Hello GT!

hey guys! yeah, I haven't been very active the last couple of months. school and work have just been keeping me crazy busy. but now I'm here, for now, so please, let me know all the news I've missed out on since summer-ish-time!

I've been wondering where you went!

I took a slight sabbatical myself. Not much new in my life, though I started writing stories.

welcome back buddy!

Sup brotheren. Hows your band doing?

the band = dead

That sucks.

Originally Posted by: elklanderccThat sucks.

meh. We played our show at the fair. we were kind off in a far corner where no one could really see us... so there was only like 10-20 people there, mostly friends/family of the bandmembers. a couple people stopped to watch for a few minutes, but then left... well, after our show, we had planned to take like a week off from practice, well, that turned to two weeks, then three, then the other guitarist decides she wants to quit... and nobody else in the band really cared enough to try to find a replacement, so that was pretty much the end of that.

still playing with my church band.. kinda sad though that my tube amp is now just sitting in my room, played maybe once every other week... collecting dust..

Your still playin with your church band, thats good. I've been looking for a drummer to jam with, but can't do anything at the momment since im grounded. You should get one of them things that Doc Simon or Schmange talked about where you can the amp but at low watts so you get the full tube sound w/o the high volume. What kinda amp? Valveking?

nah, it's a XXX. the 40W combo version. I can still play it quietly enough to use it when my dad isn't here. but it's loud enough that my dog cowers in fear when I flip it on. lol

Haha, my dogs do the same thing. I've even seen them both in 1 crate before. I just close the door and keep it cranked.

Years ago I used to open the windows in my bedroom and crank the amp up to 11 and play along with ACCEPT - Balls to the wall!! Man, What fun I had. :)

Welcome back bud. I've kinda done a reversal of you. I'm playing with my band alot, and I've quit the church band (on account of having people in the sound booth who are literally half deaf, and a buch of ignorant old people who complain about every little inconvenice.)

The amp sounds pretty sweet too.

Welcome back! Good to see you around again.

so nobody has told me any new GT news... nobody did anything exciting while I was gone? PRSplaya didn't get married? nothing?

I got a speeding ticket for doing 99 in a 65. Theres a thread called I Got around here somewhere. The Greasy Knots first gig was a sucess, but Ithink you were here for that.

Originally Posted by: elklanderccI got a speeding ticket for doing 99 in a 65. Theres a thread called I Got around here somewhere. The Greasy Knots first gig was a sucess, but Ithink you were here for that.

nice, I dive 80-95 on the freeway on an almost daily basis (speed limit 65) I drove past a cop once who clocked me at 90... but I was in the fast lane, and he was pulled over on the right shoulder and wasn't even sitting on his bike. by the time he could've got on, got up to speed, and get all the way over to the left lane, I would've been long gone, so he didn't even try to catch me.

Several of us started contributing to the GT newsletter, but I vaguely remember you responding to Jon's thread that you were quite busy and couldn't contribute, so I think you know that already. Hmm...what else. Mr. Taylor dropped the name Schmange, then put it back in as a sub-name...so he's kinda like the artist formerly known as Schmange or something. I think the subscription price to the site increased to $7 or so for new members, but any $5 guys that were already here have that price locked in. They switched to a new server, so they're still working out a glitch or two from the transfer, but should avoid any previous site crashes. Raskolnikov (long time moderator) left us for now and joined the army. Can't remember much else right now. Not much juicy gossip I know, but oh well.

Originally Posted by: 6strngs_2hmbkrsnice, I dive 80-95 on the freeway on an almost daily basis (speed limit 65) I drove past a cop once who clocked me at 90... but I was in the fast lane, and he was pulled over on the right shoulder and wasn't even sitting on his bike. by the time he could've got on, got up to speed, and get all the way over to the left lane, I would've been long gone, so he didn't even try to catch me.

You huys have motorcycle cops, that awsome. Over here, if you get clocked passed 100 they don't bother, and if you try to outrun them and they go past 100, they have to stop chasing you. Unfortunatly, my cop was a statey and my truck takes a while to top out.