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Posts from July 2012



moon over parador
2012 Jul 1

(1988) is one of those movies where I seriously cannot remember whether I saw it in the theater, rented it or saw it on TV. Part of my brain thinks I actually saw this in the theater; another says no, I must have rented this (I did sometimes rent movies I ordinarily never would just […]

Why I never got into Les Paul guitars
2012 Jul 1

When I was a kid just starting out on guitar in the very-early 1990s, was the guitar. None of the guitar stores ever featured the Les Paul at the time. You never saw them in the glass case that some guitar stores had. Most of the time, all you ever saw there were premium American […]

5 easy ways to tell if an electric guitar is junk or not when in the guitar store
2012 Jul 3

If you buy enough electric guitars, at some point you run into that "played and sounded great in the store, but then played and sounded like crap when I got it home" scenario. This happens to a lot of guitar buyers, and yes I've had it happen to me a few times. And remember, this […]

Can't get your guitar to sound right in a YouTube video? I know what your problem is
2012 Jul 6

If you ever wondered why you just can't get your guitar to sound like it's supposed to when recording a YouTube video, the answer is simple. It's an answer that many guitar players absolutely refuse to accept as true, but it is true.

The 5 types of guitars you should never buy
2012 Jul 6

There are some guitars that exist where the day after you buy them, you know you've made a mistake. I'm going to list 5 of them below.

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