Clare_Bear's smiley happy thread

Phil_aka_Pip

littlegreenman said:

Got a nice letter from HMRC today, and a second letter containing a fairly fat cheque! I "really" don't need any new guitar stuff so I think I'll be having a much better holiday next year than what I had planned

Facepalm! GAS is where its at!

littlegreenman

Phil_aka_Pip said:

littlegreenman said:

Got a nice letter from HMRC today, and a second letter containing a fairly fat cheque! I "really" don't need any new guitar stuff so I think I'll be having a much better holiday next year than what I had planned

Facepalm! GAS is where its at!

Well, I "might" get a new tremelo pedal, but the rest will be on the holiday. I like to keep the littlegreenwoman happy

Bucket

Combination of little-bit-drunk, not-having-to-get-up-early and Steely Dan.

viz

Woop woop gorilla gloves have arrived in time for more Gorilla guitar jaxx shenanigans hurrah, roll on December! I wore the last lot out. http://i865.photobucket.com/albums/ab217/Vizzage/Mobile Uploads/image_zps9d6d0cd5.jpg

viz

plus I sent my amp off to the manufacturer on Monday and it's back, working. Replaced all the transisters, a blown cap and remade all the power connections just in case. Wow, that was quick. @chillidoggy

ddlooping

I want the small white one.

viz

Rather happy I just got these two double vinyl live recordings off ebay to add to the Steve Vai collection http://i865.photobucket.com/albums/ab217/Vizzage/Mobile Uploads/image_zps4487e9a6.jpg http://i865.photobucket.com/albums/ab217/Vizzage/Mobile Uploads/image_zpscbe5c21c.jpg

viz

I'm sure they will turn out to be unlistenable for a variety of reasons but I always enjoy hearing Vai do some new twiddles.

Phil_aka_Pip

I asked for a moving date before 11 Dec ... and it looks like I'll get it

stickyfiddle

Cinema last night. First time since moving out here. It was £6 a ticket, mega clean and WE HAD RECLINING SEATS :S

Phil_aka_Pip

I've got a ticket to see Camel in Cambridge next March

viz

Oooh, new basement jaxx song seems to be out, I do a little guitary twiddle near the end, for about 6 seconds lol  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8PUigh8cPk

viz

Using the 5th mode of the harmonic minor scale

mike_l

I recognised some of those licks but couldn't place where you've borrowed (and adapted) them from

viz

Neither can I mate - I thought the notes just tumbled out like that but they could well be borrowed! I'm glad they selected a section that's completely in one single mode though, I did about 10 minutes of widdly widdly stuff all over the place and that's the few seconds they chose lolll.

mike_l

There's a little bit at the start which reminds me of a Phantom Blue track (Time to run) but not entirely.

jonnybradford

About the only time an official document containing the phrase "5 minors" is a good thing.

Passed my driving test. So jonnybradford is very smiley happy.

mike_l

Dicking around with the ESP, a Marshall and a badmonkey and getting and awesomes Motorhead-esque sound. And getting a song down on the first attempt kinda made me happy last night.

 

Ok it was Motorhead's Damage Case, so not the most technically challenging song ever, but it made I happy.

RocknRollDave

I seen to recall on one of the DVD's they play Damage Case and Lemmy says afterwards something like "If you're wondering who fucked that up...it was ME!"

Phil_aka_Pip

• I just got the i/o board doing what I want it to do
• Our main hardware building man has made me a box with a set of switches for inputs, and LEDs for outputs, to which the i/o board is connected, so I can run various tests from my PC-resident test program
• The box can be used to simulate inputs from and display outputs to the real hardware that the PC-resident control program will be handling so this new toy will be very useful in system testing away from a real site