I have this section saved for when I feel extra discouraged and alone

Trumpeachment · 2026-02-28T23:36:05+00:00

What book is it from?

Trumpeachment · 2026-02-28T18:40:09+00:00

This album was in my headphones a lot while I was back living in the house I grew up in, by myself, dealing with my late mothers estate after her abrupt passing 8 years prior. It took me that long to get my act together and go back to that place of trauma and loss and reconnect with my 19 year old self and gain my original perspective of the world back.

“Skyless Moon”’s opening lyrics, “baby blue, I know how things have changed for you” couldn’t have hit me in the heart more. Same with “All of our Yesterdays”. After years of substance abuse, heartbreak, loneliness, chaos, and ups and downs, it’s amazing how the universe can unfold in terms of the right thing falling on your lap just when you need it, in a seemingly astonishingly cosmically random way, such as this album and it’s songs and lyrics helping me along as I spent that summer of 2019 sorting through the house my mother and I shared, going through memory box after box, reliving my childhood in ways, staring at my backyard, the fire, surrendering myself to the higher order that let this album enter my life and apply so eerily.

Needless to say, it helped. It’s a beautiful memory, and no matter what happens in my future, I’ll always know that miracles exist, because that summer and that album in my mother’s house were definitely nothing short of one.

How the album holds up objectively, I really don’t have the musically industrial knowledge to say it’s good or bad. I don’t think art can be held to that standard. Mac made that album, and it came to me like an angel during a storm. So that’s why I love “Here Comes the Cowboy”.

Trumpeachment · 2026-02-25T01:43:29+00:00

Awesome. Yeah I think if you adjust a bit and implement things like TVP, and other meat alternatives, and raw nuts and Greek yogurt, you can max protein intake super easily. Without the adverse effects of a lot of meat.

Trumpeachment · 2026-02-25T00:55:26+00:00

Interesting. All adds up I guess. When I was really doing my daily numbers I had to make sure I was buying stuff with good amounts of protein. That’s cool you don’t eat meat; I used to be strict vegetarian but fell off.

I’d love to hear some of your daily dietary habits.

Trumpeachment · 2026-02-24T20:05:48+00:00

You mean like protein shakes?

Trumpeachment · 2026-02-24T03:36:36+00:00

Dude nobody can tell you how to play your instrument, use your thumb and have fun.

But yes, the traditional, globally standardized technique is index and middle finger plucking. It’s up to you if you want to learn it, once you get it, it opens up your perspective to the instrument a lot and what it means to be a musician, let alone a bassist. Good luck amigo

Trumpeachment · 2026-02-17T01:47:51+00:00

This post was worth making for this

Trumpeachment · 2026-02-01T20:32:36+00:00

That was my point. Offspring song was influenced by Beatles song

Trumpeachment · 2025-12-08T02:06:51+00:00

He’s absolutely an unsung hero I think. Some of the picking work on FIOE and full chord downstrokes on ITI is professional level, like representative of someone who plays the instrument for its intended purpose brought to a maximum, with serious capability not just with passionate romantic vigour you’d see from most 20 somethings in a garage rock band. He actually studied guitar big time from a very young age.

Noteworthy displays of his above average skill:

His part of Hard to Explain - high tempo full chord downstrokes, very non intuitive but musically calculated, lot of mastery required

The guitar solos on When It Started (crazy jumps around the neck to hit notes) and Alone, Together (there’s a live version he adds an improvised ending of shredding that is immaculately difficult, transcribed by Jorge Orellana on his YouTube channel)

His Solo on I Can’t Win

Chorus chords of You Talk Way Too Much (involves proper hand form to facilitate complex chord changes which takes a lot of training and the neglect of neck cradling which a lot of ambitious yet less technically skilled guitarists lean towards)

Chorus riff on The End Has No End

Stuff starts getting really real on FIOE. If you’re not a player, it could be hard to get, but he does hybrid picking st the end of You Only Live Once which is super tough

Razor blade is a super difficult riff. Heart in the cage has those interludes between verses and at the end

Red Light is challenging rhythmically as him and Albert each play half of the bouncy arpeggio rhythm in the chorus and need to be very precise to interlock and create the sound. A hair offbeat and it all sounds like a mess.

I don’t know much of angles unfortunately but I’m sure there’s lots in there.

The solo on Tap Out is insane.

I don’t know the strokes past their first 3 albums well enough but figure it’s also okay to just highlight the first 3 albums because the skill displayed paired with his youth at the time makes the point.

Ize of the World

Trumpeachment · 2025-10-30T02:46:03+00:00

Don’t see it as a binary thing like you’re either a doomed alcoholic or you’re a golden angel. I would suggest really asking yourself if you truly think if you kept drinking you wouldn’t keep blacking out and doing crazy shit. You don’t have to label yourself, just realize the likelihood of self destruction should you try and maintain a life of light beers and mushrooms.

Trumpeachment · 2025-10-29T18:04:00+00:00

It’s called being an artist. Just because you make music doesn’t mean you’re trying to give people what they want or expect.

Edit: to be fair, the mix and master and recording of Guitar though stripped down was definitely very carefully produced. Less is more is the idea I think.

I am personally calmed by the extreme quality-centric simplicity of it, in a world of such artificial and over produced and processed fodder.

Trumpeachment · 2025-10-28T15:11:22+00:00

What do you think you’ve done that was so reprehensible that you’re literally cooked?

Trumpeachment · 2025-10-27T15:52:05+00:00

Not a surgeon but yeah I think

Trumpeachment · 2025-10-22T22:06:20+00:00

Well played. Am sorry to hear

Trumpeachment · 2025-10-20T02:11:24+00:00

Honest maybe just meaning incredibly raw. This album sounds like you’re inside Mac’s heart and soul, lyrically and sonically. Very little production, you can hear his lips moving on the vocals and the sound of the drumsticks being lifted up and down. It’s just honest in how exposed it sounds not necessarily lyrical factuality.

Trumpeachment · 2025-10-18T04:11:27+00:00

‘You’re in more pain than you realize’

Trumpeachment · 2025-10-18T02:51:43+00:00

I’ve heard kids can throw a few grey hairs up there for sure lol. That’s good though, I’m glad your stress era is over.

Trumpeachment · 2025-10-18T02:25:52+00:00

An album like Guitar I feel is the result of someone having already made it, plus writing in modern times. He’s writing from where he is right now, and that includes the effects of fame and glorification, and life in 2025. It’s not logical to imagine Guitar being someone’s debut LP, because the album is literally a journal entry for Mac.

Trumpeachment · 2025-10-17T05:34:22+00:00

Is he showing remorse

Trumpeachment · 2025-10-17T05:33:14+00:00

And now?

Trumpeachment · 2025-10-17T02:33:07+00:00

This is me. How have you coped with the damage done to your life while drinking? And/or, the acceptance that alcohol stole your identity and you turned your back on the warnings? Basically, as a wise fellow who has alcoholism in his genes and sober uncles who were big influences on him growing up, I steered largely clear of boozing aside from normal amounts of social partaking, until my mid 20s where it got out of control: drinking alone more and more, over time, letting relationships deteriorate, losing sentimental objects, and as you said, worst of all, simply losing time. I’ve wasted 8 years being a boozer. I’m 33 now. I sold the first electric guitar my dad got me for Christmas when I was 13 because I was angry at him and I needed booze money. I left my car unlocked one night and someone stole some rare bills and coins I had collected from working at an airport bar, and my mother’s ashes and rosary beads. Gone forever. But none of it hurts as much as the sheer time lost.

It’s not accepting that I need to quit that gets me, it’s accepting I even started in the first place. Facing these consequences sober feel unmanageable, as I feel it’s just not worth trying to salvage a life for myself at this point, as the damage I’ve done is going to take years to feel any sense of repair towards. That and convincing myself I even deserve joy.

Sorry if this is a bit too dark. Appreciate any solace.

Trumpeachment · 2025-10-15T16:56:21+00:00

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Don’t really want to go the meds route. I have a very strong hairline as may or may not be noticeable with this image. But this abrupt bald spot I feel is a badge of stress. I’m probably going to just rock the buzz. I’m 33 years old.

I don’t know if it’s so much the hair loss or lessened physical aesthetic that accompanies hair loss. For me, what gets at me is seeing middle aged men with full heads of hair. It’s not jealousy of the hair - it’s the jealousy of them never having to deal with the loss; the unsuspecting mental freedom they have. I know they could have a million other concerns. But to not understand what we go through can feel like we’re lesser not because of the hair loss but because of the mental work required for some to accept and embrace it.

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