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My personal favorites are drums and bass guitar/double bass, but I suppose that's my player's bias. I have the most experience on bass guitar and have played primarily in jazz/blues ensembles going on 3 years now. I have a want (and need) to get better at guitar, but I consider it a bit more of a "specialist" instrument for the kind of stuff I fancy. Truthfully I only want to improve as a blues/jazz soloist on guitar a la Eric Clapton's early work or Henry Vestine/John Lee Hooker. 

Well, leave it to me, if there's ever been an instrument I've wanted, I've got it! =P

 

My favorite instruments are of course wind instruments. My top favorites are the oboe/English horn, saxophone (alto or lower), bassoon, and bass clarinet. The trumpet/trombone/saxophone combo in pop/rock music is sublime. No matter the era, genre.

 

 

My favorite non-wind instruments are the harpsichord and hammond organ. I'll probably never play them. That's fine. Just kind of sad these instruments have been pushed aside. It'd be so much more fun to play the harpsichord than the piano.

I've only played a few gigs where we didn't have a Hammond B-3 on hand. They're fantastic little keyboards with a huge and swirling sound. Leslie speakers also make great guitar amps for semi-wah-wah type effect. Always have preferred hammonds to pianos or other electronic keyboards. They add R&B and psychedelic flavor to any arrangement and are fantastic for anything from soul to progressive rock.

Buy some Alembics and stare at what's left. 

I have a South County (Rhode Island) New England accent, it pops up quite a bit when i'm tired.

I'm a huge anglophile. quite a few of my family members formerly lived in the UK so the slang and spelling has rubbed off. Admittedly I willingly picked it up. I'll go with British English.

Foodfight. I watched it because Christopher Lloyd was in it, who was great in Taxi and Back to the Future, but Jesus Christ....

It's decent nowadays, if not a bit outdated. No matter, runs stuff just fine. 

AMD FX6300 

NVIDIA GTX 770

14GB Patriot RAM

1TB Hard Drive

Corsair 750W Power Supply

I don't play many demanding/new games at the moment, and I spend most of my money on musical equipment anyhow. 

I usually hold it in, I sneeze a lot for some reason. Allergies maybe. 

Some little figurines from the board game Risk from my elementary school when i was 6. I returned em later, but when i was a youngster i was obsessed with tiny models like that.

Woah, It's certainly been a while 

I don't get anything negative about it, but i don't really tell either. I suppose living in the land of fruits nuts would imply that i'd be pretty well received. 

Straight, realized i'd never actually do anything with another guy. So much for that.

Guitar soloing, otherwise it's a rhythm life for me.

Straight?

I wish.

straight 

This is only a little farther from me than BABSCon, better save my pennies. I hope to be there   .

Yes, but not very much. I only drink at family gatherings, cookouts, clam-bakes, and stuff like that. I don't really like fruity drinks to much, wine's okay, but i prefer bourbon, whiskey, lager, and beer. I have a high tolerance level even though i don't drink often.

I really can't stand these pointless arguments. There's always been good stuff and bad stuff (That distinction varies from person to person). In my opinion there's still plenty of worthwhile listening material out there today, you just have to go out of your way to find it. In my opinion the genres and "artists" that are "In" right now in the mainstream are....abhorrent, but there's always been garbage. If you want to find worthwhile content you have to actively search for it. Take what you see on the billboard charts and read it for what it is: the mindless tastes of the lowest common denominator.  

Where i live hot weather is basically non-existent. It never climbs above 80 degrees during the summer. California may have variation in everything else, but there's one thing it lacks that most other states have: Weather.

Blues, Western, Psychedelic Rock, and Jazz.

I confess... that I am jeallous of girls. There is something about their way of life that... I kinda wish I could have.

 

Now,I have never, ever liked being a male, it has been a burden through a big part of my life, and when I see what could have been if I was born of the opossite gender... I get bitten by the bug of jealousy, and it makes me wish that I could live like them, be like them, be one of them... I really hate being born as who I am now, to be honest.

 

It's a weird thing to explain, I'm aware of that, but it's something that roams my mind a lot more than it should do. Sometimes I still think about 'what if...', and I can't help but giggle a little at how different would things be, and how much happier would I possibly be if that was the case.

I couldn't agree more with this. 

I play upright bass in my county's local symphony orchestra and formerly played cello and upright in my high school's orchestra. I'd say that holds up for something in classical music, though admittedly i'm mostly self taught. All my knowledge of classical music and music theory comes from piano lessons i took as a kid.

I pretty much gave up on this game after the MvM update and was only further driven away with the CS:GO-ish weapon skins, unusual weapons and all that shit. From what i can tell Valve is trying to copy Overwatch's formula. (Ironic considering Overwatch took so much inspiration from TF2) They realize the game is past its prime and is now on a downward spiral in popularity, i guess they're just trying to hold out for as long as they can. I uninstalled it long ago and have moved on to Overwatch. 

So how about that new containment case their making for the reactor? I hear it's almost done. 

Muslims are fine.... they are just like everybody else..... just dont confuse them with Islam..... as Islam is a religion, and Muslim is a race.

"Muslim" is a term for those who practice Islam, many people associate Islam with Arabs, since they were the ethnic group from which it was founded but Islam is practiced by a plethora of ethnic groups: Arabs, Berbers, Pashtos, Persians, Turks, Uzbeks, Indonesians, etc. 

Regardless i'm no stranger to Islam, i have both Sunni and Shia  family from Iraq and Kuwait and formerly lived in Michigan, which has the largest enclave of Arab Muslims in the country. That being said i have come to know, work with, and befriend quite a few Muslims meaning that my overall experience with Muslims from a few different ethnic backgrounds have been overall positive. Despite my theological and moral disagreements with the Qua'ran, the Sunnahs and the Hadiths and my belief that Islam is in need of a reformation, i put my religious differences aside. As long as they adhere to their own traditions on their own and do not infringe upon my liberties to believe and conduct myself the way i wish then i don't have an issue.