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You're right. But I was being sarcastic in the first post. I mean, I'd have to have some pretty big cajones to holler from the treetops that I'm better than clapton even though I haven't played a bar gig in 3 months. That said, since I don't have alot of people like y'uns following me...

From the beginning I tried to keep this empirical. taste aside, delta blues is pretty simple, out-of-tune, out-of-time and chock full o' character. There is some I like, but I don't like any of it as much as Chicago blues with a horn section. Clapton, empiracly speaking, is not really as...

People are still talking about the time i peed off the deck onto some chick's car at a party when I was 20. But I am not one to rest on my laurels. I am staging a comeback this summer even though I haven't peed in front of people in years. I have been woodshedding by peeing with the door open...

I bought some powered speakers. I think they are Alto and 200 watts a side or something. They are plenty loud. I have a small yamaha mixer that I run into them. It was totally cheap. Less than $500 altogether. The powered mixers are cool, too, because then you don't have to plug in a bunch...

And, while we're at it, I think Carlos Santana sucks, too. :D

I think that's bullshit. I understand it fine. Delta blues is a boring parlour trick when you compare it to actually playing in a band. I have never liked it and don't think it's any bonus points to be awarded when assessing the technical greatness of slow hand. But, I never said it was...

I think it is important to use the same brand all the time, but brand choice doesn't seem to make a huge difference. I buy Ernie Balls because I like that the strings still come in individual envelopes unlike Dean Markley and D'Addario. Plus you can get them anywhere. I wouldn't want to get...

I use 10s on my fenderish guitars. I was reluctant to change gauges for my hollowbody epiphony es-295 (which is a hollowbody). However, I took the pluge and put 11s on it. Since it is shorter scale, the 11s are not any stiffer than the 10s on the fenders. I think the tone improved a great...

Come on. That delta/acoustic blues thing is quaint, but it's hardly a "technical display". I can see you're a clapton fan and that's cool. I just think he was in the right place at the right time which got him where he is and that his other contemporaries continue to be more impressive than...

PPA today. Sorry for being salty. Danny and Travis: Do you guys really suck so bad as to think that clapton's playing is in any way remarkable now? I'm just trying to think of what kind of player would hear/see clapton play and say "Wow!" I am lukewarm about even the early stuff, but since...

Full dress was last night. I thought my sound was absolute crap. I did use the 20 watter for a couple other rehearsals I got to go to. It sounded fine. I had to add some texture to a couple places that were getting that piano drone lameness, so I brought the pedalboard for the delay and...

No. I have only been there when it was empty. I hope the people make a difference. This room is just about a cube. At one point there was supposed to be carpet under us and a curtain in between us and the audience. Then we could have played at a more comfortable level. They have a really...

I can't get it out of my head that the 12-inch speaker will sound warmer than the 10 inch, but I a sliver of my brain knows you're right. I have a 16-ohm 12" speaker that I got from richard monroe, but I had it mounted up in a borrowd 412 cabinet to test it. This is like the third time that a...

Maybe a few hundred. Do you think it'd be better to try and focus the amp's sound toward the people, or to have it diffused by pointing at the wall or perpendicular to the audience's view? The wall behind us has a curtain down it at least. but the floor is stone. The orchestra is playing on a...

I am playing a show this week with several performances in the worst room I have ever played in as far as the acoustics. This entire huge room is stone and brick and glass and the ceiling is at least 40 feet high. No carpet anywhere. I have to play very quietly of course because the room...

DBII: He was weak and it was easy to impose his will upon the youngster. Sucking: Oops. He didn't know he sucks now. WTF? He quit drinking too? I'm gonna go hang out at my friend Jed's house. He's more fun and plays bass.

I just asked him and he doesn't think you're gay either.

A friend of mine told me that EC lives around the corner from me. I wonder if he'd be interested in taking some lessons.

Guitar fetis has everything you need for cheap. You can get a whole bag of pickguard screws for 6 bucks. http://store.guitarfetish.com/guitarhardware.html I've bought some parts from them. I got screws, a wilki vintage trem, tuners and stuff. I also got a prewired pickguard and aside from...

I know a guy who has one of those coral electric sitar copies. It's maroon crinkle finish with synpathetic strings and the buzz bridge. It doesn't sound like a sitar. I think it's the envelope change - the swells and stuff - that make it sound indian. The sitar has the buzzy wierd thing, but...