a forum bro those kinds of questions, it is intended to help them take their blinders off, if any ... especially all the problems i had in my teen years ... hard earned wisdom is the sweetest to try to pass on...

alot of the advice i try to give (as well as try to live up to myself) is of the wwjd variety ... i try to think of the absolute most selfless, loving, compassionate, peace spreading, misery ending thing to do, then find a way to make it seam realistic in the conditions as presented by the guy looking for advice ... even if the guy cant quite make his way to pull it off, i think it at least helps them find the star to stear by ... its at least in the right direction ...

management experience is kinda funny cus everything tends to effect everything else ... men plan, god giggles, right? .... and as technical as we all try to be, humans are in the equation and the standard deviation on the wetware is pretty huge ... so mgmt experience has taught me to keep the end point in mind, understand the resources that you can control and can hope to influence, then ask the smart people how to order them so as to get as close as possible to the endpoint .... memorizing the Agincourt speech from Henry the Vth has helped once or twice too :D

so yeah, its a combination of nature and nurture, education and experience, thought and spirit, right and left brain .. and liberally applied belly laughs

your compliment is quite kind, but honestly, i think that just about all the guys on here in their 40s and above have a lot of the same shared experiences and just as good advice as me ... you yourself have hit many nails spot on the head in this regard ... i like reading viewpoints of other guys - younger or older - to help broaden my understanding .. and i am always grateful for the advice i receive from my bros on the forum

t4d
 
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Where do you stand on the issue of pantaloons?

Tobacco or Cherry burst?

What three things do you take most seriously?

Thing the world needs most?

Your best "chics dig it" move?

Favorite disco song?

Pizza toppings of preference?

Favorite quote of all time?
 
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Where do you stand on the issue of pantaloons?
i am all for anything that leads to them ending up, damp, in a pile next to the bed

Tobacco or Cherry burst?
cherry - 60%-40%

What three things do you take most seriously?
relationships, integrity, education

Thing the world needs most?
peace

Your best "chics dig it" move?
make em laugh

Favorite disco song?
Chic's "Le Freak"

Pizza toppings of preference?
sausage and onions

Favorite quote of all time?
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. - lao tzu
 
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Most inspirational personality?
Most dreaded/hated villian?
Greatest ambition?
Biggest nightmare?
 
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Most inspirational personality?
jimmy carter

Most dreaded/hated villain?
the current administration

Greatest ambition?
to become much more healthy/fit

Biggest nightmare?
long protracted painful illness of my sons or my wife ending in death
 
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Ah yes, I've been waiting to ask my regular question to you in particular!

Brief or detailed history of listening preferences, gear preferences, and/or technique changes/revalations?
 
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Hey Bill, are ready to have your brain picked?

Which forum brothers would you most like to jam with?

Formal education or discovery (self learning)?

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are forced to gig with one guitar, one amp and a couple of stompers.......what would your rig be?

You are an NPR listener....What are your favorite shows and if you were one of the Car Talk guys, would you be Tom or Ray? :nana:

I'm with LesStrat on the advice thing, you seem to have a knack.... Do you speak as eloquently as you type?
 
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history of :

listening preferences -
i 'woke up' to music when i finished 5th grade .. before then, i knew pop music and liked it well enough (i wanted to be just like david cassidy of the partridge family cus he played guitars and girls screamed for him), but it was auditory junk food ... after 5th grade we moved to a neighborhood that had a few teenage guys in it who were into music and both played guitar ... one guy was the youngest of a family of large family of kids who had grown up in the 60s ... so they had original vinyl of all the 'classic rock' acts .. i first got hooked by the Beatles and made about 6 or 7 mix tapes of my fav tunes of theirs ... i also discovered KISS - they were my first concert ever and seeing Ace got me hooked on guitar for life ... over the next several years, these older guys got me into deep purple, santana, reo speedwagon, rainbow, led zep, blue oyster cult, dire straits, and others ... on my own, i then got into rush, yes, genesis, kansas, which lasted thru highschool ... it was also around that time that i started to play guitar ... by sr yr of hs i was playing well enough to play in my HS jazz ensemble and i got into pat metheny, and george benson and al dimeola ...

when i went to college, i was still into all the rock and jazz stuff, but got turned on to holdsworth, scofield, stern, and some others ... also, SRV broke big at that time and i was floored - i first heard eric johnson in the mid 80s and was similarly floored - then again when i heard satriani in about 87 or so ... i also started listening to non guitar music around then too ... miles mostly, but also weather report, jean luc ponty, tom coster, and chick corea ...

after college i stayed static in expanding my tastes because i finally had enough free time to really indulge these preferences ... i drifted away from almost all of the rock stuff ... but then i heard pearl jam and something about them clicked for me so i made some room to listen to some rock ... once grad school and then starting a family came along, i didnt play or listen really to anything for about 5 - 7 years .. but i did dig the wallflowers and maybe a coupla others in the late 90s ... since i got back into playing in '01, i 've been only doing classic rock, so i havent discovered a lot of new stuff ...warren haynes and derek trucks are probably the newest artist i've liked the most ... i rediscovered a love for springsteen and the allman brothers in the last coupla years too ...
 
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gear preferences

i started out at age 15 or so on a no name 3/4 size acoustic .. strumming beatles tunes that i figured out by ear ... i got a guild s60-d (mahogany set neck with rosewood board and solid mahogany body ... 24 frets - 2 single coils dimarzio super distortion pickups) and a no name ss practice amp for my 16th birthday .. i remember getting an electroharmonix lpb-1 that crushed the front end of that amp and blew fuses every coupla weeks or so .. but it sounded very cool to me

whenver i got a gig, i would borrow a friends lab series L-6 4x10" combo

i upgraded to a peavey bandit combo when i was in college - i also traded the guild in for an ibanez am-50 semi hollow ... around that time, i remember having a mxr flanger and a morely volume pedal ... a coupla years later, i got a legend 1x12" combo that had a tube preamp and ss power amp ... great tones ... after college i could afford some toys, so i bought some boss pedals .. a ce-2, ge-7, oc-1, cs-2 ... but only about 30 watts or so, so wasnt loud enough to play with a band which i finally had time for ... i bought a peavey stereo chorus 2x12" combo that had really happenin tone and was crazy loud ...

but then, in the early 90s, i got into rack gear and the fusion guys ... so i got the ibanez 540s, sold the peavey and the pedals and got a rocktron pro gap and intellifex (controlled by a midimate) and carver ga-250 power amp into two boogie 1x12" cabs w/ celestions ... i really wanted a mesa triaxis and 2:90 into (2) bag end cabs with EVM-12Ls, but couldnt quite kick up that much scratch ... this was my rig right up to (and during) the time when i wasnt playing much from about 93 to 01 ... it was also what i was playing when i started back up .. in fairly quick succession, i added the brian moore and the roland gr-33 guitar synth in 02, then the tokai tele clone in 04 ... i got scott_f's whale blue prs mccarty BLE, but didnt bond with it and sold it about a year later ... in late 06, i got the mesa roadster head which i played thru the old boogie cabs and the EJ strat ... the roadster was awesome, but too loud for my bandmates and kinda heavy to lug around, so i sold it and got the blues jr, and the prs 245 and started in on pedals .. i use a zen drive, SD pickup booster, sd twintube classic, and a 535Q wah and tu-2 tuner ... plus a dtar mama bear (into a carvin ag100 mini PA combo amp)f or the piezo output of the brian moore
 
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Nice Well! I'm glad you're sticking around on this forum. It's always interesting to read your thoughts on various matters.

I see you bring up some of this in your listening preferences, but: if you were to recommend us kids one single artist or band that should be obligatory listening, what would that be?

Also, can you elaborate on an experience you've had that you think others can learn from as well?
 
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tone4days said:
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and i do not think she has ever been in a program that i would have willingly watched if she was not in it .. and alas, i have not seen the nude scene in californication .. the fact taht it ends in vomit is enough for me not to seek it out ... i think ....
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She was in Californication? Naked? I gotta see it then!

Try that Cupid show. With the guy that plays Ari on Entourage as Cupid. She played his shrink. PS: cool theme song.
 
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technique changes/revelations?
i started out just happy to be able to play chord changes in time ... i always had a strong sense of right hand rhythm and needed to get my left hand to keep up on the beat ... i was blessed with a good ear too ... i use to figure out songs by figuring out the bass note on the low e string, then figuring out the right quality of the chord with that root note to play the song (e.g. major, minor, 7th) ... i learned how to play major scales in a few positions, and the minor pentatonic scale too ... the first dribble of theory i got was relating those two scales - finding out that the minor scale was built frlom the 6th degree of the major scale .. and how close the minor and the minor pent scales were .. once i heard ritchie blackmore, it all made more sense :D ... barre chords were, of course a huge eye opener ... being able to learn all the root 6th and root 5th barre chords got me ready to be in bands pretty quickly ... playing jazz ensemble, of course, meant that i'd have to learn those 'arthritis chords' .. but that was cool because lifeson and howe and summers used them alot ... then i learned a bit about theory which really blew the lid off things ... modes and chords with more than just roots 3rd and 5th ... knowing why chord changes worked and how melodies worked with them ... playing with a 4 piece electric jazz / rock band after college really helped me with composition skills and improvization skills ... i was the suckiest guy in the band and really loved it cus it kicked my butt ... i studied with a great local guy, and went to NGSW with kahn/gambale ... oddly, i learned to play slower there and how to play 'out' more intelligently ... getting back to playing rock covers (for dancing) in the last 7 yrs has taught me to work for the song more solidly ... it isnt about the big solo statement, its all about the groove
 
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Which forum brothers would you most like to jam with?

i'd love to jam with just about any of the bros, to tell you the truth ... i dont hink i'd be too 'conversant' the the metal guys or the modernish guys .. but i think i'd have a ball playing with jsut about all the guys born in the 60s or earlier ... but age group aside, i'd like to jam with you, mincer, marin blues, joneser, stevo, kevlar, rob (hamerplayer), jeremy, puckboy, and seafoamer .. and evan and seymour , of course .. oh, and i want to be a recording assistant to VK[

Formal education or discovery (self learning)?
both, but mostly self discovery - following the passion that comes from within

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are forced to gig with one guitar, one amp and a couple of stompers.......what would your rig be?
my ej strat, a mesa lonestar special, the zendrive, and a tc electronics chorus

You are an NPR listener....What are your favorite shows and if you were one of the Car Talk guys, would you be Tom or Ray? :nana:
i like morning edition and all things considered every day ... and "wait wait", "fresh air", "and "car talk" from time to time ... when it comes to cars, i am more like Tom ... but i think my overall personality is a blend of the two ... i can be kinda like Ray when something comes up in my wheelhouse

I'm with LesStrat on the advice thing, you seem to have a knack.... Do you speak as eloquently as you type?
thanks, Joe ... i can speak pretty well in a professional setting .. but i dont think i talk like i write - ask arkitkt ... he called me a fast talking italian :D
 
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tone4days said:
thanks, Joe ... i can speak pretty well in a professional setting .. but i dont think i talk like i write - ask arkitkt ... he called me a fast talking italian :D
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:scared: You actually sound like the Car Talk guys! :scared:


Thanks for the answers...it has been an enjoyable read thus far.
 
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do you believe there's a heaven & a hell?
 
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if you were to recommend us kids one single artist or band that should be obligatory listening, what would that be?

it's mostly too hard for me to pick one because of the diversity of genres ... and i think those kinds of recommendations are really transient .. or at least generational ... the one guitarist who most informed my guitar playing is carlos santana ... he was the first guitarist who gave me an emotional reaction across a wide variety of emotions ... his tone .. his melodic quality ... his overall style/approach ... his playing spoke to me most and continues to have that pull ... now, would i expect that a young guy coming up today would be similarly moved by a guy selling shoes on a macy's commercial or playing the same darn licks behind every stinkin michelle branch tune? no ...

i think each guy has to find his own guy, you know ...

and note, i couldve easily named any of two dozen other players in this answer ...

Also, can you elaborate on an experience you've had that you think others can learn from as well?
i cant go into the details of the experience that i have had that has had the most profound and long lasting effect on me ... suffice to say it has to do with the transformative power of ongoing, life-altering, self sacrifice ... i'll only say that it is not a 'black and white" issue - the choice is not as obvious as some would hope it to be ... there is much grey and it is very very deep ...

of course, there are many other experiences that i have had which others can learn from ... just as i have tried to learn from the experiences of others ... the one that comes to mind is the experience of losing my father with much unfinished 'business' left between us ... i learned that it isnt enough to be 'right' to be happy ... i learned that truly substantial relationships require complete, ongoing honesty and respect and compassion and ever revitalized attempts at dispelling the gap between ourselves and those who we are not as close to as we'd like to be ... and i learned that two people have to want a realtionship in order for it to work .. and i learned how i want to be as a father - and as a person
 
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