Internet. Serious Business.

If I didn’t already feel old when I got out of bed every morning after years of debauchery starting to catch up to me, knowing that I was around when the internet was invented and it has been 25 years doesn’t help either. Over this time I have most definitely become much lazier. That is why for the 25th anniversary of the internet I’m not even going to go back and look at anything. I’m not going to talk about what it was like to use AOL for only 20 hours a month and having only news to read and chat rooms to use as my internet “fun”. Basically being a kid in puberty finding out that everyone on the internet was a pervert already even back then. With my Windows 3.1 and my 64 MB hard drive. A computer that had less memory than some watches you can buy these days like Tissot watches from Reeds.com. My iPod Touch alone can hold about 253423423 of my hard drives in it.

I’m old. Mostly because I’m talking about how it used to be and how I was there when…the internet. Where I look at porn, talk about sports, troll people I don’t know on Youtube, and play video games. Greatest invention ever.

I’ve never thought much about what harp strings looked like in package form. I guess I assumed that they would be different, but the packaging looks almost the same as the guitar strings I buy. Getting autoharp strings from musicians friend for a gift I found out that they are indeed very similarly packaged. Of course they cost a littl emore than the guitar strings I usually buy, but that is certainly expected when they are more plentiful than just getting 6 strings.

Playing any sort of classical music you can’t really get along much withpout music sheet stands at guitar center. Even if you are a rocker like me, having a music sheet stand is quite helpful for playing electric guitar if you aren’t one of those types that can play everything by ear. Sometimes I can, but at others it is just easier to get the sheet music and play along. Actually…it’s easier to read tablature to me because I stink at reading actual music and Tabs are for the dummies like me that show you the number of the note on the string you need to play instead of the musical note itself…lol

Even though the highlights and features of the Electro-Harmonix effects at musicians friend make them some of the best around, something that I always like about the Electro-Harmonix pedals is the cool artwork on a few of them. It certainly isn’t anything fancy, but I just love the simple looks of many of them as they remind me of classic 50′s vibes, 60s and 70s psychedelics, and as a video game fan I get this Fallout feeling from looking at a few of them like the “Soul Food Overdrive”, “Q-Tron” series, and the “XO Stereo Memory Man”. They just have a really cool vibe to me in the artwork on the pedals. Of course this isn’t why most people would buy the Electro-Harmonix Effect pedals, but it is a nice plus to see some of the neat pedal artwork. Feels like they capture the feel of your music.

Really hard to give you details on the Effects pedals since there are probably at least 100 different ones to give you that exact sound and effects you want that it is just easier to browse through them and find the one you need. Personally all I want is deep distortion that gives me a Metallica-…and Justice for All sound. Just love that deep crunch that sounds clean and dirty at the same time. Man I loved it when I discovered pedals for the first time and was able to get my guitar to sound I was trying to get. Instead of that distortion my amp tended to give that had way more of a treble crunch than the deeper bass crunch I wanted.

If you have never played a Fender Strat you must not have been playing an electiric guitar very long. It’s almost as if it fits like a glove the first time you pick one up and even though it is a timeless classic of a guitar it has still improved over the years to stay modern. Just the look of it is what I think of when I picture an electric guitar in my mind. Most importantly, the quality and sound is unbelievable and doesn’t cost you a huge amount of cash to have one of the best guitars that ever existed. The affordable fender standard telecaster is basically what electric guitars have always been and always should be a part of rock n’ roll.