New Faces? Why are You Here?

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I am one of the old migrants from hcaf. Still love rig talk for the hard rock and metal crowd we have here.

Tgp has its place as well. If I am looking for a new tele, I ask there. If I want a new les Paul that rocks, here is where to go.
 
Monkey Man said:
Another thing and I think you'll like this one:

Let's make it a "welcome" sticky. It'll only be the 2nd one 'cause we gave Scumback its own subforum, so no biggie at all IMHO.

You like that one Brother 3? :inlove:
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It's all good bro. I personally don't use the 'Recent Posts' feature. Not sure how many do. I'm betting most users here come to the main forum to see what is new and that's it.

Sick that you made it a sticky :lol:


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Hey, I keep booking one and every time I'm left sitting on the bed waiting with a case o' beer. :dunno: :cheers2:

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I'm starting to think, "maybe he doesn't like beer?"... but then that might not be it... :confused:
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I love beer bro but.....Celiac :(
 
I joined either day 1 or day 2. I can't remember exactly. I'm lurking a lot here lately because I'm home sick with COVID. Otherwise, I would be doing the geology thing in the oil field. I'm glad to be home, but COVID sucks!
 
GG4211 said:
I played professionally in the 80s. “Adulted” from the 90’s through ~2014-ish, picked the guitar back up around 2014. I retired from an executive position at JP Morgan Chase in 2019 when I was 52. I got my golden parchute and took a two year hiatus from 2019-2021.

During this time I re-dedicated myself to guitar. I started practicing, not noodling. Developed practice plans to recover what I had lost over the decades. I think I am stronger as both a player and song writer now and I am still working to improve.

During this time I also travelled around the southwest volunterring time with different small luthiers/repair shops to learn how to build and repair guitars.

During this time, I discovered forums. JCF, TGP, to name a few. Tried many. Chose JCF and TGP. Then I found the Fractal forums when Inhot an Axe FX. At first everything was cool.

Then TGP just got to be… ugh.

JCF is on life support.

The fractal forums werr cool on the surface but once I was there a while the feel good vibe seemed… stepford-ish.

I wanted a place that was not over-moderated and with people who shoot straight. Rig-talk fits that bill for me so I signed up.

One thing I learned on forums is to jump in if you have something to contribute and to sit back and observe if you don’t know what you are talking about.

My weakest area musically is amplifiers. I build and work on guitars. I would like to think I play pretty decent. I use amps. I am sitting back and learning here as there is a lot of focus on the amps here so rig-talk also gives me the opportunity to grow my knowledge.

In November 2021 my wife came down with Covid pneumonia. 2 weeks in the ICU, 6 weeks in the hospital. She was given less than a 25% chance of survival. She made it and is going to fully recover. But I am carrying the yoke of our household, pets, family, and my job. I am also her care taker. She is still weak and recovering though she gets stronger every day. This has severely limited my online activity.
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Delta Variant was a bitch in the US. Struck young people more so than the previous. We ain’t out of it yet.
 
blackba said:
I am one of the old migrants from hcaf. Still love rig talk for the hard rock and metal crowd we have here.

Tgp has its place as well. If I am looking for a new tele, I ask there. If I want a new les Paul that rocks, here is where to go.
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I've failed to mature to the point of buying teles or strats or LP's. It's still super-strats all the way down for me. I do have a great sounding Jackson Strat with singles (Bardens) but it has a Floyd on it, and a pointy headstock.

I have thought a good tele would be fun to play around with though.....thinking.
 
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I was a long time lurker for years. I basically would read real guitarists give real world reviews of gear here. I decided to officially join recently because there is still freedom of expression here like it should be-you can say the F-word or disagree with my anti-Covid vaccine viewpoints and that’s cool! Freedom, man, freedom!
 
alund said:
Delta Variant was a bitch in the US. Struck young people more so than the previous. We ain’t out of it yet.
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I have to tell you effectively living for 6 weeks in a Covid ICU was eye opening.

The hospital she was in started allowing visitors 2 days before she was admitted. My oldest son and I were the only visitors going in the ward though. All the other patients on the ward were going through a life or death situation by themselves.

My son and I started to get to know the other patients on the ward and would spend time with the other patients so that they would not be all alone.

I was shocked to learn that at any given moment 50-75% of the patients were vaccinated. Over 6 weeks the ratio of unvaccinated patients was always lower than the ratio of vaccinated patients.

I was shocked by this. The Covid wards are largely staffed by travel nurses who in essence follow the surges to get work. So there were nurses on the ward that had worked around the US. I assumed that what I was seeing was a statistical anomally specific to our area.

In talking to the nurses, they said that what I was seeing was mostly the norm nationwide but they don’t talk about it publicly because they would get blackballed if they did.

I cannot refute the reality of Covid and how deadly it can be. I almost lost my wife to it. It has had an indelible impact on my life. But I now know beyond a doubt that for whatever reason, we are being fed a narrative that is at best only partially true.

To wit: my wife was vaccinated and landed in the ICU and damn near died. I am unvaccinated. I got Covid when she did. My symptoms lasted overnight then were gone. I tested positive for 5 days then I was clear. Covid is a far more complex disease process than we are being told.
 
🙏🏻 for you and for your wife to fully recover. I have a cousin who is a nurse and she echoes everything you have said. I am 100% convinced this virus was made/heavily modified in that Wuhan lab with funding by Fauci and friends. There is a synthetic element to this virus (via protein spikes?) and probably is one of the main reasons why it’s affecting different groups of people in varying degrees of severity. Someone’s blood type and other risk factors like diabetes also play a role.

Maybe a careless Wuhan lab worker accidentally dropped a test tube or perhaps it was released on purpose? Either way, I think the modifications to this virus were not intended to ultimately help all of mankind. I mean, seriously, not long ago (and there’s still some people today) you were banned from social media as a conspiracy theorist for entertaining common sense by stating it’s even possible to come from that lab! And Pfizer has already made approx 38 billion and is about to release an ivermectin (Pfizermectin) pill for even more evil profit.👎🏻
 
Happyklown said:
🙏🏻 for you and for your wife to fully recover. I have a cousin who is a nurse and she echoes everything you have said. I am 100% convinced this virus was made/heavily modified in that Wuhan lab with funding by Fauci and friends. There is a synthetic element to this virus (via protein spikes?) and probably is one of the main reasons why it’s affecting different groups of people in varying degrees of severity. Someone’s blood type and other risk factors like diabetes also play a role.

Maybe a careless Wuhan lab worker accidentally dropped a test tube or perhaps it was released on purpose? Either way, I think the modifications to this virus were not intended to ultimately help all of mankind. I mean, seriously, not long ago (and there’s still some people today) you were banned from social media as a conspiracy theorist for entertaining common sense by stating it’s even possible to come from that lab! And Pfizer has already made approx 38 billion and is about to release an ivermectin (Pfizermectin) pill for even more evil profit.👎🏻
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There’s an off topic forum for discussions like this.
 
Yup, those who want to can dive as deep as they like over in OTC.

Better for the thread if we try to keep it reasonably on-topic by resisting going down rabbit holes.
 
GG4211 said:
I have to tell you effectively living for 6 weeks in a Covid ICU was eye opening.

The hospital she was in started allowing visitors 2 days before she was admitted. My oldest son and I were the only visitors going in the ward though. All the other patients on the ward were going through a life or death situation by themselves.

My son and I started to get to know the other patients on the ward and would spend time with the other patients so that they would not be all alone.

I was shocked to learn that at any given moment 50-75% of the patients were vaccinated. Over 6 weeks the ratio of unvaccinated patients was always lower than the ratio of vaccinated patients.

I was shocked by this. The Covid wards are largely staffed by travel nurses who in essence follow the surges to get work. So there were nurses on the ward that had worked around the US. I assumed that what I was seeing was a statistical anomally specific to our area.

In talking to the nurses, they said that what I was seeing was mostly the norm nationwide but they don’t talk about it publicly because they would get blackballed if they did.

I cannot refute the reality of Covid and how deadly it can be. I almost lost my wife to it. It has had an indelible impact on my life. But I now know beyond a doubt that for whatever reason, we are being fed a narrative that is at best only partially true.

To wit: my wife was vaccinated and landed in the ICU and damn near died. I am unvaccinated. I got Covid when she did. My symptoms lasted overnight then were gone. I tested positive for 5 days then I was clear. Covid is a far more complex disease process than we are being told.
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Very happy to hear your wife is OK. Mine had twice. 1st time super early an was scared to be alone in hospital, so she toughed it out. 2nd time was omicron and was bad flu for 3 days.
I'm unvaxed and do not get sick from it.
 
GG4211 said:
I wanted a place that was not over-moderated and with people who shoot straight. Rig-talk fits that bill for me so I signed up.

One thing I learned on forums is to jump in if you have something to contribute and to sit back and observe if you don’t know what you are talking about.

My weakest area musically is amplifiers. I build and work on guitars. I would like to think I play pretty decent. I use amps. I am sitting back and learning here as there is a lot of focus on the amps here so rig-talk also gives me the opportunity to grow my knowledge.
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You've come to the right place. Glad you are here. You sound like a stand up guy. Glad your wife made it through the worst. Here's to continued good health and Rig Talking. :cheers:
 
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