I played five @skimp.music shows and fell in love with @burstingband and then went home and threw away every bill and positive test I’ve acquired over the last five years. Great making some new friends while seeing some old ones too. I drove most of the time so the photos were fleeting. So is life!
Yesterday @skimp.music released our new record, Very Much So And How, and I figured I’d share some snippets from what all took place between the front & back cover. Check the album out if you get a chance, it’s on any given streaming platform, we’re all incredibly proud of this. It’s really nice to say that, to not feign some negative perspective on my artistic output as some sort of self-defense mechanism. That nonsense can stay in my twenties. This album was a lot of goddamned work, from a lot of talented people that I’m thankful to be around. I genuinely love this record! Links to all the stuff in my bio. Thanks for listening to my ramble.
Years pass, seasons (at least somewhat) begin to change, and my Jazzmaster gets a new pickguard. Time involves many inevitabilities. But I like this Madlove JM-TB in the neck now, and thanks to @dentonguitarrepair for replacing the tremolo on it and fixing it up. I’ve owned this guitar for over 11 years now! Bought it on my birthday. I first replaced the pickguard on it about 8 months after getting it. This is pickguard number 4.
Haven’t played with the synths in a bit. Decided to use the prophet to control the modular today. Turned the automatic captions on so you can follow along with the lyrics at home.
Got these Grass P511 preamps from UNT surplus this week. The second floor of the SRB got cleared out recently, and there was a lot of equipment left in there over the years. These are preamps used to read EEG signals, and are just a high-pass/low-pass filter & 120dB of gain. Finagled guitar through it, though I really ought to convert the input from the original huge 7-pin connector. Did already convert the output to 1/4”. Kinda nice to have a piece of where I worked in college, would not have been shocked if this came from that lab. Sounds cool.
Put a Fralin Split Steel Pole in my Telecaster last night because at the last Skimp show @parkydotcom used it after breaking a string and said “this is so quiet how do you use this?” and I immediately thought “damn…that’s a great point”. Eventually all of my guitars will end up with P90 equivalents in the bridge, it’s inevitable.
