Re: Gear talk! No loops! (If Kim can do it...)

[Kim Flint <kflint@annihilist.com>]

Michael said:
>Kim said:
>
>>>Do I hear the phrase "second morgage"?  These things cost $2-3000 don't
>they?
>>
>>I wish... mine was quite a bit more with all of my customizing. The
>>translucent purple sunburst was worth every cent, though!
>
>I can see myself explaining _that_ to my wife!  "But honey, it's 
>_purple_!"

Actually, my girlfriend had creative control over that aspect of it. She's
far more visually artistic than I am, and it came out great. She got a
piece of scrap swamp ash from Lorenzo and painted it the way she wanted.
Then Lorenzo had to go trucking all over Northern California to find
someone who could duplicate it on the guitar. He found a guy who did it
perfectly, and subsequently had some sort of emotional breakdown and hasn't
been available for painting guitars since. (Guitar painters seem to be a
rather unstable lot, must be the fumes.) So mine is quite unique.

Anyway, this approach seemed to greatly ease the relationship issues of
spending large quantities of cash on toys for me. Plus, Lorenzo let's my
girlfriend feed the llamas when we go up there, which seems to help. Still,
I'm definitely in a weakened position when it comes time to complain about
excess household expenditures....

I'm not sure how you might do this with a looper. Maybe you say, "gee
Honey, you could bitch at me so much more easily if you just sampled
yourself and let it loop for a while. Think how much time you could save!"
heh, no actually that probably wouldn't work....

>>of course, I cough up blood when the credit card bill arrives each
>>month....but what the hell, you're supposed to suffer for art right?
>
>Hey, why don't you just send the bill back with "You have to suffer for my
>art" written on it!  (After all, most people suffer for mine just by
>listening to it...)

"well golly, Michael said it was ok...."

>>I had the same thing happen to me with the mesa triaxis. Stay away from
>>those, too. I won't even go near the home studio areas of the music 
>store.
>>Way too dangerous.....
>
>I won't, trust me.  At the moment I'm desperate for their Subway Blues
>"budget" combo (ie about $800 over here - must be getting that darn 
>CE...),
>and I can't afford _that_!

No, that has nothing to do with CE. Mesa amps cost a fortune here, too.

kim

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