Archive for June, 2011

The Samamp In Its Natural Habitat

Saturday, June 25th, 2011

The Samamp Bass Preamp in various scenic locations. At a tiny dive bar along the highway: Shown here with a tiny Ashdown practice combo and the Fernandez with Rio Grande Muy Grande pickups. The Bergantino is actually the PA. On April 20, at a gig in front of a dispensary: I don’t think the employees […]

Appropriate tie for a wedding?

Saturday, June 25th, 2011

So, apparently I now have this really cool tie. The strange thing about this fairly awesome dark navy skull-and-crossbones tie is that it just sort of appeared in my shopping bag, along with a nice suit and “safe” tie that I purchased months ago and am just now unbagging. (I don’t really go formal very […]

Now that’s serious DRM

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011

I’m in a music store. I ask if there are any good sample CDs. I’m thinking it might be nice to have some new loops and samples. And the salesman immediately whips a CD off of a stack and says “these are great, here let me play some of them for you.” Sweet, I get […]