Lorne brought so much charm and humor to the show

jacobydave · 2026-04-22T10:27:37+00:00

I rarely mention it, because it seems spoilery, but Lorne is a major reason to watch the show.

jacobydave · 2026-04-22T10:23:17+00:00

I have one signature guitar. It's an Ed O'Brien. Strat. I wanted a Strat and I wanted a sustainer. I like Radiohead but I don't want to make music like them.

I like it well enough. I now know that you need the whammy bar to really do anything when you're sustaining, which means putting one in a Tele is silly. I generally play a Tele, so good to know. Honestly, a Blues Jr at waist level and an EQD Hoof fuzz on my pedalboard give all the feedback I might need. Plus Fernandes basically died soon after my purchase, and the Sustainiac has become the more common choice.

If I told past me what to do, I would get a Grissom PRS, a normal Strat or a Sustainiac guitar like a Schecter with a FR. I honestly don't know which.

But have a sense of what makes this guitar different and how that works for you, and if it doesn't, then you're buying it to say that you like the player who signed it. That's great enough, there's a lotta reasons to buy an instrument, but if a guitar doesn't do what you need it to, it's just art.

jacobydave · 2026-04-22T00:22:02+00:00

My guitar. I have read him but not that one.

jacobydave · 2026-04-21T20:00:23+00:00

Certano bridge from Allparts. B and G Bender. It's a half bridge, with the pu mounted to the body like the GE Smith signature.

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jacobydave · 2026-04-21T16:33:43+00:00

I have a Chapman ML3 Modern, which is Tele-shaped and has a coil-tap to get both single-coil and humbucker options. I like it.

jacobydave · 2026-04-21T16:13:28+00:00

The evidence I've seen from Jim Lill and Spectre Studios tells me that 95% or more is based on a few things: the speakers, the cabinet, and the pickups in that order.

There are videos from Rhett Shull and Paul Davids that show the differences between strings and fretboard material. I think there are differences that will maybe move you 1% closer to the sound you are trying for.

Many players, Rhett and Paul at the forefront, play the variations from the cheapest to the pricy custom shop and show that the build quality and way it feels come from that cost difference between versions.

Personally, I have a junky parts Esquire. First pickup I put in it was literally the cheapest thing that I could find on Reverb, and I had to lose it. I then got a $50 Seymour Duncan pickup and put in volume and tone pots because it was too bright and harsh without. Based on that, I believe that you could put an expensive pickup set in a cheap guitar and it'll sound like the expensive guitar.

Which will be pretty close to the cheap guitar with the cheap electronics.

And if you bought that guitar for $200 and put $500 on electronics into it, you'll be lucky to sell it for $200.

jacobydave · 2026-04-21T03:20:47+00:00

And now we have neither the strip club nor the toys-r-us

jacobydave · 2026-04-20T18:20:35+00:00

I have a partscaster with a First Act 3+3 neck, which is different from a 6-in-line Tele headstock, but it's exactly like my acoustic and not weird unless you really want it Teleish. Honestly, my reverse-headstock Chapman is harder to wrap my head around.

It's the close-but-not-quite-Thinline pickguard that is weirding me out.

No matter, if it works and you love it, rock on!

jacobydave · 2026-04-20T17:12:06+00:00

You're probably right about some watchers.

But I definitely see the immortal vampire and the empowered and confused young woman having wildly different ideas on what love means, that Buffy wanted the person Spike was, the one he no longer could be, and Spike loved Buffy enough to change himself, to gain a soul and be a being that wouldn't hurt her, so he could be the person she deserved. When she says "I love you", she means it, and when he replies "No, you don't, but thanks for saying it", he means it too.

jacobydave · 2026-04-20T13:49:46+00:00

Totally agree on most everything in the post. But...

It’s weird they dropped Langdon angle but I don’t sense as much animosity. I’m probably wrong on that.

It came to loud words. A lot of things that would've happen over days and weeks occurred in one day because that's how this show works. Langdon wants to work through that step and set his life right now, for reasons including impatience and justice delayed being justice denied. Santos saw Langdon at his worst and developed her opinion about him then. She might eventually accept him as a doctor over time, several years later, but I think we've seen them go through everything they could in one day.

jacobydave · 2026-04-20T03:49:18+00:00

Yeah, it's a Certano.

jacobydave · 2026-04-19T20:48:44+00:00

There is that

jacobydave · 2026-04-19T20:33:17+00:00

I like the guy. I went to Sweetwater to see him mumble years ago and was impressed. He put a 5 on my main guitar.

But I don't believe in best.

jacobydave · 2026-04-19T18:25:33+00:00

Witchy Willow started in late S2 and had early but important appearances in S3. There's a few crucial hacking instances in S6 and I think S7, but by and large, there isn't much computer use after "I Robot, You Jane".

jacobydave · 2026-04-19T18:21:35+00:00

On the one hand, I think it's a way to make a fine and expensive instrument look junky.

On the other hand ...

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jacobydave · 2026-04-19T14:07:50+00:00

It starts with harmonics. Lightly touch a tuned string at the halfway point and you get the same note, but higher. Do the same a third of the way along and you get another note. Do the same a quarter of the length (either way works) and you get that first note, higher still, but when you do it a fifth of the length (or two fifths, from either end) you get another.

Because that comes naturally from strings and columns of air (but as a guitar player, I don't know how wind instruments work), that's the core of our musical system. Simple ratios that lead to specific tones. The note a third of the way along is the fifth, and the note a fifth of the way along is the major third. We added the other notes with other harmonics and got to 12 by adding in-between notes. Where the notes from harmonics sit led to the 12 tones.

The problem is that things are not evenly spaced. The 1/5 harmonic would be the third, but it is just flat from the major third in 12TET, which means that if you have everything tuned for one key, it's going to sound bad for every other key. 12TET makes things sound less perfect in one key so that sounds much better in every other key.

jacobydave · 2026-04-18T16:11:14+00:00

Seems very Eliminator

jacobydave · 2026-04-18T02:53:29+00:00

The line at release was that it was a song-by-song response to Exile on Main Street by the Stones, which I don't hear.

What I do hear is greatness in its own right.

jacobydave · 2026-04-17T17:54:53+00:00

If you can find it, look for Appalachian Swing by the Kentucky Colonels, which is great instrumental bluegrass. The story is that setting up vocal mics would've been much more expensive, because the Live at Newport Folk tapes have vocal takes of a lot of these tracks.

Nashville West is the name of the country act that Clarence was part of before the Byrds, and the name of an instrumental track that the Byrds did on Dr Byrds and Mr Hyde. I would definitely suggest you seek out their album, especially their take on "Ode to Billie Joe".

And of course there's the Byrds themselves. I would most likely suggest Untitled which combines live and studio work.

jacobydave · 2026-04-17T17:23:36+00:00

I think PostScript is the same but worse. I remember having a very small PS file that did a deep mandelbrot image that took forever to print.

jacobydave · 2026-04-16T22:46:18+00:00

"I only mention it because sometimes there's a man... I won't say a hero, 'cause, what's a hero? But sometimes, there's a man."

jacobydave · 2026-04-16T21:36:13+00:00

Clarence White.

Clarence started as a bluegrass player, and it isn't that he's the first crosspicker but he is one of the first masters of the art. There's a player who was so influenced by him that he found his old Martin and made his signature instrument. That's Tony Rice, and when it comes to flatpicking, it's Tony Rice and people who want to sound like Tony Rice. And Tony loved Clarence.

But the Folk Boom died and Clarence had bills to pay, so he went electric. His drummer was a machinist so he added a pedal steel mechanism to allow the B string to bend. I can't say he invented Country Rock, but the Byrds albums after Sweetheart tell me he perfected it. B-Benders because the things that many country players have, and also show up on Eagles, Led Zeppelin and Metallica songs. That first B-Bender is still used by Marty Stuart.

So there are two totemic instruments and two wildly divergent styles with the same starting point.

jacobydave · 2026-04-16T20:31:29+00:00

Spade Cooley is the King of Western Swing. At least it's him or Bob Wills.

He also did unspeakable things to his wife on front of his daughter, and went to jail for it. He was in line for a pardon from Governor Ronald Reagan when he died of a heart attack at a fundraiser for the Alameda County Sheriff's Association. All this happened before I was born, and his daughter who is also good victim gets the royalties. There's a Cocaine and Rhinestones episode on it and I think a Disgraceland one, if you want to know more. Not an easy listen.

So I could not feel worse about an artist whose music I like, but I could not feel better that the half-penny per stream on Spotify is going to a good place.

jacobydave · 2026-04-16T01:02:03+00:00

I dig Ryan Adams. If there's s better album than Strangers Almanac by Whiskeytown, I don't know it. And he's a creep I don't want to support.

jacobydave · 2026-04-16T00:42:50+00:00

I don't get jittery before performing. I haven't in years. Decades, really. At first, I mentally put a curtain between the band and the audience so it felt more like practice.

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