I inadvertently watched network TV for five minutes, at the dentist's. My IQ promptly dropped by ten. I'm now at 190. Need to be more careful next time.
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Some great music is just a wee bit too "interesting" composition-wise to ever appeal to mainstream audience. Most mainstrean music is too damned uninteresting to be worth listening to repeatedly. This song, from one of the truly groundbreaking, game-changing, and best albums of all times (Love - Forever Changes, 1967), manages to grab your attention instantly, while at the same time featuring an awesome, strange, off-standard composition. Arthur Lee is no more, his music lives on.
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Apparently George Clinton (while on LSD...) told Funkadelic's guitarist Eddie Hazel to play this solo as if he just received the news of his mother being dead, and then found out his mother was actually still alive. The result is a mind blowing close to 10 minutes solo that shoots straight into immortality. All other instruments were dimmed during mixing, once Clinton realized the sheer lyrical force of Hazel's take. Enjoy.
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Brian Eno + Robert Fripp (of King Crimson fame) = genius. One of the best face-melting guitar solos you'll ever hear. Featured as played by (some members of) Radiohead in Velvet Goldmine.
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Background
There are people swearing by paper-in-oil (PIO) capacitors for electric guitar tone circuits. The say all else being equal (same capacitance, similar tolerance -- voltage is not relevant in guitar circuits), a PIO capacitor will sound different, meaning better. Words like "warmer", "mellower", "livelier" are being employed to describe the difference. The theoretical basis for this would be the dissipation factor, which obviously varies with capacitor "architecture".
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guitar • tone • electronics • capacitor • PIO
SUMMARY: Advice regarding brightening-up your Les Paul-type guitar, which applies to most dark wood made, humbucker-equipped guitars.
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guitar • pickups • humbucker