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I Nearly Died Twice Once.
As many of you know, I have had some medical issues recently; double vision all of a sudden to be specific. Both eyes work OK, just not at the same time. I have been alternating an eye patch to do stuff. One eye sees better far and one better close up. I have three pairs of glasses for prescriptions including ...
The 10th Annual “What would you say to your Dad today?” FARK Father’s Day thread. This thread is older than your nine-year-old
Subscribe to our YouTube Channel Click here for the lyrics WOW for the last ten years we've been posting this thread on Fark.com. What an amazing thing. It has been called "cathartic" by many. It has become "a thing." Get it off your chest. Say the things you would have, could have, should have said... if only you could. (Clickable ...
Today I saw one of the most romantic things I have ever seen.
We live on the lakeshore. My back yard is a roughly 3,000-acre natural freshwater lake. Sounds great, right? It is mostly, then there is the California drought which essentially added 100 yards of stuff to mow and a really long walk uphill from the shore. We actually love it. Living a watershed lifestyle is awesome, alongside a natural habitat for ...
How to record a 12-string guitar. Check out this DanG Rig.
I get this question a lot so I thought this time I would make a post about it so I can explain why I do what I do when I amplify or record my twelve-string guitar. When I record, I prefer to use a Blumlein Pair. The mics that do that best are kind of expensive. With "affordable" mics - ...
How to Fingerpick a 12-String Guitar
I want to talk about right hand finger-picking technique for a minute. I watch a lot of videos online and I see a common problem that is holding a bunch of you back. Please let me fix that with a thing I learned from my early years of Flamenco guitar lessons. It gets rid of the scratchy sound and makes ...
Songs from The Wildrose Charcoal Kilns (part one)
We were on our way home from a really fun wine tour when we decided to take a detour. We've been on the lookout for a good location to play some music and shoot video. We decided to go to the Wildrose Charcoal Kilns in Death Valley. It was kind of on the way home, we had been there before ...