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

[pycraft@elec.gla.ac.uk (Michael Pycraft Hughes, PhD)]

Kim said:
>Michael said:
>>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.

I would do this, except I know the resulting product would be solid pink.
My wife recently found a pink Japanese 62 reissue Strat in a mail order
catalog.  "If we got that I might actually learn to play guitar."  I
pointed out that the Blade R4 was the same shape of instrument, and far
superior in every other respect.  "But it's not pink...."

>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.

Do you realise that, if it's sooo difficult to reproduce, you may have been
responsible for his breakdown??

>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....

Wait, I have an idea!  Wait till 3am, record a  loop of "let's sell the car
and buy a Klein" and run it, ever so quietly, by the bed for a few hours. 
Now _that_ would be occult looping!!!  :)

>>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...."

..OK, that depends if it's Visa or MC....

>>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.

Yes, tho' I think the Subway Blues retails over there for about half that. 
No that's not due to CE, it's import duty and shipping which has always
made US product expensive over here (and UK product like Marshall more
expensive over there).  The funniest part is when UK-made Celestion
speakers get put in American amps (incurring shipping and tax) before being
shipped to the Uk (incurring more shipping and tax).... no-one seems to
just import unloaded cabs!