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As usual, Randall Munroe is right. The idea also applies to music. Just because you don’t get Derek Bailey doesn’t mean you should mock his music and listening to Coltrane doesn’t mean you can be a dismissive jerk to fans of Taylor Swift.
This year I resolve to mind my manners and not mock the Super Bowl. Not even the halftime show.
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Korg and Noritake Introduce the Nutube
As with previous vacuum tubes, this newly-developed Nutube is structured with an anode, grid, and filament, and operates as a complete triode tube, generating the same rich harmonics that are distinctive of conventional vacuum tubes. By applying technology from Noritake Co., Limited’s vacuum fluorescent displays, the structure of the vacuum tube has been modified, dramatically reducing its size and allowing it to consume less power.
It’s a new sub-miniature vacuum tube that’s pcb mountable and has a life of over 30,000 hours. I see a whole new wave of hybrid amps and analog synths in our future. Now if only they can be used to build a road worthy Hammond Novachord….
More Photos of the 2015 NAMM Show
California 65
Eastman El Rey 4
Eastman Mandocello
Eastman 15″ Archtop
NAMM Show 2015 Storage
Gretsch in 2-Tone Green
Catalinbread Antichthon
Strymon Bluesky
Collings Mandos
Collings MF Oval
Collings MT2 Mandola
Teletronics LA-2N
UA 1176LN
Sunset over Anaheim
Photos from the NAMM Show 2015
Bell at John Wayne Airport
Wall of Strandbergs
Godin Killing It.
Guthrie Govan Charvel
Green Charvels
Anaheim from the Convention Center
Carvin Jason Becker
Nik Huber Semihollow
Eminence EM12
Vigier Bumblefoot
Headless Baker
Two-Rock Akoya
Namm 2015
NAMM Show 2015
Tourism is sin, and travel on foot virtue.
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The 8 Laws of Guitar Etiquette
If someone is checking out a guitar, don’t sit next to them and play louder and faster. Find your own space and let them have theirs. If you must go nuts, wait until they’re gone. Take a deep breath. Feel that nagging sense of entitlement and one-upmanship slip away. Good. There you go.
If people would just observe this one rule my days at Guitars, Etc. would be a whole lot quieter….
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