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Many often label The Jazz Singer as the first talkie but that’s far from true. Experiments with sound films began in 1895, with the oldest known example being a Thomas Edison clip involving a violinist. However, amplifying sound to a large theater would be impossible for a couple of decades. In 1921, D.W. Griffith releasedContinue reading “The Jazz Singer, not the first talkie”

It’s often said that The Beatles used a Gibson J-160E on every one of their albums but is it true? To start, we must define the criteria. For the guitar, any Gibson J-160E will do because they had a few (3 to be precise). As for what constitutes as a Beatles album, i will firstContinue reading “Did The Beatles use a Gibson J-160E on every album?”

When it comes to the topic of abortion, it seems like neither side gets it right. Let’s start with the left. When you have an abortion, you destroy a potential life so stop saying that it’s empowering when a woman has an abortion because that’s like a cop saying that it’s empowering to shoot aContinue reading “Abortion: What both sides get wrong”

Remember back in the day when you heard such great songs like This Love, She Will Be Loved, and Makes Me Wonder on the radio. Nowadays, you hear shit like Don’t Wanna Know and Girls Like You. However, THESE SONGS WERE ALL BY THE SAME BAND. Originally known as Kara’s Flowers, Maroon 5 reformed underContinue reading “Maroon 5, the band that only gets worse as time goes on”

The greatest pre-Rubber Soul Beatles album, A Hard Day’s Night is the perfect UK example of Beatlemania at it’s finest. However, there are 3 things about this album that make it stand out when compared to the rest of their discography: All Lennon/McCartney songs 2. There’s only 13 tracks instead of 14 3. No songContinue reading “A Hard Day’s Night and the mystery of the 14th track”

While many like to view Capitol’s (as well as Vee Jay and United Artists) modifying of The Beatles Parlophone albums, these repackagings are rarely deserving of such scoldings. So i’m going to go through album by album and see who’s the winner. Let’s start with The Beatles first album Please Please Me. At first, VeeContinue reading “The Beatles: UK vs US”

When many hear the term SJW (short for social justice warrior), they think of these authoritarian leftists who are pro-censorship, anti-equality, and just flat out awful people that you’d never want to be friends with. However, that’s just one side of SJW’s. The truth is that there’s 2 types of SJW’s, we’ll call them authoritarianContinue reading “The other side of SJW’s”

While most guitarists don’t exceed 11s, these guitarists do. #1 Lefty Guitarist (12p-16p-24w-32w-44w-56w/12p-16p-24w-34w-48w-62w) A new upcoming guitarist, Lefty Guitarist (who also goes by the name ME) started on lighter gauge strings, at one point even using 8s tuned down a half step to emulate Tony Iommi but typically sticking to either Ernie Ball’s Regular orContinue reading “Guitarists who use heavy strings”

While Ernie Ball makes great, high quality guitar strings, they’re far from perfect. First of all, they have encouraged players to use lighter strings. Back in the day, guitarists would typically use either 12s or 13s on their guitars. However, when Ernie Ball noticed that those strings are difficult for beginners to play, he startedContinue reading “My thoughts on Ernie Ball”