Posts from September 2012

The music scene in Tampa Bay totally sucks.

On 1-Oct-1982, was the first commercial compact disc, released in Japan. Now while true CD technology is several years older than 1982 (prototypes were around as early as the mid-1970s), the "music CD", if you will, started in '82, meaning the CD as we know it is 30 years old.

I bought a 12-pack box of . As I've said in previous blogs, you should never buy this many packs of strings at once because what happens is that you'll never get through half the box without some of the strings rusting on you.

is yet another one of those movies I saw when I was a little kid, had absolutely no idea what it was about, found it again and watched it.

I'll probably do a video on this later because it really needs to be shown (and heard) to fully understand why there is a very specific way to tune certain electrics.

Norlin era Gibsons are some of the worst guitars Gibson ever made. Find out why.

What makes or breaks wanting a guitar or not for many is the finish.

This is one of the best guitars Epiphone makes

This is something I wrote on social media, but it's worth a mention here because it makes a good point:

1980s era Eric Clapton music gets kind of a bad reputation because many say that the 80s was when he released his worst music.

I saw this on the Guitar Center web site today:

No, your Stratocaster is not defective if the tone control doesn't work for the bridge pickup.

There are some songs from certain time periods that say a ton of about a decade. Sweet Freedom by Michael McDonald is one of them.

The vast majority of solid-body electric guitars today are pretty much manufactured the exact same way they were 60 years ago. Planks of wood make up the body and neck, and simple passive (meaning non-"active") electronics are used for pickup selection, the pickups themselves, volume control, tone control and output jack.

I've been on the internet a long time. A really long time. Heck, some of you reading this probably weren't even born when I first started using internet in 1996. No, I'm not saying that to brag (because it's really nothing to brag about), but I am saying I've seen a lot of things come […]