tekHedd – the blog

The Samamp Bass Preamp in various scenic locations.

At a tiny dive bar along the highway:

Actually, these gigs pay pretty well...

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:

Outdoors

I don’t think the employees would have believed it, but we were depressingly sober! Free burgers. Very pleasant. Samamp + Bergantino is a magical combination.

Tracking in the practice space:

Super Sweet

with the redbox DI and the Ibanez ATK. I’m just using the power stage of the Genz  Benz here, but it is a great amp on its own. Note the large quantity of empties being removed in the background.

Full biamped rig at the Outlaw Saloon:

At the Outlaw Saloon

Yes, that’s a sweater-vest. You have to be fashionable!

So, apparently I now have this really cool tie.

Pirate Casual

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 often, if at all.) According to the receipt, I didn’t pay for it either. That seems appropriate for a pirate-themed tie.

Anyway, I bought (or at least acquired) it months ago at a store in another state, so I guess it’s mine now. Since this is the era of pirate media, I thought it would be appropriate to upload it so everyone else can have a copy.

Yo ho.

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 to hear it before I buy! And then he turns around with a case full of flash memory cards and little USB devices and says “here we just have to get a retinal scan.”

Oh of course, we just have to have a retinal scan and, yes, a tissue sample before you can use the samples, just to be sure you’re not stealing them. So, now the guy has a strange metal device that scans your eye while simultaneously scraping flesh from the inside of your cheek. My tissue sample is rejected because I had a cold recently and apparently some viruses are still in there.

At this point, of course, I wake up. Darn, I really wanted to hear those samples!

In this dream DRM system, I can’t even listen to a demo of the samples on the store’s system without a DNA sample. And in the dream, I’m thinking that if that’s what it takes to get some good content, I guess that’s what it takes. The big labels have us whipped good.