Porsche's American HQ is here in Atlanta. I needed some service done, the scheduled 30,000 mile service.
Except, I'll be trading that in at this point. I managed to get an allocation for a GT3 RS and am working on the customization options over a few days. The existing 2015 GT3 RS (the one getting the service) is being traded in against the cost of the new one. They gave me a fantastic offer. They didn't want me to just pay in cash. They wanted to have the existing car for inventory.
Once I place the order, the car should be here in the US in 6 to 8 months. I've yet to place the order. I'll place the order with an initial configuration. I can change that configuration at any time up to 30 days before they start the build, but that's a hassle. I'd like to get it right the first time around.
And that's why I'm in Atlanta.
There's also the Redneck Racetrack. Basically, there are a number of cities that are 'Atlanta'. They're really different cities in one metro area.
Well, there's a ring road, a giant multi-lane highway that circles the city. If you go out at night, or early on a weekend morning, there's very little traffic and the cops do not care what you do, as long as you don't wreck. It's something fun to do with the loaner while I'm down here.
The loaner is just a 'poverty spec' 2024 911. It's still fun.
Also, I've never had my own custom ordered, brand new Porsche. The missus has a 2023 718 Boxter (fairly inexpensive and not a huge performance vehicle) but I have never owned my own new Porsche. I've cusstom ordered cars before but not from Porsche.
I'll also be ordering a new C8 ZR1 because they're awesome. They're also 'cheap' when you look at the features and performance you're getting. It's gasoline powered and RWD - but still can do 0 to 60 in 2.5 seconds. They come with over 1,000 HP - from the factory.
I will definitely be ordering one. I didn't like the C4, C5, or C6 Corvette models that much. The C7 and C6 are amazing. They even have a good interior, which is surprising. No more cheap plastic all over the place.
Erf...
It's your fault. This is a long reply because you asked why I was here. I'm here for car-things. If you get me started talking about cars, it's going to be a long reply. So, yeah...
Anyhow...
Yes, there are six guitar parts. The studio version would be pretty hard to play in a live performance. Led Zeppelin never played it the same way in their concerts, as it'd have required more people.
There are all sorts of songs like that. They do a great job in the studio but then can't play the same thing in a live performance.
Then, you have bands like The Black Crowes. Their studio music is amazing (at times). Their live performances just plain suck. Do not go see them perform live.
While they're in the studio, they're playing with all sorts of alternative tuning. They'll often use different tuning for different parts of a song (in a studio). By the time this is a live performances, they're playing shitty renditions with guitars that aren't even in tune.
So, don't go see them live. I gave them two tries. I'll never see them live again. They sucked both times, with the second time being even worse.
Are you familiar with Eric Johnson's song Cliffs of Dover? Well, that was recorded part way with a Strat and the rest of it was recorded with a Gibson ES-335. They're two very different tones and the studio matched them up in production. So, the live version is never the same as the studio version because Johnson switched instruments mid-way through the song.
Most folks won't notice that. I noticed it and I'd get confirmation of this later on when he commented about it in a guitar magazine.
The internet is back up and running but not well. I can't even stream a video in 480p on YouTube.
I did get a feee bottle of wine and they've comp'ed our room service for yesterday and today.
I was polite but firm. I didn't raise my voice 'cause that's just not something I do. I explained the situation and explained that I don't like not getting that I paid for.
I could just move to a different hotel but it'd be a pain in the ass and I've already pre-paid until Monday. So, I'd have to deal with getting a refund to my credit card and the whole thing would be a pain in the ass.
Did you see the moron in the thread who asked if anyone played an 'actual' instrument like a 'piano'?
I think I shut themd own well enough. You might find my response amusing. I'm still in a foul mood and the lack of good internet isn't helping.
There's some racing I'd like to watch this weekend and it's on YouTube. They will have some of it on TV but then you get commercials interrupting the thing and that's annoying. I just log into my VPN and watch like I'm from another country (it's geo-blocked in the US due to TV broadcast agreements).
Hopefully, things will change. People will leave the hotel to go out to do stuff during the day. So, there will be fewer people using the 'net. Then again, I am assuming quite a few people have left the hotel already and it hasn't improved the situation all that much.
Seriously... A piano? The guitar is a much more complicated instrument to learn and master. You have a ton of complexity with a guitar that isn't there with the piano.
Yes. I share all sorts of material with keys, flute, violin, etc...
Over the years, we've had all sorts of instruments played - all of which are actual instruments. (You'd know that if you were a musician.)
However, it's right there in the title. This is the *guitar* thread. We accept all music but our personal focus is on guitar.
Amusingly, the piano is also a chordophone and stringed instruments of this type predate the piano by hundreds and hundreds of years, perhaps as many as thousands of years. But, the guitar and piano are in the same family and the guitar is much harder to learn than a piano.
But, you know all that. You're an expert after all. Otherwise you wouldn't come in here trying to offer your opinion on the matter. So, we'll defer to your expertise...
I seldom get angry, even if people don't quite meet my expectations.
This? This is gross negligence. It's a minor detail but it's something I planned on using and paid for. I paid to be able to use their wireless internet. That's a part of my bill.
I do not like not getting what I paid for. I do not like it when someone fails me.
Thanks. We were still fairly new to some new software at the time and the mix could be improved.
I don't have all those stubs saved anywhere, so that's as good as it's going to get. I do not see us recreating the track though it might make for an interesting contrast.
I started casually recording in 2016 or so. I'd just use a phone and maybe play with it in Audacity. In 2018, I started taking it more seriously and bought things like a digital audio input and all that jazz. I already owned great mics but I bought more. I learned to properly mic my drum set up, for example. Drum mics for recording are very different than they are for performing, so that was a thing...
So, in 2020 this was a fairly complicated task for us. It could definitely be improved.
I don't really have enough bandwidth to participate. My hotel sucks donkey balls. I'll listen tomorrow, though I will point out that everything contains chemicals to one extent or another.
I don't even have an ethernet to USB adapter with me, so it'd do me no good.
I'm using my phone still.
When the day shift is on, I will go talk to the manager. I will have my bill reduced accordingly, and then some more for having to deal with this hassle multiple times during our stay.
They can't even say, "It's Friday, so we're out of capacity." No, this happens even during the week. It happens in the middle of the day. It happens at night.
You've known me for quite a while. I don't get annoyed at much and I seldom get angry.
I'm quite annoyed. I'm going to tell the front desk to comp me a bottle of wine for the hassle.
Oh, I had wireless internet. It was pretty speedy, in fact.
It just doesn't work all the time. It's now going on an hour and the 'net is still down.
I figured we'd be here for a bit, so got a suite. It's a beautiful suite with a great view of the Atlanta skyline. It's pretty good - but does not meet my expectations with regard to their internet service.
For the price I'm paying, there should be several modes of failover that automatically kick-in when the service is down or degraded. That's not complicated. It's not cheap but it's not that expensive. They can easily afford it.
It's the Starling but it's owned by Hilton. It just doesn't have Hilton plastered all over the place.
I'm going to wait and listen after the 'net is back up. Otherwise, it's annoying and I have to go buy another block of bandwidth. I suppose I could just pay the overages but I don't like the phone company that much.
I'm at the Starling and paying almost 1,000 a night for a suite and the fucking internet keeps fucking up.
It is a nice suite and the food is delicious, but I've had better internet at a fucking Econolodge.
I'm connected with my phone and have limited bandwidth on said phone because that's the phone I have with me.
*sighs*
The hotel's wireless is out and has been out for a half hour or so. I called the front desk to bitch about it.
I hate this fucking hotel. Hell, I don't even like Georgia, though I have spent quite a bit of time here and have some interesting stories of the area.
Hello and welcome to another Friday Night Guitar Thread. Like normal, we'll go ahead and get you started. That seems like the thing to do! Then again, that's something we always do, regardless of who opens the thread.
These 'deep archives' have been a pretty solid source for some older content that hasn't been shared for a long time. This week's song was insane. It was so insane that I still remember it. First, the song:
[LZ - Over the Hills and Far Away (B #2, #4, #5; J B; TB P & #1, #3, #6)](https://share.fngt.gq/music/rock/classic/LZ%20-%20Over%20the%20Hills%20and%20Far%20Away%20%28B%20%232%2C%20%234%2C%20%235%3B%20J%20B%3B%20TB%20P%20%26%20%231%2C%20%233%2C%20%236%29.mp3)
What we've done is we've covered the studio version. There are so many individual parts that this song was never performed like it was in the studio. Parts of it require entirely different guitars and amps to cover it properly - or to cover it as was done in the studio at the time.
It took quite a bit of effort to get it all together. The mix isn't that great. This was recorded and mixed more than five years ago. Still, it's not terrible.
I will point out that the song is pretty long. Some folks just don't have that much patience. I can't say that I blame them. But, stick this one out. If you're at all familiar with the song, you'll know that we punch you in the ears just after we've lulled you into a sense of ease. It's a great song for that!
Anyhow...
We could technically almost have something new - if people would get off their asses to finsh it up. LOL (I'm one of those people who has a bit more work to do). Obviously, we can't do that work in our current situation.
The hotel's wireless is spotty but I've got my phone. I'm not sure how long we'll be here tonight, but I should have at least an hour to hang out. There's not much else to do.
Get a long piano string, uncut and twenty or so feet long.
Get on a 'tall enough' building.
Tie it around your neck.
Tie the other end around something firm on the building's top.
Superglue your hand to your head/hair.
Jump off a building.
The string should cut straight through the neck and make it look like you ripped your own head off!
Imagine if you did this down town and had a bunch of people watching you. This would be pretty epic! I dare say that not one single person would forget about that day. It might give them nightmares for the rest of their life - but they'll remember your fuckin' name until the day they die.
I've joked about doing this for years.
I'm not mentally ill or anything like that. I've never had any abnormal psych problems. I was curious about my sanity, as some mental illness runs in my family, but I did a few days of testing and learned that I'm pretty much sane. I'm a bit abnormal but not mentally ill.
I have no mental illnesses that are beyond my control and interfere with my quality of life.
As for Becker, I admire how he didn't use much in the way of effects outside of his amplifier. He mostly used a clean tone and a single distortion pedal. I believe he's the dude with ALS. That has to suck.
If I was diagnosed with ALS, I'd probably kill myself before it got that bad.
It'd be nice if I could do so in a dignified way. There are doctors who will prescribe you a few pills. You take one and then wait. You take another one and then wait. These pills will eventually make you sleep. If you take the third pill, you don't wake up.
I like that idea.
I like that idea a lot.
I also think we should offer euthanasia to prisoners. I suspect quite a few would take you up on the offer. if I was faced with a very long sentence, I'd probably want to die instead. (I've never been to prison or the like, outside of visiting and working in detention.)
Let 'em die. Yeah, they're prisoners but we can still let them die with ease and dignity. You go to prison as punishment and not to be punished. If they want to use this opportunity to remove themselves from the gene pool, I'm all for it.
Fuck, I'd hate to be in that position. We need to fucking legalize euthanasia at a federal level. Hell, it needs to be a global thing.
If you're curious, I'm a proponent of such. We have a right to live according to our legislation, so the obverse should be equally true and we should have the right to die with dignity.
I also think that if this was legal and the social stigma eliminated, we'd see quite a few people taking the path of removing themselves from the gene pool. I'm perfectly okay with that.
I even have personal experience.
I had a sibling who was very ill. She couldn't even eat. She got her nutrition through a port in her neck and was 'fed' with a process known as 'TPM'. She had severe health issues in other areas, far too many to enumerate.
She eventually decided to sign a DNR to ensure no life-saving measures would be taken and stopped taking her TPM. Instead, she ate anything and everything she wanted. She lived for maybe 30 days before entering a coma and dying a few days later.
I very strongly support her actions. Her quality of life was just too low to keep living and there was no hope of that changing. Pretty much every moment she had was a moment of suffering.
It took a few days for me to really get my head around it - even though I'd openly supported her beforehand and during this process. At the end of the day, I never mourned for her death. Instead, I'm glad she's dead.
I mean, I wish she was still alive - but not with that quality of life. Fuck that... Sign me up for the bus. I'm not going to put up with that shit nearly as long as she did.
She's not the weakest person I've known. She's the opposite. She's the strongest person I've known.
I was already a proponent of euthanasia. I'm now an even bigger supporter. Nobody should have to live through that shit. If your life is shitty enough, you should have the ability to end it with dignity. We have the drugs to make sure it's painless and it is already legal in some areas.
I think it's a basic human right - or it should be.
Fuck the religious folks who make this difficult. Fuck them all. If there's a kind and understanding omnipotent deity, he's going to be perfectly okay with people choosing to end their life in a painless and dignified manner.
Then again, if there were a kind and understanding omnipotent deity, they'd probably not allow such shitty things to happen to people.
Err...
This is a long and rambling post but I'm obviously not a religious person. (No, Buddhism is not really a religion, though some folks treat it as such.)
Yeah, I did a lot of work as a session musician. I needed the money. It paid fairly well, all things considered. It just wasn't consistent enough to be my only source of income.
I think I'd find a way to make music even if my hand was fucked. I always have, at any rate.
I was hit while on my motorcycle and superman-ed into the windshield. That broke a bunch of bones in my hands and one wrist. I was playing soon after and my physical therapist decided that it was a good workout so they gave the okay for me to play as much as I could play so long as it wasn't seriously painful. I had to cut some of the cast away but I was eventually just wearing braces which made it easier.
There's something about playing guitar... I just have to do it. I've done it pretty much every day for decades. If I don't play, it feels weird - almost like an addiction.
Other than what was done professionally, I didn't do much in the way of recording until fairly recently - as in less than the past decade. I just never really cared about it. I played for money, more or less. I kept playing after I no longer needed that paltry amount of money but I was still very much a 'gun for hire' type of deal.
So, I never really got into recording my own stuff. I figured I could always recreate it when needed.
Yeah, I don't want to deal with that shit. I never did the YouTube thing, but I tried pretty much every other free music-sharing site AND some paid options. I was more than happy to pay for a good interface and for hosting. I don't mind paying for services, especially if they're good.
That said, I haven't looked up any of the free sites lately. There might be something new out there. I've jused used my own sharing site for years. I just looked and it looks like I've been using my own sharing site since October 2020. So, almost five years.
That depends on the definition of 'work'. Cars are already built by robots. With EVs, they're even easier to maintain. If they're driverless, you don't even own your car - you just page one when you need to go somewhere. Cars that are broken can go to central repair houses where robots replace components. Cars are then designed to optimize this strategy. Instead of replacing the brakes, they just toss on whole wheel assemblies.
The AI just oversees the robots.
There will be all sorts of components that these cars won't even need. All they need are seats, safety equipment, and maybe some entertainment. If we can automate traffic enough, you can even do away with the safety equipment.
As for what will humans do? Well, hopefully stop procreating.
I get a kick out of it when people say that Bill Gates wants to reduce the population. He does. He doesn't mean he wants to kill them, he just means that we should stop breeding so much. (He also saves a ton of lives with his work on malaria.)
Even the rich people tend to find something constructive to do with their time. They don't just lay around and get high. They find hobbies, socialize, create, etc... All sorts of people are already working when they don't have to.
You might end up with a premium for handmade goods, much like we already pay. These people would be getting their needs met already (likely through UBI). They won't have to make things, but they'll want to. It's just in our nature to create and be productive.
Sure, a subset of the population is going to just lay around and get high. That's fine. We already criminalize bad behavior. So, we might as well.
Yeah, that's a bit of a novella, but I wanted to touch on some similar things and write less.
AI itself can't fix a car. A trained AI working with robots can fix a car - certainly so if the car is optimized for it. It'll fix a car faster and better than any human ever did.
Now, if we get to keep our car collections and our old ICE automobiles, you'll need a specialist human. I am prepared for that outcome.
TheRealBuddha 0 points 1 week ago
Porsche's American HQ is here in Atlanta. I needed some service done, the scheduled 30,000 mile service.
Except, I'll be trading that in at this point. I managed to get an allocation for a GT3 RS and am working on the customization options over a few days. The existing 2015 GT3 RS (the one getting the service) is being traded in against the cost of the new one. They gave me a fantastic offer. They didn't want me to just pay in cash. They wanted to have the existing car for inventory.
Once I place the order, the car should be here in the US in 6 to 8 months. I've yet to place the order. I'll place the order with an initial configuration. I can change that configuration at any time up to 30 days before they start the build, but that's a hassle. I'd like to get it right the first time around.
And that's why I'm in Atlanta.
There's also the Redneck Racetrack. Basically, there are a number of cities that are 'Atlanta'. They're really different cities in one metro area.
Well, there's a ring road, a giant multi-lane highway that circles the city. If you go out at night, or early on a weekend morning, there's very little traffic and the cops do not care what you do, as long as you don't wreck. It's something fun to do with the loaner while I'm down here.
The loaner is just a 'poverty spec' 2024 911. It's still fun.
Also, I've never had my own custom ordered, brand new Porsche. The missus has a 2023 718 Boxter (fairly inexpensive and not a huge performance vehicle) but I have never owned my own new Porsche. I've cusstom ordered cars before but not from Porsche.
I'll also be ordering a new C8 ZR1 because they're awesome. They're also 'cheap' when you look at the features and performance you're getting. It's gasoline powered and RWD - but still can do 0 to 60 in 2.5 seconds. They come with over 1,000 HP - from the factory.
I will definitely be ordering one. I didn't like the C4, C5, or C6 Corvette models that much. The C7 and C6 are amazing. They even have a good interior, which is surprising. No more cheap plastic all over the place.
Erf...
It's your fault. This is a long reply because you asked why I was here. I'm here for car-things. If you get me started talking about cars, it's going to be a long reply. So, yeah...
Anyhow...
Yes, there are six guitar parts. The studio version would be pretty hard to play in a live performance. Led Zeppelin never played it the same way in their concerts, as it'd have required more people.
There are all sorts of songs like that. They do a great job in the studio but then can't play the same thing in a live performance.
Then, you have bands like The Black Crowes. Their studio music is amazing (at times). Their live performances just plain suck. Do not go see them perform live.
While they're in the studio, they're playing with all sorts of alternative tuning. They'll often use different tuning for different parts of a song (in a studio). By the time this is a live performances, they're playing shitty renditions with guitars that aren't even in tune.
So, don't go see them live. I gave them two tries. I'll never see them live again. They sucked both times, with the second time being even worse.
Are you familiar with Eric Johnson's song Cliffs of Dover? Well, that was recorded part way with a Strat and the rest of it was recorded with a Gibson ES-335. They're two very different tones and the studio matched them up in production. So, the live version is never the same as the studio version because Johnson switched instruments mid-way through the song.
Most folks won't notice that. I noticed it and I'd get confirmation of this later on when he commented about it in a guitar magazine.
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TheRealBuddha 1 point 1 week ago
The internet is back up and running but not well. I can't even stream a video in 480p on YouTube.
I did get a feee bottle of wine and they've comp'ed our room service for yesterday and today.
I was polite but firm. I didn't raise my voice 'cause that's just not something I do. I explained the situation and explained that I don't like not getting that I paid for.
I could just move to a different hotel but it'd be a pain in the ass and I've already pre-paid until Monday. So, I'd have to deal with getting a refund to my credit card and the whole thing would be a pain in the ass.
Did you see the moron in the thread who asked if anyone played an 'actual' instrument like a 'piano'?
I think I shut themd own well enough. You might find my response amusing. I'm still in a foul mood and the lack of good internet isn't helping.
There's some racing I'd like to watch this weekend and it's on YouTube. They will have some of it on TV but then you get commercials interrupting the thing and that's annoying. I just log into my VPN and watch like I'm from another country (it's geo-blocked in the US due to TV broadcast agreements).
Hopefully, things will change. People will leave the hotel to go out to do stuff during the day. So, there will be fewer people using the 'net. Then again, I am assuming quite a few people have left the hotel already and it hasn't improved the situation all that much.
Seriously... A piano? The guitar is a much more complicated instrument to learn and master. You have a ton of complexity with a guitar that isn't there with the piano.
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TheRealBuddha 0 points 1 week ago
It took a minute to start playing and keeps starting and stopping.
That's not your fault, it's that my internet sucks right now.
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TheRealBuddha 1 point 1 week ago
Yes. I share all sorts of material with keys, flute, violin, etc...
Over the years, we've had all sorts of instruments played - all of which are actual instruments. (You'd know that if you were a musician.)
However, it's right there in the title. This is the *guitar* thread. We accept all music but our personal focus is on guitar.
Amusingly, the piano is also a chordophone and stringed instruments of this type predate the piano by hundreds and hundreds of years, perhaps as many as thousands of years. But, the guitar and piano are in the same family and the guitar is much harder to learn than a piano.
But, you know all that. You're an expert after all. Otherwise you wouldn't come in here trying to offer your opinion on the matter. So, we'll defer to your expertise...
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TheRealBuddha 0 points 1 week ago
Which AI are you using?
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TheRealBuddha 3 points 1 week ago
I seldom get angry, even if people don't quite meet my expectations.
This? This is gross negligence. It's a minor detail but it's something I planned on using and paid for. I paid to be able to use their wireless internet. That's a part of my bill.
I do not like not getting what I paid for. I do not like it when someone fails me.
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TheRealBuddha 2 points 1 week ago
Thanks. We were still fairly new to some new software at the time and the mix could be improved.
I don't have all those stubs saved anywhere, so that's as good as it's going to get. I do not see us recreating the track though it might make for an interesting contrast.
I started casually recording in 2016 or so. I'd just use a phone and maybe play with it in Audacity. In 2018, I started taking it more seriously and bought things like a digital audio input and all that jazz. I already owned great mics but I bought more. I learned to properly mic my drum set up, for example. Drum mics for recording are very different than they are for performing, so that was a thing...
So, in 2020 this was a fairly complicated task for us. It could definitely be improved.
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TheRealBuddha 1 point 1 week ago
I don't really have enough bandwidth to participate. My hotel sucks donkey balls. I'll listen tomorrow, though I will point out that everything contains chemicals to one extent or another.
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TheRealBuddha 2 points 1 week ago
Hotels haven't had that for years. LOL
I don't even have an ethernet to USB adapter with me, so it'd do me no good.
I'm using my phone still.
When the day shift is on, I will go talk to the manager. I will have my bill reduced accordingly, and then some more for having to deal with this hassle multiple times during our stay.
They can't even say, "It's Friday, so we're out of capacity." No, this happens even during the week. It happens in the middle of the day. It happens at night.
You've known me for quite a while. I don't get annoyed at much and I seldom get angry.
I'm quite annoyed. I'm going to tell the front desk to comp me a bottle of wine for the hassle.
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TheRealBuddha 2 points 1 week ago
Oh, I had wireless internet. It was pretty speedy, in fact.
It just doesn't work all the time. It's now going on an hour and the 'net is still down.
I figured we'd be here for a bit, so got a suite. It's a beautiful suite with a great view of the Atlanta skyline. It's pretty good - but does not meet my expectations with regard to their internet service.
For the price I'm paying, there should be several modes of failover that automatically kick-in when the service is down or degraded. That's not complicated. It's not cheap but it's not that expensive. They can easily afford it.
It's the Starling but it's owned by Hilton. It just doesn't have Hilton plastered all over the place.
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TheRealBuddha 2 points 1 week ago
I don't get annoyed often. I get annoyed when someone fails me. I get annoyed when I'm paying someone for something and they fail me.
I don't get angry often. That's not something I do.
This? This is pissing me off.
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TheRealBuddha 2 points 1 week ago
I'm going to wait and listen after the 'net is back up. Otherwise, it's annoying and I have to go buy another block of bandwidth. I suppose I could just pay the overages but I don't like the phone company that much.
I'm at the Starling and paying almost 1,000 a night for a suite and the fucking internet keeps fucking up.
It is a nice suite and the food is delicious, but I've had better internet at a fucking Econolodge.
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TheRealBuddha 2 points 1 week ago
Glad ya liked it.
I'm connected with my phone and have limited bandwidth on said phone because that's the phone I have with me.
*sighs*
The hotel's wireless is out and has been out for a half hour or so. I called the front desk to bitch about it.
I hate this fucking hotel. Hell, I don't even like Georgia, though I have spent quite a bit of time here and have some interesting stories of the area.
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TheRealBuddha 4 points 1 week ago
Hello and welcome to another Friday Night Guitar Thread. Like normal, we'll go ahead and get you started. That seems like the thing to do! Then again, that's something we always do, regardless of who opens the thread.
These 'deep archives' have been a pretty solid source for some older content that hasn't been shared for a long time. This week's song was insane. It was so insane that I still remember it. First, the song:
[LZ - Over the Hills and Far Away (B #2, #4, #5; J B; TB P & #1, #3, #6)](https://share.fngt.gq/music/rock/classic/LZ%20-%20Over%20the%20Hills%20and%20Far%20Away%20%28B%20%232%2C%20%234%2C%20%235%3B%20J%20B%3B%20TB%20P%20%26%20%231%2C%20%233%2C%20%236%29.mp3)
What we've done is we've covered the studio version. There are so many individual parts that this song was never performed like it was in the studio. Parts of it require entirely different guitars and amps to cover it properly - or to cover it as was done in the studio at the time.
It took quite a bit of effort to get it all together. The mix isn't that great. This was recorded and mixed more than five years ago. Still, it's not terrible.
I will point out that the song is pretty long. Some folks just don't have that much patience. I can't say that I blame them. But, stick this one out. If you're at all familiar with the song, you'll know that we punch you in the ears just after we've lulled you into a sense of ease. It's a great song for that!
Anyhow...
We could technically almost have something new - if people would get off their asses to finsh it up. LOL (I'm one of those people who has a bit more work to do). Obviously, we can't do that work in our current situation.
The hotel's wireless is spotty but I've got my phone. I'm not sure how long we'll be here tonight, but I should have at least an hour to hang out. There's not much else to do.
Rock on, Goats! Rock on!
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TheRealBuddha 1 point 1 week ago
Rabbits and armadillos are both edible.
Armadillo is delicious but you need to make sure you cook it (and all meat, especially wild meat) thoroughly.
Well, you don't "need" to. You just probably should. You can eat it raw if you really want, but that's a good way to end up with shit like leprosy.
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TheRealBuddha 0 points 1 week ago
He used a Boss Super Overdrive quite a bit. It's also known as the Boss SD1.
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TheRealBuddha 0 points 1 week ago
Get a long piano string, uncut and twenty or so feet long.
Get on a 'tall enough' building.
Tie it around your neck.
Tie the other end around something firm on the building's top.
Superglue your hand to your head/hair.
Jump off a building.
The string should cut straight through the neck and make it look like you ripped your own head off!
Imagine if you did this down town and had a bunch of people watching you. This would be pretty epic! I dare say that not one single person would forget about that day. It might give them nightmares for the rest of their life - but they'll remember your fuckin' name until the day they die.
I've joked about doing this for years.
I'm not mentally ill or anything like that. I've never had any abnormal psych problems. I was curious about my sanity, as some mental illness runs in my family, but I did a few days of testing and learned that I'm pretty much sane. I'm a bit abnormal but not mentally ill.
I have no mental illnesses that are beyond my control and interfere with my quality of life.
As for Becker, I admire how he didn't use much in the way of effects outside of his amplifier. He mostly used a clean tone and a single distortion pedal. I believe he's the dude with ALS. That has to suck.
If I was diagnosed with ALS, I'd probably kill myself before it got that bad.
It'd be nice if I could do so in a dignified way. There are doctors who will prescribe you a few pills. You take one and then wait. You take another one and then wait. These pills will eventually make you sleep. If you take the third pill, you don't wake up.
I like that idea.
I like that idea a lot.
I also think we should offer euthanasia to prisoners. I suspect quite a few would take you up on the offer. if I was faced with a very long sentence, I'd probably want to die instead. (I've never been to prison or the like, outside of visiting and working in detention.)
Let 'em die. Yeah, they're prisoners but we can still let them die with ease and dignity. You go to prison as punishment and not to be punished. If they want to use this opportunity to remove themselves from the gene pool, I'm all for it.
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TheRealBuddha 0 points 1 week ago
Fuck, I'd hate to be in that position. We need to fucking legalize euthanasia at a federal level. Hell, it needs to be a global thing.
If you're curious, I'm a proponent of such. We have a right to live according to our legislation, so the obverse should be equally true and we should have the right to die with dignity.
I also think that if this was legal and the social stigma eliminated, we'd see quite a few people taking the path of removing themselves from the gene pool. I'm perfectly okay with that.
I even have personal experience.
I had a sibling who was very ill. She couldn't even eat. She got her nutrition through a port in her neck and was 'fed' with a process known as 'TPM'. She had severe health issues in other areas, far too many to enumerate.
She eventually decided to sign a DNR to ensure no life-saving measures would be taken and stopped taking her TPM. Instead, she ate anything and everything she wanted. She lived for maybe 30 days before entering a coma and dying a few days later.
I very strongly support her actions. Her quality of life was just too low to keep living and there was no hope of that changing. Pretty much every moment she had was a moment of suffering.
It took a few days for me to really get my head around it - even though I'd openly supported her beforehand and during this process. At the end of the day, I never mourned for her death. Instead, I'm glad she's dead.
I mean, I wish she was still alive - but not with that quality of life. Fuck that... Sign me up for the bus. I'm not going to put up with that shit nearly as long as she did.
She's not the weakest person I've known. She's the opposite. She's the strongest person I've known.
I was already a proponent of euthanasia. I'm now an even bigger supporter. Nobody should have to live through that shit. If your life is shitty enough, you should have the ability to end it with dignity. We have the drugs to make sure it's painless and it is already legal in some areas.
I think it's a basic human right - or it should be.
Fuck the religious folks who make this difficult. Fuck them all. If there's a kind and understanding omnipotent deity, he's going to be perfectly okay with people choosing to end their life in a painless and dignified manner.
Then again, if there were a kind and understanding omnipotent deity, they'd probably not allow such shitty things to happen to people.
Err...
This is a long and rambling post but I'm obviously not a religious person. (No, Buddhism is not really a religion, though some folks treat it as such.)
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TheRealBuddha 0 points 1 week ago
I've joked that if my hands are removed then I'll learn to make music with my feet.
I probably won't. I'd just make music with my mouth.
Or fart noises... Yeah, probably fart noises.
I'd probably create some prosthetics that allowed me to hold drum sticks. I'd do something.
I will slow down and be less precise. That's pretty much a certainty, if I live that long. But, I'll still play.
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TheRealBuddha 0 points 1 week ago
Yeah, I did a lot of work as a session musician. I needed the money. It paid fairly well, all things considered. It just wasn't consistent enough to be my only source of income.
I think I'd find a way to make music even if my hand was fucked. I always have, at any rate.
I was hit while on my motorcycle and superman-ed into the windshield. That broke a bunch of bones in my hands and one wrist. I was playing soon after and my physical therapist decided that it was a good workout so they gave the okay for me to play as much as I could play so long as it wasn't seriously painful. I had to cut some of the cast away but I was eventually just wearing braces which made it easier.
There's something about playing guitar... I just have to do it. I've done it pretty much every day for decades. If I don't play, it feels weird - almost like an addiction.
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TheRealBuddha 0 points 2 weeks ago
Other than what was done professionally, I didn't do much in the way of recording until fairly recently - as in less than the past decade. I just never really cared about it. I played for money, more or less. I kept playing after I no longer needed that paltry amount of money but I was still very much a 'gun for hire' type of deal.
So, I never really got into recording my own stuff. I figured I could always recreate it when needed.
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TheRealBuddha 1 point 2 weeks ago
I'll have to dig into the archives again this week. We won't have anything new. Well, it's unlikely that we'll have anything new. It's very unlikely.
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TheRealBuddha 0 points 2 weeks ago
I just use my own. It works out well enough. I don't actually care what it costs me, within reason. At least I'm the one that's in control of my data.
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TheRealBuddha 0 points 2 weeks ago
Yeah, I don't want to deal with that shit. I never did the YouTube thing, but I tried pretty much every other free music-sharing site AND some paid options. I was more than happy to pay for a good interface and for hosting. I don't mind paying for services, especially if they're good.
That said, I haven't looked up any of the free sites lately. There might be something new out there. I've jused used my own sharing site for years. I just looked and it looks like I've been using my own sharing site since October 2020. So, almost five years.
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TheRealBuddha 1 point 2 weeks ago
That depends on the definition of 'work'. Cars are already built by robots. With EVs, they're even easier to maintain. If they're driverless, you don't even own your car - you just page one when you need to go somewhere. Cars that are broken can go to central repair houses where robots replace components. Cars are then designed to optimize this strategy. Instead of replacing the brakes, they just toss on whole wheel assemblies.
The AI just oversees the robots.
There will be all sorts of components that these cars won't even need. All they need are seats, safety equipment, and maybe some entertainment. If we can automate traffic enough, you can even do away with the safety equipment.
As for what will humans do? Well, hopefully stop procreating.
I get a kick out of it when people say that Bill Gates wants to reduce the population. He does. He doesn't mean he wants to kill them, he just means that we should stop breeding so much. (He also saves a ton of lives with his work on malaria.)
Even the rich people tend to find something constructive to do with their time. They don't just lay around and get high. They find hobbies, socialize, create, etc... All sorts of people are already working when they don't have to.
You might end up with a premium for handmade goods, much like we already pay. These people would be getting their needs met already (likely through UBI). They won't have to make things, but they'll want to. It's just in our nature to create and be productive.
Sure, a subset of the population is going to just lay around and get high. That's fine. We already criminalize bad behavior. So, we might as well.
Yeah, that's a bit of a novella, but I wanted to touch on some similar things and write less.
AI itself can't fix a car. A trained AI working with robots can fix a car - certainly so if the car is optimized for it. It'll fix a car faster and better than any human ever did.
Now, if we get to keep our car collections and our old ICE automobiles, you'll need a specialist human. I am prepared for that outcome.
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