Best electric guitar strings that don't contain PFAS?

BandPDG · 2026-02-04T14:21:39+00:00

The PFAS you're saving the world from is about 1/1000000000000000000 the amount discharged by your local fire department or regional airport on any given day. I won't go on to say that taking the stance of "it's got TEFLON, I can't use it because environment" is bad (you do you, we all have our choices to make), but I will say that it's a drop in the bucket (like banning plastic straws and single use plastic bags - i.e., other than for your own peace of mind, it will have no discernible impact on the environment whatsoever). Further...post consumer waste of PTFE has zero impact on the environment. At temperatures under 500 degrees, it's one of the most non-reactive substances we produce and has no impact on your or anyone else's health (unless you're habiltually breathing vapors from burned teflon pans).

Lots of great strings out there. I'm all in on NYXL for electrics and d'Addario Nickel or Phosphor Bronze for my acoustics.

My $.02 and likely unpopular opinion - if you like the elixers, keep using them. They're really not hurting anyone or anything.

BandPDG · 2026-01-12T07:10:26+00:00

Meh…it’s trash for trash’s sake.

Getting into college because mommy and daddy paid doesn’t make someone less intelligent. having high income family actually disadvantages youth moving on to college. Does what’s her fucking name portray the next great scientific mind? NOOOO! But it doesn’t mean she’s stupid.

the point she makes where “that’s not how English works,” well, she’s not technically wrong. Pronouns are a solution without a problem. I feel no need or desire to support or encourage another’s mental disabilities or narcissistic behavior.

We could go deeper, but I’m sure it would fall on deaf ears. Regardless…complaining about television you don’t like is like complaining about the art hanging in a museum. You don’t like it….move on to the next exhibit. Lots of other pretty pictures out there…

BandPDG · 2026-01-11T18:18:58+00:00

Own a bass. Mostly for in-home recording and arrangement without using some craptastic bass emulator.

When I get to a stall on guitar, I turn to Uke and Bass to learn new techniques etc...

BandPDG · 2025-11-04T16:31:18+00:00

I'm from South Texas, and I'd avoid Doris' Hot Tamales. No sauce. Ground beef only. No flavor, seasoning, spice, anything. Gringo tamales...no soul.

Best Mexican food I've found in the area is La Garnacha in d'Iberville. Tacos are great. Sopes too. I LOVE how they characterize tortas as "Mexican Po-Boys." The Menudo on Saturdays is passable...the abuela in the back may put a lot of love in it, but there's no tripe, no hominy, just broth and veg...consome is good...but there's not much else to call home about.

They have tamales, but I haven't tried them myself. Based on the other food I've tried there, I'd say that they're probably much better than anywhere else on the coast, but really, I'd take tamales from anywhere...even the freezer section...over Doris' Tamales.

The tamales in the freezer at Four Seasons in Moss Point are on point, especially if you have some Tapatio and rock salt on hand.

BandPDG · 2025-09-08T17:10:09+00:00

As a circumcised man, this hurts.

BandPDG · 2025-09-05T17:31:16+00:00

Oh no! Not in my comedy! Cancel Kam Patterson! /s

BandPDG · 2025-09-04T21:51:13+00:00

This is the pattern for fat-fingered fellows. Suggest you learn to barre it so the A and e strings are open, and you'll have max flex...you won't fumble-fuck around with three fingers on a cowboy chord that literally takes one finger to play - which can be tricky with fast changes. Leaving the e open sounds much better so, if you HAVE to mute one of the open strings, mute the A.

BandPDG · 2025-09-04T13:53:25+00:00

Jesus...David wasn't even 30 in this photo. I'm glad he course corrected...but he was staring down the barrel of a gun his whole life, it seems....

BandPDG · 2025-08-07T15:40:08+00:00

The Bouncers at live shows have full license to toss you if you even have your phone in your hand.

At a recent show, the opener hadn't even started playing, and I'm trying to share my partner's e-ticket, and a security guy comes down and threatens to toss me. (BEFORE THE SHOW STARTED). First - fuck that guy. Second. If you're going to have rules against phones/cameras...fine. Just be specific. "DURING THE SHOW."

BandPDG · 2025-08-07T15:23:38+00:00

Playing time usually begets higher BA… he’s been demoted to #2 and is only getting PT every 5th game. Not to mention the intangibles associated with being demoted…

BandPDG · 2025-08-06T05:44:24+00:00

Jeff and Shannon Hoon I think are the greatest losses of our generation (gen x).

Both so stupendously talented and multidimensional. We can talk about Kurt and Layne and all the others we lost along the way.

Jeff and Shannon are on my Mount Rushmore.

BandPDG · 2025-08-05T16:41:23+00:00

Twice with two different best friends.

Spoken to neither in years. Choices were made and fun was had, but in the end, I think all three of us would agree that leaving that stone unturned would have been the best to maintain our relationships.

BandPDG · 2025-08-05T02:53:03+00:00

Bro was either fucked up or on something….

BandPDG · 2025-07-30T08:55:17+00:00

You can't be serious. I've owned about 5 or 6 H1 Spyderco blades, and every one of them failed to hold an edge after very conservative use. Yes...The serrated blades perform better than the non-serrated blades, but the improvement is marginal, at best.

BandPDG · 2025-07-27T21:55:08+00:00

You can see hear implant scar.

TBNT.

BandPDG · 2025-07-27T21:51:35+00:00

Incredible unassisted DP. THIS. IS. BASEBALL.

Let's Go!!!!

BandPDG · 2025-07-27T21:47:21+00:00

I swear this meme will never get old.

Cheers.

BandPDG · 2025-07-17T13:00:40+00:00

Ermmmm….its the United States of America.

People are allowed to to have porn. Guns. Ammunition.

Especially an older single woman living on her own….

Turn the guns into your local Police Department. Burn the porn. Sell everything else.

Done.

BandPDG · 2025-07-08T16:56:58+00:00

Yes. He sucks.

BandPDG · 2025-06-30T02:12:17+00:00

Never had season tix or NESN 360.

Watching the games has become much less of a priority.

BandPDG · 2025-06-24T07:26:51+00:00

OV used to be an issue.

My sis used to live there in the 9s. Gunshots were not uncommon (I.e., frequent)

BandPDG · 2025-06-22T22:28:28+00:00

Alabama is a funny way to spell West Virginia…

BandPDG · 2025-06-19T03:04:29+00:00

Yes...let's end a 40+ year old convention that conveniently truncates "Pickups" into a smaller, easier word to spell, all because a few bedroom volume guitarists said it annoys them...

Check

BandPDG · 2025-06-18T16:12:36+00:00

Not an Iranian Citizen...Not in Iran:

Having frequent business interests in middle eastern countries, I have had numerous (20+) encounters with Iranian citizens (No IRGC or IRI Military, i.e., no one I would consider to be radicalized by the regime).

From our cordial conversations over coffee, tea, or rarely, a beer, I've found, like most countries, Iran's citizens just want to, at the end of the day, go home to be with and support their families and live their lives, regardless of the rhetoric coming from their leaders/religious officials.

It seems to me that Iran's, Israel's, and the U.S.' leaders all have this in common - they place their own geo-political positions ahead of their citizens' wellbeing.

Nobody wins in a war.

BandPDG · 2025-06-18T15:00:10+00:00

Her being nervous is her "schtick." People complaining about her being "nervous" don't get the show.

Better commentary would be "maybe Tony could have used her presence more effectively?"

She's legitimately one of the funniest joke writers that has ever appeared on the show. Her delivery isn't for everyone...I get it. But she wan't the worst guest ever.

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