I like Lesteban! I'm all for thinking outside the box.
My Fort Is A Moving Target Because Lesteban Is Crazy.
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I like Lesteban! I'm all for thinking outside the box.
Right?
Here's how great Laurie was: I had a couple of the ad agency guys with me on these sessions, and after Laurie played, they got out lighters and did the concert thing!
Laurie is one of the most talented and amazing guitar players I've ever worked with, and not only that, is a super-nice guy. We worked together twice in Europe, and had a great time.
The drummer on those sessions was Chuck Sabo, who's played with Elton John, Brian Eno, XTC, Brian Adams (the list goes on and on).
I played bass and keys. So for two weeks I was the worst musician in a band that was so good, that engineers and musicians recording in other rooms in the studio would come into our sessions just to get a listen.
I kept apologizing to them for not being up to their level, but they were good natured about it.
jfb
Plank Owner
I am glad that "fort" has stuck. I am slowly building mine back up after having moved from house with a basement to a condo that would have fit inside of my previous fort.
jfb
Plank Owner
I miss it sometimes as well. At least my commute has been shortened. It's about 350 feet now.
Ha! That's a good thing!
I haven't commuted since I had a law practice, in 1991; my studio's been in my house for the last 25 years.
Though I will say that working at home makes me a little crazy in the winter, when I basically never have to leave the house. What's that you say? Go...outdoors?
I can't go outdoors. I'm afraid of outdoors...
bodia
Authorities said.....best leave it.....unsolved
I can relate. My commute for the past 7 years has been down two flights of steps from the bedroom to the basement. Sometimes I miss the human interaction. Most times I don't. Although, the dogs have been looking at me weird for the past couple of years.
jfb
Plank Owner
I hear you on house crazy. I walk most everywhere now. Work, doctor, food, groceries, it's all so close. I have to get in my car and go somewhere once a week else I go a bit loopy.
One has to get out every day, and I, uh, don't always do that.
That's why I'm as crazy as I appear to be based on my posts.
I not not obsess about guitars, amps, pedals, cables, software, synthesizers, monitors, acoustical treatment, decor, microphones, processors, direct boxes, or anything else music-gear-related today.
I must not be feeling well or something...
I must not be feeling well or something...
I do that all the time!
In fact, last week I took my tuner off the board, to see if I could live with the one built into the H9. I can, and it's staying off. Now I have more room for another noise-making pedal!
bodia
Authorities said.....best leave it.....unsolved
Yeah! New toy!I do that all the time!
In fact, last week I took my tuner off the board, to see if I could live with the one built into the H9. I can, and it's staying off. Now I have more room for another noise-making pedal!
Haven't decided what it will be yet. Maybe a Tomkat Violet Muffer fuzz.
Gee, maybe instead of complaining about moving amps because you are getting old, you could buy a Kemper, profile all of your existing amps and then store them in a cool dry place in your abode, and run the Kemper direct.
If you prefer the live mic approach, the Kemper can do that also. I am waiting on a Marshall Code for live work, but those may also be used direct. While the purist in one of you may feel that going direct is a "no-no", my back thanks me for removing 85 pound amps from the list of things I need to move ever again without help.
FYI: My Kemper can hold 1495 amps in the "All Rigs" section. I have 4 other sections as well.
You can profile as many varieties of only one amp as you deem necessary to cover all of your favorite sounds from that one amp, still tweak each profile as needed, and still have stupid amounts of room left for other amps. The abilities of the Kemper are only limited by you and your alter-ego's ability to come up with tones you want to use.
By the way, I never let my alter-ego use my gear. Let that idiot buy his own gear to use.
If you prefer the live mic approach, the Kemper can do that also. I am waiting on a Marshall Code for live work, but those may also be used direct. While the purist in one of you may feel that going direct is a "no-no", my back thanks me for removing 85 pound amps from the list of things I need to move ever again without help.
FYI: My Kemper can hold 1495 amps in the "All Rigs" section. I have 4 other sections as well.
You can profile as many varieties of only one amp as you deem necessary to cover all of your favorite sounds from that one amp, still tweak each profile as needed, and still have stupid amounts of room left for other amps. The abilities of the Kemper are only limited by you and your alter-ego's ability to come up with tones you want to use.
By the way, I never let my alter-ego use my gear. Let that idiot buy his own gear to use.
I have tried one, and...it was awesome cool but also just not my thing. I think it's partly feel, and partly what tubes do when you've got them going, but I just couldn't make the Kemper work out for me.
I do respect the hell out of their technology, though!
Also, my son was in over the weekend for my daughter's wedding, and while on tour, a few of his pedals stopped functioning properly at their last show for some reason, so I insisted that he take my Eventide H9.
Now I have to get another one and/or put some other stuff back on my pedalboard...this gear thing never ends, does it?
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Bangin'! I hope it was an awesome weekend for you and your family.
Thanks, Serg,we had a ball!
My daughter kept coming up to me and saying it was the best time she ever had in her entire life.
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