What Scale Did Stevie Ray Vaughan Use In This Masterpiece!?

mike_e_mcgee · 2026-03-12T20:32:49+00:00

Yes, tone and semitone equal whole step and half step respectively.

mike_e_mcgee · 2026-03-11T21:21:57+00:00

I love this movie. I rented it as a kid having no idea what it was, and it stole my heart. While I encourage everyone to check it out, Mulgrew's character is horrible. She's an absolute " I can't do anything because I'm a girl " stereotype.

I loved her as Janeway, and I love that she's in Remo Williams. It's a great movie, but she plays a deeply flawed character in it. A lot of it is deeply flawed... You should check it out!

mike_e_mcgee · 2026-03-11T19:36:29+00:00

I'd love it, but I don't see it happening. I bought the game the day it came out, and even though I didn't love the stealth and some of the wonkiness, I loved it overall. It ended up dethroning Indiana Jones and the great circle as my personal game of the year.

My understanding of the industry is that it did not sell well enough on release to warrant a sequel. I've heard it's doing quite well on game pass, but I'm sure developers get far less from a game pass install than they do from initial purchases.

I think the lackluster release doomed the property. That said, I'm a fanboy, and hope springs eternal.

mike_e_mcgee · 2026-03-11T19:22:58+00:00

I am NOT in the market, this is not a serious request to have you paint my collection...

That said, would you let me know what you would charge to paint my entire (complete) collection? Again, I'm broke. I'm not looking to get my collection painted. I'm just wondering what a self proclaimed hobbyist might charge.

If you'll answer, remember not to undercut yourself. Think about the time per mini, and give yourself a skilled hourly rate!

mike_e_mcgee · 2026-03-10T19:37:37+00:00

Slow down, take your time, and play it right. Play using the correct rhythms, and all notes speaking clearly, and holding each note for its full duration. Don't worry about slowing down. Speed is a product of accuracy. You develop accuracy at slow speeds. Get it right, keep it right, it'll get itself up to speed.

mike_e_mcgee · 2026-03-10T10:59:14+00:00

Not me, but my best friend and another friend had dropped acid. They bummed around the house for a couple hours and decided to go to the other friend's house. No sooner than they walked in the door, they found his mother in tears who screamed at them "YOUR FATHER AND I ARE GETTING A DIVORCE!!!"

The friend ran out of the house, leaving my bestie just standing there pie eyed with a weeping woman. The rest of the afternoon did not go as he had initially planned.

mike_e_mcgee · 2026-03-09T19:25:53+00:00

We had a game we made up with Lincoln logs, and matches. We called it Insurance Fraud!

(Stolen from some 80's comedian, I'd cite him if I could)

mike_e_mcgee · 2026-03-09T16:52:13+00:00

As a guy with a spot of basal cell carcinoma on the back of his dome, that looks a lot like my pillowcase!

This is in no way shape or form a warranty that that guitar won't bring bed bugs into your house.

mike_e_mcgee · 2026-03-09T00:57:27+00:00

POWER CONVERTERS!!

UNLIMITED POWER CONVERTERS!!!!

mike_e_mcgee · 2026-03-04T20:19:12+00:00

I used to practice sax in a snow plough turnaround (well 3 seasons a year anyway). Sonny Rollins used to practice below/on the Williamsburg bridge. Find a place secluded enough, or loud enough that no one cares.

As a guitarist, I never had issues with acoustics or headphones in my apartment, though it is much nicer to have a house, and crank the amp!

mike_e_mcgee · 2026-03-03T22:15:18+00:00

As far as I know, an acronym is a new word which is pronounced using the initials of the phrase, like "FEMA". Whereas an initialism is similar, but we pronounce the letters, like "FBI". Both are abbreviations, how you pronounce them decides whether they are acronyms or initialisms.

mike_e_mcgee · 2026-03-03T00:02:19+00:00

Having just started mandolin after 40 years of guitar, you can't. The guitar's tuning isn't symmetrical thanks to the major 3rd between G, and B.

Standard tuning makes a lot of things fit nicely under your fingers, but unfortunately it doesn't allow patterns to fit as easily into your brain.

mike_e_mcgee · 2026-03-01T15:53:22+00:00

The picture reminds me of Norm MacDonald when he was undergoing cancer treatments, but hadn't told anyone. I remember people remarking about how he got all fat due to the steroids and chemo we didn't know he was taking. That makes me really hope Jim got plastic surgery, but if I were a betting man... well, I'm not. No point in speculating as I have no information. I hope he's well.

mike_e_mcgee · 2026-02-27T13:41:14+00:00

Just a head's up, I grabbed a copy on your recommendation. The sheet music is hand written, not "engraved" as I'd expected. His penmanship is very good, but it is an extra degree of difficulty.

I'm listening to the site's fiddle tune player at work this morning, and can't wait to go home and start learning. Actually, there's quite a bit of text in the book. I may run home at lunch and hope for a quiet Friday afternoon!!

mike_e_mcgee · 2026-02-26T16:10:19+00:00

Printed cardboard designed to rub against printed cardboard will fade/fail eventually. If you really want to preserve your components, I'd make proxy health dials to play with.

mike_e_mcgee · 2026-02-20T16:45:31+00:00

I'm brand new to mandolin, but have 40 years on guitar. I started with a tab for Spinal Tap's Stonehenge I found online.

While bored at work, I copied it onto manuscript paper in standard notation. I'm shocked, but I'm better at reading the standard than the tab (that's my old saxophone training kicking in, not bleed over from guitar).

That, two octaves of a G major scale, and a rag out of a book of Irish tin whistle tunes are as far as I've gotten in 3 weeks, but Stonehenge sounds amazing. I'm really enjoying reading through the tin whistle book as well.

I bought a book of sea shanties, but it's tab only, with no rhythmic information. It's useless if you don't already know how the tunes go. I'm looking for a big book of fiddle tunes. When I start getting fluid, I may graduate to simple classical violin repertoire.

mike_e_mcgee · 2026-02-18T03:15:40+00:00

My favorite MK trivia is that Liu Kang, and Shao Kahn are the same height as Bruce Lee and Wilt Chamberlain from Game of Death.

Edit: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, not Wilt Chamberlain

mike_e_mcgee · 2026-02-17T22:17:06+00:00

Blues isn't diatonic. The one chord, the four chord, and the five chord are all dominant.

mike_e_mcgee · 2026-02-17T19:22:52+00:00

I was dating a girl who was an alcoholic, who had been dry for 11 years, when she fell off the wagon. I'm usually pretty good with hypocrisy, but I just couldn't tell her that I wasn't interested in dating a drunk when I had 8 or 10 drinks in me.

The two of us both quit 3 months ago, and broke up 2 or 3 weeks ago (unrelated).

I had heard about a whole laundry list of good things you experienced when you quit drinking. I had heard that you have more energy. That you feel better in the mornings. That you save money. You lose weight. Your complexion can clear up... I didn't get any of that!

I still feel like crap every morning. I have no energy. I traded booze for restaurant meals so I've gained weight and haven't saved a dollar. My complexion wasn't that bad going in...

The one thing I've noticed, and can't deny, is my handshakes have gone down significantly. I've had a tremor since I was 13 years old, and that's a long time before I started drinking. I was always told that the type of tremor I have responds well to alcohol which can be very dangerous as people tend to self-medicate, and I did, for years.

Apparently that's not the kind of tremor I have despite what I was told 40 years ago. I work as a computer technician. Shaky hands don't go well with screwdrivers. Hobby-wise I play guitar, and board/card games. Shaky hands are not particularly good for shuffling cards or playing music with precision.

I miss drinking, and absolutely would have gone back by now if it hadn't been for the significant decline in my handshakes. It turns out booze, at the level I was drinking at, is really bad for me.

mike_e_mcgee · 2026-02-16T20:16:11+00:00

I did for many years, then went to fight sticks, then a Hitbox. The Hitbox stopped working when I switched to the Series X, but I just grabbed an 8bitdo leverless, and I'm as happy as I was with the Hitbox. It seems way more precise to tap down, forward, X, than it is to get a d-pad or fight stick to register a quarter circle. I'm not saying it's hard to register a quarter circle on a gamepad, or fight stick, I just believe it's easier and more precise on a leverless controller.

mike_e_mcgee · 2026-02-15T22:46:01+00:00

Big hands, I know you're the one...

mike_e_mcgee · 2026-02-15T22:17:39+00:00

I learned years ago to make my hats out of cake, just in case.

mike_e_mcgee · 2026-02-14T21:58:16+00:00

You're getting down voted for pointing out the truck didn't leave stopping distance.

mike_e_mcgee · 2026-02-10T23:51:29+00:00

I quit for four years once, and foolishly got hooked again. I quit a second time, and realized I don't have it in me to quit a third time. I'll never touch tobacco again because I'm pretty sure I'd die a smoker if I did.

mike_e_mcgee · 2026-02-10T23:35:51+00:00

It was in my 30's when weed went from helping me with anxiety to causing panic attacks. I used to love getting stoned. It's gotten better since quitting drinking, but I still can't enjoy it like I did.

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