Jesus Christ, you guys are REALLY trying to sell this whole Zune thing. "Hey, go on message boards and tell people you actually own, and actually USE one of these things. It'll be cool!"

ZUNE! You own a ZUNE!

Oh, you built it. I get it.

Ah, shit - my attempt to start a viral word-of-mouth ...

Hey Tim:

Until we have an Ask dogrange thread, I will bother you with this bet settling question:

On "Couldn't You Wait", who played the guitar line that goes throughout the whole song and who played the guitar part that comes and goes? This song, she came up on the Zune on my band's trip last ...

"Kick Out the Jams pt.2"

or

"Love Hurts (again)"

These are good.

The fake sequel naming is a long-standing joke in my band. Aside from the working title of our next record ( Use Your Illusion III ), we played a show once and announced each song as:

"More Sympathy for the Devil ...

Disc 1 of the Chess Box is pretty unstoppable, even the ballads. He and Bo Diddley were masters of the recycled song, definitely following the "if it ain't broke" principle.

Dan

I have not found that hole/no hole is a good indicator re drumming prowess or lack thereof.

True, although N > 1 = CRAP where N is the number of bass drum head holes.

I will add to this thread two more rules of thumb:

- Mesh baseball caps worn by anyone not also eating sunflower seeds ...

There's some math in this, but mostly it's just really, really trippy, man:

http://graphics.csie.ncku.edu.tw/SAI/

Dan

· modified/hacked gear is generally a good sign. like "wtf happenned to that guitar?" or "what the fuck is that keyboard filled with duct tape and with pedals attached?"

We refer to this as the "resale suicide" gear. Like having a guitar that's been spray-painted flat black or with a neck you ...

In comparison to hedges, fences rule. I have just spent the morning and most of my Sunday afternoon cutting back hedges and then cleaning up on the debris.
I know this is all pointless. Hedges don't stop. The more attention you pay them, the more they grow. They are like a Rick Reuben thread on a ...

- "ironic" moustaches

What's your litmus test here? What about "possibly ironic" moustaches? What about There Will Be Blood /Harry Reems style moustaches? Yay or nay? I am concerned that my possibly ironic moustache may be sending the wrong signals to internet losers like me. That and my ...

The Bismarck *averaged* 500+ miles per day on our 2007 tour. I think this year we averaged 450 miles per day. We routinely do a Missoula/Bozeman/whatever to Bismarck/Fargo/Minot haul, which on the order of 12-13 hours. We've done "oh, shit" overnighters such as Salt Lake City to Seattle, Billings to ...