Recent content by Mark Wein

First gig with it last night and even the drummer said it sounded great (and better than the gold one). I guess the gold one is now my backup.

You seem to have research this lol. I've been doing some of that lready. Tis is many years in the future and may never happen but just learning to speak italian now is keeping my brain healthy(er)

My car is supposed to be coming out of the body shop tomorrow, but apparently they can't get it to align. Lets see if they can replace some parts and fix it or I'm shopping for a new car that I can't afford next week during the first week of school.

Played it at a rehearsal last night and compared the two. Even though they are the same guitar the sunburst sonds a little better. More complete on the low end.

Kind of. I had a Memphis strat copy that I sold to a friend but my Tokai is the first decent instrument I bought in 1986 or so and I still have it although the only original parts art the body, bridge and pickguarx.

Hang in there!

The new guy, and me playing the old guy at an event at the Aquarian Drumheads offices for a friends student recital on Sunday.

We have seriously discussed retiring there. The country has a lot of problems too, but there was something that for the first time in my life made me feel like I could live somewhere else.

Updated insurance estimate - $9996 in repairs on a car that is valued at about $21k at the moment. Glad I'm not paying for any of it but...

I just cleaned up my bike (and my daughters) last week and I'm hoping to get back on the road again. The weather here today will be kind of obnoxious but I might try and get on the trail for a few.

Well, since this guitar has become my main working instrument for the last six months it was time to get a suitable backup. I realy didnt want another sunburst guitar but they only make the maple cap version on gold and sunbirst. I really love the look of the red one but it is a standard and is...

It was wonderful. Also made me a little resentful of how things are here at home. But honestly, it was one of the big experiences of my life and I was so happy to have shared it with my family.

In a strange place these days. Had a life-changing trip to Italy this month thanks to a generous family member but also struggling with the usual stuff and had a car accident on Saturday on the way to a gig for no reason other than some guy thought his rental car had self-driving and let it run...

I do a lot of steel drum/calypso gigs. My suggestion is to get a single tenor or melody drum to start. They are very temperature-sensitive as far as tuning goes and can go out of tune being dropped/

Try this: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/gs9yy9qe07q6hibu44jyw/BluesBookBackingTracks.zip?rlkey=mugx7pjztek03bgqldms1hcc2&st=1w8b7bbg&dl=0