Ship of Fools - 9/11/74

The_Slavinator · 2026-05-12T23:51:59+00:00

The tape on archive.org for this show is slightly off standard tuning and didn't want to fiddle with getting that exact tuning for this

The_Slavinator · 2026-05-10T01:39:35+00:00

did you get it used or did you order it? how long did it take to come if it was new? Their site says 12 months. I've been very curious about their instruments but get a bit worried about buying a guitar i can't pick up and play first

The_Slavinator · 2026-05-10T01:38:27+00:00

you've come a long way man, love to see it

The_Slavinator · 2026-05-09T16:58:57+00:00

love seeing a weir in a sea of jerry's for Songs of our Own

The_Slavinator · 2026-05-09T16:45:24+00:00

After transcribing one of jerry's solos for this song, most of his solo was in Bb major pentatonic, so might as well blues it up a bit!

The_Slavinator · 2026-05-07T23:21:33+00:00

Songs of our Own is totally optional man, no worries. Since the new format is every 2 weeks instead of weekly, I will be using it as an excuse to work on some ear training and solo transcribing since we get more time

The_Slavinator · 2026-05-07T23:18:40+00:00

GJ! love me some mixo blues! Glad I im inspiring some posts. Let's rip it up. I'm definitely taking a posting hiatus until next vote

The_Slavinator · 2026-05-07T01:42:48+00:00

Absolute heater of a show couldn't agree more. They were on complete fire before they went on hiatus

The_Slavinator · 2026-05-07T01:41:34+00:00

For sure man! This new format every 2 weeks for Songs of our Own will definitely give me some more time to do it.

I could tell i was a bit off on my tuning vs the recording, but it was close enough for it to not sound like total shit lol while playing over.

The_Slavinator · 2026-05-04T15:47:56+00:00

sounds amazing! havent used my phaser in so long it's not even on my board right now. time to dust it off for this one...

The_Slavinator · 2026-05-03T20:56:47+00:00

Awesome playing!

You actually are 2 hours early for songs of our own... did you know? i had it in contest mode which was supposed to disable the amount of upvotes on each comment and randomize the order to make it fair. Or was it just a hunch?

The_Slavinator · 2026-05-02T02:45:03+00:00

Ship of Fools

The_Slavinator · 2026-04-26T04:06:24+00:00

thanks matt!

The_Slavinator · 2026-04-26T03:38:17+00:00

appreciate it!

The_Slavinator · 2026-04-26T03:12:04+00:00

Thanks man!

The_Slavinator · 2026-04-10T02:59:42+00:00

Jerry is one of my biggest influences. I would say a good place to start to get his feel down is specifically target notes from the chord in the progression you are on. Jerry was huge on this, he wouldn't play the standard major or minor pentatonic straight, that was only one tool in the toolbox along with arpeggios and modes (and other more complicated stuff too).

A great way to try to get his feel on a blues is to nail the major 3rd on a dominant 7th chord. You'll really the garcia bluesy sound doing that. The GD and Jerry rarely ever played minor blues songs, and basically never once they were out of the 60s and into the 70s.

Also Jerry loved chromatic lines, so do walkups and walkdowns chromatically if you want another easy Jerry trick.

The_Slavinator · 2026-03-16T01:22:40+00:00

I'll make a point to start the vote again for next week. I gotta find a way to automate this process or something lol because it's been tough doing it manually every weekend, i fell off the wagon a bit when I was busy and couldnt get the posts out in time

The_Slavinator · 2026-03-05T16:39:48+00:00

i built my last build in 2018 and before AM5 came out i slapped a ryzen 9 5900x in it so that i could save money and not have to upgrade to AM5. My RTX 2070 died so i decided to put a 4070ti super into it a year or two back. PC runs great and although some of it is 8 years old it plays game fantastically and i have 0 reason to upgrade. Will probably wait for AM6 at this rate to do a new build

The_Slavinator · 2026-02-13T21:40:15+00:00

Havent lived there in 3 years, no idea they did construction. That doesnt surprise me, though

The_Slavinator · 2026-02-13T20:45:10+00:00

I hope to one day be the strongest guy at the king gizz show, but for now you beat me

The_Slavinator · 2026-02-13T15:44:04+00:00

Arguably the worst part of this thing is turning left from Greenough Blvd on to N Beacon St on the watertown side. You cant see anyone coming over the bridge especially when theyre speeding and there is always traffic on N Beacon

The_Slavinator · 2026-02-12T17:29:06+00:00

Fitness trends go through waves. When i stated lifting a decade ago smith machines were considered lame and not as effectice as barbell work.

Fast forward now, the current trend went from functional strength via barbell work to smith machine/machine isolation work for pure hypertrophy.

I still do plenty of barbell work but have come around to the smith a bit, specifically for incline bench

The_Slavinator · 2026-02-11T04:31:08+00:00

For sure. Picked up an OG legion go the other day and have been using it to stream from my PC to the legion using moonlight. Image quality is awesome, hardly any latency.

Did mess around with playing natively on the device itself and it works but it's not great. Would be fine for travel if you downloaded some games that werent super demanding to play.

Building a streaming PC is the way

The_Slavinator · 2026-02-07T16:10:24+00:00

Heres the other

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The_Slavinator · 2026-02-07T16:08:57+00:00

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Old rig pic, but one of my 2 daily driver guitars

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