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trebledamage
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trebledamage
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01/01/2002 7:18 am
Does anyone have a music related New Year's resolution???
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pstring
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pstring
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01/01/2002 7:46 am
No ten hour Steve Vai guitar workouts for me!
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SofaKingStupid
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SofaKingStupid
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01/01/2002 8:10 am
squeeze more practice time into a day, what else? oh yeah, save my damn money for a gibson SG.
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Lordathestrings
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Lordathestrings
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01/01/2002 9:03 am

  • Finish up the WeeBeastie 5 Watt power amp. I've stuck a few things together, so I know it works, but I still have to add some means of adjusting the plate voltage, incorporate a DI port, and package the whole thing so I can get it out of my lab, and into use.


  • Devote more time to actual [u]practice[/u]. As has been pointed out by wiser souls than I, a couple of hours of 'noodling' is not the same thing at all!


  • This is the year I get into home recording. I now have my father's hand-me-down SB Live :rolleyes: and a pile of PowerTracks Pro Audio and Band In A Box software from PG Music. It looks like good stuff, but I'll admit to feeling overwhelmed initially.


There's other stuff too, but I can only do one job fast; or two jobs half-fast. Three or more??
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Raskolnikov
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01/01/2002 2:40 pm

  • Sunn 1200s head and maybe a second 2x15 cab

  • Take that Jaco Pastoruis CD I just got to heart.

  • Finally get .012's on my Tele as well as my Strat.

  • Get into college, or atleast someplace I can play all the time.

  • I'm thinking about getting a Dean PRS knock off, they look pretty decent for $400. Actually playing one through an amp will hopefully confirm my suspicions.



Happy new year everybody!
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lalimacefolle
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01/01/2002 2:58 pm
Show the world I'm really the weirdest guitarist around...
http://www.lalimace.net
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blankdrawn
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blankdrawn
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01/01/2002 6:37 pm
-learn to play the guitar
-hopefully piss off everyone in our town being the only punk band
-skateboard in school purposely
-streak through the senior's graduation (i know im supposed to wait until its MY graduation but im too impatient :) )
this is enthusiasm.
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educatedfilm
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educatedfilm
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01/01/2002 8:02 pm
Right... I never really do new years "resolutions"... but this is what I wanna do this year:

  • Get lessons in making guitar...

  • Actaully make a guitar...

  • Make a guitar with decent art work (see a pattern emrging)...

  • Learn as much as possible about electronics...

  • Make an amp

  • Maybe enroll in art foundation course (now 4 moths into the actaul course)...

  • Music theory... understand as much as possible...

  • RECORD RECORD RECORD!

  • Write WHOLE songs... not just little doodles or minute long pieces...

  • Train voice... I can sing in a sense that I hit notes.. but the old voice needs some training... as well as do something about my lungs...so the next one is obvious

  • GEt fit (again, like the old days)!

  • Learn to play keyboard and harmonica...


    • This may seem a little over ambitous.. but I've got nothing to do for the next nine months (hopefully after that uni)... So loooaaads of time for me to do stuff I wouldn't have had time for if I'd went to uni last autum...
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    Incidents Happen
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    Incidents Happen
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    01/02/2002 1:10 am
    excuse me did you say 9 (NINE!) months!?!? lotta time on ur hands...what are ya pregnant? ;) lol
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    educatedfilm
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    educatedfilm
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    01/02/2002 12:59 pm
    heheh...no, which is a shame.... lol... I'm resisting some exams mid janaury... and after that all I've gotta do is do what I want till it's uin time (asuming that I get in this time)...
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    Christoph
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    Christoph
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    01/02/2002 6:25 pm
    Here we go (it looks like we're all sticking to guitar related stuff, so I'll do the same) -


    • actually start practicing again.

    • finish some songs and write some new ones.

    • learn some new classical stuff.

    • finish learning keyboard (I kinda got bored with it and stopped)


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    James8831
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    James8831
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    01/04/2002 9:21 pm
    If i have any they will be


    . Bodge/customise guitars more damn neatly.
    . Learn to solder damn properly!!
    . Learn more of the theory.
    . Play the damn things more often damnit!
    . Learn not to solder my fingers to the guitar or the guitar to the damn carpet.
    . Join a band.
    . Stop making resolutions.
    . Damn stop swearing so damn often. :>
    Accuracy,you say? hmm interesting concept..
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    Branislav
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    01/04/2002 10:14 pm
    first, happy new year to all members of this 4um.

    I'd wish:
    -Fender Strat USA Deluxe
    -Marshall 100 WATT amp
    -to "get close" with one very special girl :)
    -1000 $

    Hope I don't ask much from new year :D
    Keep Rockin',
    Branislav
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    Lordathestrings
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    Lordathestrings
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    01/05/2002 4:11 am
    As Charles Dickens is reputed to have said...

    "May you work like you don't need the money;
    May you love like you've never been hurt before;
    And may you dance like no-one is watching!"

    :D :D :D :D :D
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    Branislav
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    Branislav
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    01/05/2002 10:52 am
    nice, but hard to achieve.
    you could add:

    My you play like you don't have a guitar :)
    Keep Rockin',
    Branislav
    http://www.stormbringer.1444.net
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    SoS
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    SoS
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    01/05/2002 11:24 am
    This year I'm planning to......

    ¤ Get my Apprentiship in Carpentery
    ¤ Move on to little side projects like building my own Guitars
    ¤ Take some English lessons :D
    ¤ Spend more time practicing and learning all my scales
    ¤ Listen to a wider range of music
    ¤ Buy myself a nice semi Acoustic.....cant wait
    ¤ Invest in a few pedals eg(phase Shifter, etc)


    {SOS}
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