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Axgrinder
((Alvin) the Ax is back! now everyones leaving...)

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I'm Scottish, I bleed red just like everyone else on the planet and I love music! Do unto others as you would have them do unto you (the golden rule) Kindness is much less demanding and way more fun to dole out than cruelty, just as it is better to give than to receive. In a nut shell, I believe in being R-E-A-L.........I gave up pretending when I was boy, that is if I ever really was one? [If you wish to learn more, please see my bottom. Errr...I mean the bottom of this page!] I'm having a bad one, and as such, my attendance has diminished. My apologies! You know.... sometimes this place makes me want to gouge my eyes out! But most of the time it makes me wish I still had eyes. I only wish I would have cut an ear off instead! HEY.......If someone takes the time to give you a listen and leave a comment, It's only right to send a reply saying thank you, kiss my ass or something! But then...... that's just me. I have this problem, I was born with it actually! It consists of 95 to 99% me and the other 5 to 9% is the air I breath...... So if I should suddenly flake out and vanish, know that it's not MJ's, It's probably the air I'm breathing! Ah, don't worry about that 1% remainder.... it's this online music community I joined around 12 months ago...... And it's probably the best thing I've ever encountered, bar none! My new project! (DELETED)

musicbackgroundI come from a talent latent family. My folks played in a honky-tonk band with my late uncle Lee (my dads only brother) before I was born and my mother often suspected that those vibrations emanating from her guitar had an impact on my musical attributes while in her womb! They called themselves "THE HOGLAN TRIO" Pop on the piano, Mom on the guitar and my uncle on the trumpet. They were quite popular and played all over the N.W. I picked up the guitar at the age of 12 after my mom showed me the E chord. The rest is history! I also play about anything I decide to pick up, but then I'm sure you've heard it all before! ;-p

musicskillsI took some violin and piano when I was 8 but they didn't quite hit the spot! I stuck with them though until I snatched up the guitar. My folks tried there level best to steer me away from it because both of my sisters, my mom and my brother play guitar and my father really wanted one of his boys to take after him and play piano. I guess you could say that I'm pretty much self taught but I have been at it for 30 yrs! God gave me an excellent ear that came fully developed, so to speak, unlike my brain!

user_computerI have an M-AUDIO FASTTRACK USB recording interface hooked to a Macintosh G4 running dual 550 processors, 768 MB SDRAM, 100 MHZ bus, USB 2 PCI card and a stock sound and video card for the time being. I get favorable results with this setup, however, This type of Mac is totally build-able and is a solid machine in every aspect! I plan a processor upgrade in the very near future. Need dual 1.0+ GHz CPU or bust! BUST!!! :{

music_hardwareM-AUDIO FASTTRACT as stated above. An "Ibanstein" mongrel electric that I built using an Ibanez body and hardware with a Seymour Duncan JB in the bridge position, bolted to a custom Warmoth neck w/ an ebony fret board topped off with a set of Spertzal machine heads. (tuning keys) I play through a VOX AD50VT which I scored a smoking deal on at a pawn shop and it's amazing! I'm quite pleased with it. For the money you simply can't go wrong! One Rogue mandolin an ancient Fantasia classical and a fiddle my late uncle Allen Macdonald built me. Oh yea, and one not so "hot" Shure microphone! (New addition) Evolution MK-249C midi keyboard/controller. (New addition as of 09/13/07) An ART Tube MP USB Pre-amp and a desktop boom mic stand. Whoopie! ;-P "New addition" Pocket Pod by Line 6 F*cking amazing! Hopefully you'll be hearing it soon. I think it's M-A-G-I-C!!! SHHHHH.

music_softwareGarageBand, Logic Express, Logic pro, Reason 3.0, Audacity, idrums suck, and Ezdrummer that makes my dual 500MHz CPU "grand mal" when used with Logic, So.......back to GB for the time being. (Once you've experienced EzDrummer/GrooveMonkey, you'll never go back,) unless of course you are in fact an actual drummer. I must get that 1.5 GHz processor! $$$ (Pipe dream! Although hell could finely freeze over when heaven thaws? I just assume it must be frozen.)

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