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@BrieoRobino ! I'm not a grandpa even if I'm old enough. Here in the Niagara Peninsula, I have never heard anybody say "throwing shade", seeing it in different YouTube videos. My ancestors didn't go through the Dark Ages, living north of Hadrians' Wall, so it's not an intelligence deficit that makes me ask. As a professional musician who played guitar and sang after seeing Jimi Hendrix, I'm up on what's going down as lyrics, so if I'm asking I must really want to know. This is political, not trippin' like they're slippin'it in.
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@LawnGuyLandRyan You're making me feel old, knowing it's you young whipper-snappers, however, yipper-snappers, as a new term, is totally appropriate. Remember Spiro Agnew? He would call them "nattering nabobs of negativity".
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@karlwa641 ! You're saying "back-handedness". Is this what "throwing shade" means? I still don't get it.
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What does "throwing shade" mean to you? I'm not sure where that comes from.
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@Dante-qf9yd ! I'm getting answers, but I'm still thinking casting aspersions.
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@Dante-qf9yd ! I'm understand what you're saying, and thanks for the Jimi reference. He was just a trio live. My Scottish family, in English, would say "casting someone in the shade", which meant putting them off to the side in a nice way.
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@yugiyami8642 ! I can see what you're saying, when so much cultural slang comes from that "community". Now, people get on my case when I say purple is the gay colour. Even in the seventies, if you saw a bar with a mens' only room sign with the colour purple used, you knew what it meant. I wasn't out, I was just out there, playing guitar six nights a week in bar bands. Bar owners would say to be nice to those guys, because they come in here every day and won't get married and go away. Bizness is bidness.
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@Dante-qf9yd I'm replying again because I can't find my first one. I understand what you're saying. Jimi only had a trio when he played live. My Scottish family will say casting someone in the shade, a nice way of putting them off to the side.
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@yugiyami8642 ! I'm replying again because I can't find my first one. I understand what you're saying, the gay community being the source for a lot of modern slang. Now, I get in trouble saying purple is the gay colour. Even in the seventies, a bar with a sign for a room saying "men only" with purple meant that. I didn't come out, I was just out there, playing six nights a week in bar bands. Owners would tell me to be nice to those guys because they come in every day and they won't get married and go away.
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@Dante-qf9yd ! I dropped out of high school for a steel factory job after I saw Jimi, buying a '64 Strat and Marshall with effects five months before he passed away. It was incredible to be making the same sounds back then. Other players, local and in traveling bands, would visit to try and half of them said I can't understand how you can make music with this. Those were good lessons for me, learning parts of songs I wanted to play.
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@yugiyami8642 ! I'm with you all the way except for saying most people would stop using it. Words are words, and trying to sound hip and hot never goes away.
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@Dante-qf9yd ! Don't forget to mention picking ability. When I was in bands I'd get other guitar players giving me their guitars to see if I could make it sound like mine. Didn't Paul Reed Smith, if I'm right, lose it all in a California wildfire? A Stratocaster was the first musical instrument in history to have a bridge for each string. You could set intonation with an oscilloscope, what TV repairmen had, tuning it scientifically. That's the best for finger tone and making effects work. I bought a full scale Strat copy for $90 last summer, used, and playing it with my eyes closed I couldn't tell the difference.
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@yugiyami8642 ! Hey! I never said that. I said that the gay community uses a lot of slang that gets picked up by the general public. Same with the drug crowd. And for me, here in Canada, that's coming from the States, all the MTV videos and the rest of the media.
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@Dante-qf9yd I'm back again just to say if there's one thing I miss the most from the seventies it's having Marshall stacks. They really were the biggest part of my sound, and for any guitarist who got to plug into one. How they worked and the feedback you could get was original back then. I haven't been in the room with a real Marshall stack for over thirty years. I'm using a Marshall stereo, rack-mount pre-amp based amplifier now that would fit in a briefcase.
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@Dante-qf9yd ! The Marshall sound, and the effects Jimi Hendrix used for the first time, phasing, flanging, with a deeper echo and reverb, are now ordinary for musicians and anyone using any kind of sound system. My desire to have a stack again makes me want to build one out of plywood as a decoration, seeing one standing there. I know it would turn me on playing guitar in front of it. Here's a tip. Jimi wasn't just about one-dimensional loud volume, even if he was the feedback artist of his generation. He could get a clean sound, using the 9-volt battery power of effects to boost himself into the feedback range. He also used a Marshall organ cabinet on the bottom that had an eighteen inch speaker, a full range speaker, to put out clean and feedback sounds. He could put out as much treble or bass as he wanted, always getting a deep tone. That's someone you notice when you're in the mix, just like a modern bass player using two twelves and an eighteen to get underneath it.
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@Dante-qf9yd ! Being a Marshall kinda guy myself, the only Fender amp that really interested me was called the "Quad Reverb". It had four ten inch speakers and was 80 watts, and if you cranked it up it had a Marshall thing happening. What you say about Fender amps is what I think, old school, and new product tries to do it all.
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@Dante-qf9yd ! Sometimes I'm watching a video just to see Marshall stacks onstage. I was surprised when the Eagles, the solo Don Henley, got very synthesized, thinking of them as California country, or coke-country.
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@Dante-qf9yd ! I don't want a new Marshall amp. They do too much and that compromises sound displacement. By that I mean, having everything together as one circuitry is nice for someone who wants to use one amp to self-record. But in a big room, using feedback, you want not only the boost 9-volt batteries give you, in a wah, distortion-fuzz or phase shifter, but the variable activity of separate electronics where you are controlling your own settings, because they interact. My Marshall stereo pre-amp was $2,400 retail and my Audio Pro Mosfet stereo power amp was $2,800 retail. I didn't pay retail, and those prices were about getting hot new technology. If you take floor effects and build them into your power head, eliminating cords to the floor and back and in between effects, they will work better with more sound emanations and you can still change the settings yourself. Onstage, I like them on the floor so I can use my feet while I'm playing.
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@Dante-qf9yd ! From your perspective, saying I know exactly what I want is true, but it's not for me. I agonized about playing my Strat left or right-handed, or upside-down like Jimi Hendrix. I started out wanting to sound like he did, and what was available in Ontario and what I could afford determined my sound. When I was playing full-time and spending more money on equipment, tax deductable, my sound evolved. Thinking for you, I see myself as knowing what I don't want, more than anything new I can buy. North America is over-saturated with electric guitars and amplifiers, and most of them are just made to be the cheapest. I don't pay for what I get, I play for it. I gotta pump myself up sometimes. A Paul Reed Smith guitar is something to aspire to, and could become a family heirloom.
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