Steve V. wrote:Nope. The program at this particular school is actually relatively new but supposedly quite great.

Strange thing is, I have not yet gotten my BA, but in order to declare Creative Writing as a major upon entrance, you have to submit a portfolio of work to be considered. Then, you have to do what they call "display of intention," which is when you basically hang out with a particular grad student while you're at the college and have him/her recommend you for the master's program...kind of blows my mind, but it's alright. The other cool thing is that it looks like with a summer session and a loaded year I could get my BA earlier than I thought, since I took college-credit courses the last two years of high school.

Wood Goblin wrote:

Steve V. wrote:Nope. The program at this particular school is actually relatively new but supposedly quite great.

Strange thing is, I have not yet gotten my BA, but in order to declare Creative Writing as a major upon entrance, you have to submit a portfolio of work to be considered. Then, you have to do what they call "display of intention," which is when you basically hang out with a particular grad student while you're at the college and have him/her recommend you for the master's program...kind of blows my mind, but it's alright. The other cool thing is that it looks like with a summer session and a loaded year I could get my BA earlier than I thought, since I took college-credit courses the last two years of high school.

I glanced at the website, and they have had some great visiting staff lately (including my friend and former classmate ZZ Packer). Anyway, congrats again!

honeyisfunny wrote:I just got back off tour. In 7 days I broke:

1 Marshall 250watt bass head
1 Marshall 4x12 bass cab
1 Euclid 150 watt head

The other band member with amps, Phil, also broke his GK bass head.

To ice this particular cake, when we took the Marshall head to the factory (it conveniently blew up the day before we played in the same city) there were a few amps in the office waiting for repair. I commented that they were the same types we used to record with. On closer inspection of the labels of who had sent them for repair it turned out they were the same amps.

What the fuck is going on? It almost gave me some weird nervous disorder in that every time I turned on an amp I literally shook. This mental disorder is known as Barratting, by the way.

honeyisfunny wrote:I'd say Marshall bass stuff is fairly heavy duty, it's certainly more bulletproof than Ampeg, Trace Elliot or Gallien Krueger from past experience.

that damned fly wrote:

honeyisfunny wrote:I'd say Marshall bass stuff is fairly heavy duty, it's certainly more bulletproof than Ampeg, Trace Elliot or Gallien Krueger from past experience.

what were you doing to it? were these clubs of the type that might have shoddy wiring?

honeyisfunny wrote:

that damned fly wrote:

honeyisfunny wrote:I'd say Marshall bass stuff is fairly heavy duty, it's certainly more bulletproof than Ampeg, Trace Elliot or Gallien Krueger from past experience.

what were you doing to it? were these clubs of the type that might have shoddy wiring?

Fuck knows. It actually seriously affected my brain I think, on the last show my amp packed in at soundcheck and I really wanted to just give in. I don't think it's a wiring thing, I think it's just extreme bad luck.
The Marshall seems to be blown through heat as that model didn't have a fan and I know they can overheat, the cab is very old and would've blown a speaker at some point, the Euclid head is a valve issue and the GK has a malfunctioning fan. Our fault for playing very hot rooms I guess.