The childhood "Chicken Pox" virus you had as a kid, lays dormant, and can/will strike painfully
as a run down elderly person. Shingles always seemed a strange harmless name for it to me.
I had Shingles 10 years ago, wife has it now and 3+ weeks into the pain. She didn't start the within the 72 hours treatment window as she thought the internet told her she had some thing related to a shoulder issue she has. So PAIN has been a big thing for me in the last weeks, even though not my own pain this time.
I had KIDNEY STONES about 10 years ago too, and that is incredibly painful, but after an ambulance ride to ER and getting Morphine everything is right with the world in short order. Other drug opens up the water works and it flushed it out easily. Went home next morning. But that was in Sydney, and don't know about what happens in Kyoto here these days.
But the real pain I had to endure was after an extensive Hemorrhoidectomy 9 years ago. The first 4 weeks were agony, but I wasn't approaching normal again till after 10 months. Back to normal was after 12 months. The Surgeon had said pain should last no more than 2 weeks, so I was in no way prepared. But the reason I came down with Shingles was because I lost a liter of blood one week and almost passed out once. That was the driver for getting my issue fixed.
People with some kinds of terminal cancer, have constant extreme pain. Read some don't think giving them Morphine is "right", but have to say that ignores how terrible extreme pain is and giving them Morphine IS the right thing to do to make their end more pleasant.
Guitars using the NEURAL DSP MODELLER vst for AWSEOME METAL tones. Even if the song isn't METAL.
The animation is reusing something I did from first learning MOHO V12 animation bones on single images, but effective enough for a SHORT and the popcorn brained.
Lyrics:
Monsters of pain,
A weight on your soul,
Sandcastles crumble
As you lose control.
Pain is a monster,
It tears at your skin.
But standing united,
We're going to win
The tides are rising,
The shore disappears,
Drowning the secrets
And fueling your fears.
Again, not a traditional song [Verse/Chorus repeat] structure, but [Verse/Musical bit repeat]. Why would I want to do what every one else is doing? The music industry/ record industry is irrelevant to me.
Worked out to record DI guitar for Neural DSP Modeler, I need zero latency monitoring of a distorted guitar tone. So my signal chain is guitar to Mackie 402VLZ4 and the output of that goes into the Rubix22 inputs. The TAPE OUT of the mixer then goes into a LINE6 distortion pedal and into my ORANGE micro amp, to a 10" cabinet have under the desk. REAPER is set to AUTO on the GUITAR TRACKS so it doesn't output the recorded signal during recording.
So I play back the backing through my monitors, while I play the guitar and listen to my ORANGE guitar amp. ZERO latency.
Other Things
YouTube has been showing me many guitar related channels again. Phil McKnight is one that has had some really interesting stuff to me over recent years.
Like he made 2 of the same guitars, but put a True Temperament neck on one and spent 6 months playing them to work out if it really was better. His first problem was it took 6 months to get a True Temperament neck after he ordered it for $1,000, and that really shocked him, being an American. His journey was interesting as he knew others didn't like the better tuning as it made guitar "sound like a piano". But over his 6 months of using both guitars, for the first 3 months he preferred the sound of the traditional frets, but in the end found the True Temperament was "better". It is subtle though.
Made me realize True Temperament definitely isn't a must have for me.
He also has a lot of videos about "are expensive guitars worth it or not?". The thing with over $1,000 guitars is that they don't play better and the attraction is other things like the beauty or recapturing something from your youth (if you were really into guitars then).
In this one from a couple of months ago he discovered GUITAR Marketing for young people is all about expensive custom shop and boutique guitars. All FOMO based. For old guys, the opposite!
I have seen the same thing here, where Osaka Sound Messe is all about expensive boutique guitars, and that this is some how normal. NOT spending $4000 means your not even in the game. The kind of X advert for guitars:
Japan is kind of a different case, where keeping up appearances is important. Really Important. iPhone market share is 60%+ in Japan and 20%+ rest of the world, as it really is expensive, and THE thing to have. The clothes people wear, accessories and your company title changes how people relate to you.
There is a TAMAHOMES housing area not far from here, where all the "reasonably affordable" smallish homes are all variations on the same 8 or so components. I think Australia should have something like that. But some of the places still have EXPENSIVE cars like BMW and MERCEDES BENZ parked out front, which to my non-Japanese way of thinking is just really wrong money priorities.
In another of Phil's videos where he talks about expensive guitars he says there are many that just don't care about expensive (over $800~$1000) guitars and I am one of them. ๐
Another thing I have come to realize over the last few years is that I aren't a guitar guy, and only care about the recorded sound of a finished piece of music I do in my studio. Synthesizers are even cooler, and the studio/DAW, and having my own RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP is what I am about. Don't care about bespoke guitars and the culture around that.
I was involved with developments of the Fairlight Instruments CMI series II & III in the 1980s, but I never had or used one, and really don't care about the new CPU System on a card Freshwater Instruments has done. Lots of CMI fans do though. To me a CMI is so limited compared to what anyone can do with the REAPER DAW and simple gear now. But I think the fans are Synth People/ Collectors the same way the Bespoke Guitar buyers are. It isn't about them using whatever to make music, even if they do that sometimes.
Came across Kenny Gray Comedy+Music and love it. He has videos on Instagram, but I just love his GARY NUMAN-ISH INDOORBOY
I wish I had written that song.
Was expecting to go to THE GHOST IN THE SHELL exhibit in Hyogo this week, but it is extreme hot here
and info from the site says it is expected to be extremely crowded and you need a ticket with a time to enter. That is not any fun, and with my wife in the condition she is have put off going. I may get there before it closes August 30th, but maybe not.
Much on display is in the MAKING OF books I have had for decades, and it was the original manga work of Masamune Shirow I saw last year that was the real must see to me
X has always had a massive problem with bots/ farms. I get so tired of the engagement farming and even good guys can post way to much. Keeping up isn't worth the trouble, but luckily I don't have notifications on for any social media, don't use the Apps at all, so it can silently all go past without bothering me.
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