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Musical matters...
Jan. 7th, 2004 12:59 amFreak me out!
I click on a Celtic New Age music station on shoutcast.com, and they are playing a Babylon 5 soundtrack (5th season, I believe) I love Christopher Franke's music! I think he is the part of Tangerene Dream that I liked. After he left TG, their music sucked IMOHO, of course. I didn't know initially that is what happened, I just stopped buying their stuff 'cuz I didn't like what they were doing anymore. It wasn't until Babylon 5 came around that I (re)discovered Franke, and the wonderful music he created for the B5 series.
This evening, I did the most tedious thing a guitarist can do...I changed the strings on my two primary guitars, one of which is a 12-string. So it was like re-stringing 3 guitars! Neither of the big stores have Dean Markley Electric 12-strings...so I am unhappy about that...I think in a few pays, I will just go and order a box of 10 sets...that should do me until the end of the decade...
(weirdness interlude...the above station is playing a symphonic version of the song "Flashdance" WEIRD! But I kind a like it....)
It's always a pain to tune a 12string with new strings...it usually takes a few hours (or up to a day) for the strings to all stretch out and stop going out of tune...I guess I could just boil them like Eddie Van Halen does...but he wore out strings every night, and couldn't afford to wait for them to stretch. I am hoping everything goes well this weekend at work, since I will be able to get down to Georgia Filk, and see some friends I haven't seen in a while.
Just a note, though...it may be a pain to restring and tune a 12-string, but when it's finished, you won't hear a sweeter sound when it's played!
Well, it's too late for me to be up, so I shall be off to bed...
ttyl
I click on a Celtic New Age music station on shoutcast.com, and they are playing a Babylon 5 soundtrack (5th season, I believe) I love Christopher Franke's music! I think he is the part of Tangerene Dream that I liked. After he left TG, their music sucked IMOHO, of course. I didn't know initially that is what happened, I just stopped buying their stuff 'cuz I didn't like what they were doing anymore. It wasn't until Babylon 5 came around that I (re)discovered Franke, and the wonderful music he created for the B5 series.
This evening, I did the most tedious thing a guitarist can do...I changed the strings on my two primary guitars, one of which is a 12-string. So it was like re-stringing 3 guitars! Neither of the big stores have Dean Markley Electric 12-strings...so I am unhappy about that...I think in a few pays, I will just go and order a box of 10 sets...that should do me until the end of the decade...
(weirdness interlude...the above station is playing a symphonic version of the song "Flashdance" WEIRD! But I kind a like it....)
It's always a pain to tune a 12string with new strings...it usually takes a few hours (or up to a day) for the strings to all stretch out and stop going out of tune...I guess I could just boil them like Eddie Van Halen does...but he wore out strings every night, and couldn't afford to wait for them to stretch. I am hoping everything goes well this weekend at work, since I will be able to get down to Georgia Filk, and see some friends I haven't seen in a while.
Just a note, though...it may be a pain to restring and tune a 12-string, but when it's finished, you won't hear a sweeter sound when it's played!
Well, it's too late for me to be up, so I shall be off to bed...
ttyl
