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How 'bout you, Lash Laroux? Where's your money going. I'm deducting GearIQ for unselfish choices.

I thought I was going to owe the IRS this year but thanks to a nifty new act, I actually got 2,200 back after expenses.

1. New Bass - I found a crazy Japanese bass called an Atilia or something. Sounds great and Japanese necks make me smile.

2. New Bass... Again. - I have a couple of options. I thought about getting a custom Carvin I've had my eye on for like 6 months. I almost want to order a Chapman bass but without playing one, it is risky for me and it's only a 4 string. Maybe an Ashdown CTM 100. I don't have any tube heads so... maybe. I also thought about getting an Ibanez BTB.

3. New Clothes - Needed badly. I changed the way I dress this year and don;t plan to go back.

inb4 GG Allin

wtf is inb4 ?

i THINK gg Allen WAS JUST MENTALLY DEFICIENT.

I dont consider TOOL metal at all. Prog Rock maybe.

I'll have to look for the video I saw.

TOOL was molded by MJK but I feel he is uneeded now. People are more into the music now than the message I think, especially since he started sounding kind of Christian on 10,000 Days. Maynard made APC and look where they are now. It's a percentage of fans that hang on every word of Maynard, but the majority, at least from those who I have talked to and hung out with, are more about the music itself now. If MJK was that amazing and the reason for TOOL's current successes instead of just their passed ones, Puscifer would be a bigger deal than it ended up being. If I do say so myself, Puscifer flopped. He wasted all that time and energy into raising that abomination that he could have spent in TOOL. MJK started off defiant, then tampered with spirituality, and now I think hes just a boring dad. I can't see him writing something that really strikes me impressed anymore.

They should have made an album as a 3 piece instrumental band. I'd pay to go see that. I won't pay to see TOOL as a 4 piece though, not until a new album comes out anyway. Same boring show over and over.

I was looking forward to the next TOOL until a week or so ago. I saw a video of the tour they put on through Texas. Maynard's voice can't hardly hit the notes anymore. Something about the video just made me step back from them a bit... like... I've seen this card trick too many times before to cheer.

Agree with everything you said there. That... doesn't... always happen :)

The people that claim the US Civil War was souly about slavery usually like to mention that Texas had... my numbers may be off, but like 14 of the 15 sections of their reason for joining for issues with slavery.

Here's an interesting piece of history. Texas disagreed with the Confederacy's decision on freeing slaves. Not in a "How dare you, they are people" kind fo way though. Freeing a slave was outlawed in the South because it would allow slaves to roam across the woods of our nation like the walking dead. They would just show up on a doorstep or be found crossing someone's property. Seeing how many of these slaves may have ill intent towards former masters, it was seen as unsafe. Texas however, feeling very secure in it's ability to handle said situation, declared that a slave was property and the future of that property is up to the owner. "If a farmer wanted to throw his pickax or shotgun into a lake, shouldn't he be able to decide that himself?" was their thinking.

I hate double standards. Most of my family are all trash. All arrested, drunks, drug addicts, kids grew up to be much of the same. I was visiting a cousin when I still associated with the family a little. He had battle flag tattoos on his arms. He said Nigger as often as he could throw it into a sentence. Claimed he hated blacks and yada yada yada. When I took a joy ride with him in his Camaro, he turned on his sound system and he had Lil' Wayne playing. >_< WHAT?!

I tried rationalizing with him. "You hate blacks?" He agreed. "Would you wipe them out if you could?" He agreed. "Then why are you willing to give your money to this black guy? Your feeding his children and it's your gold that's on his teeth. If you hated him so much, why would you help him and his family like that?" . He said I just didn't understand; that rap was something everyone listened to now and that if he illegally downloads the music, he's not helping the rapper. I just nearly lost it. SO damn stupid. Same cousin... his favorite movies were all films with black actors in them. He wasn't a "wigger" for lack of a euphemism, but he sure surrounded himself with a culture that he supposedly hated.

Most racists in my experience are total idgets, regardless of who they are against. They always make compromises and never stick to their guns. They do it for a lack of knowledge and more to fit in with a group or to have a person to blame for why their lives suck. Phil Anselmo or whatever is the same. Plenty of stories I've heard of him doing drugs with black men. Its weird that this all came up when it did. I found a Machine Head album I had stashed away and was planning to do a cover of one o ftheir songs.

I really enjoyed Memorize. The tracks are too short and the lyrics are nonsense for most of them though. I feel it's the opposite of Toxicity. The other side of a rare coin to Toxicity.

1. Him being from Texas has nothing to do it with. Every state and country has it's trash.

2. Phil is shit. He's talent-less and I haven't paid attention to him much since Pantera. His interviews are the kind of stuff a 12 year old would say to feel tough about himself.

3. All of Pantera were Pro white and Hispanic, Down everything else. The guys put out a record with David Alan Coe, the man who wrote songs about molesting under-aged girls, beating women into submission, and killing anyone who had any relationships with blacks. Pantera's stance, at least former stance, should not be a surprise. Their lyrics revealed this many times. Doesn't change my opinion of the music they wrote. Some songs I like, others I don't. Changing my musical taste due to a personal choice of the members would be nonsensical. "The drummer is this religion, the singer voted for this party last year, and I heard the bassist says he still eats at Chik-Fillet. I refuse to support them." I still hate Phil. He's a very ignorant waste of space. I could have had Pantera as a instrumental band and been fine with it. I still feel he is partly responsible for the Dimebag shooting. I would be more forgiving of it if he weren't such a twat.

4. The controversy of the battle flag of the confederacy was recently dug up. Here's my rule from experience. Owning one a racist does not make. Generally though, the kind of people that get tattoos of it, drive with it off the back of their vehicles, and wear it on belt buckles are of a lower quality American. Quality as in education, influence, and intelligence. They lack the knowledge that pertains to the history, symbolism, and uses of ... well ... any flag to be honest. I own quite a few flags being that I have participated in war reenactments with my dad on occasion. I don't have it waving outside though either. It's folded up along with all my other memorabilia in a storage.

5. Saying white power. Dumb. Toting any race or nationality at this point is stupid and you should treat the person this noise is coming out of as such. The idea that anyone would feel better about themselves because of something they didn't even do blows me away. "My grandfather was the greatest soldier in Vietnam and even shot down aliens". Great. He was awesome, the grandson is not "grandfathered" into awesome. We are individuals. Putting so much pride in an ancestry only shows how little the modern branch of that family has done. We can't do much about it here in the states. Limiting speech, especially geared only towards certain types of people, is a dangerous avenue to go down. It's a necessary inconvenience to those easily offended to maintain what few freedoms we still share here.

6. I don't believe it was a joke. He's ended many shows screaming "white power".

yeah, but then there are the whole "paying for a kid" and "paying alimony" things. Forget that.

You know I never understood completely what you meant about the knobs on the BQC system, but now that I see it, I wonder, couldn't you replace the knows or are they attached directly to the pots?

Also, sorry about the nut. You plan on leaving it like that?

I could buy some other knobs to replace them with, but since I tend to "set it and forget it" my basses, I don't mess with them enough to look for something that would match the Spector.

The nut I was planning to use student loans to have one made or perhaps buy one from Spector if I can. It works fine for now though so I may not mess with it. Adds to the memory of shaping it myself for a couple of hours. I'm getting penalized severely this year for taxes so I may not have much cash to spend for a while.

Congratulations!

When you get in you car, make sure to watch out for four basic things not on the test:

1) Idiots who don't bother with their turn signal

2) Idiots who are on their phone while driving

3) Idiots who drift into your lane without looking

4) Idiots in general

Good advice. Also, do use bumper stickers. If I get cutoff in traffic and see a a symbol, belief, or political stance... I will forever hunt down the people associated with that media.

I've not ever heard of them before. I ran through their bass editor and was not impressed. Not a lot of options there. You are kind of stuck making a Fender looking jazz bass. It would be easier on the wallet than Halo though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBxmMWdZ_iQ

Gibsons are absolute trash in basses and in the guitar world they have amazingly fat necks. There are a couple of other companies that make their necks huge as well. Peavey and BC Rich do this. My opinion "and what you read into as the absolute opinion of all players worldwide Jimmy" is that in my own experiences with this company's products, they suck.

My first experience was with one of their acoustics. It was a $3,000 Gibson. I played on it about a minute and just hated the way it felt and sounded. The audio was muffled and muddy. The feel was uncomfortable and where I would normally place my thumb was a sharp ridge instead of the flat back that I was used to. I next picked up a $1000 Taylor and it blew the other out of the water. Sounded so loud and clear, the neck was familiar.

My second was with a friend's SG Special. He loved it because it was new to him but ended up selling it a couple of years later. My impression was that it looked cool but it felt obnoxiously heavy and the tone plugged in was just not letting me know how much he paid for it. The neck on this one felt better though.

My third was my Epiphone Sheritan II hollow-body. It was horrible. I spent a week trying to make it sound decent and just couldn't. The neck pickup had a horrible muddy tone and was overpowered. If the pot was 1-10, It played nothing on 1 and 1.5 it already covered up the bridge pickup. The bridge pup bright and thin the way a Fender single would have sounded, but was a humbucker. The neck was much like the acoustic I played years back.

Yes, Gibson products have their own feel, regardless of what decade they were produced. A new Ford Model T will have a different feel than a Mustang.

Seeing that you (OP) already have a Gibson and like it, I'm sure you would get close to the same feel you are wanting out of another one. I agree with not getting a clone. I would rather than make my own than to go with a knockoff. Halo Guitars has a place in their custom design tool where you can upload photos and drawings of what you want. Generally, the most expensive guitar you can make through them is about $2000. Nothing cooler than having that guitar that no one else has or can have. I've always thought it would be awesome to have a .22 barrel and receiver built into the neck and body. Kind of an homage to El Mariache.

Depends on your play style.

Slap would benefit from the Maple and add to the punchiness of the Single MM pup.

Fingers would benefit from the rosewood.

Measurements. You can have the make an exact neck profile you want, especially if there is a certain guitar you like and can make a mold or send in the neck. If I was going to spend $4000 on a custom guitar, I would make it my own and do have everything custom. My own drawn body, neck, headstock, and even bridge. Guitar companies can't make you a custom bridge per se, but it would be worth it to me to find a boutique craftsman and have them make me my own designed bridge. Over the years, I've drawn up a few body models just in case I ever get to make my own.

Halo guitars has a nice customize flash program on their site and for 2-3000 bucks you can have them make any shape you want. They have extra slots for special requests and such.

http://www.haloguitars.com/store/custom-guitars.html

I keep running into this thought here lately. What movies do you feel deserve a sequel or you feel would take the box office by storm with a sequel?

Picks off the top of my head. Some need some splain'n. Others do not.

• Talladega Nights

• Kung Pow (It's actually being made right now)

• Conan the Barbbarian

I have to explain this one. I love the original and the remake was decent. We never got a Red Sonia the way we all thought we were getting. I think Conan needs to come back and it needs to be NC-17 or R. Im pretty sure it would do well so long as they kept it an action film. Now is not the right time to have an adventure film.

• Aliens

I have to explain this as well. Alien and Aliens are the best films in the RS series hands down. I own the special edition of the series and as a kid, liked Aliens but I didn't know there was more footage. Watching the additional 45 minutes or so of footage really completes the journey of this film. Alien 3 went so far off in the wrong direction. Alien was at it's best when it was either a slasher film or an action film.

• Kill Bill

KB3 Would kill at the box office . I've always wanted to see CCH's little girl grow up and fight B. KB3 Would be the perfect ending to the story. Maybe have BB become an assassin as well and turn on her mother as per her Dad's brainwashing? She could kill the bride and end the story.

I would suspect that if you called Gibson and was willing to shill out a few thousand dollars, they could hook you up. Im not certain if they have a custom shop. I will warn you though, Gibson guitars have a totally different feel to them. I personally hate them.

The older I get, the fewer places I want to see. I'd like to see Jerusalem and Denmark as far as other countries go. I'd like to take a train to Boston just to see what the other coast is like. I have a lot of distant family in South Carolina so I imagine I'll make my way there some day.

Korea has really become a good place to get guitars built. Korean quality is pretty good. Their firearms suck a big one though.

Californians love Texas. We've had a problem with them leaving their jewel to come live with us in large droves the past 4 or 5 years.

The states I have visited that I didn't list did not really stand out. Oregon, Washington, California, Montana, Utah, and pretty much anything from the center of the US over to the Pacific I've been through. There are other small melting pots, but they don't take over the region the same way a few other states' cultures do.

We can get or make just about any food, but finding restaurants that continually sell the more uncommon foods is tough in certain areas.

I traced my family back about 1600 years to Denmark and really wanted to cook their most distinct foods. Black Sausage was one of the dishes I wanted to whip up, but I couldn't find any butcher shops here that would sell me cows blood. Next time I visit my hometown I will have a pretty good shot at getting my hands on some but I don't plan to be there for a while.

The beef in a pastry we have and call a "Pot Pie". Haggis is known here but not really on the menu in the areas I've been to. I would imagine the New England area of the US "Upper right hand corner" would have places to get it though seeing they have large populations of Celts.

Chips and Gravy. Anything is acceptable on Chips/Fries here. Ketchup, Mayo, Mustard, Sriacha, pickle juice and dill, gravy, etc. The Canadian's have a staple called "Poutine" that consists of Gravy, Bacon, Cheddar Cheddar Cheese, and some Syrup over the fries. We do this in the US but it is not as big of a deal here and is referred to as "Loaded Fries". Canada uses a brown gravy for theirs, American's use a cream gravy.

I've not been to Europe so I cannot tell you how authentic or distinct these foods are when served over there. So long as the person making them puts their heart into it, I'm sure it turns out alright. Food is food. You can't really say You MUST be a Mexican and MUST speak espanol in order to be able to make good, authentic Barbecoa. The way it's served determines how it plays out as well. People call a lot of things Tacos here, but they aren't authentic. Authentic Tacos, and to Mexicans the only real tacos, are only served with fresh, soft, corn tortillas and only accompanied by Onions, Cilantro, Lemons, and Chiles (Pice de Gallo without the tomatoes). Hard shells, flour tortillas, orange cheese, sour cream, and all these other accouterments are all gringo add-ons.

That reminds me Liam, Mexico has some foods you may or may not have tried.

• Buche's (Pork stomach pan fried in fat ans spices. Tastes like a mixture of organ meat (liver,kidney,heart) and bacon.)

• Tripas (Animal intestines, usually pork, clipped and deep fried until spongy and crunchy. Authentically you are not supposed to over clean the intestines. Leaving small traces of feces in the lining was acceptable and altered the flavor. It's gross... but that's how it goes.)

• Chicharrone's (Stomache from any animal with the fat left on the outside, cut into small strips, deep fried until hard and crunchy. Then, they take those cooked Chicharrone and cook it with a tomato based red sauce and onions. The texture SHOULD be firm on the inside and slightly soggy on the outside. This is a really tough dish to get the ideal way. I don't order it often because the majority of the times I've had it, it was overcooked or under-cooked. Under-cooked doesn't allow the flavors to mingle and is like eating pork cracklin strips. Overcooked leaves the chicharrones completely soggy and horrible. A pink pork soup in your tortilla. )

• Barbacoa & Barbacoa Del Lingua (Beef cheeks slow cooked under ground in soaked burlap sacks and steamed until it falls apart by looking at it. Very greasy usually. I love it dried out and always ask them to not stir it up before getting mine out. Tastes somewhat like beef pot roast. Just a strong, bloody tasting beef. Barbacoa del Lingua is what it sounds like. Beef cheeks as well as beef tongue cooked in the same fashion. You can order just lingua as well and it is MUCH less greasy, but generally you get it in this dish. Many people don't cook it correctly int he burlap anymore. Burlap is getting harder to find and a crock-pot is often easier to deal with than digging a hole. You get such a different taste the right way though.)

• Menudo (White hominy and pork stomach "usually the honey comb section of it" cooked into a deep red soup with a heavy amount of spices. Mexicans use this soup as a hangover cure because of the high salt and water levels. This dish isn't as hard to make as Barbacoa, but a lot of people tend to mess it up. The dish should be so dark and greasy, you can't see your spoon under the service of it. It should also be pretty spicy. It's becoming a trend around here to make it with golden hominy, make it completely see through, and add little to no spice to it. The stomach should be cooked until it is only slightly rubbery but still soft enough to chew through. Like tacos, it is acceptable to serve with lemons, limes, onions, and cilantro on the side. I personally like it as is.)

• Mole' (Shredded pork or chicken mix into a rich bitter/sweet sauce. The sauce is based on either of 2 ingredients. Chocolate or Peanut-butter. The chocolate mole will be deep dark brown and will not usually be sweet. Think molasses without the sugar. The Peanut-butter version is very sweet and dark, but not as dark as it's counterpart. I prefer the later. This dish is incredibly easy to make and there are a few companies that make a very respectable grocery store version of the chocolate sauce.)

• Nepalitos (Flat cactai with the needles removed, cut into strips, and sauted. I think it's gross. Tastes like a bell pepper without the aromatic qualities.)

If you go to the South end of Mexico, you get more dishes with insects, chocolate, and avocados. I've not been THAT deep into Mexico. I grew up on the border and would visit only 5 or so hours in. North Mexico and South Mexico are two different animals. The language is different, the attitudes are different, and of course the foods differ as well. The North side is often the poor side. Any animal can be made into a meal, but of course the big 4 are Cow, Pig, Goat, and Chicken... in that order. Not every get's to eat beef. Pigs are more common but they are still expensive. Goats are cheap and can live easily on their own in the harsh environments, but you have to split the males up from the females and you have you know how to butcher it when the time comes or else you are left with meat that tastes the way a construction worker's arm pit smells. The only cheese you will ever find in real Mexican food is goat's. Rarely used though. Most everyone I knew growing up drank the milk instead and would only make the cheese for special events.

Fender makes some decent instruments under the Squire name, but not many. A lot of Squire fans end up changing the pups, preamps, necks, etc to make it feel and sound different in the long run. Fender puts most of their effort into their higher end models that are under their name. So long as you buy an American made Fender model, you won't usually find shortcuts. Frets are hand filed, nut is proper, and so on.

I don't personally care too much for Fender or Squire. They have a distinct sound that doesn't appeal to me and they have very limited options when it comes to bodies and necks. I'm a Spector man through and through. I want a Warwick but the $1000 options they offer don't come with all the specs I want. I'd like a $$ Fortress with Active pups and a natural grain body. You can find stuff that's close, but they now only offer passive electronics in that price range. I'f I'm going to spend $2000 or more on a bass, It's going to be a made in America Spector.

She killed herself I think because just about a year ago Wayne Static died from a possible suicide. Overdosed with prescription drugs and booze.

Still, the factory they hid in was in the USA though :)

In the States, we call those "Pigs in a Blanket". We use them as horderves or appetizers when not in formal settings. In Texas, we have a large population of Mexican and European immigrant started towns. Formal versions here are called them Kolaches. The word is Czech but the pronunciation of it sounds like it could be a Latin word, so the Hispanics here believe it's a Mexican invention :) . If you go to Houston area, they have fruit in a flaky pastry. Closer Central Texas they tend to have summer/polish/smoked sausages in a doughy breading. The border finds them usually with Jalapeno flavored sausages in Doughy breading or tortillas. The most informal and most recognized form of this in the States is a hotdog/weiner or a mini smoked sausage wrapped in breakfast biscuit dough and baked.

Texas, Louisiana, Minnesota, and Florida have large melting pot regions which have integrated the foods and fare of foreign lands into the local cuisine.

Texas has Germanic, Mexican, Asian, and African influences to our food. A typical Texan household will often eat Mexican food, Italian food, and English/Germanic foods. We have "Fry Ups" here but they are usually limited to Eggs served in any fashion, bacon/sausage/ham, hash-browns "Shredded potatoes fried into a flat, crispy form, toast, biscuits "fluffy breads more dense that a traditional roll", cream gravy, pancakes, and waffles. As you can see, the "Fry Up" though we don't call it that, has bits from all over Europe in it. Beans are not eaten for breakfast here unless it is in a Mexican style called "Re-Fried Beans". These are pinto beans that have been boiled until soft, then smashed into pork fat, seasoned, and pan fried. Vegetables are also not usually seen during a breakfast though some households do serve fruit. This breakfast is served with coffee, fruit juices, milk, and water.

Foods we MIGHT eat that you MIGHT not eat?

• Fajitas (Cheap/tough cuts of skirt steak cut into strips and scorched in a cast-iron skillet with peppers and onions, served with tortillas)

• Breakfast Tacos/Burrito (Eggs scrambled with bacon/pork sage sausage/ham and vegetables/potatoes "When you can find a Texan that will eat them >_<" and rolled into either corn or flour tortillas. "Burrito" is a Caucasian word that does NOT exist in Mexican culture. Anything rolled or held in a tortilla is traditionally a taco.)

• Iced Tea (Offered as straight up tea with ice cubes in it or sweetened with a large amount of real sugar, sometimes offering locally grown aromatics like mint and citrus fruits. Due to the hot whether, serving tea hot is nearly unheard of here. The only hot beverage that is widely used is coffee served either by itself "Black" or with cream, milk, or sweeteners. Coffee is predominately drank in the mornings here and only the blue-collar folk drink it throughout the first half of the day. )

• Soul Foods (These are African foods made with local ingredients. The slaves put in charge of cooking during the slavery era of the United States used their own cooking styles and recipes but were limited to locally grown or shipped in ingredients. Macaroni and Cheese for example was said to be created by the head house woman of Thomas Jefferson, a major political figure here. He had a pasta maker shipped from Italy and had this woman learn to make pasta. He wanted her to come up with new dishes using the pasta and one of them was a baked noodle dish with cheese and bread crumbs over the top. Today, "Mac and Cheese" is typically cooked on the stove top and usually only cheese, milk, and elbow macaroni stirred together until thoroughly coated. Other Soul Foods include Fried Chicken, Chicken Fried Steak, Greens with Bacon and Hog Fat, Baked Beans, Fried Okra, Fried Catfish, Pecan Pie, Black Eyed Peas, Cornbread, and Grits. Grits has 2 major ways to be eaten. Sweat or Savory. Sweet Grits are corn hominy that has been crushed into small pieces and steeped in hot water. Sugar, Butter, Milk, and Maple Syrup is added pending the taste of cook. I find this gross as I was raised with Savory Grits. Same grits but salt/black pepper/butter/bacon/breakfast sausage/over-easy eggs/sour cream/cheddar cheese in any number of combinations. Chitlins is a Soul Food that is the intestines of a pig, cleaned and cut into little segments, boiled, and then sometimes fried.) Texas has certain ways of cooking foods that are not limited to our region such as Cornbread and Chicken Fried Steaks. Cornbread can be cooked in any way and accepted but it is prized to be cooked in a cast iron skillet and fried over an open fire. Chicken Fried Steaks are a skirt steak that has been flattened and tenderized manually before being dipped in an egg wash, battered, and deep fried. Most places serve cream gravy over this but many places in Texas use Queso instead of gravy. Queso is Spanish for Cheese. Queso on a Texas menu means you will get a bowl of melted cheese that has been flavored with Pico De Gallo "raw onions/peppers/jalapenos/tomatoes/cilantro".

• Brisket (This is a tough cut of beef that was once cheap but since popularity in the 1970's rose, has become SUPER expensive. It's a very difficult piece of meat to get perfect. Most times you encounter this meat, it will be super greasy and yet somehow super dry. Generally is smoked slowly for anywhere from 4-48 hours. Sometimes it is baked in an oven. Really bloody, minerally, stringy piece of beef. People eat it shredded, slices, or chopped. Non-formal meals will have this on sandwiches, in tortillas, or by itself alongside pickles/onions/tomatoes/jalapenos/other smoked meats. Formal meals will have it sliced thinly on a plate. The term "Barbecue" in Texas often refers to any meat that has been grilled or smoked. These meats can be rubbed down with a mixture of spices before cooking or slowly slathered with sweet sauces during cooking. The term is different for the states in the "Deep South" like South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, etc. They believe it is ONLY PORK, usually Pork Shoulder, and always mixed into a vinegar based sauce.

Louisiana is heavily influenced by slave culture as well as French culture. Creole, Etouffee, Jumbolia, and "Boils" are common. A boil is usually corn and potatoes boiled in large pots with crab/crayfish "crawdads"/summer sausage. The meal is traditionally dumped out onto a picnic table covered in newspaper and a Cajun "French influenced local" seasoning mix is thrown over the items and spread out. A boil is eaten by a large group of people with their hands. It can be close friends and family or total strangers. Part of the "Southern Charm" and "Southern Hospitality" is that so long as you fit into the social acceptance of the time, you will be welcomed in and treated as close friends. It is considered rude to not help any person that is in distress if you are within the ability to help. Sharing food, housing, and offering favors used to be typical.

Minnesota has a Scandinavian influence. Foods that are pretty limited to that area are pickled fish "Lutefisk", Hotdish "the leftovers of passed meals cooked together in an oven and made into a casserole", and Lefse "a flatbread". They use a lot of potato in their cooking and in all forms. Most of their foods are greasy, fried foods "much like Texas" and very high in caloric intake. A lot of casseroles are cooked here.

Florida went through a lot of changes in it's history, having immigrants from France, Spain, and European countries in general, however, the mass influx of Cuban immigrants starting in the 1980's has completely changed Florida's culture. Cubans pretty much own Miami. Cuban foods are somewhat like Mexican food with a oceanic/tropical flare to it. Lots of slow cooked Pork, fried beef, and fish cooked into stews or eaten with tortillas in tacos. Grilling the food is a staple and some foods warrant the tropical side of the land to get involved; wrapping pork in banana leaves before cooking for example.

US Deluxe.

Jaco is over-rated, I don't play fretless, and if you're going to buy an American instrument, it should be made in the US.

Tone wise, it's up in the air.

Older guys stick to Fender and Ampeg reguardless of tone due to all their heroe's playing them.

Burgantino, Dingwal, and Dumbal are used by a lot of jam musicians and jazz players. Usually if they own a Porsche 911... they also own one of these.

New age buys love Mesa Boogie, SWR, and MarkBass.

Personally, MarkBass is the greatest tone I've ever actually played through. I don't remember if it was Trace Elliot or GK but one of the green ones didn't sound bad either.

I love SWR tone at lower volumes. They sound tinny and high pitched when pushed but on lower settings I dig them.

Hartke has the greatest customer service and Larry Hartke himself is not unknown to call customers personally, handle returns personally, and give you a free amp if you arent happy. He goes the extra mile to make a reliable product but also to keep their reputation up. He also make's the cheapest 1000 watt Bass Amp.

No bass players that I know like anything with a B in it. B-52 and so on. Ampeg is probably the most commonly owned though.

Don't believe his born again Christian façade. To be Christian you can't pick, and chose what bits you want to follow, and there's a lot he doesn't. There was an interview with him in this issue of TG, with Kiko from angra, and he's such a d*ck.

Amen to that! His lyrics were getting really Christian and cryptic on United Abominations but reading her his book a lot of light on Mustaine's beliefs. He picks the parts he likes, just the way Ellefson does.

Axle Rose is the top of the list.

Mick Jagger, Maynard James Keenan, and Marilyn Manson come shortly after.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWtYmI7nvlyk0LkeYLMQHig

on a side note, I read that Wayne Static's wife killed herself.

It would seem the universe is under my spell.

I predict I will inherit $400,000 and my YouTube channel will get 10,000,000 subscribers before March.

That's no good for me. I'm on a digital diet.

Great choice, brass is.

Some people use hair dryers to warm the area up first but I don't. Take a razor blade and slice between the nut and wood. Go precisely so you are cutting glue and not wood. If you can't, cut plastic, not wood.

Take a screw driver and gently tap the nut upward and out. If it doesn't go with gentle taps, cut deeper into the glue. It should pop right off.

Do I get a reward when the 4th big celebrity death hits? As I said before, they always go in groups. I'm predicting we'll have 1 more actor and 1 more musician before March.

This one was from the 2010's. I think it was a 2014.

Yeah. With SoaD I think their best albums are behind them anyway. I didn't like the direction the last one went to. I love Their first 2 and Memorize. I felt like hypnotize changed their sound too much.

Takamine GX-100TB

Takamine GX-200

Ibanez GS221

Peavey Firenza JX

Epiphone Sheraton II (The worst guitar I've ever owned)

Some unknown cheap Squire I got for $25 off a cousin

This last year I have thought about if I'd ever buy another 6 string electric and I've come to the conclusion that I wont.

I used to be a HUGE TOOL fan. Cult of Maynard and all. I watched them 4 times in 1 year and was completely burned out on them. Took me 2-3 years before I was able to hear them on the radio again. Now about once a year I'll make a mix cd of their stuff and listen to it on a road trip.

My personal belief is that they need to either kick Maynard out or make their own new band. Waiting for him to get his shit together isn't fare to them or the fans. Next TOOL album has been finished for a year and a half or so now music wise. From what I understand of it, they are just waiting for MJK to finish his side of things.

They've been touring every year, playing nearly identical set lists and putting on the same show over and over. You'd think they would put pressure on him and make him write something on the bus.

It's been 3,551 days since the last release. I thought it might be cool if they waited 10,000 days til the next album but not after doing the math.

I thought it could have been a bit creepy you saying that that 12 year old bassist is cute is you're like 50 or something.

There are 2 girls only that became hot from School of Rock. The groupies. Probably the scariest one now is the blonde backup singer. Has a face like Spuds McKenzie

The inverse, we Americans are taught our own geography and then NOTHING ELSE! Anything beyond the blue is heretic or communistic. All you really need to know is where Texas is and how to draw it.

I can't wait for Namm. I plan on buying some new goodies if they put out anything cool for bass and putting them on my youtube page as demo's. Last year they only has the Ibanez fanned fret bass.

iwrestledabearonce kinda fits that genre. They're okay.