They don’t sound quite rehearsed but I think it could work if they played together for a while. Chester has some problems hitting some of the notes but a lot less then Scott Weiland has for many years. Let’s hope for everyone ending up happy, Sober and making some scrilla in the STP camp including both singers in 2013 and beyond.
Wow, the season finally of Doctor who was all that :) I’m very much so looking forward to the 50th anniversary episode on November 23rd mostly because “the name of the doctor” was very much a prequel, sequel and…. well after all the Doctor is a time lord. It’s all of the above and more I reckon.
Why do you ask do I adore these insane people? Because they are most awesome human beings to co-exist with! Case in Point…. This first image is taken at 4:52 Pm and resides in a room full of the most lovely insane people on this good earth. EAR!
This image is the flip side 180 degree flip-flop i.e. the backside of the image above… YAY!
This last image is my total ultimate favorite! This is… let’s call him “A.” This is his Hot Sauce Ball! OMG OMG OMG WTH ! The SR. Systems admin has this little hot sauce widget (that’s a technical term) in his space, others bring him offerings often to add to the “hot sauce Borg collective hive.” Resistance is futile! :D
This Year I’m so grateful for my most treasured awesome INSANE people :)
I’ve never seen David Letterman so smitten with a band on his show all these years. Check out Vintage Trouble on Letterman from December 2012, seriously bad ass!
Nuff said :D
This week “Abby” Abigail Ybarra retired from the Fender custom shop. Who is the Abby that I and all guitar geeks hold in such high esteem? She’s the Number one woman of Rock and Roll & electric blues. She is the master-hand pickup winder (the person who sets magnets and decided how much and where copper wire resides in a guitar pickup) for Fender Guitars since 1958! I am truly one of the lucky ones, I have two sets of Pickups hand wound by Abby, one still in a box in my GUN SAFE! The set I have in use are brilliant to say the least. Her pickups have been on a who’s who of musicians such as Jimmy Hendrix, Buddy Guy, David Gilmore, Buddy Holly, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Merl Haggard, Waylon Jennings, Ritchie Blackmore, Robert Bray, Ry Cooder, Rory Gallagher, Eric Johnson, Eddy Hazel, Bonnie Raitt, Robin Trower and the list goes on and on and on. A virtual who’s who of all my favorite pickers.
Abby truly is the queen of Guitar and a guitar hero in her own right. She is loved by fans and guitarists world over and her retirement is a milestone in music history. God Bless you Abby, I hope you enjoy your well-earned retirement and take a long well deserved and enjoyable vacation with your family.
The following story is from the fender.com website announcing Abby’s retirement:
The Fender Custom Shop is both pleased and wistful to announce that one of its most revered employees, “pickup artist” Abigail Ybarra, is retiring after more than 50 years in the Fender family. In celebration, Fender arranged for multiple Grammy Award-winning band Los Lobos to play at her private retirement party with dozens of her coworkers earlier today.
Ybarra came to Fender in 1956 and in 1958 began hand-winding and hand-building guitar pickups for the fledgling Southern California musical instrument company (pickups convert string vibrations into electric signals, creating the “voice” of an electric guitar). Ybarra’s hand-wound pickups have been included in Fender’s most popular instruments from the late-’50s to today, and were most likely found on instruments played by legends such as Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Holly, Stevie Ray Vaughan and countless others. Her pickups have become highly desirable and sought after by artists and collectors alike.
“Abby is one of the many individuals, like George Fullerton, Freddie Tavares and Forrest White, who have set our course as a company and leader in our industry,” said Mike Eldred, Fender Custom Shop Marketing Director. “She has literally ‘set the tone’ for Fender, and we will continue to carry on her legacy in the Fender Custom Shop.”
Over the past three years, Fender Custom Shop Pickup Specialist Josefina Campos has been apprenticing under Ybarra, mastering the techniques that only a half-century of experience can create. Campos, who has been with Fender since 1991, is more than prepared to take the torch from Ybarra’s legendary hands.
“Josefina has been part of the Fender Custom Shop for many years now, and she has spent a good portion of her time winding great-sounding pickups and apprenticing with one of the best pickup builders in the world,” added Eldred. “We are grateful to add her to an extraordinary group of Master Builders, and excited to watch her take her place in Fender’s rich history.”
Campos-wound pickups are already in great demand, and the Fender Custom Shop is planning to include them in select limited instruments and in custom-ordered Master Built models.
One of the musicians in the Blues band I play in sent me this, it was to sweet not to share. Thanks Josh! Oh and I love you my brother :D
Tech Support: Yes, how can I help you?
Customer: Well, after much consideration, I’ve decided 
to install Love. Can you guide me through the process?
Tech Support: Yes. I can help you. Are you ready to proceed?
Customer: Well, I’m not very technical, but I think I’m ready. What do I do first?
Tech Support: The first step is to open your Heart. Have you located your Heart?
Customer: Yes, but there are several other programs running now. Is it okay to install Love while they are running?
Tech Support: What programs are running?
Customer: Let’s see, I have Past Hurt, Low Self-Esteem, Grudge and Resentment running right now.
Tech Support: No problem, Love will gradually erase Past Hurt from your current operating system. It may remain in your permanent memory but it will no longer disrupt other programs. Love will eventually override Low Self-Esteem with a module of its own called High Self-Esteem. However, you have to completely turn off Grudge and Resentment. Those programs prevent Love from being properly installed. Can you turn those off?
Customer: I don’t know how to. Can you tell me how?
Tech Support: With pleasure. Go to your start menu and invoke Forgiveness. Do this as many times as necessary until Grudge and Resentment have been completely erased.
Customer: Okay, done! Love has started installing itself. Is that normal?
Tech Support: Yes, but remember that you have only the base program. You need to begin connecting to other Hearts in order to get the upgrades.
Customer: Oops! I have an error message already. It says, “Error – Program not run on external components.” What should I do?
Tech Support: Don’t worry. It means that the Love program is set up to run on Internal Hearts, but has not yet been run on your Heart. In non-technical terms, it simply means you have to Love yourself before you can Love others.
Customer: So, what should I do?
Tech Support: Pull down Self-Acceptance; then click on the following files: Forgive-Self; Realize Your Worth; and Acknowledge your Limitations.
Customer: Okay, done.
Tech Support: Now, copy them to the “My Heart” directory. The system will overwrite any conflicting files and begin patching faulty programming. Also, you need to delete Verbose Self-Criticism from all directories and empty your Recycle Bin to make sure it is completely gone and never comes back.
Customer: Got it. Hey! My heart is filling up with new files. Smile is playing on my monitor and Peace and Contentment are copying themselves all over My Heart. Is this normal?
Tech Support: Sometimes. For others it takes awhile, but eventually everything gets it at the proper time. So Love is installed and running. One more thing before we hang up.
Love is Freeware.
Be sure to give it and its various modules to everyone you meet. They will in turn share it with others and return some cool modules back to you.
Customer: Thank you, God.
CREATOR, aka, Tech Support: You’re Welcome, Anytime.
Last week when jogging through my local Frisbee park in my neighborhood, I was lucky enough to see this lad nail a hole in one. It was nifty cool to see the wind catch it just perfectly and launch it just proper between the chains. I took handy iPhone head buds off from blasting the Golden Gods and snapped these for geek posterity.
My day was so awesome! I’m Grateful in ways that are new powerful experiences. Key word gratitude, it’s what’s for lunch!
Brief Nocturnes and Dreamless Sleep has proved to be the Spock’s Beard Record s a fan I’ve always wanted to hear. My love and admiration of Progressive music is no secret to those closest to me. I’m a prog fool as much as I’m a blues fan, rocker and smooth jazz lover. As a long time fan of Spock’s Beard I’ve always felt a little robbed in the guitar department when it comes to Alan Morse in a light beer kind of way. Alan is such an amazing player but he’s always really laid back in the pocket on Spock’s Beard recordings, not so on Brief Nocturnes. Alan Morse is all over this record and it’s really put a smile on my face and a joyful step in my heart.
As a fan Brief Nocturnes is the album I’ve always craved from Spock’s Beard in the guitar department, I’m so enthralled. Alan doesn’t shred all over the CD, that would not be Spock’s Beard, but the spots he does are epic! His note choices and melodies are sublime on the record and he shows that as a guitarist he’s a force to be adored and reckoned with. I’ve always known what a true virtuoso Alan Morse is by default demographically. Living two towns over from Alan in California for over 20 years I’ve had the opportunity to see him play live and he’s something else boy!
With the departure of Nick D’Virgilio one of Musics most talented drummers / vocalists touring drummer Jimmy Keegan has really stepped up and filled his shoes well as has vocalist Ted Lenard. So many times when bands go through line up changes they lose the magick, I would have to say, at least for myself, this is not the case for this SB fan. If you’re a fan of progressive music go out and listen to Brief Nocturnes and Dreamless Sleep on the interwebs, you just may find something worth paying for. I certainly have.
