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the truth about guitar strings

Most of what guitar players know about guitar strings are "facts" that are either partially true or not true at all.

Here are a few of them.

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i can only handle country music in short bursts

The video below is "Jerry's Breakdown" and is the first song on the 1972 album Me and Chet. And yes, that album has one of the worst album covers ever, because when you think of Chet Atkins, you don't exactly envision him rowing a boat. Chet and Jerry, who played together often, would try to do "funny" things like that, but it just didn't work. But at least the music was good.

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Rich's movie review of The Usual Suspects

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The Usual Suspects is a movie from 1995 that I've been wanting to see for a long time because it had such rave reviews and I've never heard anyone say a bad thing about it. I finally got to watch it for myself and decide if it was good or not.

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