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Thanks MM...

I'm glad I haven't joined in any of these Facbooks, Linkedin, connect with the whole world schemes/traps.

Me thinks it's better/safer to be unknown, unpopular, underground, and uncompromised.

They're everywhere. A few week ago I received a fake Paypal payment notification for a wristwatch. 

I do have a FB account.
I've cut it down from 40 something friends to 14 this last week.
I pretty much just like pages from music/recording people and companies.

Things like API, Neve, SSL just for drooling purposes.
Also people like Tony Maserati, Eddy Kramer, Rupert Neve, Charles Dye, Dave Pensado and the like.
They post on what their up to and offer up some tips.

Loads of other recording info and tips floating around there too.
Some good reading if you weed out all the crap like people posting endless photos of their kids and drunks posting where they plan on puking this evening.

Mike 

hings like API, Neve, SSL just for drooling purposes. Also people like Tony Maserati, Eddy Kramer, Rupert Neve, Charles Dye, Dave Pensado and the like. They post on what their up to and offer up some tips. Loads of other recording info and tips floating around there too.

What I've been saying all along. :) Plus, I think I actually prefer to have that stuff in a dedicated newsfeed on Facebook than in my mailbox.


In the last year, I've won a Zoom multi-effect, a Lexicon MPX, a Steinberg remote control and a DBX 266 XS stereo compressor...

Granted, some of that stuff is pretty cheap and/or useless. But free is always cool and some of it is actually pretty cool - the Lexicon verb is one of my favorite reverbs. 

Well, the Coffee House is kinda like social media, no? ;)

I can post a picture of my breakfast if you need a proof... Or how about a bunch of cute kitty videos?

Of course, if this was my Facebook page, I'd be required to mention where I live and that I'll be away for the week, leaving my backdoor unlocked so my neighbor can water the house plants.

No .gif images work on FB.
That is another draw back.

Mike

chefmike8888

In the last year, I've won a Zoom multi-effect, a Lexicon MPX, a Steinberg remote control and a DBX 266 XS stereo compressor... Granted, some of that stuff is pretty cheap and/or useless. But free is always cool and some of it is actually pretty cool - the Lexicon verb is one of my favorite reverbs. 

Baaahh!
You Bast**d! they gave you my winnings. :-)


I mean Congrats. 


I do enter all the drawings. I'm in a few now. I believe there is one for a Kramer or Gibson guitar, maybe both. A mic package worth about 12k, a custom made snare drum and some lunch-box with chassis and 6-500 series goodies.


Mike

If this can be any consolation, I can't enter the big ones, like for guitars and stuff, because these usually require US citizenship - I'm still just a temporary resident. 


I remember growing up in Quebec and reading about all those amazing giveaways which were open to pretty much everyone in North America, including Canada with the exception of Quebec - due to the province's particular lottery laws if I'm not mistaken. 


That sucked big time. I remember one Fender sweepstake in a guitar magazine... They were giving away all those classic amps, basses and guitars - a jazz, a precision, a strat and an tele, all vintage models obviously, a 59 Bassman, a twin and so on. I can't tell you how frustrating that was.

I remember one time calling the local (provincial) equivalent of MTV trying to win a copy of Alice Cooper's Trash.

Much to my momentarily despair, not only did I win the album, but also a t-shirt and a pair of tickets for the show. :s

The problem was that we lived 600 km form Montreal, I was 17, I had no car, no money and I'd never really been out of town so the idea of going to Montreal was like being dropped in the middle of Tokyo or something...

Luckily for me, an older friend of mine was one of the very few fans of Alice in town and offered to pay the bus and a room in Montreal. 

Here's a pic of yours truly celebrating the occasion, just after we got off the bus and found a room, at 6 or 7 am. Ah, the late 80s... lol

Even I wouldn't want to be my twin. lol 

But not everything was wrong - black clothes, Jack Daniel's and what looks like my old Led Zep shirt... That kind of redeem the whole thing, ;)

chefmike8888


Rain, 
FYI being drunk on JD is still no excuse for that hair.  


Mike

I only wish I could have grown hair that long.  When mine grew any length at all it would get wavy (definitely NOT the right way for Rawk).  During that same time, my hair style would probably be closer to "nerd" than rocker.  Oh well, I looked great from the neck down - heh.