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NGD! ESP / Paul Smith Mini V with battery powered speaker! Limited to 400
I actually remember seeing this in the Paul Smith store back in the day but didn’t wanna fork out whatever the retail price was then.
For the uninitiated, it’s not Paul Reed Smith, but rather Paul Smith the fashion/lifestyle designer, in collab with ESP on a limited run.
The neck “pickup” isn’t a pickup at all, it’s a little speaker! There’s a 9V compartment in back for it. The guitar also has a standard output for the real pickup in bridge position.
The toggle switch is a dummy! It’s just there for looks! It’s volume, tone, and a push/pull to turn the built-in speaker on or off.
It came with the original branded gig bag and the ESP user manual in Japanese and Allen wrench.
I had to snap it up! It plays great too. So psyched.
Boston Chicken
Forgive me mang but this song from the deluxe 12GCG is fucking infectious as all get out!
That damn drum machine cymbal pattern is absolute genius!
I cannot get enough
Couldn’t help noticing of the Smashing Punpkins lollapalooza set
James playing a freaking Yamaha Pacifica!!!!
Yeah there were a couple fenders and gibsons, but between Billy, James and the 3rd guitarist, there was quite the variety of different axe brands.
Of course Billy’s signature Reverends, a Gibson ES, James black LP custom but there were some other lesser known guitars that made appearances.
Good for them
I stopped in to San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral for my semi-regular pilgrimage to the AIDS memorial chapel
Note the signature on the upper part of the right panel
Some more GenX Stubs
Been having such a great time reading everyone’s comments and recollections. I couldn’t resist sharing a few more from the attic.
The 1st Lollapalooza, I almost died in the pit at the Motley Crue show. The Jon Spencer show was Yeah yeah yeahs 1st ever SF show. Smashing pumpkins was a Mellon collie warm up impromptu show. They announced it the day before on KROQ.
A lot of people commented about Living Colour … yes I continued to go see them on the west coast!
Cheers,
Eager & Jones
IYKYK. I loved this. Chris Farley & Tim Meadows. It can’t be found anymore surely due to the music rights.
Somebody out there has this???
Cheers
I knew a girl named Cigarette
Grew up in the midwest in the 70s/80s. When I was a freshman in high school, a senior girl (my classmate's sister) was legally named Cigarette Moskovitz. Everyone called her Ciggy.
They were needless to say a little bit of a weird family. My classmate her brother was named Baron Moskovitz.
Apparently this was a somewhat regular female name in the 1920s and 30s. Think Cigarette Boat. Sleek, Sexy, Upscale.
Enjoy,
RIP Bubbles
Welp.
I just knew he had been down molting for way too long and then I hadn’t seen Steve in a while so, despite not wanting to disturb his molt, I went digging.
Rest in Peace little buddy,
I had just bought a new crabitat for the boys. It’s all set up and was waiting for Bubs to emerge so I could relocate them.
Now little Steven’s gonna be all alone in his big new house.
I don’t know if I want to get another one but also I feel bad thinking of Stevie all alone
Anyway. Hug your babies
Dunlop DVP4 Expression Pedal With Axe I/O?
I’m not finding any help online or in the manuals.
I have the Axe IO interface and Amplitube. I acquired the Dunlop DVP4, it’s the mini volume pedal but it has an AUX out and says this is for use as an expression pedal. The internal switch is set to EXP. The pedal works fine as an audio volume pedal.
I connect the Aux out to the Controller 1 input on the Axe IO. I am using a new TRS cable.
When I load up a Wah preset in amplitude, or any patch, nothing happens when I rock the DVP4 pedal.
Is there some midi setting or something I am missing here? I can’t figure out how to make it work as an expression pedal.
i saw the purple sparkle ferrari with duck, driving in north beach yesterday
i saw the purple sparkle ferrari with duck, driving in north beach yesterday
So I guess the guy has been releaseed to the general public after his armed standoff a few weeks ago
A message to all the tech bros appearing in your own ads - nobody wants to look at your face
There is a reason why, for our entire lives, companies have had spokespeople. Companies have hired actors and models to show their products. It's because these people are generally attractive. We don't mind looking at them. At best we ENJOY looking at them. The spokesperson has nice facial features. Typically they will have spent some time learning how to speak well, to enunciate. The models and paid spokespeople have SYMMETRICAl facial features. They have kind eyes. They have attractive noses and jawlines. They have hair, makeup, styling.
Lately I am inundated (shocking) by youtube ads, billboards, bus stop ads, insta ads, and so on, with these fugly tech bros trying to convince me that their vaportware is the bomb. These fucknuts all have misshapen foreheads, droopy eyes, huge proboscis, bad 3-day beards, terrbile baseball hats and too tight t-shirts. I swer these geniuses should be in the band Ween, they're so fucking ugly. To boot, they mumble and speak as if they're talking to their buddy at a BBQ. Do. Better. Do yourself a favor, chaps. Hire a fucking spokesmodel. Get your ugly mug out of my screen.
Thank you,
App for creating Tabs?
It had been several years since trying to play Led Zeppelin's Kashmir so I googled it. The tab I pulled up was fine to get me started, but quickly my muscle memory returned, and I realized that the Tab from ultimate-guitar was wrong (not how Jimmy plays it) and oversimplified and misleading.
In that moment I was inspried to create and submit a more accurate, and actually easier to play version. But I could not find how to create it on ultimate-guitar or anywhere else.
Does such an app exist?
Sociopathic dog poop allowers everywhere
Just a rant, old man yelling at clouds here. 30-year SF resident. Yesterday as I approached my apartment building near St Francis (UCSF) hospital I watched a “man” let his dog poop on the sidewalk and just walk away. There were people all around, a popular route for the after-work Trader Joe’s shoppers. He was carrying two TJs bags and the brown bulldog was on a leash.
The dog released a massive disgusting wet shit directly in front of my door. And he just walked away.
I said are you gonna pick that up? Without even looking he started doubling down “I pay my bills bitch” I was shocked. I don’t know why, people absolutely suck in 2026.
Anyway I just had to get this off my chest. This poor excuse for a human being, by the way with a terrible fauxhawk and even worse fashion sense, who looked like a reasonable adult just is a walking sociopath. If I had a piece of cardboard or something I would’ve scooped it up and smeared it on top of his grocery bags.
The entitlement, the sheer audacity. Fuck him. My “neighbor” did this. Thing is he did not look at me one time. But I will definitely remember him. And I’ll see him again.
Any suggestions?
PS since this is the SF subreddit I fully expect someone to reply that I am the misguided one and that person was perfectly normal and I should be more liberal or something. Fuck you in advance.