Chris Vreeland @Devils_Rancher@octodon.social
Devils Rancher is an anagram. Musician, Printer, Father of Erin the Spaceship Builder, photographer, Mac, Adobe guru chrisvreeland.com... Austin, TX #MeFite
Left work early due to bad weather & put the afternoon to use (finally) learning the bass part to Starless. I think I can get Wetton’s distorted tone out of my recent setup & am anxious to try. Now I just have to figure out how to convince the rest of the band to learn it. A metafilter commenter once declared it The End Of Prog, because it could be none more.
Weekend project is to get this layout out of the bag & onto a sturdy piece of wood with a handle & Power strip mounted on. (Some I’ll-defined weekend in the random future)
@CobaltVelvet Never mind - apparently images count against character count & my toot was right at 500 chars + img. Worked from browser once I trimmed text.
Made mods to the pedal bag. A & B inputs on the lower right are my Rick & My P Bass for fast switching between songs. Single out of that goes to the Radar 1-in, two out splitter that sends one signal clean to my TC 450 for clean low end. The other out from the Radar goes through my pedal chain & them to the Rockmaster tube head for the grind, bright tone & fx. I just need a 1-foot 1/4 to 1/4 cord with 1 straight & 1 90 deg. jack to compete the layout. https://octodon.social/media/GxsvKiRMqTTXzbDl5i8
Request timeout error 442 trying to post an image from Tootle. Any idea what that means?
Home from practice with my Yes tribute band for the first time in like, 7 weeks — man, if feels good to play loud music with good musicians. My ears are ringing, though.
Today I Re-learned The Fez. That one’s Chuck Rainey, I’m pretty sure. Had learned it 3 or 4 years ago & mostly forgot it — what a fun song to play. I want to start a Steely Dan tribute project, but there is just no time for an unwieldy beast like that right now.
"I miss having a sex drive," she said, after eating a whole box of macaroni and cheese by herself.
The apotheosis Of rock music was accomplished in 4 minutes. Written in 77, performed in 2002 when Bowie was at the absolute height of his powers - vision, fully realized.
@Devils_Rancher Meanwhile, 2017 me wants to teleport back to 2002 & apply for a job as an Apple service tech, because I can now pop open a G5 like a sardine tin. #UselessKnowledge
This damn G5 cost me 2 grand & it ran for 14 years. It was still working when I upgraded to a Mac Pro in 2012, & I powered it up occasionally & ran it through screen sharing until this summer, when I was literally about to give it to a friend. It stopped powering on the day I was going to pack it up.
One out of 10 or so pushes of the on button will boot it, but it shuts down suddenly after a few minutes. Can’t keep it on long enough to run the Apple Hardware Test disc on it (which I still have, BTW!)
So I tore it back down & re-installed the correct power supply & put it back together in less than 15 minutes. I’m now a pro at servicing a 15-year old Mac. If only I had diagnostic tools to tell me what the damn red knight in the motherboard meant... could be the board itself or one of the CPU’s. Do I take a 2002 G5 to the doctor for diagnostics?
@Devils_Rancher So after an hour-Long surgery to replace the PSU & lug the thing inside, that’s not what’s wrong with my old beast & I’m sad. (It took an hour bc I had the old & new PSU’s sitting next to each other & I re-installed the old one, only discovering my mistake as I was re-seating the last PCI card.)
Good Saturday morning. Big weekend plans - get another 50 pages of this Photoshop book under my belt & do some cataloging of The World’s Largest T-Shirt Collection™️ & get the new-to-me PSU in the G5, a somewhat modern computer that ISN’T affected by the Intel bug. 🤨 Still pissed that IBM blew off the PPC 970 series of chips. I know they ran too hot but so much potential wasted.
Yes, I do tend to carry at least 2 cameras with me when I travel:
https://octodon.social/media/S0-ILV-7Jw9fCbrm6MI https://octodon.social/media/dQC3AxOqhCUsubwu3Hc
I usually pass out every evening with my earbuds in because music calms & focuses my mind. I think tonight I’ll pass out to some Stevie Wonder.
John McVie quietly kicking the almighty god ass in the background of The Chain, on the ‘97 reunion gig & video, The Dance. He just smokes it at the end:
Oh, just dismembering a 15 yo G5 to get to the part number on the power supply, as one does on a Saturday night. https://octodon.social/media/Osr-CN1UU5gQXWaZmgM https://octodon.social/media/NNIhgubzB_4BjMn3nhY
