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Our new Kindle 2 eBook Reader has just arrived!

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Our new Kindle 2 eBook Reader showed up a day early and I couldn’t be more excited! Well truth be told, if a 1957 Strat was delivered in place of the Kindle then I guess I’d be REALLY EXCITED! Sorry, just had to get that one out of my head.

After taking our dog Midnight out for her morning walk and just before giving her, her breakfast a UPS driver knocked on the door sending Midnight out of her mind. All I was thinking was how to keep her from waking my wife up with her barking! As I opened the door she ran out to investigate and welcome the driver with lots of licks, I actually know him from work. After all the commotion had ended he handed me a package and right there I knew that it was the kindle!

So my wife just got up and we opened the package. The packaging was easy to open and quite sturdy looking. The screen of our new Kindle instructed us to turn it on and the welcome screen showed up after taking a few seconds to load up the program.

kindle 2 eBook reader

I picked it up and I was the first one to turn a page on the Kindle – kind of cool! This thing reminds me of something from Star Track! The reader is set up for easy use if your a left or right handed readers. My wife then hit the button Aa that is directly to the right of the spacer bar on the Kindle’s keyboard. It activated a menu that allows you to initiate the Text-to-Speech software. You have the option to use a male or female voice. The default setting is set to use a male voice. Damn it sounds a lot like the genius Stephen Hawkings!

Later on today we are off to an appointment and hopefully we can download one of the new books that my wife had uploaded to her laptop yesterday before leaving. I know this is not music related post but when we start becoming more literate with this thing, we’ll try all the music related options that comes with it. Wish us luck!

Keep on Kindlin’





A 12 Neck Guitar Yoshihiko Satoh you say?

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So we have a picture here of some guy playing a 12 neck guitar and one of the instrument in question sitting on a very custom made guitar stand. Yes you heard me correctly, a 12 neck guitar. Once I saw this thing I new that I had to do a post and show you right away.

12 neck guitar

As it turns out this is some of Yoshihiko Satoh’s conceptual artwork that was displayed and actually won the 2002 Kirin Art Award Grand Prix prize. It is really something to behold. The thing that got my mind going was that if you look really close to the guitar whammy/wammy bars in the top picture, all of them are not in the same position. Then if you focus your attention to the picture below, all of the tail pieces are not the same. This made me think that it’s real … or is it?

12 neck guitar on its stand

Keep on Jammin’

Jim Dunlop’s new MAX GRIP Guitar Pick

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Jim Dunlop has just released the new MAX GRIP Standard and the MAX PICK Jazz III guitar pick. These two are something that I will definitely go out and pick up to take home for a test drive when practicing later today.

Jim Dunlop MAX GRIP standard guitar pick

Jim Dunlop MAX GRIP standard

I personally use the Jim Dunlop 1 mm Nylon Standard guitar pick when I play. I find that this pick is the only one that I can hold on to when I play, due to the fact that I tend to perspire a lot while preforming. While playing live at a bar in front of some spot lights, my fingers start sweating like a black dog laying out in the hot summer sun.

Jim Dunlop Max Grip Jazz III guitar pick

Jim Dunlop Max Grip Jazz III

At first glance MAX GRIP has a molded gripping surface that is carefully concocted to provide the guitarist an incomparable non-slip guitar pick surface. It looks like it’s made for all you speed pickers (I’m certainly not one of them) and hard strummers (that’s me) out there that demand extreme precision and stamina, without losing control of their pick. I remember one time performing with this guy and I lost my pick on stage when we were playing Whole Hearted by Extreme. It was both embarrassing and frustrating for me at that time so from then onwards, I use the Jim Jim Dunlop 1 mm Nylon Standard.

Has anyone out there checked this thing out? If you have one, would you recommend it to other players?

Keep on Jammin’

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