Tuning your guitar to counteract the bass strings’ larger gauge, and tendency to go sharp.
Mitch Malloy Could Have Been VH’s Singer
I’m pretty sure that Ray Danniels, along with Eddie’s alcoholism is what ruined Van Halen in the post Sammy era. Eddie and Sammy fighting over the management of the band was one of the biggest issues that caused Sammy to leave. Danniels had recently become the manager during that time. While searching for new singers, VH auditioned Mitch Malloy who was eventually turned down for the gig in favor of Gary Cherone, whom Danniels also managed. The video below is a previously unreleased demo track with Mitch on vocals.
https://youtu.be/9pfFErkwbFA
Joe Satriani’s Guide to Stacked Fourths
http://www.guitarworld.com/joe-satrianis-guide-building-chords-stacked-fourths-video/25929
If someone had mentioned the term “stacked fourths” to me years ago, I would have had no idea what they were talking about.
But I later learned that it is really quite simple and represents a cool approach to constructing chords. In this lesson, I’d like to show you some interesting things you can do with stacked fourths.
In music theory, every note in a chord can be assigned an intervallic number. Typically, we’re dealing with scales built from five to eight notes, and each note is given a number to represent its placement within the given scale.
MXR and EVH Announce New 5150 Overdrive Pedal
This month, MXR announced the release of the new MXR EVH 5150 Overdrive Pedal. It’s odd that Eddie is endorsing a gain pedal since he’s been criticizing the use of them for years, but I’m guessing the market for it is so large that he couldn’t resist. After all, you can’t get a 5150-III amp for under $700 so for the budget-minded, a pedal that gets you most of the way to Eddie’s tone for ~$200 is a no-brainer.
There Is No Gaming Community
Recently, Jimmy Kimmel made a remark that he didn’t understand why people are watching people play video games on Youtube and Twitch.
http://nerdist.com/nerdist-play-was-jimmy-kimmel-too-rough-on-vide-game-streaming/
Of course, some people took to Twitter to insult and otherwise verbally attack Kimmel. Already the outcry against the “gamer community” has begun.
Look, I’m a gamer and I don’t get why you’d watch someone else play a video game. (Unless it’s a tutorial or for tips.) From what I can tell, the Twitch/Youtube phenomena of watching people play video games a generational thing, not a gamer/non-gamer thing. I’m a gamer, have been since the 80s. Watching someone play a game is BORING. I remember when it was a bad thing to invite someone over to your house to play video games, only to hog the controller the whole time they were there. Watching someone on Youtube play a game feels the same as that to me. So, let’s stop painting gamers with the same wide brush.
Unlike many other hobbies that are a niche, gaming is wide and vast. At this point in time, video gaming is as big/bigger than the movie industry. It’s a norm. Really, when you say “gamer” you mean “everyone under 45”. (To different degrees based on age.) So, when people talk about “the gaming community” I get defensive, especially when the discussion is about how terrible “the community” is. (See Gamergate) What community? What they really mean when they say “Gamers” is PEOPLE on the internet. Gaming used to be a niche, so you could identify a gamer “type”. Not anymore. Now, gamers are everyone. So, when a bunch of terrible people start attacking a female internet celebrity, or a gaming journalist, or a late night comedian, they’re just terrible people. Not gamers. There is no more a “gamer community” as there is a “movie goer” community, or a “TV viewer” community. When a niche becomes the mainstream it’s not a “community” anymore. It’s just the majority of PEOPLE.
The CSSHX App for Mac is seriously handy…
…for SSH’ing into multiple machines at once. It opens a new terminal window for each ssh connection host you provide it in a tiled configuration (By default)
http://www.brock-family.org/gavin/macosx/csshX-pod.html
Simply place it in a function in your .bash_profile with the IPs you want to connect to and voila!
For example :
function ssh-hosts() {
~/csshX-master/csshX 10.10.10.1 10.10.10.2 10.10.10.3 10.10.10.4
}
After running “source .bash_profile” for your shell to re-read your .bash_profile, typing “ssh-hosts” will connect to the 4 IPs you provided, open up 4 ssh windows, and a single “master” window for controlling all 4 ssh sessions. Brilliant!
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