Rich's Sound - Single Coil Strut
This is what may be the first in a series of posts on how I get my specific guitar sound. I receive many questions on the subject, so hopefully this will answer a few of them.
In this installment, I'm going to talk about why I prefer a single coil pickup over a humbucker.
This is second worst movie I've ever written about, and definitely falls into the category of "so bad it's good". The worst, in case you're interested, is Smokey and the Bandit Part 3.
In my last post I made quick mention of a wrestling game that I really liked when I was a kid, but then one of the floppy disks for it botched and I couldn't play it anymore.
I never really used floppy disks that much, and only did because I had to and not because I wanted to. And man did it tick me off when they went bad, which happened a lot. Back in the day there was this WWF wrestling game I had for my Commodore 64. It was expensive and I really, really liked playing it. It was two 5.25-inch floppies and then one day the second disk went bad, even though I oh-so-carefully took great care of the disks and properly put them away after each use. I was not happy. Just about all of my other memories with floppies are exactly like the one I just described. The floppy was just notoriously unreliable. It wasn't a matter of if they would fail but when.
There are three B movies from the 1980s that as far as I'm concerned stand out more than any other. H.O.T.S. (1979, not 80s but close enough), Screwballs (1983) and Porky's (1982). All three of these epitomize what raunchy sex humor is supposed to be in a B movie.
The Firm is a flick I'm surprised I haven't written about before. I've watched it at least 4 or 5 times.
On February 1, 2011 I bought a new Arctic White Squier Bullet Strat - the second Squier I've ever owned.
A long time ago back when I was attending Lyndon State College in Vermont before I transferred out and finished my degree at New England Tech, I was living in a dorm. Because college dorm life was somewhat boring, I bought a VCP, which is a VHS videocassette player, meaning a VCR with no recording ability. Bear in mind this was the early 1990s.
Two films in two days? Sure, why not.
On Facebook, one of my friends who just did a monster event said, "I am looking forward to doing nothing soon" in reference to relaxing for a while. My first thought was, "The Nothing.. that's from The NeverEnding Story.. I haven't seen that in years!" So I re-watched it.
