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Thanks, R.... That was the objective. I was trying to offer the occasional discernable note whilst the car crusher was doing its thing.

May have posted this in the past, But since we're focusing on fuzz here.... Never a fan of it, but given this is a Lucinda Williams tune, and I'm a big fan of the fearless Stuart Mathis, I thought...why not get way out of my little box. This is from the Be Good To Yourself project, and since we were tracking nearly thirty songs, I figured I'd better come up with a variety of tones and approaches. I'm pretty much down with what Randy (fdx99) observes in his notes, above. As I recall this track was my Tele for electric rhythm, a Nashville tuned Red Label Yamaha FG-110, and the fuzz was my Nash Strat, bridge pickup, into my Low Power Tweed Twin clone. The fuzz was an MXR Hendrix Octavio, which has a pretty great fuzz! Fuzz is there in a couple of early chords, but doesn't really appear until the guitar outro, last 1:30-ish of the tune. I'm a little proud of this one. The vocalist is eighteen-year-old phenom Māya Beth Atkins.

Well, in any event, I did say I was being careful....

But how does it sound, now, Steiner? Quickish ancedote: Headed to a party in my S-10 about thirty-five years ago. Rutting season, and I was being careful! Middle of nowhere, small herd pops out of the scrub pines to my right. I t-boned a large doe. Stove in the front end, radiator Swiss Cheesed. Truck, with the headlights still on, sits there steaming like the Union Pacific's Big Boy. This is pre-cell phone days. I have about ten miles to hike back to town. About that time a car, big Buick Estate Wagon, rolls up from the other direction. I wave, and the car stops about twenty-five yards past me, about where I hit the deer. Great! A ride home. Two Good Ol' Boys pile out of the Buick, pitch the deer into the back...and take off. I got home at about 3:00 a.m.

As I recall (and that's a shot in the dark anymore), L. Paulverizer was a semi-regular here many moons ago. Good to see you back! The new Custom Core 150's are incredible! So good, I put my '61 PAF's in it!

Give Paul at Green Oak a shot first. One stand up guy!

Welcome, CVS. Right here. Let it fly.

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Mark, your tale really resonated with me. I could go on and on...so I'll try not to. We had a pretty good band going for nearly five years. Great venues, festivals, opened for a number of national acts, several multiple times. We demanded and got better money than most of the acts at our level. We produced three studio and two live albums, of which we're mighty proud. We have two tunes on a You Tube channel with over 80,000 hits. There were...or my business partner and I publicly said there were multiple reasons for euthanizing the band a year ago. But there was one root cause. Our very talented frontman, a crowd favorite, was a toxic personality. And he was directly or indirectly responsible for several episodes such as yours, not to mention being pretty abusive to one of the band. We tried, all four of the rest of us, and mightily, to cover, compensate and apologize for, and explain away his behavior. In the end, he was the end of it. We really were at the top of our game, but now Ed and I often reflect on what a great decision pulling the plug was. Sure, there are aspects of performing I miss, but just to excise this guy from the lives of the rest of us was worth it. Good luck!

Get some black felt fabric, two yards of it. Cut it into several smaller ( 1 to 1 1/2 feet in length) pieces and gently feed those, one at a time, into both "F" holes. Also, learn where to stand, relative to the amplifier, to reduce feedback. Don't use a stand for your amp, which aims the amp directly up, at you and the guitar.