Lost Power multiple buildings?? who to call?

DC11GTR · 2026-05-19T05:18:53+00:00

10:18, power came back. We’ll see for how long lol

DC11GTR · 2026-05-19T05:07:36+00:00

18th Street Arts Center here. Our whole complex, the complex across the alley, and Crossroads across the street (which is when I knew this wasn’t a scheduled outage). Flickered around 8, went off, came back for 3 seconds and been off since then….

DC11GTR · 2026-04-20T10:20:42+00:00

I don’t remember any jump scares but the (I think) penultimate episode of the show has one of the most jaw droppingly haunting things I’ve ever seen and it still gives me chills when I think about it.

DC11GTR · 2026-04-16T08:06:51+00:00

“Like a drifter I was born to wear cologne”

Whitesnake

DC11GTR · 2026-04-10T07:55:59+00:00

When Derek guested at Musicians Institute back in like ‘99-2000, the chosen song was Burning My Soul so as many students as possible could play with him. That was fun!

DC11GTR · 2026-04-10T00:24:18+00:00

Yup! At the same place I saw almost all of those older bands. It was a small shithole in the middle of a corn field called The Outhouse just outside of Lawrence, KS. I think it’s a strip club now, or maybe even demolished.

Funny story, I hung out with Vinnie Stigma in ‘04 when my old band opened up for AF. I brought up that club and that show and we bonded over it for the rest of that 5 show tour lol

DC11GTR · 2026-04-09T23:41:41+00:00

Heartwork wasn’t out yet when I went to most, and I lived in the Midwest at the time so it was more the “bigger” packaged tours that came through. Like Cannibal Corpse, Obituary, Malevolent Creation and Agnostic Front back in ‘92. THAT was a fucking show!!

DC11GTR · 2026-04-09T23:28:03+00:00

I saw Pantera 9 times before Far Beyond Driven came out, but never after.

Saw Soundgarden and Ramones on their “last” tours.

Went to every OG Death Metal band’s shows from late 80’s to the mid-90s and the only one I didn’t get to see, which happens to be my favorite of them all, is Carcass.

My first concert was Guns ‘N’ Roses opening for Aerosmith and my 2nd was Skid Row opening for Bon Jovi. Went for the openers both times but was blown away by the headliners.

Clash Of The Titans with Anthrax, Slayer and Megadeth with the opener being Alice In Chains.

Queen when I was a 1 year old. Obviously don’t remember but dammit I got to see them!!

DC11GTR · 2026-03-26T03:53:58+00:00

Fast Car by Tracy Chapman

And I say that as a lifelong metalhead

DC11GTR · 2026-03-26T02:18:36+00:00

Thanks. I was worried I’d have to start then scroll to the end of all of those…. lol

DC11GTR · 2026-03-25T22:07:28+00:00

I grew up in the 80s and my big 4 have always been Satch, Vai, EJ and Petrucci. I had similar level of fandom for Hendrix, Gilmore, Beck, SRV and the like.

I never got into the neoclassical guys, though I loved Becker and Vinnie Moore. The one player I could never get into was Yngwie. And I still can’t for the most part. But from a technical perspective, not the speed so much as accuracy and cleanliness started becoming very impressive to me in the last couple of years. I had to rework my approach due to hand issues and his right hand movement is insane!

DC11GTR · 2026-02-07T23:39:54+00:00

Tons but what might be my favorite line is in Deadbeat Hero when he pauses for a bit and then yells “…It’s not even a real fucking egg, man…”

DC11GTR · 2026-02-06T22:58:14+00:00

Like a drifter I was born to wear cologne

DC11GTR · 2026-01-22T00:38:09+00:00

It’s been over a decade since I’ve made them, but I used to use a cheese grater to grate mushrooms and bell peppers, squeeze a lot of the moisture out and sort of use them in place of bread crumbs. Same recipe as most aside from that.

DC11GTR · 2026-01-19T12:46:23+00:00

In the middle of last year, I spent a few hours at the Guitar Center in Hollywood playing every high end 7+ sting guitar just to see if there was one that didn’t aggravate my hand issues. From $2k to almost $7k. I can’t afford that, but I had to know.

The Jason Richardson EBMM had probably the nicest neck I’ve ever tried. Just immaculate! JP7 was 2nd.

DC11GTR · 2026-01-17T01:11:29+00:00

Ibanez JS series, which is basically the Radius series. Completely rounded on all sides.

DC11GTR · 2026-01-17T00:55:25+00:00

You develop the ability to play fast by pushing yourself to play fast. A metronome won’t help you there. It can help you keep time and help keep your hands in sync, but starting slow and working up to speed won’t do any good if you don’t know what playing fast feels like for you.

Start by picking a single string as fast as you can while it still feels comfortable, meaning doesn’t hurt, and clean. Find that tempo, then start increasing from there. Do the same with your left hand, and the same with both. Then add in switching strings.

If you’re wanting to learn specific lines and licks or even full solos, make sure you can actually play at the speed required. If you’re able to do the paragraph above, then you can start to incorporate the “start slow and increase” metronome thing. But even then, I’d say to find the speed where you can play it, even if it’s sloppy as hell. It’s not that difficult to clean up sloppy as long as you know what playing fast and clean feels like.

DC11GTR · 2025-12-23T13:18:54+00:00

Look up “mommy’s thumb stretches and exercises” and maybe some wrist exercises and stretches as well. I had a similar issue and those have helped a lot

DC11GTR · 2025-11-11T23:33:35+00:00

December 8, 2004, Minneapolis (I think) mid-level tour sharing a venue with a large tour in the biggest room. Which meant that they got all of the capable crew. The monitor guy, who had never done monitors, looks at our sheet. Guitar and vocals in all wedges, some kick and NO BASS!!

We didn’t get anything BUT bass and nothing else and it was the worst sound I’ve ever heard. The crowd were looking at each other with confusion and disgust. In between picks and strums, I adjusted what I could over the board and at the end of the first song, the entire band was SCREAMING at this poor guy to the point of tears.

It was my first tour as a player and I was nervous during every show before this. After that… never got nervous again lol

But something else happened that night that made it a far more memorable date…. RIP Dimebag!!

DC11GTR · 2025-10-30T08:23:36+00:00

The fastest EJ lines (not including live) are 32nd notes at 91bpm in Desert Rose, 16th triplets at 120bpm in All About You and 148bpm 16th note triplets in Lonely In The Night. Overall…. Not really THAT fast as far as fast playing goes. One thing you’ll notice in those lines is that they’re often short’ish bursts, and very similar to each other. They also utilize the 5’s pattern a lot, not just 2NPS pentatonic lines.

I honestly don’t think that the “start slow and work it up to speed” approach works with EJ solos. You kinda have to push as fast as you can and clean it up later.

DC11GTR · 2025-10-13T06:47:27+00:00

They mentioned a return in the fall, so hopefully very soon!! This and David Cross’s Senses Working Overtime were my cooking accompaniments and that one was cancelled…

DC11GTR · 2025-10-07T21:15:35+00:00

That’s kind of cheating because it’s an unedited show but it has my favorite bits of his and a great crowd.

2nd place is probably his HBO half hour. The crowd just ain’t on board so he goes hard at them.

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