Brian Krashpad
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30 minutes ago, Mr. Gibson said:
Turned out excellent,used lard in the mix.
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Spent about 3 or 4 hours going over the final edits to my chapter in the upcoming 14th edition (I also did the same chapter in the 12th and 13th editions) of this monster book. Got finished mowing the front lawn (did the first half or so yesterday). Tomorrow I hope to get some billables in.
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On 4/18/2020 at 3:45 PM, Same Guy said:
I felt the exact opposite. I bought my 2015 LP Special Double Cut precisely because I did love the sound of the alnico slug P90's..
Well, that, and the light weight of this one.
(And the blow-out price didn't hurt, either!)
Agreed. I have plenty of humbucker guitars as well (plus non-P90 single coils, like Tele, Strat, Hi-Gain, and DeArmond), but I'm a big fan of P-90s.
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A bunch of people in a facebook group I'm in have bought them, and all appear to be very happy with them. Fwiw/ymmv.
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50 minutes ago, Marky Forrest said:
I'm starting a new work-from-home job on the 13th. I'll be working for one of the largest healthcare companies in the U.S. My job will be to help doctors and their staff by answering questions about ICD Codes and anything else related to my company. I've worked in healthcare for decades as an X-ray and CT Tech so it's a really good fit for me.
I'm brushing up on ICD Codes to prepare.
¡Felicidades!
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Just now, Marky Forrest said:
No COVID-19 for me! I got the news late yesterday. All I had was the regular flu and bronchitis. I'm feeling much better now but did a little too much around the house today so it's nap time.
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41 minutes ago, jdgm said:
And the blue Ovation at top right?
....I'm assuming it's an Ovation Deacon or a Breadwinner?
You should've met Rev David Lee.........................🎸
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Correct, yes, it's a Breadwinner. Ol' Blue always attracts attention. Was my main guitar through most of the wacky '80s.
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14 hours ago, Tman said:
Amazing collection Krashpad. The checkerboard one is epileptogenic however if one stares too long. What is it? I don't see pickups (or anything on the face).
I'm at work today. The place is deserted.
Thanks! Checkers is a no-name "Sears Special," similar to a Teisco or any number of early-'70s MIJ offenses against nature. My folks bought it for me, my first electric. Virtually unplayable. By c. 1980 I finally gave up on it and made it into the wall art in the photo. Originally sunburst. I covered it in white interior wall paint, graphed it off with a pencil, and filled in the black squares with a bottle of black hobbyist model paint, by hand. The back is still sunburst, haha!
I lost track of it after law school, and 6 or 7 years ago at a band reunion, one of my housemates/bandmates from back in the day gave it back to me! It lives up on a shelf in the garage practice space here at palatial Casa Krashpad.
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Added the guitars to the mix this morning. I'd forgotten I'd lent out the Thunderbird and had to get her back in the sake of completeness.
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I killed quarantine time making my first proper amp family photo in 8 years.
Wall O' Sound, 2020.
Back (l-r): Crate BX 200/Ampeg SVT (200W 8x10), '67 Fender Super Reverb (40W 4x10, dual cabbed), '69 Kustom 100 (100W 1x15), Top: Marshall 5213 (100W 2x12) Bottom: Ampeg Reverberocket 212R (50W 2x12), Top: '60s Sunn 200s (40W) Bottom: DIY 2x12 Celestion cab; '70s Woodson 250 (250W 1x15), Top: Cigarbox Homebuilt (0.5 W) Middle: Sovtek MiG 50H Tube Midget (50W) Bottom: Risson cab (4x12).
Front (l-r): Kustom Tube 12A (1x8), Marshall 5275 (75W 1x12), Peavey Triple XXX Super 40EXP (40W 1x12), Vox AD30VT-XL (30W 1x12), Marshall 5210 (50W 1x12), MosValve MV-962 (80W 1x12), Laney TF100 (50w 1x10), Marshall 5002 (20W 1x10, Fender Super Champ XD (15W 1x10).
Next I'ma drag all the electric guitars out too. Pray for me!
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3 minutes ago, fortyearspickn said:
Did one run for political office?
Seem qualified! 😁
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12 minutes ago, rct said:
How do they file their taxes and how many times have they filed that way?
rct
They've been filing jointly as married for years, up until 2018 or 2019. Which of course is wrongful conduct and cannot form a basis for relief in a court of equity, and similarly the law will "leave them where it finds them."
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26 minutes ago, badbluesplayer said:
United States must be a good place to go to have a phony marriage. I know a few guys who got tripped up by that kind of thing.
Actually, in this particular case, under my current understanding of the facts, they're not married. Florida does not recognize common law marriages, and only under rare situations, where one of the "spouses" is an innocent victim of the other, and undertakes in good faith a ceremonial marriage, will a purported spouse be estopped to deny that he's married. Here, both parties participated in misrepresenting themselves as married, and sfaik both knew about the foreign divorce and both may've even been in cahoots in obtaining in it, possibly fraudulently.
The purported "wife" here has had nine years to challenge the foreign divorce, and hasn't lifted a finger. Now when it's convenient for her to do so, she suddenly decides to challenge it. In the language of equity jurisprudence, she has "unclean hands." -
Just finished up a 19-page opinion letter on the validity of a couple's purported marriage. They were actually divorced in 2011 in a Middle Eastern country, but then moved to the States and thereafter each party pretended they were still married, for reasons which remain unclear. Bought property as "husband and wife," filed taxes jointly, etc. Huge mess.
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Looks good to me! Congrats.
I have a trio of guitars with Bigsbys (one technically a fakesby), but not any of my Gibbies (though 2 are Gibby-related, being Epiphones). I tend to only occasionally actually use them, and when I do it tends to be for subtle shimmies. Or for a wankier flourish at song's end when I might be changing guitars anyhow. So the whole detuning angle has not been a big prob.
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Yesterday I finished up an Appellee's Answer Brief to be filed in the Florida Second District Court of Appeal. Had already done all the argument bits, so it was down to finalizing the Table of Contents and Table of Citations. Ugh. The latter is a huge p i t a, as one has to alphabetically list every case and statute cited in the document, and the page(s) where each is cited. But hey, it pays the bills.
Thereafter ignored a transparent attempt by my former boss to talk me out of going on Spring Break. Now, I'm not actually "going" anywhere probably, but he doesn't need to know that.
Then I mowed most of the front lawn with a push mower. So there's that. At least the neighbors won't be showing up with torches and pitchforks now. -
1 hour ago, Tman said:
Dealing with the cancellation of most of the work conferences that I have something to do with this spring. Very disappointing. Never been to Ireland and really want to go.
We were going to France for vacay (missus is a teacher, who gets Spring Break).
Not happening. I'm over 60, and arguably immunocompromised (missing lymph nodes from cancer surgery). At this point we're trying to cut our financial losses. -
14 hours ago, Rabs said:
NIce.. I have a DC Special.. Love that guitar.. The necks play like butter
I love 'em in red! I have the Hamer USA version, that I added a pickguard to.
My other 2 doublecuts are Gibbies, one a Studio with buckers, and one a Special with soapbars.
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44 minutes ago, Rabs said:
That looks great! Then again, I'm a fan of traditional body shape doublecuts.
Played one at my big 60th Birfday Bash in 2018!
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7 hours ago, Notes_Norton said:
Your winter sounds much worse than mine. Mine was fun.
I was playing music for a living. The lounge was halfway between Northern Michigan University and what was a huge Air Force Base (K.I.Sawyer) so it was very popular singles bar. I was young, and the girls were pretty, and some of them very friendly.
We first played there in August for a month (frost on the ground late August) and they asked us back for 3 months in the winter.
We had an apartment upstairs from the lounge, so we didn't have to go out much. But we did anyway because for a Florida guy the snow was fun. I even went out with a girl and chopped down her Christmas tree. I stood on the banks of a Lake Superior that was frozen to about 1/4 mile from shore and watched the polar bear club, men and women who just came out of a sauna run across the ice and jump in the water.
We even visited the AF Base and jammed with the musicians there. It was against union rules but we didn't figure there would be an AFofM agent on the base.
It snowed every day except for the day that we had freezing rain that coated everything with about a 16th of an inch of ice. It was actually quite interesting.
The worst part of that was when my car broke down somewhere between Ishpeming and Marquette. It was 35 below, gale force winds, and 2 miles to the nearest anything, which was a bowling alley. 4 of us had to walk to shelter and call someone else to get us home. The problem ended up being a loose wire connection in the ignition switch. I was charged for the tow and the problem fixed for free.
Unlike the DMZ, there was little danger of anyone shooting at me. (That happened in Bay City Michigan by the jealous husband of a gal who told our drummer she was single - he actually was hiding in the closet). But that's another road story.
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As a Florida guy who has lived here since c. 1972, the above is basically my worst nightmare.
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23 hours ago, rct said:
The saws and drills and stuff go backwards like how you guys drive right?
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No no no. Limeys (and the Irish!) drive wrong-sided, not backwards.
Aussies (and Kiwis!) drive counter-clockwise.
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WTH did you do today?
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Yesterday I mowed the important bits of the front yard. Mowed most of the backyard today, and cleaned up the area around this little tree. At the memorial service for a late good friend of mine awhile back, they gave out trees, as he loved the outdoors. Somewhat miraculously, it has survived my brown thumb.
