Cables, Coffee, Cycles, and Cocktails

[Tarheel]

12 hours ago, novisnick said:

https://www.consumeraffairs.com/online/etsy.html

 

im assuming we can post links. If this isnt allowed, mod please delete and let me know. Im new here and couldn't find this specific in the rules. 

 

Not trying to cause trouble, just very leary when I come across some things. 

Don't want to cause trouble.....just don't mention Carl's slushies

[minermark]

Morning gang

 

Coffee X 3

Only 100 predicted.

River Rock is sitting here looking at me, ready to be De-molded.

KitchenAid was overheating and shutting down during mixing yesterday, likely the heat of the day

as well as the load on the mixer paddle, we can fix that.

 

On July 17, 1967, Jimi Hendrix dropped out as the opening act for The Monkees.

 

 

 

[mike stehr]

Hell, the Monkees should have opened for him...

[Ceptorman]

Billy Gibbons was in a band that opened for Hendrix for a while, Jimi called Gibbons the greatest living guitarist. That's quite an endorsement. 

[MORE KLIPSCH PLEASE]

Hey all and a happy taco Tuesday....

The Boss and I have had our hands full with all the BS of life.... shop, kids, house, mom and more shop.

We are leaving today to go on vacation. This is our 1st real vacation in 19 years. We are off to Niagara Falls. Getting ready to roll out now. We rented a 2017 Dodge Ram truck for the adventure. I'm sure the Pilot would have been ok... but not taking chances with it.

OK guys, we'll check in later... 

 

MKP :-)

[CECAA850]

43 minutes ago, MORE KLIPSCH PLEASE said:

Hey all and a happy taco Tuesday....

The Boss and I have had our hands full with all the BS of life.... shop, kids, house, mom and more shop.

We are leaving today to go on vacation. This is our 1st real vacation in 19 years. We are off to Niagara Falls. Getting ready to roll out now. We rented a 2017 Dodge Ram truck for the adventure. I'm sure the Pilot would have been ok... but not taking chances with it.

OK guys, we'll check in later... 

 

MKP :-)

Great to hear from you Mark.  Be safe and have fun on your vacation, you've more than earned it. 

[Ceptorman]

58 minutes ago, MORE KLIPSCH PLEASE said:

Hey all and a happy taco Tuesday....

The Boss and I have had our hands full with all the BS of life.... shop, kids, house, mom and more shop.

We are leaving today to go on vacation. This is our 1st real vacation in 19 years. We are off to Niagara Falls. Getting ready to roll out now. We rented a 2017 Dodge Ram truck for the adventure. I'm sure the Pilot would have been ok... but not taking chances with it.

OK guys, we'll check in later... 

 

MKP :-)

Have fun Mark, pretty cool place. 

 

I was swamped with work, but got away last week to San Antonio Tx. It was awesome. If it wasn't so hot, I could live there.

[richieb]

2 hours ago, Ceptorman said:

Billy Gibbons was in a band that opened for Hendrix for a while, Jimi called Gibbons the greatest living guitarist. That's quite an endorsement. 

 

Jimmy must have been stoned? 

[jimjimbo]

41 minutes ago, richieb said:

 

Jimmy  Jimi must have been stoned? 

I sure hope so.

[Ceptorman]

24 minutes ago, richieb said:

 

Jimmy must have been stoned? 

Yea, he was probably always stoned. 

In a recent Gibbons interview, he said the Jimi was serious when he said that.

[teaman]

Maybe Jimi owed Billy some money and Jimi wanted to butter him up to stop Billy's nagging talk of his debt....what?.....it could have happened.

 

Gibbons is not far above Angus Young in my books. ZZ makes some good music but the talent in the band is not much to brag about.....my 2 cents.

 

 

Tim

[richieb]

2 hours ago, Ceptorman said:

Yea, he was probably always stoned. 

In a recent Gibbons interview, he said the Jimi was serious when he said that.

 

OK, I stand corrected. Gibbons must have been stoned.

[jimjimbo]

27 minutes ago, richieb said:

 

OK, I stand corrected. Gibbons must have been stoned.

I sure hope so.

[richieb]

^^^^^

--- and you weren't ??

[dirtmudd]

46 minutes ago, richieb said:

^^^^^

--- and you weren't ??

 

[HDBRbuilder]

3 hours ago, teaman said:

Gibbons is not far above Angus Young in my books. ZZ makes some good music but the talent in the band is not much to brag about.....my 2 cents.

IMHO, Jimi Hendrix, himself, was not a GREAT guitarist...INNOVATIVE, yes...and he deserves THAT credit...but GREAT??  Just look at how many REALLY GREAT guitarists there were around prior to Jimi's death...Chet Atkins and Les Paul (himself), to name JUST TWO of them!  And that is just in ONE genre of great guitarists, not even including any of the truly great CLASSICAL guitarists who were around at the time.

 

There are VERY FEW of Jimi's studio recordings with REALLY CLEAN picking going on in them...and more often than not, the quality of the studio recordings left much to be desired...especially in the mix-down end of things.  IMHO, the studio is MOST OFTEN the place where the BEST recordings SHOULD come from, simply because there are more options to do things correctly in the studio, AND more options to lay down additional tracks to be included into the final stereo mix. 

 

There are exceptions to this.  For instance, Savoy Brown...a band that ALWAYS sounded better "live" in concerts than what they laid down in the studio, IMHO!  Some performers absorb crowd energy and it shows when they are playing live.

 

Jimi Hendrix was one of those performers, too!  Unfortunately we have been left with very few live well-recorded performances of really great quality by Hendrix...his life was just cut too short....too soon...in his performing years to have had enough well-recorded  material of his "live" performances.  Of those which DO exist, Band of Gypsys is IMHO the best.

[JL Sargent]

Every since Jimi left this world we have all these artist trying to do what he did. Call it innovation, call it shredding, call it destroying perfectly good Strats. Call it whatever you want. He was the first to do it and by my count, nobody has equaled it yet. He was not a clean wholesome picker like Chet and I suspect he didn't want to be. Don't get me wrong, a whole bunch of people can do some awesome SH*$ on the guitar, but it's not like the real McCoy if you will. Seems like there is a touch of Jimi in every rock n roll guitarist since. His influence was/is huge IMHO.

 

 

It's true that most live recordings of Jimi sux, but that's the way it is for whatever reason. Same thing with Joplin from that era.    

[oldtimer]

Johnny Guitar Watson did it first.  Hendrix found the wider audience.  SRV, and others, all point to JGW as inspirational influence.

[JL Sargent]

1 hour ago, oldtimer said:

Johnny Guitar Watson did it first.

 

that's pretty funny because it's almost a direct quote from JGW when asked about how popular Jimi was! Their styles were so different to me, but whatever. I preferred JGWs reinvention of himself in the 70s and that's when he had his big hit "A Real Mother for Ya" Anyway, SRV recorded a whole bunch of Jimi's music, JGW's not so much.

 

[HDBRbuilder]

2 hours ago, JL Sargent said:

Every since Jimi left this world we have all these ARTISTS trying to do what he did. Call it innovation, call it shredding, call it destroying perfectly good Strats. Call it whatever you want. He was the first to do it and by my count, nobody has equaled it yet. He was not a clean wholesome picker like Chet and I suspect he didn't want to be. Don't get me wrong, a whole bunch of people can do some awesome SH*$ on the guitar, but it's not like the real McCoy if you will. Seems like there is a touch of Jimi in every rock n roll guitarist since. His influence was/is huge IMHO.

 

It's true that most live recordings of Jimi sux, but that's the way it is for whatever reason. Same thing with Joplin from that era.  

Quite a few of the "shredders" consider THEMSELVES "artists"...but "artist" is a relative term now-a-days, according to who is using it.

 

MOST ALL the recordings of Hendrix sux ...not just most of the LIVE recordings.  Hendrix insisted on his OWN BRAND of excellence in the studio, and it ended up breaking up "the EXPERIENCE"...but IMHO, he could have tried harder to have CLEAN studio recordings, since very few of them actually ARE clean...with the "cleanest" being All Along the Watchtower, IMHO.

 

Don't get me wrong, I have always loved Hendrix, clean recordings or not...but I am honest about what I hear when listening to the recordings...and what he could have used the most in the studio was a "producer" who was also a technical recording ENGINEER, like Bill Szymczyk,  who could have really done something miraculous in the studio for Hendrix to improve what eventually ended up being mixed down to the two tape tracks to produce what we hear by Hendrix on vinyl.  Maybe if Hendrix had lived longer, something like that would have happened for him.  As things stand, I firmly believe the world got short-changed on what remains as his legacy, because IMHO his legacy was still in its formative infancy when he left this world.

 

When I was a Sophomore in high school (1968-1969), I played bass in a three-piece local band (guitar, bass & drums), and we had a really great young guitarist leading us.  Among the 30 or so songs we played at "street dances" (rope off part of an empty parking lot of a store that allowed us to steal its electricity and play and HOPEFULLY some of the kids would actually PAY to hear us and dance...LOL!), two of our favorite tunes in our "repertoire" were Jimi Hendrix hit singles:  "Fire"  (great for dancing!), and "Hey Joe" (which we slowed down a bit more for "grinding music"), with a healthy mix of other hits in those days...Cream, Grassroots, etc.  I always thought it was Sooooo FUNNY to see couples romantically slow-dancing to "Hey Joe", the lyrics of which are about "shooting a gal who done ya wrong"!!!  But the crowd loved it for that use!  And it was so easy to play...simple bass lines which changed up pretty-much however you wanted them to...like blues are SUPPOSED to do!  Our guitarist had ONE guitar, but that was all he really needed for almost anything we could play: a Gretsch "Chet Atkins" model...and MAN!!...could he play that thing!