Revision! Read up for a revised About this blog page: http://communicationblogdown.blogspot.com/p/about-this-blog.html
I think I'm going to focus more on a musical-oriented blog rather than a techology blog, enter the link for more inforation: http://communicationblogdown.blogspot.com/p/about-this-blog.html
And maybe again, in case you didn't see it the other two times:
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
Infused With Confused
Been dazed and confused,
for so long it's not true...
(Please don't annihilate me SOPA...)
Song of the week time! Perhaps one of the most over-referenced songs, Dazed and Confused takes track 4 on Led Zeppelin's album, Led Zeppelin I. I think I've probably referenced the first lyrics of the songs so many times, it could probably invert the meaning into leaving me clear-headed and unclouded...
The song starts off with John Paul Jones' signature descending bassline, synchronized with Bonham's bass hits, creating a percussive punch with every note played. Going through the live versions, they all generally start this way; sometimes Bonham adds a few hits in, but it doesn't ever stray too far from the studio version. Jimmy Page also contributes his share with some natural harmonics, with some wah pedal effects and altering of pitch by bending the string behind the nut; others might achieve the same sound with a whammy bar, but true authenticators use the bending-at-the-nut technique.
Not too long after, Plant adds his vocals in, officially starting the song; this song isn't a genuine favorite of mine to play, with a long break during the midsection, which also contributes to me not listening to it as much. During the breakdown, Page used a cello bow with his guitar, something not too often seen in the guitar world. It's definitely something I want to try in the future, as soon as I somehow get my hands on a cello bow...
The song really starts to pick up after the bowed guitar section; the tempo picks up, once again starting with JPJ's bassline, but this time playing a box-shaped (on the guitar) ascent of notes, which he continues to play for the next few minutes. An interesting this to note here is in the live versions of this song; although JPJ plays the same rhythm and notes, he plays it MUCH faster in the 1973 TSRTS version; what astounds me further is the amount of time he manages to do this, probably somewhere around 4-6 minutes of Page's bantering on his guitar. Definitely a great show of stamina and endurance.
After Bonham adds his frantic cymbal-crashing, Page resumes his lead position in the band, playing the same riff as JPJ, but an octave up; this continues on for a while, until the true solo starts. The solo is fast and abrasive, using a wah pedal to push the treble levels up beyond the norm. Although the solo sounds somewhat difficult, it's not entirely too bad; it's fast, but not impossible. Page stays within the same area and two positions on the neck for most of the solo, so no large movements across the fretboard are needed. Playing this solo helped me a lot with my bend technique, especially with getting fast bends in with subsequent notes played.
After the solo, the signature triplets for which Bonham is famous for are played; learning this section can often help understand a key feature of Bonham's playing style, and any drummer who knows any Zeppelin should, at the very least, know this drum riff. Afterwards, the song slows back down and resumes its initial tempo, and JPJ re-establishes his descending bassline. After a few more bars and a few little flourishes from Page's guitar, the song ends on a strong, hard tone with powerful chords synchronized with JPJ.
Next blog post will cover the live portions of Dazed and Confused; the vast amounts of variations played by Zeppelin are massive enough to be an entirely different section, or at least a separate post.
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Physical Education is Physically Incapable
Yes, yes, this isn't a normal topic for this blog, but everyone's entitled to their own rant once in a while, right?
High School Gym class.
I don't think there's another class in the entire school that I've taken that was filled with the amount of incapable "students" crammed into one space. Generally, gym class is filled with slacker students, probably because of the unwillingness to take a sport (guilty). Every new term of gym class starts off the same way: I hope there are actual willing people in my class, gym class starts, and the dissapointment settles in. Sometimes I get lucky and get SOME competent people in my class, but it doesn't happen too often.
Luckily for me, my class only has ~20 students in it, as opposed to the normal 40 or so crowded into the gymnasium. As another added bonus, I have it at the very start of the school day, when half the people are subdued from lack of sleep, and the other half skipped because they didn't care about their failure of every other class. Credit for gym class is given for dressing out and doing the set warm-up routine, of which requires nearly no effort to do; despite this, only 4 of the students dress out, and about 6 do the warm-up, while the other lazy (insert words here) walk on the sidelines. The "teacher" (or whatever gym supervisors are called) doesn't even care. Granted, he really shouldn't because it's their problems, but if I ever find out that they're still getting credit for being lazy....
There's other things I could rant about in gym, but I'm pretty sure that they'd break some sort of privacy rule about offending people. Then of course, I'd be pulled into a corner and be interrogated.
Things like that.
High School Gym class.
I don't think there's another class in the entire school that I've taken that was filled with the amount of incapable "students" crammed into one space. Generally, gym class is filled with slacker students, probably because of the unwillingness to take a sport (guilty). Every new term of gym class starts off the same way: I hope there are actual willing people in my class, gym class starts, and the dissapointment settles in. Sometimes I get lucky and get SOME competent people in my class, but it doesn't happen too often.
Luckily for me, my class only has ~20 students in it, as opposed to the normal 40 or so crowded into the gymnasium. As another added bonus, I have it at the very start of the school day, when half the people are subdued from lack of sleep, and the other half skipped because they didn't care about their failure of every other class. Credit for gym class is given for dressing out and doing the set warm-up routine, of which requires nearly no effort to do; despite this, only 4 of the students dress out, and about 6 do the warm-up, while the other lazy (insert words here) walk on the sidelines. The "teacher" (or whatever gym supervisors are called) doesn't even care. Granted, he really shouldn't because it's their problems, but if I ever find out that they're still getting credit for being lazy....
There's other things I could rant about in gym, but I'm pretty sure that they'd break some sort of privacy rule about offending people. Then of course, I'd be pulled into a corner and be interrogated.
Things like that.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Shaken...BLOG POST
Once a week...maybe not, but better late than never, right?
I purposely delayed writing this post mostly because of my lack of knowledge on the song featured in this post (for shame!)
Anyways, You Shook Me, the third track of Led Zeppelin's first album, Led Zeppelin I, will be featured in this post.
This is generally the song I skip whenever I listen to this album, as it strays from the normal hard and energetic tone in Zeppelin songs; on that note, it's also not an acoustic piece either, but rather, a hard blues song, based on the original by Willie Dixon, a favorite "base template" for Led Zeppelin songs. Along with being skipped by me, I also haven't really found the time to learn how to play this song, as I generally stay away from slide-blues songs (I'm really scared of odd tunings!). Despite the slide intro, the song does manage to stay with the standard EADGBE tuning...I guess I'll have to learn this at some point.
As I said above, the song is very blues-driven, being based off, or rather "inspired by" a Willie Dixon song. The very first thing heard in the song is Page's metal slide: it's a rather iconic riff for the die-hard Zeppelin fan, and whenever I hear it calling out (< not a Babe I'm Gonna Leave You reference...), I instantly know what song it is. The chording structure in this song isn't exactly new, and once again is a typical blues rhythm, with the BUH...BUHNUH...BUNUH...(repeat) going through the verses. On the other hand...the solo is truly amazing, and on that note, all the band member's parts are. But back to Page: as the song develops, the guitar part begins to break out of its standard patterning, sometimes following the vocals, sometimes doing a small call-and-respond. Listening to it now, I guess it isn't terribly repetetive, which reflects one of my upper points; I really haven't listened to this song a great deal yet; I'll still try my best to cover it, though.
The bass part is kind of absent in this song, with JPJ staying on the keys and organ for most of the song. JPJ actually did the organ part for another version of this song, back in the Yardbirds for Page and Beck, both of which ironically did their own versions of the song. (I won't get into the details...) Not much else to say on JPJ's part here.
Pertaining to the drum part of this song, Bonham plays through the verses with a very heavy, dragging rhythm, complimented by Page's guitar. This song, if I played it, would probably be an easy first song to learn...at least until the song develops later on. This song is a good showcase for Bonham in the second half, as his iconic fills start entering the song, particularly after Plant's harmonica solo around 3-4 minutes in. This is probably the first song of Zeppelin's to ever have the signature "drum triplets" of Bonham's the second being in Dazed and Confused (hopefully more on it next week...)
Regarding the live versions of this song, there are TONS of versions to look up, as this was featured in every Zeppelin set until 1973, around the time The Song Remains The Same Live conert album was recorded, explaining why it wasn't featured in the soundtrack. You Shook me is featured on the BBC Sessions album, along with the live video from Royal Albert Hall in 1970. Along with Communication Breakdown, You Shook Me is on BBC Sessions multiple times, with a few discreet differences which I still need to take note of as of the writing of this post.
In conlusion (Why does this sound like an essay?!), I really need to listen to this song more...and I also encourage the reader, yes YOU, to listen to it a little more, perhaps complimenting the distortion-driven sound with a little more relaxed blues-driven sound. Or maybe not. Maybe you could go listen to that...whatever it is.
Maybe.
I purposely delayed writing this post mostly because of my lack of knowledge on the song featured in this post (for shame!)
Anyways, You Shook Me, the third track of Led Zeppelin's first album, Led Zeppelin I, will be featured in this post.
This is generally the song I skip whenever I listen to this album, as it strays from the normal hard and energetic tone in Zeppelin songs; on that note, it's also not an acoustic piece either, but rather, a hard blues song, based on the original by Willie Dixon, a favorite "base template" for Led Zeppelin songs. Along with being skipped by me, I also haven't really found the time to learn how to play this song, as I generally stay away from slide-blues songs (I'm really scared of odd tunings!). Despite the slide intro, the song does manage to stay with the standard EADGBE tuning...I guess I'll have to learn this at some point.
As I said above, the song is very blues-driven, being based off, or rather "inspired by" a Willie Dixon song. The very first thing heard in the song is Page's metal slide: it's a rather iconic riff for the die-hard Zeppelin fan, and whenever I hear it calling out (< not a Babe I'm Gonna Leave You reference...), I instantly know what song it is. The chording structure in this song isn't exactly new, and once again is a typical blues rhythm, with the BUH...BUHNUH...BUNUH...(repeat) going through the verses. On the other hand...the solo is truly amazing, and on that note, all the band member's parts are. But back to Page: as the song develops, the guitar part begins to break out of its standard patterning, sometimes following the vocals, sometimes doing a small call-and-respond. Listening to it now, I guess it isn't terribly repetetive, which reflects one of my upper points; I really haven't listened to this song a great deal yet; I'll still try my best to cover it, though.
The bass part is kind of absent in this song, with JPJ staying on the keys and organ for most of the song. JPJ actually did the organ part for another version of this song, back in the Yardbirds for Page and Beck, both of which ironically did their own versions of the song. (I won't get into the details...) Not much else to say on JPJ's part here.
Pertaining to the drum part of this song, Bonham plays through the verses with a very heavy, dragging rhythm, complimented by Page's guitar. This song, if I played it, would probably be an easy first song to learn...at least until the song develops later on. This song is a good showcase for Bonham in the second half, as his iconic fills start entering the song, particularly after Plant's harmonica solo around 3-4 minutes in. This is probably the first song of Zeppelin's to ever have the signature "drum triplets" of Bonham's the second being in Dazed and Confused (hopefully more on it next week...)
Regarding the live versions of this song, there are TONS of versions to look up, as this was featured in every Zeppelin set until 1973, around the time The Song Remains The Same Live conert album was recorded, explaining why it wasn't featured in the soundtrack. You Shook me is featured on the BBC Sessions album, along with the live video from Royal Albert Hall in 1970. Along with Communication Breakdown, You Shook Me is on BBC Sessions multiple times, with a few discreet differences which I still need to take note of as of the writing of this post.
In conlusion (Why does this sound like an essay?!), I really need to listen to this song more...and I also encourage the reader, yes YOU, to listen to it a little more, perhaps complimenting the distortion-driven sound with a little more relaxed blues-driven sound. Or maybe not. Maybe you could go listen to that...whatever it is.
Maybe.
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Hectic Hexic
Every piece of hardware you buy usually comes bloated with random programs, and most of that junk is left to rot in a corner. The Xbox 360 is no exception, although the bloatware is considerably less...bloaty.
Ever feel the repetitiveness of Skyrim and Battlefield 3 starting to set in? Me neither, (it doesn't exist :P) But anyways, I felt like playing something new, but being too lazy to reach over to open a different video game case. I leafed through my games library. Every Xbox comes standard with a few starter games, but mine only came with Hexic HD, which was only played when the Xbox box was opened 3 years ago.
So, feeling what could only be nostalgia, I gave into playing Hexic again...
Apparently leaderboards are supposed to be competitive...unfortunately since an actual game-on-disk is usually bought bundled with Xbox's those are what's played, leaving Hexic gathering dust in the Xbox live arcade library. Proof of this comes with the fact that only four of 30 of the people on my friends list have any score whatsoever on the Hexic leaderboards, requiring absolutely no effort at all to beat them. So, there goes a replay value.
My main problem with Hexic, other than the lack of competitiveness, lies within its repetitiveness. In case YOU are one of those people (and believe me, there's LOTS) who's never even realized that your Xbox came with a free game on the hard drive, Hexic is basically a reskin-copy of bejewelled, and in case you've never played that either, it basically boils down to "Match the colors to make triangles of the same colors."
Over. And. Over.
Despite having three game modes, I'm not really feeling the differences presented with each different mode. It's all just a bunch of circley-rotatey things, and it doesn't stray far from that at all. It's definitely a good concept, it just needs to be made more...exciting. Occasionally, bombs will pop up, requiring the player to use it in a combo within the set number of moves displayed on the bombs. Those who just want to see the explosion will be greatly disappointed; a greater amount of excitement can be found just by kicking Styrofoam. The detonation from the bomb just leaves a small hole where it was, sadly without anything resembling an explosion.
I feel that the developers were trying to go for simplicity, but games like this should stay with platforms such as Androids and Iphones; this kind of game shouldn't be what the powerful hardware on the Xbox be used for.
Besides...
Why play with triangles...
When you have Skyrim?
Ever feel the repetitiveness of Skyrim and Battlefield 3 starting to set in? Me neither, (it doesn't exist :P) But anyways, I felt like playing something new, but being too lazy to reach over to open a different video game case. I leafed through my games library. Every Xbox comes standard with a few starter games, but mine only came with Hexic HD, which was only played when the Xbox box was opened 3 years ago.
Courtesy of IGN
So, feeling what could only be nostalgia, I gave into playing Hexic again...
Apparently leaderboards are supposed to be competitive...unfortunately since an actual game-on-disk is usually bought bundled with Xbox's those are what's played, leaving Hexic gathering dust in the Xbox live arcade library. Proof of this comes with the fact that only four of 30 of the people on my friends list have any score whatsoever on the Hexic leaderboards, requiring absolutely no effort at all to beat them. So, there goes a replay value.
My main problem with Hexic, other than the lack of competitiveness, lies within its repetitiveness. In case YOU are one of those people (and believe me, there's LOTS) who's never even realized that your Xbox came with a free game on the hard drive, Hexic is basically a reskin-copy of bejewelled, and in case you've never played that either, it basically boils down to "Match the colors to make triangles of the same colors."
Over. And. Over.
Despite having three game modes, I'm not really feeling the differences presented with each different mode. It's all just a bunch of circley-rotatey things, and it doesn't stray far from that at all. It's definitely a good concept, it just needs to be made more...exciting. Occasionally, bombs will pop up, requiring the player to use it in a combo within the set number of moves displayed on the bombs. Those who just want to see the explosion will be greatly disappointed; a greater amount of excitement can be found just by kicking Styrofoam. The detonation from the bomb just leaves a small hole where it was, sadly without anything resembling an explosion.
I feel that the developers were trying to go for simplicity, but games like this should stay with platforms such as Androids and Iphones; this kind of game shouldn't be what the powerful hardware on the Xbox be used for.
Besides...
Why play with triangles...
When you have Skyrim?
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Wee-ooh Wee-ooh....
Im truly sorry, but it's impossible for me to think of Nintendo's newest console(?), the Wii U without thinking of blaring police sirens...
Anyways...with the new generation of consoles being right around the corner, Nintendo has decided to show their faces first this time, entering the eighth console generation, first with the Nintendo 3DS (which I hardly count as a new generation.. >_>), and once again with the Wii U.
Nintendo's strategy so far seems like they're doing minor changes to their previous hardware, such as the 3DS and the myriad of other DS portable systems...The Wii U initially seemed like an extra peripheral for the Wii; while I still believe it's somewhat of an extra gimmick, it does have some added value. My problem, and many others, with the Wii, was based on the selection of games available for the system; I wouldn't buy a console if all I can do play clean, family oriented games (by myself). There are a few gems within the bunch, mainly continuations of previous popular Nintendo exclusives, such as the Super Smash Brothers series and the Legend of Zelda Series, which lasted a small period of time. Most gamers older than around 14 will generally gravitate towards more hardcore, violent games, such as the ridiculous amounts of first-person shooters (FPS) not-as-present on the Wii. Perhaps the lack of FPS's on the Wii can be attributed to the weaker hardware of the Wii; Black Ops will look noticeably worse on Wii than the Xbox, leading to more sales for Xbox than Wii.
Despite having an inferior game selection (again, my opinion), the Wii still manages to outsell both the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3. Using data from http://www.vgchartz.com/, the global sales chart shows the Wii with 95 Million sales, versus 64.9 million Xbox 360 sales, and 61.1 million PlayStation 3 sales. The simplistic appeal of the Wii lies within its gimmicky motion gameplay, even though both the other current home consoles have their own versions of motion gameplay.
Wow...off-topicness is off topic...
Back to the Wii U, if Nintendo was previously building small improvements into their consoles, I would be EXTREMELY disappointed with the Wii U being a simple improvement of the Wii. Thankfully, hardware has been improved, although to what extent, I'm not sure of...hopefully an adequate amount...
The main difference from the Wii, however, is the new controller, which is similar to a portable console screen...thingy. The controller sports a nice 6(ish) inch screen with touch capability; take a stereotypical game controller, and then put a giant screen in the middle of the controller; you then have the basic Wii U controller. Of course, it's not that simple, and the Wii U controller has the same motion capability as its Wii parent controllers.
Tablet. Controller.
Anyways...with the new generation of consoles being right around the corner, Nintendo has decided to show their faces first this time, entering the eighth console generation, first with the Nintendo 3DS (which I hardly count as a new generation.. >_>), and once again with the Wii U.
Nintendo's strategy so far seems like they're doing minor changes to their previous hardware, such as the 3DS and the myriad of other DS portable systems...The Wii U initially seemed like an extra peripheral for the Wii; while I still believe it's somewhat of an extra gimmick, it does have some added value. My problem, and many others, with the Wii, was based on the selection of games available for the system; I wouldn't buy a console if all I can do play clean, family oriented games (by myself). There are a few gems within the bunch, mainly continuations of previous popular Nintendo exclusives, such as the Super Smash Brothers series and the Legend of Zelda Series, which lasted a small period of time. Most gamers older than around 14 will generally gravitate towards more hardcore, violent games, such as the ridiculous amounts of first-person shooters (FPS) not-as-present on the Wii. Perhaps the lack of FPS's on the Wii can be attributed to the weaker hardware of the Wii; Black Ops will look noticeably worse on Wii than the Xbox, leading to more sales for Xbox than Wii.
Despite having an inferior game selection (again, my opinion), the Wii still manages to outsell both the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3. Using data from http://www.vgchartz.com/, the global sales chart shows the Wii with 95 Million sales, versus 64.9 million Xbox 360 sales, and 61.1 million PlayStation 3 sales. The simplistic appeal of the Wii lies within its gimmicky motion gameplay, even though both the other current home consoles have their own versions of motion gameplay.
Wow...off-topicness is off topic...
Back to the Wii U, if Nintendo was previously building small improvements into their consoles, I would be EXTREMELY disappointed with the Wii U being a simple improvement of the Wii. Thankfully, hardware has been improved, although to what extent, I'm not sure of...hopefully an adequate amount...
The main difference from the Wii, however, is the new controller, which is similar to a portable console screen...thingy. The controller sports a nice 6(ish) inch screen with touch capability; take a stereotypical game controller, and then put a giant screen in the middle of the controller; you then have the basic Wii U controller. Of course, it's not that simple, and the Wii U controller has the same motion capability as its Wii parent controllers.
Tablet. Controller.
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Those Extra Few (Thousand) Pixels Matter...
It seems we've come to an age where standard definition...really isn't the standard definition anymore, with the average television most likely being high definition. At this time, it's almost expected that everyone will have an HD television or matter, disregarding whatever income household they live in. You'll find these things in the most unexpected places.
The more years I play video games on my Xbox, the smaller and smaller the font seems to get in games. Within the past few days, I finally got the monitor replaced, and while I never really noticed the difference on television in quality, let me tell you, it is noticeable on Xbox.
For example, Battlefield is often praised for it's high-quality graphics; I didn't think they were particularly special on my 480p screen, even after the HD texture pack was installed. All those little tiny details in the ground went totally unnoticed to me, and now it seems like it's just assumed that everybody has to have high definition monitors.
In another venture, Skyrim turned out fine on my original screen, but I noticed a few problems involving ludicrously small letters; the last game release season in particular seemed to be comprised of mostly games with unreadable text. After the magic change of monitors, the entire game got...bigger. Although it can be somewhat attributed to converting to widescreen, I CAN ACTUALLY READ NOW.
Makes finding those it's vs its grammatical errors in Mace Etiquette SO much easier.
The more years I play video games on my Xbox, the smaller and smaller the font seems to get in games. Within the past few days, I finally got the monitor replaced, and while I never really noticed the difference on television in quality, let me tell you, it is noticeable on Xbox.
For example, Battlefield is often praised for it's high-quality graphics; I didn't think they were particularly special on my 480p screen, even after the HD texture pack was installed. All those little tiny details in the ground went totally unnoticed to me, and now it seems like it's just assumed that everybody has to have high definition monitors.
In another venture, Skyrim turned out fine on my original screen, but I noticed a few problems involving ludicrously small letters; the last game release season in particular seemed to be comprised of mostly games with unreadable text. After the magic change of monitors, the entire game got...bigger. Although it can be somewhat attributed to converting to widescreen, I CAN ACTUALLY READ NOW.
Makes finding those it's vs its grammatical errors in Mace Etiquette SO much easier.
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Double the usefulness=Double the pay...and Double the Dissapointment
My previous post mentioned a few things about double neck guitars, mainly in response to a few questions my father had about the practicality. But what could ever make him randomly ask such questions? The average person (or at least, I'm assuming) doesn't have an issue like this come up, meaning...
I GOT ONE!
My father understandably wouldn't want me to go spend a few hundreds of dollars on any random junk like that, so that's where that arguement came from. I'm finally in posession of one of my dreamiest guitars...or at least I was. (sadface)
The Christmas morning started as a normal Sunday, waking up at eight, going to church, and so on. Christmas in our house came a little bit later than usual, being a Sunday and being preoccupied with church activities. Our ever-shedding tree humbly sat in our family room, presents underneath, although absent from the pile of presesnts was anything remotely resembling a guitar case.
Before simply assuming I wouldn't be getting anything besides a book this year, I remembered the tricky ways my parents had of hiding my more expensive presesnts the previous years, cleverly instructing me to go do something involving the location of my present (i.e., go bring the laundry down, with the present in one of the hampers). Because of this, it wasn't much of a surprise when I had to go on a full house-search looking for a five foot long box.
Back to the guitar: coming from a seller that stocked randomly assorted instruments, I couldn't have said I was expecting a totally set up guitar. However, I was expecting a guitar in brand-new condition, as the seller had listed the item. What I found was a guitar with quite a few dings in it. The guitar wasn't set up properly (strings and bridge not set at correct hight, cleaned, pickup height, blah blah...).
As I never find much luck with anything using tools, I took the guitar to a professional at Guitar Center, and the poor guitar tech had to deliver bad news...
One of the necks was bent, and to get it to bend back, rather than simply adjusting the truss bar as normal, it would take a one hundred dollar curing procedure.
For just ONE neck.
And now I'm stuck with a single neck guitar... *sigh*
I GOT ONE!
My father understandably wouldn't want me to go spend a few hundreds of dollars on any random junk like that, so that's where that arguement came from. I'm finally in posession of one of my dreamiest guitars...or at least I was. (sadface)
The Christmas morning started as a normal Sunday, waking up at eight, going to church, and so on. Christmas in our house came a little bit later than usual, being a Sunday and being preoccupied with church activities. Our ever-shedding tree humbly sat in our family room, presents underneath, although absent from the pile of presesnts was anything remotely resembling a guitar case.
Before simply assuming I wouldn't be getting anything besides a book this year, I remembered the tricky ways my parents had of hiding my more expensive presesnts the previous years, cleverly instructing me to go do something involving the location of my present (i.e., go bring the laundry down, with the present in one of the hampers). Because of this, it wasn't much of a surprise when I had to go on a full house-search looking for a five foot long box.
Back to the guitar: coming from a seller that stocked randomly assorted instruments, I couldn't have said I was expecting a totally set up guitar. However, I was expecting a guitar in brand-new condition, as the seller had listed the item. What I found was a guitar with quite a few dings in it. The guitar wasn't set up properly (strings and bridge not set at correct hight, cleaned, pickup height, blah blah...).
As I never find much luck with anything using tools, I took the guitar to a professional at Guitar Center, and the poor guitar tech had to deliver bad news...
One of the necks was bent, and to get it to bend back, rather than simply adjusting the truss bar as normal, it would take a one hundred dollar curing procedure.
For just ONE neck.
And now I'm stuck with a single neck guitar... *sigh*
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