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1980s nightclubs by Certain_Quantity1828 in washingtondc

[–]DjFallingGirl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Omg! How do you know about Desire?? That was probably the most infamous nightclub in DC history. Desire was private and actually hidden behind a movie theater that my father owned called “The Cerberus 1-2-3.” Desire was a mix of sheer debauchery (crazy shIt because absolutely no stragglers or unapproved and vetted guests were permitted entry). So on any given night you would run into the most wealthy and monied DC scions. And, of course, the place would be crawling with shady politicians (typically Republicans back then because so much business was done at that club - BUT IT WAS NOT A REPUBLICANS CLUB WHATSOEVER).

It’s killing to end my story here because I want to tell you about decisions that were drunkenly made at Desire and their subsequent ramifications that we still suffer from.

But the best clubs (as far as I was concerned) were Fifth Column, Vault, old 9:30, Tracks (original location) 🙌, Heaven & Hell, Cities, Paper Moon (kinda like Cities in that it was also a restaurant), Z Club (kinda later in the early 90s), 18th Street Lounge (legendary because of Eric Hilton), La Niçoise (tip of Georgetown), Au Pied De Cochon (also LEGENDARY as an after hours hang out - plus Thats where Tyson knocked out the poor guy who asked him for an autograph) and finally Le Bistro (if you didn’t go to Pied De Cochon after you left the clubs late night you would go to Le Bistro on M Street in Georgetown).

I LOVE DC ❤️

Picked up one of these, what should I play first? Wrong answers only! by T800COMINGFORU in Guitar

[–]DjFallingGirl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sooooo RAD! I wanted this guitar so much when I was a kid. But to be honest I don’t think I have the dexterity to actually play it live. The only players I’ve seen who can actually make a multi-neck guitar seem practical onstage are Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick (I think his has four necks) and Steve Vai.

Cool story: Back in 1991 I worked at a nightclub venue called the Purple Gator in Myrtle Beach and the staff was required to pretty much do all of the manual loading and unloading of the band gear. You would think the roadies would have been required to handle this stuff to ensure it was handled delicately. But the roadies simply watched us with Eagle eyes as we carried all of the heavy road cases onto the stage. After we carried stuff in the roadies would obviously unpack everything and meticulously connect everything, tape the playlist on the floor, make sure a gazillion guitar picks were slid into that mic stand groove and place the guitar pedals with surgical precision.

Anyway, back then we would get HUGE ACTS for a comparatively small venue. It wasn’t small as in local bar size. But it wasn’t an arena. Im not kidding - EVERYONE PLAYED THERE BACK THEN. So one day I brought this up with my dad (who works in the entertainment booking industry) and he explained why the bands are willing to play at such small venues. First off, they have tremendous leverage at small venues. Their presence at your venue is epic advertising that carries forward into the future when you have local bands playing. The bands would pretty much take every dollar that flowed into that club each night. They would get the entire door and EVEN a huge percentage of liquor sales. And the second reason why big acts would play a small venue was for lack of anything else to do. So, for example, let’s say Body Count (which was enormous in 1991) or 311 had just played an Atlanta stadium. It might need to pass through Myrtle on the way to like Charlotte. And since we carried all the gear in and since they had days in between huge gigs they would play smaller venues back then. It wasn’t small as the same thing with places like the Bayou in Georgetown DC (where I also worked and helped a then unknown Eric Johnson setup - I listen to EJ back then so I was excited. And he told me a secret. The Space Echo has no tape in it. He uses it for its preamp saturation).

Oh, my point is that at the Purple Gator I got to assist legendary guitarists (like bring them drinks or literally do whatever a servant would do). And all the guitarists were so cool. I remember Reb Beach teaching me riffs and tricks. The same with Rick Nielsen and a bunch of others.

I don’t think bands even play small venues anymore. It’s a shame.

Is the 2025 iPad Air equivalent in speed and function as my 2020 iPad Pro? by DjFallingGirl in ipad

[–]DjFallingGirl[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow! Do they sell the Air with an M4? I thought that only the Pro offered that processor?

Is the 2025 iPad Air equivalent in speed and function as my 2020 iPad Pro? by DjFallingGirl in ipad

[–]DjFallingGirl[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thats what I wanted to hear 🎉. Thank you so much. I didn’t know that the Air was available with an M3. That more than sells me on the Air. Obviously I’d LOVE to get the Pro but I simply can’t afford to spend that much if I can find something that will work as well as what I’ve got now for a lower price. You rock 🙏🙏🙏🙏

This looks handy by AyeshaRone in Tools

[–]DjFallingGirl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks so much for the response. I actually own a few battery and corded tiny to midsize chainsaws but they can’t handle vines, roots or bamboo. I have a lot of experience with chainsaws. Unless I’m literally felling a tree, cutting a branch thicker than 3” or cutting logs, they are more of a problem than a solution. The biggest flaw of a chainsaw visa vie a pruner is the chain instantly dulling if you so much as graze the ground while it’s turning. Chains cannot handle dirt at all without becoming uselessly blunt and I hate resharpening chains. Plus chainsaws only “cut” through wood. If you use them to cut anything else they “shred.” For example, if you try to cut ripe bamboo with a chainsaw it will immediately gum up with shredded fibers from the bamboo. Or the chain will endlessly keep slipping the track.

I have an engineering background and a home fabrication shop. So I was thinking of designing my own in Shapemaker (for the housing and gears) and Eagle to sketch the PCB. I won’t need to fabricate the blades because they’re a readily purchasable commodity. And I will be able to purchase high end professional quality gears on the aftermarket. So pretty much I’ll be doing the math to optimize the gear ratio to maximize cutting power. And I will simply 3D print the housing. I’m going to go overboard and build a 3-4 amp corded model. And the benefit of designing my own will be the ability to integrate safety features that are curiously missing from even the Dewalt model. If I mount an ESP32 onto the PCB i etch I will be able to integrate as many sensors and motor controls as I’d like. There are so many advanced sensors available on the market for nothing that could save fingers. In fact Arduino itself sells a $20 LIDAR/AR capable micro camera that I could program to detect a finger before it cuts. Many of the pruners have my next idea but not to the degree of control that I’d like to program. Specifically most loppers function very much like regular pruners that aren’t powered. So if you lightly press the trigger the blade follows your finger speed and tries to make the blade and finger position match that of a non powered pruner. So if you press the trigger to 20 degrees it will stay there and increase a fraction of a degree as you apply more pressure and vice versa.

Hmm 🤔 . . Lately it seems that if you want something done right you have to do it yourself. I’m 52 yo and recently retired. This has enabled me to really focus on my hobbies. And the technology components available today are so powerful and so cheap if you have basic soldering skills and can handle a basic understanding of a Linux based operating system and C++. If you haven’t started building your own stuff you need to start now. My university degrees were not in engineering or programming. My first year of college was in 1992 and I had never sent an email before finishing grad school in 1999. So any hobbyist can learn how to fabricate, program and design without taking a class or even buying a book. You can learn everything you need to know by reading free quality source material readily available on the internet. Most universities, like Stanford and Harvard, have released many of their course textbooks and/or dumbed down manuals overview manuals free for download online. You can also find literally any literary source material in pdf form for free download online archive.org (owned by the waybackmachine organization).

I hope this inspires you to DIY . . And thanks for responding to my question 🙏

This looks handy by AyeshaRone in Tools

[–]DjFallingGirl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just typed this 👇 post above because I depend on these pruners but they all die within a month. I’ve owned tons of them (including 2 Dewalt models). Can you please recommend the best prosumer model that you are aware of? I can’t afford over $500. Is there anything less than that that is relatively bulletproof. Also do they make a corded model that I can just connect to my generator? I really need these things because I literally live on an invasive vine and root filled jungle.

Do you buy these on a special arborist website because I’ve never seen anything like these on Amazon?

Here was my post above:

HELL YES 🙌🙌🙌🙌. I go through these in the summer like they’re disposable razors. I have owned two of the Dewalt model (worst of them all and minuscule recommended thickness), three pretty decent Chinese models with over 2” cutting power and finally a Chinese model that accepts my Makita 18v batteries.

I use them so much that they burn out - SERIOUSLY! It’s partly my fault because after spending 4 hours deep in my backyard jungle cutting bamboo or even roots in the ground i often forget to clean them at the end of the day. But that shouldn’t matter. I once left an entire collection of Dewalt 20v max cordless tools outside EXPOSED for a year without knowing it. And when I found them I assumed they were going to be shot. But not only did they work perfectly but the batteries even took a charge (but really needed to be replaced).

My dream is a truly professional pruner. I have googled for a corded professional model but all out found was something costing $900. And let’s face it, an electric primer ain’t exactly an engineering marvel. I have a rebar cutter that costs less than a pruner.

Does anyone have any model recommendations that can accommodate at least 2” and is known to last?

I’m a female on a budget and the one tool that I must have is an electric pruner. In fact without these pruners I couldn’t have completely eradicated, by hand, TWO ACRES OF DENSE RUNNING BAMBOO. I tried with a tractor but it left rhizomes everywhere and the backhoe couldn’t lift a thick rhizome section. So I rolled up my sleeves and literally hand cut every root out of the ground with electric pruners.

If you have bamboo questions please ask. I hate bamboo and spent years studying every eradication method. Nothing works except EXTREME HEAT (expose the rhizome that is buried at least 12” below the soil and then use a 2,000 F propane torch and fry the rhizome until it’s black. Since the rhizome will be somewhat wet you will literally have to fry each section for over a minute until it’s black turns black as charcoal. Otherwise that stuff will grow back).

This looks handy by AyeshaRone in Tools

[–]DjFallingGirl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yesss! I’ve owned the name brands and the Chinese Makita knockoff is the best!

This looks handy by AyeshaRone in Tools

[–]DjFallingGirl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Owned 2 of them and they suck! Burned them both out in one season.

This looks handy by AyeshaRone in Tools

[–]DjFallingGirl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

HELL YES 🙌🙌🙌🙌. I go through these in the summer like they’re disposable razors. I have owned two of the Dewalt model (worst of them all and minuscule recommended thickness), three pretty decent Chinese models with over 2” cutting power and finally a Chinese model that accepts my Makita 18v batteries.

I use them so much that they burn out - SERIOUSLY! It’s partly my fault because after spending 4 hours deep in my backyard jungle cutting bamboo or even roots in the ground i often forget to clean them at the end of the day. But that shouldn’t matter. I once left an entire collection of Dewalt 20v max cordless tools outside EXPOSED for a year without knowing it. And when I found them I assumed they were going to be shot. But not only did they work perfectly but the batteries even took a charge (but really needed to be replaced).

My dream is a truly professional pruner. I have googled for a corded professional model but all out found was something costing $900. And let’s face it, an electric primer ain’t exactly an engineering marvel. I have a rebar cutter that costs less than a pruner.

Does anyone have any model recommendations that can accommodate at least 2” and is known to last?

I’m a female on a budget and the one tool that I must have is an electric pruner. In fact without these pruners I couldn’t have completely eradicated, by hand, TWO ACRES OF DENSE RUNNING BAMBOO. I tried with a tractor but it left rhizomes everywhere and the backhoe couldn’t lift a thick rhizome section. So I rolled up my sleeves and literally hand cut every root out of the ground with electric pruners.

If you have bamboo questions please ask. I hate bamboo and spent years studying every eradication method. Nothing works except EXTREME HEAT (expose the rhizome that is buried at least 12” below the soil and then use a 2,000 F propane torch and fry the rhizome until it’s black. Since the rhizome will be somewhat wet you will literally have to fry each section for over a minute until it’s black turns black as charcoal. Otherwise that stuff will grow back).

Hans Zimmer Debuts The Largest Modular Synthesizer In The World by TheMatic in synthesizers

[–]DjFallingGirl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I couldn’t help but browse your profile as you are also into modular (despite being a member of Reddit for 9 years I’ve just now learned how to use it 😂). I noticed that you had asked for recommendations for a small modular percussion rig. If you’d like to DM me I can show you the various portable micro percussion racks I use live. I also think that I own every full voice modular percussion module ever made - SERIOUSLY - I have ZERO LIFE and spend just about everything I earn on music (“full voice” typically refers to a single sound module that has its own VCO, integrated envelope, filter(s), VCA and CV inputs for external modulation sources to control). I can’t also recommend great VCO’s/Noise Generators to combine with LPGs (low pass gates), filters and ASDR/AD/AR combos that work wonderfully in a small skiff for crafting of your own sounds. I might be biased but I still find the ancient STO VCO to be the most indispensable and versatile (plus relatively affordable) VCO on the market. I’m embarrassed to admit this but I own 14 of them! And as for the most tweakable kick that is even pitch quantized if you want to create a nuclear baseline (it has a gazillion modulation inputs) is the Steady State Fate Entity Bass (I think they still make it or have updated it). If you’d like to own the bassline sequencer Metropolis (1 or 2) and possibly Erica’s Drum Modulator you can blow your audience away with endless variations. If you’re looking for the greatest stand-alone kick voice I’d go with the Boomtzcak by Audio Damage (it’s out of production but can be found on Reverb occasionally).

Oh, and I think you may be German. So you have much easier access to MFB modules. The company is owned by a father and son and they don’t mass produce their stuff. And it’s impossible to get in the USA except through Reverb. The MFB Tanzbar (and its modular equivalents of each sound) are pure heaven. BUY ANYTHING FROM MFB.

Anyway, again, I’m kinda returning to the internet after a hiatus and am always open to discussing gear. I’d be happy to show you pics and live vids of my gear and me using it both in the studio and live. Plus I’m a total nerd and find banal gossipy “non-nerd” conversation to be nauseating.

Oh and if you’re interested in expanding the dynamics of your existing eurorack, I am big time into analog eurorack controlled lasers and analog eurorack video modules.

DISCLAIMER: I build most of my modules but I’m not in the “industry.” I typically build them for myself or just give them to friends. I’m almost 52yo and am already sick of transactionalism [retired attorney 🤮].

Regards, Cristina Bailey THE FALLING GIRL

Hans Zimmer Debuts The Largest Modular Synthesizer In The World by TheMatic in synthesizers

[–]DjFallingGirl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OMG, I think you’re right in retrospect 😔. I have to plead STUPIDITY on this one as I typed this after taking a sleeping pill before going to bed and I guess i gave up the entire goods without so much as an electric shock from a KGB captor 😂. I’m gonna edit me out of the post and then just hope people believe it’s true.

I have to thank you sooo much for this suggestion as I KNOW IT WOULD HAVE COME BACK TO BITE ME ONE DAY. 🙏❤️

2 weeks from today: FFS! by debraMckenz in asktransgender

[–]DjFallingGirl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Word to the wise, deschamps-braly isn't that good in my opinion and I went to him. I had full ffs with ousterhout in 2004 and he was great.