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Lounge / Do you notice anything familiar on this SHO?
Well, seeing how that is only a photoshop put out by the company, I'd say they definitely used an image of a TC for a sample, but will they use old overstocked TC scoops? Who knows?
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Lounge / wow, just wow..
As for the ADD thing, I think you need to get some REAL information on the disorder. ADD does NOT equal ass-hole. There are plenty of ass-hole kids who's parents, and doctors, will pass it off as ADD because they don't want to admit that they failed, but anyone who knows about the disorder knows it's BS. I was a good kid. My nephew who has ADHD is a  good kid. He won't hang out with his friends on weekends, because he doesn't want to be around when they drink.

totallyadd.com

It's much more complex than being loud and excitable.
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Lounge / wow, just wow..
Bullies will always be around, but for some reason kids raised to be 'real men/women' are very rare. Where are the other kids who can and will stand up to these bullies at, when they see this going on? I know Seamus will be raised knowing what's right and wrong, and to stand up to the wrong when he sees it. Coira already is.

If everybody was doing their job (all those responsibilities people spend most of their time trying to push off on everybody else) parents wouldn't have to watch their kids for suicidal tendencies caused by bullying. The blame lies on everyone who knew it was going on.

And my wife NEVER says, "Wait until your father gets home." She knows how to deal with them in all situations.
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Lounge / Does Anybody Else Play Guitar?
Quote from: sarjxxx;338223
...always the band killer for me...

Cool good luck with the gig


Yeah. I told him that I could live with a murder charge in that case. :D
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Lounge / Does Anybody Else Play Guitar?
But at that age, it's usually something else entirely. What's the story with the Spencer's, Mayhem?

I might have a gig or two on the side now. A guy in my class, and two brothers that I met today, play lead guitar, second guitar, and drums, respectively. The drummer sings pretty well, I'm told. Anyway, they play a lot of metal, and just about everything else. Versatile is good. They want to do a gig in Port Hawksbury (where I go to school) early next month. I spent most of my evening learning new tunes.

And there's another group of guys in the same town that have a bachelor apartment rented just to jam in. I know the drummer from school: he's the guy who showed me around the place when he was taking my course last year. Now he's taking his third class. Cool guy. They don't have a lead guitar/vocals anymore because of.... band politics. There was a 'girlfriend' involved.
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Lounge / Does Anybody Else Play Guitar?
I've been playing since I was about 15. A little bit of acoustic, a little bit of bass. Then I had no amp or access to an acoustic, so I didn't play very often. Once or twice a year, if that, at a family get together.

Then I bought a Peavey TNT 130 and started playing with my MP3 player, and shortly after a friend told his brother that he knew a bass player. That was a year and a half ago, and we've been playing nearly every weekend since then. One guy literally lives up the hill and around the turn. We had three paying gigs this summer, and just played a friend's house party for free last weekend. We'll be playing some (there's going to be an open mic in the shop to whoever wants to play) at our Halloween party, and I'm working on my brother and sister-in-law to have us do a house party at their place, free with a band-jar on the kitchen counter. We want to buy a PA, with whatever we make over the next couple of gigs. Right now we have one mic playing into a Polytone Mega-Brute (which is true to its name) combo into a Roland cab. It's ok, but it could be much better.

My parents bought me my 1st bass for a grad present, which is a late 90's Fender Jazz MIM. I bought a Yamaha electric acoustic when I got engaged to Ange, and last fall I bought a Highland Thunder Chief semi-hollow.





I just realised that I never took any pictures of the Highland and posted them before. I'll get some, but they might be a bit dusty. I know my Fender case is terrible. My german shepherd decided to sleep in it the other day.



http://www.highlandguitarcompany.com/HEB-920.html

Cougarcragar, that looks like a Fender P-bass knock-off. There are some VERY nice collections on here. And just when you thought things were getting quiet, Crystal hits us all with a dose of bad-ass!

A Cat JAM would be a blast. Unfortunately, I can't even afford a calendar right now.