I hereby nominate Aussie for lunch reporter next week. Per GbL code, if you are not willing or able to perform duties, you most nominate someone else. It's "pass the buck" at its finest.
Fretless guitar:
Not bass guitar, a guitar! I have one. I'll even have a flock of them for sale in the next week. Anyone ever play one? Like or dislike?
I didn't groove with mine at first. Couldn't stand the string spacing, like with other guitars. Converted it over to a four string. Now, I so dig it! I'll have to post up some video of mine later today, or at least a picture. Until then, here's the base model, a "Smoothboard Classic (First Run)":

I have a nice and beautiful G&L El Toro fretless, but the Ashbory Bass ruthlessly takes the fretless bass time away from it. Not completely unlike the way my 1984 SB-2 was owning on the Martin EB-28 bass. The difference here being that I can't just slap some silicone rubber strings on the El Toro to even the playing field.
Questions:
Ever play a fretless guitar? What did you think?
Ever play a fretless bass guitar? What did you think?
G&L:
Any desire for a doubleneck G&L? They don't seem to get mentioned so often in G&L fanville. Just think, one neck could be "G" and the other "L"!
Karaoke and Video:
I have a weak spot for Karaoke. It's so ridiculous. You have people, typically drinking. Then you give them a mic and request they sing. Is this a good idea? Often, it isn't. That's why I love karaoke!
Where it gets worse is some places let you bring in a disc of your own. I haven't found a good, cheap way to make CD+G discs, but typically the player will play a DVD too. So, that's what I do sometimes more recently. Here's what happened when I combined Karaoke and TV Cycle:
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That episode is a favorite. Bob and I are talking about an amp Bob shouldn't have bought (a Fender Satellite with SFX). We go by the state capitol building, and then there's the end where I sing the show theme song karaoke style on stage at the sandwich saloon. The Karaoke part starts at 11:15. I'm introduced in as Dev Null. That's a karaoke name I use. According to wikipedia, "In Unix-like operating systems, /dev/null or the null device is a special file that discards all data written to it (but reports that the write operation succeeded) and provides no data to any process that reads from it. The null device is typically used for disposing of unwanted output streams of a process, or as a convenient empty file for input streams."
Besides the show theme, I've also shown up with a hammer before and performed this song from some demos I did this earlier this year. Here's the song:
"I Have a Hammer"
I need to do a real take of that song. It needs a little reworking too, but not too much. I totally looked down deep into my soul on that one, and my inner child roared!

Questions:
What was the last largely worthless (to you) amp or effect you've ever bought?
Do you karaoke?
Do you hate karaoke?
It's been a fun week. Thanks for riding along.