Recent content by Shaman

It's the only mental malady that I know of which we're told must be treated by affirming the disorder (and pretending to live within their fantasy). Until it doesn't, because someone doesn't treat her that way. My lived experience is that at that point, they lose their #$&@. Your 'cool kid'...

My buddy plays bars with two of those. He's about 5 years older than me. I get to play through the setup from time to time. It sounds amazing, of course. Not worth it for me, I'm home, plenty tired at 3:30am from my main gig venue as it is. We play with a real Hammond B with a Leslie...

I'm definitely going to continue to use in-ears at the louder venues and those with good enough house boards. A thing I've run into with those is that unless we bring our own mixing board, many of the smaller venues (and a few larger ones) just can't properly do in-ears. If I have the whole...

I'm waiting for the store sale on the 20th, because there's a Traynor 600W 4ohm cabinet with two 10s, one 15 and a horn that will be on sale for $800. It's got my name all over it (but they're not taking pre-buys). I'll be there when the door opens, that's my ideal gigging setup ... lots of...

Oddly, Long & McQuade in Kingston is doing well. I'm probably keeping them in business at this point, LOL Not really, I'm not a gear / pedal fanatic, I just buy the better quality amps & guitars sporadically. I'm seriously contemplating a trip this weekend to the nearest Steve's.

Shades of many other such situations. There's a good number of conspiracy wonks that say that it's being done on purpose. And frankly, it's hard to argue that they do things like you're describing, which make zero sense in the interest of public safety.

Here's a cool feature of this amp that I didn't notice right away - you can set the output power. So if you want to, you can run the input gain etc. and redline the amp to get more distortion or harmonics, etc. and only put so much power at the speaker - it has 25, 50, 100W options.

I had a Marshall 50 practice amp (I don't gig with electric guitar, I'm a bassman), and I've had it since the late 1990s. It wasn't loud enough to jam with a drum kit and while it made decent sound, it was typical Marshall; it wants to growl and bark but not much else. More recently though...

I watched it. It's well-acted for the most part, and I am a total ... which may be a spoiler, if you haven't seen the previews. About half of it was cliche and really pushes the trope buttons but again, I like all the Subspecies movies for various reasons, and that's saying something, but...

Try Fury if you haven't. I'm told it's pretty triggering. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2713180/

Watched the Wrecking Crew. Enjoyable typical bad cop romp with a boatload of spent shell casings. Somehow it was elevated above the usual tough guy dreck, but it still amazes me, having shot weapons like the MP4, that nobody but them seems able to hit anyone. Oh sure, they torque to the...

I didn't mind it. It really didn't break any new ground and the ending was dis-satisfying for me, but overall it entertained.

I don't know how you'd call a Goldwing an old man's bike. They rip. I had enough fun on one at a demo ride that I had a little talking-to. LOL

My broker came as a recommendation from a good friend who owns a construction company (he's a wee bit wealthier than me, lol). I believe in him, but it would seem that Scotia's team is doing an excellent job with my money, with 17% returns for two years running on a LOT smaller investment...

It pains me to say it but so far my Scotiabank RRSP accounts have outperformed my Edward Jones accounts. Which, for me, is a WTF?