General Music Chat

Big oil is poised to announce 50% increase in profits over last year. In the past decade they've made trillions, while Americans struggle to keep enough gas in their car to get to work. This must end.

Even Boehner is open to ending the tax breaks for big oil.

http://money.cnn.com/2011/04/26/news/ec ... /index.htm

What part of they make (maybe 5%) of their gross profits off a gallon of gas do you not understand!

well no, it is not a bribe
it is a legal road block
set in front of people or institutions that might not have the best interest of the US as a goal.
say we are at war.
The Private US company can be compelled to supply the needs of the citizen,
in the same way you are drafted, where as a foreign power would be different.
you would have to first conqueror them then take the oil you need for the army.
this is really not complicated.
but it can be very dangerous.
well it never used to be complicated until the electorate lost it's perception of reality.
But as Tolkien said.. "hobbits happy and free, will be ignorant and ungrateful on the whole"

Well I really dont know ... so I will concede your point

hey man I checked out your site ... sounded cool ...
I am a huge Ibanez freak ... Love my 540
- Tom

thank you
you 're very generous
yes I do love my ibby's
I really believe they are the best you can get
at least for what I like to do.


I do have to say
that you really have that grateful dead sound down pat.
I would be surprised if you have look very far to find bandmates, esp given the poularity of bands like phish

Thanks I appreciate that .... I'm just a hacking around at this point.
Bands all filled out ... I just keep the " keys wanted " ad because -IMHO
you can never have enough keys ..
Did you check out my guitar ?
My buddy customized it for me ....
1977 Ibanez Musician

WOW. Hot looking axe you have there.

You brainwashed libs need to quit listening to the brainstream nightly propaganda. It is uncontrolled lib spending that is making our dollar worthless, not the oil companies. The government (or lack of it) makes almost 9 times what the gas companies make on a gallon of fuel.

yea
that's a hot guitar you have there,
lets have a run down of the electronics
I'm a gear fool

yea
that's a hot guitar you have there,
lets have a run down of the electronics
I'm a gear fool

PUPS are 2 Dimarzio Super 2's ... the neck is a HSN- 1 ( ? ) I forget
It has a OBEL (on board FX loop) - with this I am always straight to the amp irregardless of the pedal board via stereo cables
Has a ' strato-blaster ' - basically this helps the signal over long cable lengths ... also gives the signal some hair ....
Has a buffer - it keeps the signal even as it goes thru the pedal board
The beast is heavy .... Its a hippie sandwich - multiple layers of wood ... neck thru , too.
I hurt my back recently ... Had to break out the RG series ... man that thing is light !
Been playing with super hard rockers also lately ... the Grateful Dead geetar loves the high gainy rock stuff too !

WOW. Hot looking axe you have there.

You brainwashed libs need to quit listening to the brainstream nightly propaganda. It is uncontrolled lib spending that is making our dollar worthless, not the oil companies. The government (or lack of it) makes almost 9 times what the gas companies make on a gallon of fuel.

I watch the Morning Joe show in the morning .... does that count for anything ?

its like Lord Carlin said... (to paraphrase)
"They don't give a f**k about you...! they don't give a f**k about you...! They own this country...They're a 'Big Club'..." and you aint in it...!"

T J that guitar is awesome Wow! I played an Ibenez Artist Series, Roadstar II, and Blazer! They were all 3 Very good guitars and I have some good memories of playing them. The Artist Series was very similar to your guitar it had 2 humbuckers.

Everyone got so upset at the bailouts but no one cares that 4 billion a year is given to the oil companies? Give it a rest Jeff. Those bastards are greedy and need to be taken down a few notches. Regarding this fall, I wouldn't get your hopes too high.

Jimmy are you REALLY naive enough to believe the oil company's are gonna take a hit! They are going to pass that hit RIGHT DOWN THE LINE TO YOU! Rich folks are the one's with the money thats a FACT and money is POWER! You can tax the rich more and you can Tax the oil co. more. All they are going to do when you do that is LAY OFF WORKERS AND CHARGE MORE FOR THEIR PRODUCTS! Why can't you folks GET THAT THRU YOUR HEADS?

You are both so right. Jimmy, Why did we give Brazil 2 billion last year to drill wells 5 times deeper than any here? President Obama quote" SO WE CAN BECOME GOOD OIL CUSTOMERS OF BRAZIL" There should be no subsidies in any business and even less to a business out of country.

Yes Jeff is absolutely right, the cost of government compliance will just get passed on down the line. Lets keep government of the backs of business and business from stuffing cash up every politicians backside.

Oh the biggest thing I forgot to mention is how quickly a good political thread turned into something musical.
Anybody want to see my old banged up guitar?

Oh the biggest thing I forgot to mention is how quickly a good political thread turned into something musical.
Anybody want to see my old banged up guitar?

PALEEZE I am salivating and slobbering all over the place and breaking out in a COLD SWEAT!
Did I ever tell you how much I like guitars?
I have to CONTROL myself at work some of my co-workers get SICK of me talking about GUITARS!

Well............lets see it!

Alright let me figure out a way to take some real pictures of an old warrior.
won't happen tonight. It won't be pretty. You will be saying that old guitar can't be played.

Ok help. How do you post an image in a reply? Sounds dumb but this has never been done by me before.

LOL my wife does it for me! I think you have to put the image in photobucket and then post it.

I was in a guitar repair shop last week and saw a Jackson they had up on blocks. It looked so good it made my teeth hurt.

That Ibanez is pretty darn nice.

Talbot