I was wrong on one point, and while I still enjoy it, I can see a little bit why a really experienced musician would be driven up the wall. First - I was wrong about tabs being included. I'd seen two separate sources mention them but cannot find them after some serious digging around. That said.... If you have Rocksmith on the PC or Mac, you can use this handy tool - RocksmithToTab [http://www.rocksmithtotab.de/documentation/] - to skim through your Rocksmith music library and export all the…
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First up - Peter Grant, author of the outstanding Ames Archives [http://arkhavencomics.com/?s=ames+archives&post_type=product&product_cat=0] westerns as well as the entertaining Maxwell Saga and - set in the same universe - excellent Cochrane's Company books, has two posts. The first is a horrifying moral dilemma [https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2019/03/a-tragic-crime-and-moral-dilemma.html] that demonstrates how evil begets more evil. > That's just too sickening for words . . . and…
One of the things I've mentioned recently is that I've gotten back into music, and am doing so by learning a new instrument, the guitar. Lessons of course, are available, and I've availed myself of a couple, but that gets expensive very fast even if one hasn't fallen down the rabbit hole of all the cool gear you can buy to modify sound, better amps, and of course inputs to record and produce music on your computer. For clarity - I'm not an utter newb, though I recall far less,…
Filed under "probably should have figured it out sooner...". Cue cheesy video. The name of the band is "808 state". I used to hear the above track a lot along with KMFDM, Eon's "Spice", Depeche Mode, Book of Love, New Order, Sisters of Mercy, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Skinny Puppy, Manufacture, and Front 242 at an "off limits" club in Florida. But it wasn't until overhearing a recent comment invoking a Roland TR-808 drum machine that I made the connection with why they chose their…
In my recent post "One Step at a Time [https://thelastredoubt.com/one-step-at-a-time/]" I offhandedly mentioned how ramping back up a skill you haven't kept honed involved wasted time getting back up to speed. Turns out that Alexander Hellene was on the same wavelength [https://amatopia.wordpress.com/2019/02/14/on-guitars-and-deteriorating-skills/] : > I picked up a guitar a few days ago for the first time in months and woo boy, was I struggling. I mean, it wasn’t like I completely forgot how…