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Dr. Gonzo

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  1. Isn’t that the new deadline. I want to know what the deadline after January 31 will be.
  2. There’s a new deadline. I wonder when the next deadline will be.
  3. Nike won the case. Not sure how I feel about it tbh - because I don't really buy kits. But the New Balance ones were really nice looking and fairly unique, imo. But the big criticism was that New Balance's distribution was crap so the shirts would always sell out and then it would take forever for them to be back in stock. Nike's unlikely to have stocking issues like New Balance. But the kits are probably going to look generic as fuck, because that's what Nike does - just recycles the same year's designs around for as many clubs and international sides as possible. They're also a pretty horrible company - though I'm pretty sure all of these kit manufacturers are as well. And we had Adidas as a kit maker before and they're just as bad as Nike.
  4. Chicago does have very good beer and a lot of breweries. It's also actually the one place I've found where quite a few places had San Diego beers - and there are some really great stores just for buying bottles of beer from literally all over the world in Chicago. So yeah, Chicago might be THE beer Mecca - but I maintain that San Diego is probably the big beer capital west of Chicago. Virginia's supposed to have a few great local breweries as well. And as @Eco mentioned, Ohio's got quite a few big ones as well. Texas has some beer companies that are very popular in Texas... but imo they're shite beers - at least the ones I had. But I disagree on nothing wrong with Budweiser or Coors, other than... they're better than Miller (marginally). If I want a cheap lager, I'd much rather have a Stella or a Becks or one of the Mexican lagers than Budweiser/Coors - and if you buy your cheap beers in bulk (which you should) it's a marginal difference for a better cheap beer. But yeah PBR (I've not had the other one) shits on Budweiser and Coors imo. I don't drink lagers all that much though.
  5. You’ve uh just quoted yourself there mate
  6. Apparently I can't give out any more rep thingies anymore today. So please imagine that I've just upvoted or given the heart rep thing to that post
  7. Well if you do, let me know and we will get drunk as fuck
  8. A lot of them don't. I used to feel the same way until I moved here and everyone was drinking craft beer at every bar and I figured "fuck it, I'll try one." A lot of these breweries I think are aware of that sort of perception of craft beer - so they usually have a few beers that are meant to taste a bit "normal." If you ever come to San Diego, you owe it to yourself to try some of the fucking beer here - it's ridiculous.
  9. Oh and my favourite breweries off that list would have to be: AleSmith (if you like ales of any sort, check them out - my favourite is a Pale Ale, Alesmith .394; it's got something to do with San Diego legend Tony Gwynn but who cares about the backstory - it's good beer). Karl Strauss (probably SD's first "big" craft beer brewery - all of their shite is great imo. My favourite's an IPA called Aurora Hoppyallis, it's fucking great) Belching Beaver (hilarious name - their "normal" beers aren't my favourite, but they have this peanut butter stout and it's fucking fantastic - forget the specific name of it) Societe Mikkeller It might be harder to find those away from San Diego though - although maybe not Karl Strauss, I was able to find some of that the last time I was in San Francisco. But it might be harder to find that out of California. The easier to find San Diego beers would be: Stone - probably our biggest brewery; I think they opened a brewhouse in Germany as well. Balast Point - they got bought out by the people that own Modelo, I think. Their quality though, has gone waaaaaay south since they're no longer independent though. But if you like IPAs, Sculpin (and the variants of it) are worth trying. If I go to the store though, I'm either going to grab myself AleSmith or Karl Strauss 9/10 times though. But yeah, American beer is only shit if you assume that Americans only drink Budweiser, Coors, and Miller. But the craft beer scene in America is otherworldly - Americans like beer and they like things that taste good, so America's got some really great beer.
  10. San Diego is a beer MECCA. For instance, you listed Goose Island as a fantastic beer - but here it's considered a "meh" beer because the city has so many breweries and is subsequently full of beer snobs. Just look at this fucking list: https://www.sandiego.org/articles/breweries/san-diego-breweries.aspx It's also the drink driving capital of California. I'm sure it's related
  11. Dr. Gonzo

    Making Music

    Who's responsible for the insane developments in solid state amplification & digital signal processing? Because oh my god... I don't think anything in the music world has come as far as cheap amps sounding good & amp modeling/effects modeling all of a sudden being great. That's another area where you can get astounding quality for fairly fucking cheap as a musician or music student. I remember when I fucking started... my amp was absolute shit - and I knew it because my dad had (still has, actually) a nice Marshall that sounds great. I had a MFX unit by Zoom, it was FUCKING CRAP - especially compared to like... any modern day MFX unit. Although it was cool for figuring out what effects I liked and didn't like... it just absolutely pales in comparison to what I'd have available to me at pretty low prices today if I'd been in the same position. Tbh, a used Squier/Jackson RS line and a Focusrite Scarlet... and there's a shitload of free amp sim plugins, effects, and IRs would give me a setup that tonally blows away what I started with - and it'd be cheaper. There really has never been a better time for wanting to learn how to play guitar.
  12. Dr. Gonzo

    Making Music

    I think the most shocking thing about the Classic Vibes is that the fret work is... pretty fucking good and they use nice pickups in them. And they're really fucking cheap. CNC machines are magic with how they've transformed "low budget" guitars into actually really good options for people at a cost that isn't fucking mental.
  13. I think Vloggers in general are cringey as fuck. Blogs too, but at least those promote reading...
  14. Dr. Gonzo

    Making Music

    Yeah I've heard if you get a Squier with the gold Squier logo (didn't you buy a Classic Vibe recently?)… they're pretty solid guitars. I got my dad one because his guitar had a terrible accident and the repairs were really expensive and I thought that was a bit shit that he didn't have a guitar. And he loves it. And his guitar was an old Japanese knockoff Fender that was REALLY nice (RIP to that guitar), and he says his Squier is just as good. It's a good time to be a guitarist in terms of buying gear. Because there's a ton of stuff that isn't anywhere close to "top tier" in terms of price that can compete with more expensive gear. Maybe not the best time to be a guitarist if you want to be a Rockstar that makes a ton of money off their music though
  15. Dr. Gonzo

    Making Music

    I think the player series is the old MIM “Standard” line. But they had quite a few models made in Mexico other than the MIM Standards. Even some of the signature guitars are made in Mexico now. But yeah the Player Series and a few other of their product lines are Hecho en Mexico - and I played some recently that I thought held their own compared to their more expensive American cousins. In fact, that Charvel I loved was made in the Fender Ensenada factory!
  16. Dr. Gonzo

    Making Music

    Have you played the new MIM Fenders though? At least the higher end ones... are ridiculously good. The Fender Ensenada factory is actually fucking great at quality control now though. Do Fender still make guitars in Japan? Because I know in the 90s Japanese Fenders/Jacksons were legendary - but I think they're a lot more rare now. I've never played a guitar from Indonesia that didn't have sharp fret edges though, which I hate.
  17. Dr. Gonzo

    Making Music

    @Mel81x have you ever played a guitar made in Japan that wasn't great? Because in my experience... that shite is just top fucking tier, regardless of whatever brand I've played. I know they've got to have some shit budget brands somewhere... but I haven't seen them. I've always though it's weird to praise a guitar based on where it's been made - because I've actually played guitars made from places that are supposedly "shite" and they've been actually really good guitars, just not as nice as some of the more expensive things. But the stuff from Japan has always impressed me.
  18. Dr. Gonzo

    Making Music

    Oh the Fireman is the Paul Gilbert signature... I've seen this before!
  19. Mate in the future... don't vote on shite that's that important without researching. It's better to not vote than to make an uninformed vote. Granted, a shitload of people probably voted without being informed. But that's their own fucking fault and the country has to pay for it. But ultimately, the massive and complex impact of Brexit really meant this should have been a decision for our elected representatives (who are supposed to be more informed than the fucking public, but... lol I don't think that's true) rather than the public at large. So... massively irresponsible and stupid from Cameron really, but we all knew that. Lib Dems are the fucking worst. They serve the purpose of sucking away votes from people that rightly dislike tories, but then fall for the bullshit tories and the media push about Labour so they feel they can't vote Labour, so instead they'll vote for lib dems. Who really just serve the economic interests of the tories. And we saw the last time they formed a coalition, lib dems will fucking fold when their ideological positions challenge tory positions - just for a bit of power. Fuck em.
  20. Dr. Gonzo

    Making Music

    The Jackson wasn't getting any play anymore really after I got the SG - they had similar sounding pickups. But the SG has better pickups and 24 frets, so that made me play it much more than the Jackson. Then I got that ESP (in a swap for the white Jackson superstrat I had for a short while + some cash) and that guitar still remains the best guitar I've ever played - so 90% of the time I'm playing on that guitar. I was going to have the ESP and SG as my 2 guitars in standard tuning and have the Jackson in D standard - but I ended up just tuning the SG to D, so I wouldn't entirely neglect playing that guitar And after getting rid of my super strat and having 3 guitars with hardtail bridges... it felt like all of my guitars were too "samey" so I'd made the decision a while ago to have a super strat as my other guitar in standard tuning - but it'd be a bit different to the ESP. So I don't feel too bad about getting rid of a guitar I didn't play at all anymore. I know it's in good hands now - sold it to a kid who works for one of my pals I jam with, he's in a local death metal band who was looking for a slightly cheaper RR style guitar as his onstage backup. Now at least it'll be going to someone who'll play the fucking thing from time to time. I've always thought JEMs are very pretty guitars. I don't think I've ever seen a Fireman (I've seen the Iceman though) - so I'll go give that a quick google. Ibanez makes some great fucking guitars mate, especially if you get the made in Japan ones. I actually tried out the reissues of their 80s legendary guitar, the RG 550. Because... if you're in the market for a superstrat, it makes sense to try out an iconic model of superstrat, right? I've only got 2 issues with Ibanez guitars that I've played - and one of them is totally down to personal preference. 1.) Their model names for their guitars are fucking terrible, it's just a series of numbers and letters like a serial number; 2.) I used to like how they had paper thin necks when I was younger... now I still like thin necks, but I do like a bit more chunkiness than the Ibanez style neck - something more along a Jackson/ESP neck suits me perfect. But neck thickness and what feels good is always really personal to whoevers playing. But pretty much every Ibanez I've ever played has felt like a more expensive guitar than what the purchase price for the actual guitar is. So says something about them as a company - I've only ever heard good things about them and my personal experience lines up with that as well.
  21. Dr. Gonzo

    Making Music

    The neck was just incredible. It's like a mix between a Fender neck and a Jackson neck - it's not quite as flat and wide as a pure shred machine, but it's very comfy. And it's still got the Jackson patented compound radius fretboard (which makes sense as Fender bought Jackson-Charvel… so both brands had the compound radius fretboard). Really nicely rounded off frets as well. Comes with either an Ebony fretboard (which I love) and a Maple fretboard (which I surprisingly liked a lot as well). But it just played excellently. Also as someone who started playing on a strat (granted a shite squier, but my second guitar was also a MIM strat), I've always been partial to the strat style. But I've always hated the top volume knob on strats (and also the middle pickup) - always gets in my fucking way when I strum and then I hit the volume/pickup. That issue's been solved with an HH configuration (with coil tapping) - and the tapped coils make a really really great tele-sort of tone with the maple fretboard models IMO. And as full humbuckers, the Seymour Duncan Distortion set is IMMENSE for the type of music I play. They're seriously just some angry sounding pickups. But they clean up nicely as well when you roll the volume back. Got a Floyd Rose with a steel block too - it's not a US made Floyd Rose, but it's a Korean made one - but a higher grade than the Floyd Rose Special (I had a superstrat with a Floyd Rose special, it was a bit shit tbh). It was just a really great playing guitar. The only cons I'd say about it are: 1.) 21 frets, I'd prefer a guitar with 24 frets like my SG (which is my only guitar with more than 21/22 frets) - not necessarily because I'll use those extra frets, but because it makes using the other higher frets feel easier to me. 2.) as far as "shreddy" super-strat guitars go, the Charvels feel dated... which is what I think they're going for as they're a very traditional 80s super strat kind of guitar with that model. So you don't get the tapered heel cutaway for easier fret access, the bolt on neck has the old school metal plate with the screws (as opposed to the neck joint having recessed screws, to make it more comfy for your hands). I'm actually pretty glad I didn't buy it though because I see there is a cheaper competitor model out by Schecter - the Sun Valley Super Shredder. Very similar speced - a Floyd Rose special bridge though, which isn't great, but apparently it's a special "Schecter hot rodded" version of it - with stainless steel parts. But it's also got 24 frets & those modern-shred accoutriments. It's got a pair of EMG retroactive pickups - which don't sound like any other active pickups I've ever heard, going by the youtube videos of the guitar. And in my (very limited) experience Schecter necks are pretty similar to the neck on my ESP E-II - which is fantastic. So in the coming months, I'll be looking to buy either one of those guitars. I'm leaning towards the Schecter now, but I'm hoping I'll be able to play both models side by side before I make a purchase. I've already sold my Jackson RRXT in anticipation.
  22. The entire Doom soundtrack is stolen from 80s and 90s music. I wonder if it’s why I like metal
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