Salutations, all you weekend warriors!! I’m sure you’re probably all getting ready for your latest gig tonight, or that pressing recording session comin’ up. Regardless, I thought I’d share the wealth and let you look over my shoulder as I show you how to set up an electric guitar – specifically, for this first article, …
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Ever teach music?? I have for over three decades now, and every once in a while the inevitable gear questions come up from a pupil. Like this week’s… : “Hey, Teaj, I’m going to buy my first electric guitar. Which one should I get??” And he thought he was going to get a simple answer. …
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Living in L.A. as a musician, you learn a lot of things: – Watch where you park your car, or your rent will be gone to tickets. – Know what your “one thing” is as an artist, or you’ll never stand out among the hundred others… who also don’t know. – And finally, no matter …
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Is there such a thing as “Concert Envy”? I think there is. See, my wife just loves to tease me with the fact that SHE got to see Michael Jackson on his tour after the release of the “Thriller” album, and I… did not. Not fair! But I’ve got something over her too – I …
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Quick – what’s the most powerful rocket ever made by man?! It’s not Elon Musk’s “Falcon Heavy”, if that’s what you guessed. It’s the “Saturn V”, our tallest and most powerful rocket that took us to the moon and back seven times. We needed that conquering power to boost us up and beyond our gravity, …
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We do a ton of music equipment research here at Serious G.A.S. And we LOVE IT! Not only because of YOU, our super song-forgin’ friends, but also because we genuinely dig music and the gear that makes it. Throughout all this research, we often find ourselves watching live, or virtually online, some uber-skilled, insanely-impressive musical …
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Who’s got perfect vision?!! I don’t know about “perfect”, but I’ve had 18/20 vision & never needed glasses for most of my life. In the last couple years though, things have started to get blurry. If I take my beautiful wife out for a romantic dinner in a dimly-lit restaurant, for example, it’s difficult to …
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