LunchI'm working from home today- I see a couple leftover potatoes in the oven. That will be it!
G&L TopicOne topic that caught my eye in the CLF post, are the renovations G&L is doing to create a lobby/hangout space of some sort. That got me curious- whether the location would be open to the public (and in my ideal case contain a bar.) I've driven by the factory (in a very not-stalker-ish-way) a few times but with no tours and no piece of it open to the public (such as are or were offered at the Fender factory) it's a very Willy Wonka-ish experience to stand outside and wonder what's going on.
It would be really cool if they opened some sort of small museum/visitor space, even if only available by appointment. The G&L factory itself isn't in the most tourist-y spot of SoCal or Orange County, but is in good relative proximity to Disneyland, beaches, vacation activities etc. Would you ever consider traveling to visit the factory if tours etc. were on offer? Would you make it part of a vacation agenda at least?
Music TopicI'm not a huge '80s metal fan, but like perhaps a lot of guitarists I somewhat fetish-ize the ability to Shred. That said, there isn't a lot of pure guitar instrumental music that is capable to hold my interest - I can't get heavily into Satriani, Steve Van etc. Perhaps Vinnie Moore's 'The Mind's Eye' is my favorite pure shred album to that end- mostly because it doesn't really stop rocking the whole way through, and never really gets too spacey/new agey which can tend to lose my attention.
As far as shredding myself, I have only a couple licks/solos I can really say I can successfully perform within the 'shred' genre. About a year ago when I started taking the guitar as a more serious hobby I gave myself the goal of learning the below solo (starting at ~2:39) - For about a month I could mostly pull it off at full speed, but it comes out a bit slower right now because most of my practice regimen is lower intensity.
So do you listen to shred? Do you prefer 'guitar music,' or music where the guitar serves to drive a song? (BTW - the below is from the soundtrack to a game called BlazBlue, which has some pretty awesome music overall) :
Non-G&L Topic - Creepy HappeningsIt's a bit late, but since I unfortunately missed a lot of Halloween this year - wondering if anyone has any good ghost stories from personal experience? Here's mine: Some details are altered because I don't want anything to be Google-able (the *major* detail omitted is probably less realistic sounding than what I replaced it with.) I lived in a house on four acres in the desert during college; with roommates, then alone. It was a quarter mile to the nearest neighbor. We'd have parties and there was an inevitable occurence on the front patio: Someone would point across the street and say, "Something really bad happened in that house over there, and I don't know what. I can just feel it." It really disturbed some people to the point where we'd hang out in the back yard (lucky there was a pool for that.)
Ours was an old house (by California standards) built in the seventies and odd things happened- people getting locked out etc. But the creepiest place to me wasn't out front, but out back. There was an old shed full of mason jars and dynamite that had a single chair in the middle when we bought it. A chain hung from the ceiling beam at about head level if you stood in the chair... But oh, no one cared about that- because whatever closet-monster was across the street was a lot creepier somehow. Another neighbor started throwing parties where people got shot at several times and somehow that also was not as scary as whatever nothingness existed across the street. Perhaps you can detect I never got eerie feelings from 'across the street' myself.
Then one day by chance, I found the purpose of the house when my cousin (unfortunately) OD'd. She was sent there, as it was a halfway house for addicts. Not terrible in and of itself, but after visiting my cousin once at the place I decided to do some research on it to make sure it wasn't some crazy cult rehab or something. What I found out was quite a bit more unusual. Before it was a half-way house, that same building was a funeral home. It closed,after they discovered that one of the bodies was not deceased on arrival; and it was the mortician's mother. They never found her body- but her head was still there when the police found it, embalmed.
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