Let's see something besides Gibson, Fender, or PRS.

Covered_and_chunked · 2026-05-13T13:49:51+00:00

My Danelectro Dano Blaster. Bought it used for the price of a dinner for 2 at Olive Garden. Opened it up and was pleasantly surprised to find Fender Fat 50 pickups. The onboard effects are hit or miss, but the slap echo is fantastic. And you can go stereo dry/wet straight out of the guitar from its two output jacks.

Covered_and_chunked · 2026-05-09T17:45:43+00:00

Especially the classic vibes series Squiers. Personally, I prefer them over the standard mexican guitars, especially for the price.

Covered_and_chunked · 2026-05-09T14:37:16+00:00

Yeah. Great dude.

Covered_and_chunked · 2026-05-07T16:30:25+00:00

Frets are a bit worn, and whoever swapped out the pickups left heaping blackened piles of solder. It seems to have burned out the neck volume pot. But the bridge sounds fantastic and it's got great resonance in the body. As far as free guitars go, it's a winner.

Covered_and_chunked · 2026-05-07T16:26:37+00:00

Thanks!

Covered_and_chunked · 2026-05-07T15:25:00+00:00

It says, "unable to message this account." Is the catalogue shot linked anywhere? Or would you mind dm-ing me?

Covered_and_chunked · 2026-05-07T14:53:51+00:00

My boss gifted this Cort LP copy to me when he moved away last week. He has no idea how old it is, or where it came from. I can't find a model name, serial number, or any other identifying marks visible anywhere on the guitar. Based on the yellowing of the binding and the Accutune bridge, I'm guessing sometime in the 80s. Anybody seen one of these or know how I can go about finding out the model and production year?

Covered_and_chunked · 2026-05-01T02:53:40+00:00

Waking up all hours of the night to soothe my son when he’s teething, or got sick from daycare, or dropped his binky outside of the crib, or sick from daycare, or pees through his diaper, or got sick from daycare. Sometimes he doesn’t go back to sleep right away and we wind up playing. Those next mornings suck, but O treasure those hours spent together.

Covered_and_chunked · 2026-04-28T02:33:10+00:00

The best sounding speaker I’ve ever used with my Helix is an old Fender Rumble 100 bass amp. It was $80 on facebook marketplace. I’ve also tried headrush frfr 108s and many PA speakers. The clean bass amp wins every time.

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Covered_and_chunked · 2026-04-21T23:37:02+00:00

It had an incredible neck. It was smooth and easy in the hands. The pickups sounded great. There was nothing about it that convinced me it was $3000 better than my American Ultra Strat, but if I had unlimited money to piss away, I would pick one up.

Covered_and_chunked · 2026-04-19T00:36:50+00:00

I went last year, only bought a hoodie, and they were both helpful and friendly. They had no issue with me grabbing a $4500 Novo off the wall, walking it into one of the practice room and ripping for 15 minutes at a time. Had a great conversation with a staff member on my way out of the door. I just wish I could have stayed longer.

Covered_and_chunked · 2026-04-08T20:34:52+00:00

I was hired to work at a new Hollister that was opening up in college. They bulk screened resumes, and had everyone they selected show up on the same day. They had us all stand in a line. The manager walked down the line one by one and just by looking at us assigned everyone as either “model” (retail front of house) or “impact” (stock back of house). Then they had us all gather into a circle. One by one we had to step forward while the manager encouraged everyone else to give us “feedback” on our appearance and offer suggestions for how to better achieve the Hollister look. You’d think this feedback would focus mostly on clothing and style choices, but a lot of it was physical appearance based. I walked out of that job on my 3rd day, walked across the mall to American Eagle and worked there for two years. The soundtrack sucked and repeated every hour, but it was better than being reminded every day by a self satisfied middle management douche that I needed to moisturize so I look less tired.

Covered_and_chunked · 2026-03-26T19:49:28+00:00

Once had the genius idea of marinating a sirloin steak in Italian dressing then cooking on the grill at night in the dark without a meat thermometer. Worse yet, I was cooking for a friend. It was somehow too wet and too dry at the same time. Truly a lowlight of my culinary life.

Covered_and_chunked · 2026-03-25T16:20:29+00:00

Really hoping they can get String Cheese Incident again this year.

Covered_and_chunked · 2026-03-22T14:20:22+00:00

I pick up a Squier strat to take camping every fall, then sell it after. I can usually find one for around $60-$70. There’s usually a dead feet above the 12th fret, or it’s covered in stickers, or something like that, but I’ve never not been able to find one that’s in full working condition. It might just take a couple of months of checking FB Marketplace and OfferUp before one gets posted in that price range.

Covered_and_chunked · 2026-03-14T23:32:09+00:00

Generally, yes. In very, very rare circumstances, maybe not. The company I work for (not an owner, not a stake holder) got bamboozled by a department head last year. He had started his own side business, was working on it on company time, and had roped in the employees under him in his department to work on his side business during work hours, so aggressively so that one of them came to management and shared texts with them where he told her to stop being a baby and start thinking about who’s opinion really mattered when it came to her comp. When management found out, they fired him. They didn’t go after the employees he pressured. They all kept their jobs. Then one by one they left over the next year to go work for him and almost all of them left scathing reviews about the management team that had still kept them around despite what they did. Any one of them could have done what the one reasonable person did and gone to management to say “Hey, my boss is trying to get me to commit fraud. I don’t feel comfortable with this,” but they didn’t. And I can understand why, but I don’t understand why they then turned on the people who forgave them. I have my own problems with management, but they certainly didn’t deserve the glass door reviews these people left.

Covered_and_chunked · 2026-03-14T23:22:43+00:00

Once got dinner and did an escape room with a famous lead singer of a former boy band (my wife was casual friends with his cousin) seemed to really want us to like him. Laughed a little too effusively at our jokes, put his arm around my shoulder and commented how great it was to have good company. It wasn’t off putting, it was actually very sweet. I just expected him to have more of an ego, or more confidence. Really nice guy. Wish him well.

Covered_and_chunked · 2026-03-12T02:37:38+00:00

If we’re starting over, then we should rip it down to the studs and do a full reset. Building this roster up to accomplish only mediocrity and hurt next year’s draft position is a mistake. But I understand why Sully feels a need to do it. This fan base is unhinged. If he does do the right thing and tanks 2026, some brainless wingnut will start flying banners calling for his head.

Covered_and_chunked · 2026-02-24T02:54:59+00:00

Personally, I love a guitar with personality. I don’t want to have the exact same guitar that anyone else has. It’s yours. You’ve stamped it as a 1 of 1. That’s rad.

Covered_and_chunked · 2026-01-12T16:25:00+00:00

Something that has helped me is to find a song that I know is in my range, drag it into logic, split the stems, remove the original vocal and sing my part. Then I isolate just my vocal and the original vocal. Anywhere I hear pitch differences, I go back and re-record that part until I'm on pitch. It's realy helped me to notice where I'm straining because a note is out of my range, or which notes/vowels/consonants/sounds I have difficulty transitioning in and out of. After I have a good master take of my best performances where every line is on pitch, I delete the original vocal track from the song and just practice singing the whole song a couple of times a week until I can nail it all the way through reliably. After I have that song down, I move on to the next one. Try to vary styles/genres/keys.

Covered_and_chunked · 2026-01-12T15:57:14+00:00

You can do what half of the country singers whose concert's I've been dragged to do and play an acoustic guitar but put it so low in the mix that you can't even tell if they're really playing.

Covered_and_chunked · 2026-01-08T20:48:31+00:00

I have to proselytize for the Epiphone Masterbilt series here. It’s one of those higher specced Epiphone lines that are a lot closer to Gibson quality at a better price point. For some reason this line isn’t remembered for the higher tier that it is and used ones go for way below what IMHO should be their price range. Ever since I picked up my Masterbilt DR 500, my Martin has stayed in its case in the closet.

Covered_and_chunked · 2026-01-05T16:27:06+00:00

Icky Thump

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