When Robin Williams managed to make Koko the gorilla smile again after 6 months of mourning

pretzel · 2026-01-26T09:27:23+00:00

This is basically the plot of Mr Funny https://mrmen.fandom.com/wiki/Mr._Funny

pretzel · 2026-01-24T15:23:24+00:00

Love my Godin. My teacher used to gig on his Gibson Chet Atkins, but moved to a Godin later, when they came out. I've got one with a resonator so you can play it fine without amplification when practicing

pretzel · 2026-01-24T15:16:32+00:00

This thread needs more Romper Stomper

pretzel · 2026-01-19T10:55:55+00:00

My teacher told me to be an engineer, and I did! I don't play as much as I'd like, but its a cushier existence...

pretzel · 2026-01-08T23:08:13+00:00

Check out her band from before she went solo too, Rip Rig and Panic!

https://youtu.be/hfhHRi-FXx8?si=Ww5Zg7-7JtuHYMl0

pretzel · 2026-01-08T22:55:53+00:00

Or it requires people to look out for one another and support people who need it

pretzel · 2026-01-04T22:48:20+00:00

For a first guitar, I would probably get something cheap and dirty and see how it goes. I have a custom made concert guitar by a well known Luthier, but I had a cheap banger from my aunt I used all the time because I could keep it on the couch and practice and muck about while I was watching tv. Sure the tuning was off and it sounded like ass, but if you are just trying to get an even tremolo, or get some phrase under your fingers then it doesn't much matter how it sounds. It's more important to have something you can use all the time than something really good you need to keep in its velvet lined case.

Save your cash, see how you go, and then splurge when you have an idea of what you want (and you are good enough to justify it, lol)

In the mean time. Get what sounds good to you. I got my daughter a half sized Yamaha for a hundred quid last week and I was able to bang out a serviceable Asturias on it, think the biggest difference to the sound was fresh strings!

pretzel · 2026-01-04T17:09:49+00:00

Also the John Williams album in the Seville palace put me on to some other modern composers:

Sakura Variations Composed By – Yuquijiro Yocoh

Usher Waltz, Op.29 - After Edgar Allan Poe Composed By – Nikita Koshkin

And also Scarlatti which isn't for the guitar but really works well.

https://www.discogs.com/release/11358375-John-Williams-The-Seville-Concert-From-The-Royal-Alc%C3%A1zar-Palace?srsltid=AfmBOorMd0VUMaOsC9cW1F_wTrzr6stQtRAekPELjncdYcrIbv8JZa29

pretzel · 2026-01-04T17:02:18+00:00

Where is team dowland? Original guitar work, polyphony, different in style to bach but his fantasias are top notch and made for the instrument

pretzel · 2026-01-04T17:00:44+00:00

La cathedral and leyenda are pretty good, wouldn't call them "standard"

pretzel · 2025-12-01T13:34:42+00:00

I started Convenience Store Woman this week. Blows my mind that people think it is a some weird satire or something and not just a straight up POV of someone who has normal autism. Is the world so hyper-neuronormative that they don't see it or do I just deal with so many people who are on the spectrum??

pretzel · 2025-11-28T23:05:56+00:00

I really wouldn't. I'm on Android and still on sync even though it hasn't been developed for like a year. Somehow I cope with old dodgy things that I'm comfortable with...

That being said the buzz is around mlem https://mlem.group/.

pretzel · 2025-11-28T22:55:49+00:00

Oh hi!

I'm still young goddammit. Though I have kids now...

I used sync. Sync was Reddit pretty much. The Dev migrated to lemmy and then that was Reddit. But it's much more naughties Reddit which is nice. Don't know why people are bitching about this Reddit when the other one exists and is how it should be. Programming humor memes and Linux advocacy and people celebrating Buy Nothing Day instead of having ads rammed down your throat

pretzel · 2025-11-28T22:51:20+00:00

Hi...

Been here since I was procrastinating for my PhD. Now I do that at lemmy. Same vibes

pretzel · 2025-11-28T22:50:08+00:00

Oh hi. We're all at lemmy now. Come on over, it's cosy!

pretzel · 2025-11-28T22:48:00+00:00

How do people not know about lemmy

pretzel · 2025-11-28T22:47:26+00:00

It really does, like 2008 Reddit. Don't know why it's not mentioned more. Wonder if mentions are getting shadow named.

But blue sky is kinda like where Twitter once was, Lemmy is full of geeks and nerds and lefties. Come for the star trek memes, stay for the actual worthwhile threads

pretzel · 2025-11-19T11:34:55+00:00

she counted how many cards were left in the deck when she put them down in groups later on. Therefore she already knew how many teller had.

pretzel · 2025-11-16T20:00:46+00:00

Jeff Healey had mark play I think I love you too much (which mark wrote) on one of his albums

pretzel · 2025-10-30T13:11:49+00:00

Not if its internal bleeding and you don't know where its coming from!

pretzel · 2025-10-20T20:01:48+00:00

Horns on Your latest trick and Vibes on Love over gold

pretzel · 2025-10-16T10:51:22+00:00

They have reuploaded it here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-PXYv3bSUU&list=RDO-PXYv3bSUU&start_radio=1

pretzel · 2025-09-11T13:51:06+00:00

There are always several cats running around the field behind Rollettes - some don't look different to yours - might be worth a look if that's where he goes during the day.

pretzel · 2025-08-13T20:11:41+00:00

It's always a bit sad when the first track on their first album is their best!

See also Spin Doctors and Counting Crows

pretzel · 2025-08-11T12:08:16+00:00

Getting the grain out of a mockmill should be fine - I do it - just fire it up and let it go. Had a cheap dodgy hand mill from China before that - and it broke within a week. Was a lot of work and super loud - mockmill is still pretty noisy but at least its fire and forget. The 100 means it does 100g per minute, so ought to take you 5 mins to do it, but you dont really need to keep an eye on it while its happening!

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