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Hey Zurf ...
I really enjoyed "The Milk Carton Kids". They've got that funny style of humor like you mentioned, but their music is also very good. There's I guy I jam with on acoustics sometimes, and if we ever got serious, I think this type of music is what we'd spit out.
Great post ... thanks!
Porcupine Tree "The Start of Something Beautiful" Chicago, 2005
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw4Kq-hr63Y
Featuring another delicious groove by Gavin Harrison (drums) and Colin Edwin (bass), I keep hoping these guys will get back together someday. After the band's 23-year career, front-man Steven Wilson felt he had to go on to other things, and I have to admit his post-PT work is amazing. This song is from their 2005 album "Deadwing" which was fully recorded in "Surround Sound" technology. Wilson had really begun to stretch his producer's wings during that period, and wrote the music for all the instruments (except drums) with this recording tech in mind. The Surround Sound Expo of that year (Dec 15) awarded "Deadwing" their Album of the Year title, and the US magazine "Sound & Vision" rated it as the #2 album of the year. Even on my stereo system, the sound quality has extra depth, which the group did well to capture live as they toured for it.
Hey Phill ... news flash ... you're 66, not 26! 
Sorry about that, my friend, just responding to your request. We have a saying here in Canada about how we can't do things as well as when we were young superstars full of vitality:
"The older I get, the better I was."
Hope you mend well and soon, Phill.
Yep, that's the same Steve Howe, TIG.
He left for a few years to form "Asia" with John Wetton and Carl Palmer, as well as forming "Steve Howe's Remedy" with his sons Dylan (drummer) and Virgil (keyboards). He is now touring with Yes again (aged to perfection at 70 years old) and was on stage with them in the Spring when they were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Steve's a bit of an overly self-important bloke, but he's one of my favorite guitarists of all time.
Anyone who can adapt a highland pipe band song for ukele and kazoo gets a tip o' the hat from me.
Wow, just ... wow.
Graham ...
It almost sounds like the neck isn't hitting the guitar's body straight on. Try looking from the strap button at the bottom end of the guitar, straight down the neck to the headstock. If the neck swerves to the right even a bit, that would cause the string alignment problem you describe. Hopefully there's enough "play" at the bolt-on joint to loosen it a bit, and then make this adjustment.
I use 'Band-In-A-Box' to create backing tracks. Simply write in the chord sequence, select the style and tempo and 'Bob's your Uncle' you have a track. You can change the instruments or remove them completely.
For the small band I am rehearsing with I record a full track complete with vocals for when they practice alone, but when together I use just a drum and bass track (we have neither a drummer or bass player) so the true sound that we make can be heard.Roger
Roger ... I'd never heard of this until I read your post, and had a look at their site. "Verrrrry interestink!" as Arte Johnson used to say.
Steve Howe "Intersection Blues" London, 2004
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG85DFlpKxo
When I listen to this, I can imagine sitting in rush hour traffic, sweating 'cuz the A/C isn't working, squirming with a bladder-full of deadlines ... and just wanting to get home, kick off the shoes, and play my guitar. Nice bit o' fun!
That's a tragic mess right now ... can't imagine how awful this must be for people in the middle of it all. Saw some footage on the news, and it's a nightmare.
That's incredible, Peatle ... Rowan at his best!
Was this during an Elton John concert? It would have been an awesome intermission bit.
Here's a cover of Pink Floyd's "Julia Dream" by Mostly Autumn. If anything, I like this better than the original:
What a voice ... wow! Love her deep, raspy tone ... I almost imagined Little Richard standing there, when I listened with my eyes closed.
Good to hear from you, Graham ... and glad to hear you have a new project on the go. You've had a grey Tele we've seen in some of your vids over the years; is that the neck you're using?
Every so often, I'll hear some no-name group cover a song and go "Wow ... they really nailed it!" Here's a basement group called "The Band Geeks" and a smoking hot cover of Yes's "South Side of the Sky":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-g0Ivb … vb-ddM#t=5
Any other covers which blow you away?
P.S. Over the drummer's left shoulder is a guitar shaped like the USS Defiant from Star Trek DS9 ... coolest thing ever!
Is this the video you were mentioning, Phill?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7gMwE7phoM
I'd never seen it before, and it's very good. Joe would certainly have a guitar tech doing this stuff for him on tour / in studio, but it's cool that he would do this vid himself. The practice of giving the strings a hand stretch (however one does it) it a great tip that expect many Chordians know about. It really helps to settle the strings in quickly.
Hi Bill ...
No, I'm not Nat Hentoff, but I certainly remember the magazine.
In my university days (mid-70's), a friend and I hosted a radio show called "No Disco" on the campus radio station. We were on Fri-Sat-Sun nights from 10:00 - 2:00, and played a lot of prog rock and what we now call classic rock. It's was our "protest" against all of the horrible disco music which was invading every air-wave back then. Still makes me gag when I hear someone resurrect a disco piece for an ad campaign, whereupon I immediately resolve to NOT buy that product. Our opening theme for the show was the middle guitar solo portion of "In-a-Gadda-da-Vida" by Iron Butterfly, which we used without permission. 
Doing little anthologies on the musicians / bands was a part of our routine, so it's a habit / hobby I've just stayed with. In those days there was no Internet, so we had to make use constant of magazines like Stereo Review, Melody Maker, Circus, Guitar Player, and of course Rolling Stone.
Back to Tangerine Dream, they're still performing without Edgar, although now as just a trio of Thorsten, Hoshiko, and Ulrich ... will never be the same.
Tangerine Dream "The Silver Boots of Bartlett Green" Budapest, 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT771MrTIA8
Although a very simple melody, I love the solid and tense power chord structure underneath the floating ethereal synth sounds, driven by Iris Camaa's percussion. With some of Bernhard Beibl's wonderful guitar work towards the end, this is one of many examples of why I've been a TD fan since the early 70's. This is from their 2011 album "The Angel from the West Window", which was (if the info I found was correct) the 75th studio album of TD's prolific career. R.I.P. Edgar Froese (1944 - 2015)
Love the feel of this one, Easy ... has a real wilderness feel to it. A little mouth organ here and there - run with some reverb - would really go well with it. And I think I hear a Cmaj7, and an Am7, and some other "lonely" chords in there.
Your song and your voice are perfect together ... aces, mate!
Don Ross "A Million Brazilian Civilians" (original)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPvV2gzZJ5c
Another one of Don's casual, rolling-along pieces. He's so relaxed that a person forgets just how difficult most of his material is. The first hurdle is trying to figure what dad-blasted tuning he's using ... uses lots of variations. And choosing names for instrumental pieces is something he obviously has a lot of fun with. 
Bill, Chordie has some of the finest people on the planet and you are one of them.
What Peatle said !!!
Great looking set-up, Bill ... enjoy!
My own preference is 10's on electrics, and 12's on acoustics. A guy I jam with was using GHS Boomers (9's) on his Strat, but seemed to be re-tuning every 10 minutes or so. He switched to the NYXL's just after Christmas (10's) and I've noticed he doesn't re-tune nearly so much. Don't know what they do to their metals, but they do seem to hold tune better. He probably should install locking tuners, which seem to solve most tuning issues on a guitar with a tremolo.
Congrats, Zurf ... that's an amazing deal on a really good piece of hardware. Running an acoustic with some effects produces a lot of unique / interesting sounds, although controlling feedback can be a challenge at times. Have fun with it, man!
However it ends up being played, those are some seriously sad sentiments. I certainly hope (for your sake) that they're not too close to home.
I put a new set of D'Addario NYXL's on my Les Paul last evening, and was listening to the change in tone it made afterwards. Unlike an acoustic guitar, the magnetic reaction is what makes the sound, not the string itself vibrating and reverberating with the guitar's body.
For this reason, the only thing I could notice was a wee improvement in sustain, but little else. When new strings are put on an acoustic, it almost sounds like a new guitar ... much more noticeable.
I will say that the Grover 106 locking tuners make string changing so incredibly easy, and the NYXL strings do stay in tune better than anything else I've used, especially on a guitar with a tremolo or if you do lots of bending.
Just some observations ...
Great work, DC ...
Really gives a person a sense of inner calm. I see by the number of posts you've been an active Chordian for a long time ... good to meet you!
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