Girls on EB!

ever notice how most of the ladies on EB post pictures of other people o cartoon characters as their user pics usually? what up with 'dat?

I have no idea, I don't have a profile photo on Facebook 'cause I have no self-esteem. Maybe because of that?

We have girls on EB?

shockingly? Yes, despite societies attempt to discourage women from making music or caring about tech stuff

I thought I wanted a girl, but when I found out I was having a boy I was excited because I knew the world would encourage him to be a gear pyscho like me.... and the daughter I thought I wanted would be encouraged to be a princess! Not a chain smoking rock 'n roll badass. Even my ex-wife, who is a bad-ass by anyone's standards? Not a techy or musicians in any way. More interested in fashion when she's not shooting dope or whatever. If she could focus her attention on rockin'? goddamn, she is such a hardass she could raise one helluva noise.

shockingly? Yes, despite societies attempt to discourage women from making music or caring about tech stuff

I thought I wanted a girl, but when I found out I was having a boy I was excited because I knew the world would encourage him to be a gear pyscho like me.... and the daughter I thought I wanted would be encouraged to be a princess! Not a chain smoking rock 'n roll badass. Even my ex-wife, who is a bad-ass by anyone's standards? Not a techy or musicians in any way. More interested in fashion when she's not shooting dope or whatever. If she could focus her attention on rockin'? goddamn, she is such a hardass she could raise one helluva noise.

But still, you can raise your boy as a Vox lover! Just teach him that the alphabet doesn't go like ABC, it goes like AC, and 3 and 0 should be his first numbers. I know, I hardly meet any female gear nerd, even though I'd love to meet someone like those women. To talk about DOD Overdrives and how Boss Metal Zones suck...yep, much better than watching "Orange Is The New Black" while eating casserolle (did I spell that right? whatever.)

already done... he sees an ac30 on tv and he goes "vox ac30, daddy's amp!" and he can spell one word since he was 15 months, V - O -X, spells vox, daddy. He also knows and SG when he sees one. But he feels they need to be cherry like mine, he hates white SGs.

He also knows angus young, all the beatles, keef, pete Townshend (god he loves the Who), dave Gilmour and Rick Nielsen by sight...

Lucian also really likes Debussy though.... Beethoven less so, I am so let down, but there are too many brass instruments for his taste, "no horns daddy!"

already done... he sees an ac30 on tv and he goes "vox ac30, daddy's amp!" and he can spell one word since he was 15 months, V - O -X, spells vox, daddy. He also knows and SG when he sees one. But he feels they need to be cherry like mine, he hates white SGs.

He also knows angus young, all the beatles, keef, pete Townshend (god he loves the Who), dave Gilmour and Rick Nielsen by sight...

Lucian also really likes Debussy though.... Beethoven less so, I am so let down, but there are too many brass instruments for his taste, "no horns daddy!"

Wo...wait, what kind of TV is that? The one that lets the AC30 commercials on? That is amazing! In Croatia, we only have the store commercials and dishwasher commercials too. There used to be condom commercials, but they were removed later lol.

I have no idea, I don't intend to have kids, but there is a certain thing - they need to be taught about gear. Someone should play instruments when we get old. It's kind of relieving to see that someone raises a kid who listens to The Who. How about black SG's or SG/Les Pauls? Those are beauties! I hated SG Melody Makers as a kid...they are ugly, just like all Melody Makers. Just to see Carl Barat or Joan Jett with that guitar...ugh.

Lucian prefers Gold tops and he likes my silver LP as an art object. He does like to strum my old plaintop Japanese double cut LP too. But usually he does not like 58/59 sunbursts. He considers sunburst to be a color like red or blue though. Anything with a gradation is 'burst to him because I own 3 burst instruments and he's been raised around them as objects he can play with whenever he wants and I taught him his colors at 1 using guitars and cars (I am not precious with my instruments and I let him tweak synths and beat on guitars as much as he wants, they are his too... meant for making music, not for polishing and admiring... I let my 10 year old nephew play anything he wants when he visits, no fear of chastisements for dropping them... on Lucian's birthday my nephew and my son were jamming out with me between games of competitive ring around the rosey and human-pin bowling... I taught Lucian to carry a bassline and taught my nephew about sympathetic string bending with double stops... his dad 'Uncle Tom' is a heckuva player too who was jamming on my plaintop while I rocked the 335, nephew Jon played the silver LP and Lu sat on and played one of my teles, awesome night). Lucian is fond of concerts on youtube at bedtime whenever daddy doesn't play and sing to him, via appleTV... so he sees lots of amps. He has this thing with my ac4, he always wants me to put t next to my fawn ac30 and he says "daddy amp, baby amp!" and likes to make them hug sort of like me and him. Warms the cockles of my heart, man. Bonding through gear. Doesn't get better.

Lucian prefers Gold tops and he likes my silver LP as an art object. He does like to strum my old plaintop Japanese double cut LP too. But usually he does not like 58/59 sunbursts. He considers sunburst to be a color like red or blue though. Anything with a gradation is 'burst to him because I own 3 burst instruments and he's been raised around them as objects he can play with whenever he wants (I am not precious with my instruments and I let him tweak synths and beat on guitars as much as he wants, they are his too... meant for making music, not for polishing and admiring... I let my 10 year old nephew play anything he wants when he visits, no fear of chastisements for dropping them... on Lucian's birthday my nephew and my son were jamming out with me between games of competitive ring around the rosey and human-pin bowling... I taught Lucian to carry a bassline and taught my nephew about sympathetic string bending with double stops... his dad Uncle Tom is a heckuva player too). Lucian is fond of concerts on youtube at bedtime whenever daddy doesn't play and sing to him, via appleTV... so he sees lots of amps. He has this thing with my ac4, he always wants me to put t next to my fawn ac30 and he says "daddy amp, baby amp!" and likes to make them hug sort of like me and him. Warms the cockles of my heart, man. Bonding through gear. Doesn't get better.

I don't like any kind of bursts or finishes actually, to be honest. How about something different than Vox? How does he react to Marshalls, Fender, Matchless(es?), Oranges? He must've seen those if he watches concert on YouTube and Apple TV...

I don't like any kind of bursts or finishes actually, to be honest. How about something different than Vox? How does he react to Marshalls, Fender, Matchless(es?), Oranges? He must've seen those if he watches concert on YouTube and Apple TV...

he knows matchless is essentially an ac30 from my collection ;-) He knows marshalls and BF fenders when he sees them but knows daddy prefers voxes.... before he was born I had a number of old marshalls, but now I don't so they are a bit alien. He doesn't get orang amps as a brand because the tolex is orange and he sees it more as a description than a brand.

Lucian actually really likes to play through mt HC30 clone because he likes the punchiness of the circuit through a closed back cab.... he seems to love whacking all 6 strings very staccato so he can feel the air on his ass (he likes to take his pants down when I let him get away with it in front of the full 30 watt w/sealead 2x12 rig, though I frown on it because he has a habbit of peeing on my carpet when pantsless... the power of the amp just looses his itty bitty bladder, awesome in theory, but you get why it bothers me)

I am actually not a very permissive father with anything but music and visual art, if Lucian wants to express himself with a guitar or a painting or play doh anything is fair game and I will clean up when he naps, but otherwise I am strict as fuck by modern standards. Life has boundaries but self-expression through artistic channels should nothave limits. I want my kid to know that when words fail he can invest his feelings into a creative enterprise rather than channel it into self-destructive behavior.

ever notice how most of the ladies on EB post pictures of other people o cartoon characters as their user pics usually? what up with 'dat?

Cough

It might have to do with the fact that their secretive about their identity (Along with the self-conscious issues that arise because WE men can be arsehats as well as the fact that we needlessly try to impress them on internet forums knowing full well that we will only lose miserably).

Uh, did I tell you guys I was a male (because I sincerely hope you know this)?

You mentioned it before this thread began, yes.

Not being sexist, or anything, but I haven't noticed any girls on EB, or at least not in the forums, anyway, I haven't really looked anywhere else.

the ladies definitely shun the forum, but they are here, reviewing gear and lurking mostly

EDIT: I was just chatting with one of the mythical EB ladies not 15 minutes ago. They exist, but they hide like the chupacabra. I guess I am the only crypto-sociologist here.

chatting? there is an EB chat?

I used to be on AIM all the time, like every night for a couple hours. This was a long time ago, before Facebook, maybe before Myspace, when Livejournal was really big (although I never had one). Basically, when those AOL Online free trial cds used to come in the mail. All the OGs know what I'm saying.

But these days, no chatting. Texting is my chat room.

Haha, that was ages ago. I remember fiddling with that a little bit, I even had a copy of those AOL discs, but I'm sure it got thrown away. I'm surprised it still exists. AOL is kind of like Myspace at the moment: trying to look good and all, but they still can't contest with everyone else.