Luke

Bleeding heart. Ukulele Player. Trying to figure out guitar playing again

[Luke @5thFret1]

@Metallica When learning guitar, my rules were that I couldn’t call myself a musician until I understood jazz & I couldn’t call myself a guitarist ‘til I could keep up with Fight Fire With Fire. When I was finally able to play it, I was elated.

Still not a musician, though. Jazz is tough.

[Luke @5thFret1]

@0xgaut Looks like the start of a great isolation room for recording.

[Luke @5thFret1]

@GoodBadFlicks My youngest and I watched it yesterday. Fantastic video! And we both came away with the same opinion: it’s just going to be another CGI movie like all the other big movies of today and we’re bored of that.

[Luke @5thFret1]

Adam @satelliteamps - if you ever find more Spaceboy fabric, please let me know. When I get back to the States in a few years, I’ll donate a bunch of plasma and buy a head. ;-)

[Luke @5thFret1]

I had to dig through a ton of pictures from back when I ran a guitar blog, but I wanted to share these pics from @satelliteamps because it’s fucking gorgeous and you folks should see it.

When people talk about gear they missed out on and how it haunts them, this is mine.

[Luke @5thFret1]

Slowly growing through all the boxes in the house and getting more and more convinced that a handful of my Stephen King hardcovers are missing and I. Am. Very. Upset.

If they WERE stolen, the movers COULD have taken my 1880 Shakespeare and I probably would have been less mad.

[Luke @5thFret1]

@GoodBadFlicks I’ll definitely get to this, but I always thought 90s horror was great because it moved from slashers (which had run their course by then) to more psychological/existential horror. It was… I don’t want to say horror for adults, but horror for people who wanted something deeper.

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Publishing pet peeve: “retellings,” that are obviously original stories.

“I’m going to do a retelling of Captain Hook. But it’s modern day New York. And he’s 11. Also, he never sails and has both hands. And it’s dark academia. He goes to space and falls in love with an alien.”

[Luke @5thFret1]

@UkuleleTabs Yup. Just because I don’t take it many places now doesn’t mean it isn’t often in my hands at home!

[Luke @5thFret1]

Life’s too short. Go ahead and drink out of your @McDonalds Batman Forever glasses.

[Luke @5thFret1]

@DaddarioandCo Probably the one I named my kid after: a Gretsch 6118T.

[Luke @5thFret1]

@VOXamps I would love - LOVE - this to be released in a pedal case. It doesn’t even need to be anything fancy: same input/outputs housed in a more secure, road-worthy shell. These things are GREAT and I used to bring them on deployments, but the road is tough and they never survived.

[Luke @5thFret1]

PSA: It’s “octopuses,” not “octopi.”

[Luke @5thFret1]

@UkuleleTabs I’m partial to Kiwaya for sopranos.

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@OrangeAmps The TH-30 is the best amp I’ve ever played.

Ever.

[Luke @5thFret1]

@TotalGuitar Didn’t Tom say he felt ridiculous playing the Strat because he was so tall and that’s why he felt more at home with his Gibson?

And doesn’t this jive with his playing the Starcaster?

Wouldn’t it make more sense to release a signature Starcaster?

[Luke @5thFret1]

@rocksmithplus @NAMM @ernieball @GetOffset I have told everyone since *checks watch* 2014 that Rocksmith 2014 is, hands down, the absolute best way to learn guitar or bass.

“Load it on a laptop and take it anywhere you go with a guitar,” I’d say.

I took it all over the world and love it to this day.

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@ThexyBeatht_2 I can never tell so I always assume that people are being nice or just unconscious of how flirty their words could be taken by someone else.

[Luke @5thFret1]

$42 earned so far in recycling money. Won’t be long before those @jhspedals start becoming realities.

Side question - probably a dumb one - for European guitarists: how do you folks power your pedalboards?