Recent content by Tao4Now

I'd love to agree, but I've never played the original neck on mine - had to replace it due to a snapped truss rod. The neck warped when the guitar was stored strung before I bought it. I hope someday to restore the original neck, when I've got the spare cash. I certainly love everything else...

Nothing personal, Shy-Dub, but I see this argument all the time on TB, and it's misguided to say the least. Success in the music industry can be predicated on hard work, relentless touring, innovative talent, imaginative phrasing and musical genius, but much more often is based on blind luck...

A little darker than fiesta, it's Lipstick Red.

I like the concept of a positive feedback loop driving human intellectual progress through an interplay between cognitive function and manual dexterity. I'm not sure it's accurate, but I do appreciate the elegance. I can recall a speculative fiction story I read some time ago that postulated...

Not accurate, mi amigo. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumb#Other_animals_with_opposable_thumbs Agree with the rest, though.

If you're spending that much, why not go for something more distinctive? Invalid Link Removed About the same price, though you'll need to send them a tracing for an exact fit. Oh yeah, they have plain black ones too. Invalid Link Removed

Try Grace Jones' cover of Sting's "Demolition Man"

Bah! You kids today with your lightweight "neo" rotisseri! In my day, you cooked onstage with one chicken on one spit at a time, in a rotisserie made of granite that weighed a thousand pounds and took seven roadies to move! And the crowd loved it! That joke might have been funnier if the...

I checked those shots out, and they aren't bad, but they're not what I would consider professional quality. I pulled some of the photos that this venue is doing into a Photobucket account. Check them all out here: http://s394.photobucket.com/albums/pp22/tao4now/ Here are a couple of samples:

The venue in question has state of the art lighting and audio. They pull out all the stops and really do a good job of capturing the dynamics. They've had a few better-known names (Marcy Playground, Jimmy Van Zant, Adler's Appetite, LA Guns) play there, but they seem to really want to capture...

Interesting. I don't see how they could make money that way though. From their standpoint, they are paying the four-camera video crew, plus the live-switching editor, plus the sound engineer. Ten bucks doesn't even cover a camera guy for an hour. I know they've offered master DVDs of...

I'm hoping to start a new project soon - retro-Appalachian-indie-folk. If it gets off the ground we'll be plying our trade in the Old City and haunting the WDVX foyer for sure.

At that price you usually get all of them, minus the ones that are unusable. A photog might use bracketing schemes for white balance or exposure, so oe out of every three shots might be right in a case with controllable conditions. In a performance shoot, you can easily end up with a couple...

Wow, do they really go that inexpensively? I've been shopping the wrong venues! In my experience, a professional photographer will cost you upwards of $400/hr. That's not just for the shoot, but for toning and reproduction, which is the real time-sink (note that in the above offer, those...

I believe the reason for bundling is to avoid costly per-transaction credit-card fees on low-total transactions, or at least that was what I was told. I've negotiated merchant terms from a credit card company before, and I take them at their word. If the terms are 9% and 25 cents per...