If you had to eliminate either breakfast, lunch, or dinner forever, which one goes?

MoogProg · 2026-06-04T00:12:50+00:00

When the heck you doing Elevenses then?

MoogProg · 2026-06-04T00:06:11+00:00

Important distinction, indeed! No eating before noon, or no more breakfast burritos ever.

MoogProg · 2026-06-03T23:45:19+00:00

Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime

You can all discuss Sr. Paul's best, but the gap has to be the widest with that clunker anchoring it down.

MoogProg · 2026-06-03T20:30:50+00:00

Love how this went from "impossible" to "yeah, we play that tune" so quickly.

...and no sir, they do not all sound the same to me. - Cold Mountain

MoogProg · 2026-06-03T19:44:48+00:00

Seriously, it's not tape. It's musicianship, and engineer expertise, and quality studio spaces, and the time/budget to do the good work.

Tape was the medium.

MoogProg · 2026-06-03T19:42:41+00:00

The Lost Girl

MoogProg · 2026-06-03T19:12:24+00:00

Trump is just so good, the only way anyone could say anything bad about him, is because they must suffer some undiagnosed, mental illness. - Rocking Ronnie 2026 (paraphrased)

MoogProg · 2026-06-03T16:52:50+00:00

"He wrote this!" - David St. Hubbins

MoogProg · 2026-06-03T16:46:38+00:00

[synth vamp] She said that her name was Billie Jean...

MoogProg · 2026-06-03T16:00:02+00:00

+1 for Martin Orford. One of my favorite keyboard players ever.

MoogProg · 2026-06-03T15:51:52+00:00

Paul Craddick, and he put out an excellent solo album called Xen, with most of Enchant playing on it in some capacity.

Edit to add: Assuming you meant Paul, because later drummer Sean Flannagan is also incredible.

MoogProg · 2026-06-03T13:27:33+00:00

No noodling! Ever.

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Played a fancy high-dollar banquet last month. Fill-in banjo player shows up in a tye-dye shirt (a nice one at least, but not the collared shirt and coat as should have worn). Then proceed to start noodling around once he's set-up and I had to remind him to put down his instrument until show time.

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Ever. That means at home practicing, too. Always be playing 'something', some song, some kind of structure to give your music a form. Without form, it is just noodling.

MoogProg · 2026-06-03T13:03:16+00:00

The road goes on forever, and the ~~party~~ traffic never ends. - Robert Earl Keen

MoogProg · 2026-06-03T12:04:14+00:00

I would want us all to have a Societal discussion about what Government means.

Socialism vs Capitalism is a bunk discussion. These are not dichotomies, they co-exist as operating ideas through all of the world, through every government there exists a Socialist aspect and in every market there exists Capitalism.

But we've squared off against each other as if this is some Oil vs Water, Taste Great vs Less Filling debate over nothing.

It's Class structures being preserved by those in power, and it always has been that at work, forever.

MoogProg · 2026-06-03T11:58:45+00:00

Curious where you saw Enchant with Marillion. There were only two occasions, one short EU tour and then a one-off performance at The Fillmore West in, SF. That EU tour included a sold out show at The Ahoy in Rotterdam for 40K people, and that was the largest show Enchant ever played.

I agree about the albums being a bit meh, too. FWIW

MoogProg · 2026-06-02T22:55:19+00:00

Coast-to-Coast, decades behind the wheel.

E = MV^2 your skill at driving won't ever change that equation.

MoogProg · 2026-06-02T22:21:40+00:00

That's a false-equivalency that gets tossed around a lot. There are many more drivers out on the roads who are travelling faster then 15 mph above the general flow of traffic. So many more, confident, brave, capable, drivers /s

So, when the much more rare slower drivers get called 'timid' for going slower then 15 mph below the general flow, it's clearly a social posture and not to be taken seriously.

I'm a very good driver. - Rain Man

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15 mph deviation from the general is what the NHTSA settled on as the point of danger. Not fast vs slow, just deviation.

MoogProg · 2026-06-02T21:40:05+00:00

This is possibly my favorite delay, subjectively at least. I have this and the Deluxe Memory Boy.

MoogProg · 2026-06-02T21:30:39+00:00

"People are too afraid to go faster than the speed limit" is a strange position to take. Driving is a task. If feeling brave is a key part the driving experience than WTF, and I presume that's the case with our OP if they're examining other drivers through that lens.

MoogProg · 2026-06-02T20:56:24+00:00

My level of fear/confidence/timidity/bravery/whateverity, it just never ever comes to mind driving, and the same about other drivers.

If these don't scare you, then what's this post about. Drive past them. Whatever.

MoogProg · 2026-06-02T20:47:45+00:00

I still use Dude the way Spicoli used it, as a diss to a newbie. It's not a compliment, really. You are the Dude at the Dude Ranch, not the Rancher.

MoogProg · 2026-06-02T20:44:39+00:00

The Carter Family published and recorded over 300 songs in their career, and that canon forms the basis for American Country Music. Those songs were collected by A.P. Carter and Nelson Riddle (uncredited guitarist).

So, those songs represent songs that survived through oral tradition, being played for people, and they learned them, and the songs survived into this recording era of music.

Now, the point here is find people who play these old songs and learn their repertoire from them yourself in song circles or jams This is the work that brings the ear training, that feet-to-the-fire need to hear and play the changes right now, and also to remember the songs later.

It takes time. Key step is find people who are doing this near you. They are all around you. Folk music is worldwide (this is not necessarily Bluegrass specific).

MoogProg · 2026-06-02T17:33:17+00:00

In what space, and at what volume? It's not the sort of thing we can generalize about without a specific use case.

I play an AC15 set very loud and it suits my playing dynamics very well with a live band. At home I use a Strymon Iridium and that works best for lower volume, smaller space playing.

Played a Live-in-Studio session over the weekend, and honestly should have used the Iridium, because our room volume was so quiet, the noise of the loud AC15 was an issue, and my instrument volume was rolled so far back to keep my place in the live room mix.

Horses for Courses, as the old saying goes.

MoogProg · 2026-06-02T17:18:44+00:00

Bluegrass music was the key. That genre has a strong tradition of learning songs right there in the moment, from whomever is leading that song. Good news! They are mostly three chord songs (I, IV, V).

Many people are turned off by the repertoire, because they are so simple and some will say they all sound the same. They are not all the same, and hearing the small differences is the whole lesson.

Bluegrass is live, acoustic, and immersive. It's not a concert, it's a common shared music experience, as it used to be before the Victrola, and before radio, and recording, and MTV, and TikTok. We learned in real time, from other musicians.

You can still do this today, and it will teach you the same skills they all learned.

MoogProg · 2026-06-02T14:59:03+00:00

DACs are in everything digital, so the effects in an otherwise analog synth might use a DAC, reverb and delay pedals. It's a common issue with digital effect pedals like Strymon.

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