December 2009
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And here's that Resonator Chrome G with the Holy...
Here’s the new Dean Resonator Chrome G, tuned to open G and played through the Electro Harmonix Holy Stain with some overdrive and some tremolo. The amp is my old Lab Series solid state L5 on a pretty clean setting. The pickups are almost 50/50 magnet/piezo with a slight bias toward the magnet to reduce high end noise and unwanted distortion. A lot of the guitar’s characteristics are...
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Quite simply, one of the most beautiful things...
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anotherangle:
fuckyeahzappa:
apethink:
Frank...
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WatchSecond teaser trailer for Chris Nolan’s Inception. (via Quietearth)
Looks insane!
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27) →
Frank Zappa (21)
Lindsey Buckingham (5)
Funkadelic (5)
Them Crooked Vultures (4)
The Allman Brothers Band (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
listening to "Roland Kirk Quintet - Three For... →
Let’s get #musicmonday started off right with Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Volunteered Slavery
I love each and every one of you wonderful people....
Night nigh
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It's going to be a bluesy 2010.
The Dean Resonator Chrome G. It may be fake, but it’s a pretty nice fake. When you can’t afford the real deal, fake it til you make it.
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Flaming Lips cover of Dark Side Of The Moon is... →
Haven’t listened to the whole thing, but is very interpretive, which is good news, because you can’t improve on perfection. A few years ago, they were covering Breath on tour and it sounded **just** like the PF version, so I was caught off guard when I heard this. But so far, I like it! As you will see, a lot of people do not.
2001: A Space Odyssey. Best movie ever?
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juliadream:
YES. <3<3<3<3<3<3
One of my favs that’s for sure. :)
I have it as number one. Don’t even have to stop and think about it.
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-20) →
Steve Hackett (12)
AC/DC (10)
Frank Zappa (9)
Bob Dylan (8)
The Allman Brothers Band (7)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Tumblr makes me want to be a better blogger
My recent update (I can’t call it a redesign, since I didn’t really design anything) to the WordPress site makes me happy. It doesn’t have the clean look of the old MPomy.com, but it makes use of a lot of the new gadgets that can easily be implemented onto the WordPress platform. So, yay!
But content is a different story. All the beautiful widgets and plugins don’t...
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Are you fucking kidding me? And what in GOD's...
Daryl Stuermer and Martin Levac are Genesis Rewired. On a day when we should be celebrating the birthday of the 20th Century’s greatest composer, I am nothing but embarrassed. My love of Genesis does not stop with the departure of Peter Gabriel. Nor does it end with the unceremonious dismissal of guitar visionary Steve Hackett in 1977. Although the trio of Banks Collins and Rutherford...
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listening to "Frank Zappa - Florentine Pogen →
Frank Zappa - Florentine Pogen. Beware of Chester’s Gorilla!
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Frank Zappa - The Ocean Is The Ultimate Solution
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OK - still plenty of work to do, but the new look...
It’s amazing how fast I was able to change the entire look of this thing. That’s not a testament to any knowledge that I have, that’s just Wordpress being Wordpress. I can’t remember how long I was using Atahualpa (which may still be a more flexible them than this one - Mystique), but it wasn’t much more than a year. Since then, there have been numerous updates to...
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There is some thought that mpomy.com is due for an...
Of course, that could cause everything to go horribly wrong for this entire deal. So, in the interest of prudent exploration, I’m taking a break to do a big backup. If we can get this thing working, then I’ll move on to try and pimp my Tumblr site next. But, as always, mpomy.com must come first
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Meet Sara. She has DEVASTATING chops on the kit.
Needless to say, the young lady can play. That’s The Black Page #2, a notoriously difficult Zappa composition. Apparently, she’s a big Bozzio fan. !!!!
Click here for a little YYZ. Sick sick sick.
Here’s Sara’s homepage.
(Via the amazing fuckyeahzappa tumblr feed. Get there!)
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AT&T - you make me sick! →
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Walt Whitman →
insearchofthemoon:
walt whitman
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Well, it's about freakin time! →
Genesis will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010. La-dee-FLIPPIN-da! The whole thing is an obnoxious popularity contest and literally means nothing to me. The “recognition” will almost definitely be soiled by undo emphasis on the band’s commercial period, as opposed to groundbreaking, earthshaking, game-changing work done by the quintet featured above.
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Great #prog list RT @gagliarchives the top 100 of... →
Number 1 is no surprise. Nice to See Riverside at number 2. Great band, but I need to spend more time with that record. Beardfish cracks the top ten, so no complaints from me. Black Bonzo is comfortably in the top 50, so that’s excellent. Seems like a lot of folks don’t know that UKZ record, but its awfully good and get mondo recognition at number 11. Let’s see,...
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I'm feeling surprisingly level-headed about the...
Am I sad to see Cliff Lee go? Of course. Despite a slight dip in his performance at the end of the regular season, he was standing tall once the playoffs began, and I found his attitude to be about pitch-perfect for this town. Not a diva, not a headcase, just a guy. So, of course, I would have wanted him to stay on the team, but, in the bigger picture, it didn’t make sense and Amaro...
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“Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth....”
– November 19, 1979: Lyrics to the song Packard Goose on the album Joe’s Garage: Act III.
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-13) →
SBB (20)
Goblin (14)
Yes (13)
thenewno2 (11)
The Flower Kings (11)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Avatar - It's Progressive Politics AND Progressive...
After seeing Charlie Jane Anders io9 note comparing the concept art for James Cameron’s upcoming masterpiece vanity project epic Avatar to Roger Dean’s album covers for the band Yes, there’s now no doubt that I’m in. That was after learning that the film’s heart, politically speaking, appears to be in the right place. I guess I’m part of the...
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"The nimbus of infallibility" It couldn't possibly... →
Your iPhone is perfect. Your iPhone is the best available product. There is nothing wrong with your iPhone. Your iPhone is perfect. Unless it isn’t. (via @boygeniusreport)
listening to "Steve Hackett - The Steppes" →
One of the best by one of the best! Steve Hackett: The Steppes #prog #musicmonday
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My head may explode
I post on Twitter. I post on this site. I post on this site and it automatically goes to Twitter. I post on Tumblr. I post on Tumblr and it automatically goes to Twitter. I post on this site and it automatically goes to Tumblr and Twitter, but not twice to Twitter, even though Tumblr is instructed to go to Twitter. I have a Facebook account, but nothing goes there automatically. I take...
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