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I've seen more [virtual] concerts during the pandemic than the last five years combined and the best by far was Idiot Prayer - Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace (said by a non-Cave fan). Streaming now with vinyl coming in a couple days.

Last night's set is up:

I've been getting my mid 80s \m/ on. W.A.S.P. - W.A.S.P. (1984) W.A.S.P. - The Last Command (1985) W.A.S.P. - Inside The Electric Circus (1986) The first two are absolute classics of the genre (LA glam metal with just a dash of shock rock from the first half of the 80s.) Blackie Lawless has always been a bit of a clown, but on the first two WASP albums he managed to avoid self parody and had some remarkably consistent songwriting. Chris Holmes and Randy Piper had some great riffs as well. Inside The Electric Circus is a much more uneven affair. There are a more than few duds, but man is "Restless Gypsy" an unknown classic. Listening to it makes me want to comb out my mullet, don my uncomfortably tight high waisted jeans, fire up my Camaro Z28 and tear ass down the 101. I might cue up Live... In The Raw (1987) next. Sadly there's not much after that in the WASP catalog that's worth giving a listen. 80s metal was best before marketing departments got involved and WASP was never that versatile a band to begin with.

How to Build a Guitar: For The New York Times for Kids, the photographer Christopher Payne visited the Martin Guitars factory to see how humans and machines make music.

Here is an attempt to make a “smd raal uberamp driver”. I followed Kevin’s schematic. The big resistor is for feedback/gain, I guess 1.5 – 2 W is required and a few components on “solder” side. The real challenge will be the power sections. 3A x * +/-24V * 8 * balanced - might be a bit extreme for headphone amplifier…

https://www.proaudiostar.com/arturia-matrixbrute-analog-synthesizer.html Pretty nice price on a matrixbrute if anyone is gassing for it.

Thank you for mentioning. I thought this was the current model (with new lens). It’s one back, so not quite the same deal I thought. x100 - first x100s - second x100t - third x100f - fourth x100v - fifth / current

Oh, I didn't even consider that there's a big possibility my fw ensemble won't work after this. Damn. I guess I keep an intel Mac around for logic.

^I've lost track of all the iterations of the X100 over the years.

Unsurprisingly, it's always Bacon O'Clock

Segregated snacks for socially distant visit.

More Coffee Cake with appropriate accompaniment.

Nice sex dungeon, Naaman!

I bit. I bought the macbook pro m1 16gb/512 to be delivered before the end of the year. I'll primarily use it with logic pro and final cut pro...some of my plug ins may take a while to get ported tho.

Proper Coffee Cake

RIP David Prowse https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/nov/29/darth-vader--dave-prowse-dies-aged-85?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other Had the pleasure of interviewing him for my high school paper in ‘84 or 85. Said he wanted to be cast as James Bond in the future.