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Music: Ayla Tesler-Mabe
Someone I enjoyed when I was still on FB, is still making music, making it her own, and I am totally here for it!
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Mr. Big: Road to Ruin
Mr. Big was huge, and it propelled Paul Gilbert into stardom, freeing his later work to go wherever his whims would take him. In this, he demonstrates why he is a guitar god.
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Music: Epic guitar battle - Eric Gales v. Bonamassa
Thirteen minutes of just amazing lick trading.
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Music: Where has Grace Bowers been hiding?!?!?!
Yes, she's that good.
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Bad SciFi - or how I spent my Thanksgiving day
Three really shitty movies. I am not sure if I enjoyed them, or if I wasted a holiday. But I am becoming an aficionado of bad cinema. Scratch that, I am addicted to the genre of SciFi trash
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Music: Judas Priest
Old school metal from the 1970's, still rocks, and the Priest still delivers all the amperage needed at live shows
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The most colossal of all bad ideas - uploading medical diagnostic images to an AI
But a fuck-ton of people are doing it.
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An outside-in look at Musk's pledge to slash $2T
Gee, could there be any self interest in what he recommends? Say it isn't so, Shoeless Joe.
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Music: Telegraph Road - redux
When a great studio track also delivers the goods live, you know it is a classic for the ages. Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits delivers in spades.
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Trump, the endless grift continues
The watches were bad, but this is just tasteless. Sadly, the rubes will gobble this shit up like pop-rocks and Coca-Cola.
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Consequences. Someone's going to be unhappy - Always
A two-fer Tuesday. A fellow Substacker is alarmed at the possible damage to a program for veterans' health, and a NY Times columnist accurately diagnoses Trump's shortcomings (a feature)
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Retail Therapy - New Guitar
A Harley-Benton Modern ST Plus is now hanging on my wall, and so far, it has been a worthy spend of $365 plus shipping.