Nashville guitarist and country musician Jim Lill on YouTube:
My name is Jim. I’m a musician in Nashville and I’m pretty sure I’ve figured out the one thing every influential guitar tone has in common. About a year ago, I was confused by all the conflicting opinions out there about guitar tone, so I started from scratch and tested a bunch of things myself.
Fantastic video with plenty of critical analysis.
More like this, please.
Extreme, one of my very favorite bands of the 1990s, and, at the time, one of the last bastions of pre-Grunge rock*, are back!
Jonathan Horsley reporting for MusicRadar:
Extreme have announced their long-awaited return with the release of new single, Rise, and a new studio album titled Six, which hits stores and streaming on 9 June. But right now it is all about Rise, a track that offers a reminder, if needed, that there are few players more capable of manipulating the electric guitar than Nuno Bettencourt.
Rise was released on the first of March. Check it out:
Oh man! That is fire! Can’t wait for the album!
Cameron Joseph reporting at Vice:
Fox News host Tucker Carlson privately torched then-President Donald Trump in text messages made public on Tuesday night, saying he “passionately” hated Trump and calling Sidney Powell, Trump’s conspiracy theory-spewing election attorney, a “fucking bitch.”
“We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights,” Tucker Carlson said in a text on Jan. 4, 2021. “I truly can’t wait.”
“I hate him passionately,” Carlson continued. “What he’s good at is destroying things. He’s the undisputed world champion of that. He could easily destroy us if we play it wrong.”
Wow! I never, ever, ever, never, never, ever, ever thought I’d have anything in common with fucktard Tucker Carlson!
The texts, released as part of a massive tranche of documents from Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation suit against Fox News, are the latest to show how privately skeptical many Fox News hosts were of Trump’s increasingly wild claims that the election was stolen from him—even as some of them parroted his claims on-air. The $1.6 billion defamation case is set to go to trial in April.
Beth Ann Malow, M.D., Director of the Vanderbilt Sleep Division and board certified in Neurology and Sleep Medicine, wrting a guest OpEd at The Tennessean:
Changing our clocks abruptly also results in an uptick in heart attacks, strokes, and car accidents. Many wish to return to Standard Time, and as a sleep physician, I stand with these Americans and with multiple organizations, including the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the National Safety Council, and Start School Later.
I simply could not agree more. Any suggestion that we make Daylight Saving Time permanent is asinine and uninformed.
Oh, and any suggestion that ‘it helps the farmers,’ is just as asinine and ignorant: The Real Reason Why Daylight Saving Time Is a Thing:
But the policy also had its opponents […] and none more powerful than the farm lobby. That farmers advocated for Daylight Saving is a common myth. In fact, Daylight Saving Time meant they had less time in the morning to get their milk and harvested crops to market.
So stick that in your pipe and smoke it.
End the insanity now. Revert to Standard Time all year long. Enough is enough.
That’s right folks, the Orange Moron himself visited East Palestine, Ohio yesterday to donate pallets of Trump-branded water to residents. Haven’t these people suffered enough? I mean, you fucking know that this Trump-branded water is the cheapest shit that the guy could possibly find, and probably tastes like shit to boot.
And lest anyone be fooled by his professed concern, let’s just remember that he rolled back significant regulations concerning railroad safety and hazardous chemicals! Not to mention the fact that he absolutely slashed environmental protections.
Most notably, he rescinded a 2015 proposal (as in, Obama-era) to require faster brakes on trains that were carrying highly flammable or hazardous materials. Trump’s Department of Transportation justified the rollback with a 2018 analysis arguing the cost of requiring such brakes would be “significantly higher” than the expected benefits of the update.
Ah yes, it always comes down to money, doesn’t it?* “Sorry you can’t fucking breath folks, but I wanted to spare the railroad from having to install better brakes.”
How do you think the residents of East Palestine feel about the “benefits” of faster brakes on trains carrying hazardous materials?
What a fucking guy.
I’ve only recently discovered this podcast, and it is excellent! Hosted by the Godless Mom Courtney Heard (Follow her on Mastodon), the show is touching, and at times poignant.
The Q-Dropped podcast is a show dedicated to telling the stories of families that have been torn apart by the Qanon cult and Qanon-adjacent ideas. Most of us know someone who has been affected by the deeply concerning beliefs of Qanon adherents. Many of us have had rifts form between us and people we care about. Unfortunately, however, not many of us are talking about the toll Qanon is having on average, everyday families in countries all over the world. This podcast aims to raise awareness about this issue by telling the stories of people who have lost someone they care about to Qanon.
Well worth a listen. Check it out.
Okay, so I watched a couple of YouTube videos to remind myself of the commercials we all saw last night, and the following are my favorites:
Honorable Mentions:
Bonus Credit: The YouTube videos linked above both show their own commercials…
Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top fame tells his B.B. King story which details how it was Billy wound up switching from heavy strings to light strings.
On this day in 1959, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson died in a plane crash outside Clear Lake, Iowa in Rock ‘n Roll’s first tragedy.
Thanks to Don McLean’s 1971 hit song, “American Pie,” the event has come to be known as The Day the Music Died.
Buddy Holly on stage at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa on 2 Feb 1959, along with Waylon Jennings and Tommy Alsup. Believed to be the last photo taken of Buddy Holly.
I try to note the day every year.
It’s Time to Ban “Right Turn on Red”
Abigail Weinberg reporting at Mother Jones:
Yeah, it’s the pedestrians and cyclists who pay the price.
As is so often the case, RTOR didn’t come about organically from some forward-thinking city planner having a great idea that was implemented in one city first and eventually caught on across this great nation. No, the Federal Government had to strong-arm states and cities into implementing RTOR.
So you see, even putting aside the fact that a growing number of cars today are electric and/or hybrid vehicles, the savings and advantages of RTOR were never really what lawmakers suggested.
Let’s end it.
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