Sibob

It is amazing what you can learn in a week when you really apply yourself, obviously it's not engrained in you after a week, but you take a lot of 'to-do' work and inspiration away with you to crack on with. I've not been to the Players School, but did the Wooten Woods Music camp near Nashville and got a LOT out of 1 week! Definitely explore these types of courses if you're thinking about it. Welcome Jeff! Si

Well if you’re ever down in Herts, let me know Si

Just finished the Proms show. Absolutely incredible, great pacing with amazing dynamics, harmonically and rhythmically complex whilst also being beautifully sparse in places. Normally i’d take unbridge at people saying he plays it safe.....far from it, as mentioned, the harmony and rhythms that weave their way through his songs and arrangements are definitely not ‘safe’.......that said, they are safe because he’s utterly in control, nothing is an accident, everything is constructed perfectly! Yet he still manages to create the magic that other artists only sometimes stumble on by being ‘on the edge’. If there were a couple of low-lights, it was Every Little Thing She Does and All Night Long, boring choices, but lots of amazing ideas within them to unpack and learn from! Yeah, amazing on the whole. Hideaway (song number 2) was a particular highlight! Wish I could have been there! Si

S’all good bud, no need to apologise. Si

Yeah, again, not quite getting it Si

Ah I see :). Yes as you’ve probably worked out, this is your straight software playback from master 1-2, and if you want to build different types of monitor mixes, you select ‘Custom Mix’ from the dropdown under each output on the left Si

This is not untrue! Si

Excellent choice In the interest of transparency, I work for Focusrite / Novation, so always interested to see what people are using! Cheers Si

I’m always having a spy to see what interfaces, controllers and synths people are using 😂 Si

I suspect that might have been the sting :).... let’s hope anyway! Si

I don’t think he’s changing the rules, as has been mentioned, he’s building on a lot of ideas that have gone before. However!!!!....his interpretation of those ‘rules’ and theories is wholly individual, a pure joy to listen to him explain theory and musical ideas. I actually think he’s incredibly important for music at the moment, he’s completely invigorated an entire generation of theory lovers. I don’t agree that he is danger of ‘falling’ into easy listening, he’s way too in control of everything he creates. If he writes something ‘easy listening’, it’s pure choice, and that’s fine. I actually find it refreshing where someone writes music that is beautiful and relatively accessible, instead of writing what they are technically capable of all the time. Si

Yeah very well! Had it strung with flats for a bit, recorded well (on the new JoCee EP), but wasn’t quite right, so put some La Bella rounds back on and it’s awesome! Very happy Si

Well I did ask the question Pete, and you avoided it....typical male Si

Awesome, are you female? It wouldn't be great if a company released a 'Black Person Melter' pedal, where the description (parody or not) is 'wahey, lynching is fun, here's a pedal that sounds like that'? Presumably because it's an abhorrent idea and largely society is against it.......so why is the same thing not considered when we talk about gender? It's an extreme example, but hopefully you take my point. Your comments seem to be coming completely from a place of male privilege, even if you have personal experience of a different area of society. Yes you might have experienced marginalisation, but it's not the type we're talking about here. If anything, you should be fairly sympathetic to the issues at hand because you understand that most white people haven't had your experience due to operating from a position of relative privilege. There are obviously lots of exceptions within that, there are rich privileged black people and poor underprivileged white people, but I suspect those are minority cases on a global average. Si

Dude, no-one will because men haven't been historically marginalised by society......seriously, this is what I meant by "the forum being overwhelmingly made up of what I suspect is to be white men, it's worth us checking our understanding and approach before crying 'the worlds gone mad'".....this is now aimed at you! Si

I think part of the issue that is that some people find it difficult to see the subtle but important difference between 'P*ssy Power' & 'P*ssy Melter', therein lies an issue of a wider understanding of gender issues. It's worth highlighting that it's almost certainly not the word 'P*ssy' that is 'offensive' to people, it's the aggressive nature of the full name (backed up by the tone prints description). Now, of course, Steel Panther are a complete parody, they very much subscribe to the South Park/Team America ethos of 'as long as you take the pee out of everyone equally, you're fine', which actually I'm fine with.....they're fully aware that they come across as sad, washed up old rockers with outdated views on women....that's the point, it's a commentary on the 80's & 90's rock scene......just so happens they can shred too. Without knowing any numbers, I suspect SP have as many female fans as they do male fans, because everyone understands the parody, and they like the comedic music. If there is a lack of understanding as to what the band is exactly, again, that's a damning indictment of a wider lack of education around gender issues. Again, it's important to re-iterate that SP are characters, when Satchell responded about the TC thing, that was Satchell typing from his account, not Russ Parrish, the married 47yr old dad who plays the character. However, take Steel Panther's approach out of context, take it away from the show and the fans and the bands self-effacing ridiculousness, and it starts to hit a little bit close to home for a lot of women's everyday experiences. Parody is a fine line, and it requires a fair amount of set-up and context in order to work, which is why I suspect TC took it down......should someone at TC have figured this out before they posted it like 2 years ago? Probably, how many females are working in their marketing department I wonder, let alone their engineering team?! (Women in engineering is a whole other discussion). But as this, and the few other examples of mildly misogynistic names highlights, the gear industry has had some catching up to do. Fortunately, the prevalence of things like 'booth girls' at NAMM and other such shows being something that has (thankfully) decreased as manufacturers realise that they are simply alienating potential customers (Fender cite that 50% of their new customers are female: https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercarbonara/2018/03/28/for-fender-guitars-the-future-is-digital-and-female/#1f1f3d7e4a37). Names of products I feel are simply on the company, if they want to alienate and exclude certain potential customers, fine, if they wish to attract the wrong type of male customer who misunderstand the 'joke', let them, it's their livelihood. Again, I suspect that's why TC took it down, not because they felt the need to censor after a petition forced their hand, but because they feel they made a mistake about something and would prefer not to lose customers over it. As to why people have picked up on this as opposed to focussing on sexism in rap music? I suspect it's because for female guitarist who's onto rock music, this is in their back-yard and one that has been difficult enough to get accepted by as it is. If they have no interest in rap, they're probably not going to jump in on issues within a world they don't understand, especially if they're white. However, if something becomes important to them within the world that they reside (the guitar gear world), they're going to jump on it as something they're directly involved with. It's a massive discussion, and clearly goes much further than just women who play guitar, but with this forum being overwhelmingly made up of what I suspect is to be white men, it's worth us checking our understanding and approach before crying 'the worlds gone mad' (not aimed at anyone, just a general statement). Si

I just wanted to encourage those who had posted in this thread before the forum software change to repost your Laklands!! We're obviously missing a bunch of lovely photos from before the software change happened, so would be great to get the visuals happening again in this thread Whilst mine survive above, here they are again 😍: Custom US 44-94 (passive P/J) & Skyline 55-01 (upgraded US Bart dual coils & NTMB pre). Si

My personal view is that the podcast isn’t for hearing the difference between them, it’s for discussing what people’s thoughts and experiences are Si

Thought I'd join in the with the 'Mustang with early 70's Precision' game Si

The thing with anything like this is that some only give it the amount of time for then to feel uncomfortable....then turn it off. The trick is, even if you don’t like it, to immerse yourself in it for longer, to give yourself the chance of ‘getting it’, lots of this kind of music is largely drones and meditative in nature, so requires a bit of context.....not 57 seconds against he context of the ‘normal’ you were doing before. Not saying that everyone will like it, obviously not, but go for much longer than you feel comfortable! A few people have said, ‘oh that made me feel uncomfortable’ etc, but that just means it did it’s job of illiciting an emotional response....so clearly it’s doing something ‘right’ Si

If you're a 'Pro' player, you'll use whatever instrument is best for the musical situation you're in. Secondary to that, it's what the player is comfortable on and has a preference for. Simple as that. Si

This thread could equally be called: ”List 99% of the worlds music” Si

If the people in the band don't like the music you're suggesting......but you think might like the melodies etc, might be quicker and easier to play them some acoustic covers on Youtube, like this (even if it is incomplete...and it's the only one I can find): If they can't see past the original recorded style, or past the fact that the above guitar is out of tune etc....I'd suggest finding different musicians to play with . Needing them to 'see' the music and not listen to how good it is seems very odd. Si

Sounds like Jensen has got you, but if not, let me know and I'll have a look too! Cheers Si