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Self-Tuning Electric Guitar
avirrey writes "The Technology Review has an interesting article on a Gibson Self-Tuning Guitar. Purist argue that you shouldn't need a guitar that self-tunes. Others argue that this will allow an artist to change tuning with one 'favorite' guitar, instead of having to swap out between songs." Ok I know what I think- freakin' sweet. Only technology will guarantee my sucking on the electric will at least be reasonably in-tune suckiness. Dear Gibson, Slashdot really needs to review your guitar. We'll need several review units and we lost your return address.
I'm a fan of elitism of any sort, whether it be server monkeys in charge of making sure I clean out my email, or tuning monkeys who think that they're somehow better people for doing things themselves. Keep it coming!
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Cool. Does it run Linux?
You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.
Moot argument, the Stones did all their best work after the Beatles did all their best work (and when they had broken up in all but name). The Beatles win out by writing a simply countless great pop songs and their initial incarnation - four white guys playing faster than the 50s rock and roll but singing like black a black female soul / pop group is one of the weirdest and most amazing inventions in pop history. The Stones meanwhile are among a tiny handful of white people who could play electric blues well (really among a handful of people in general, the blues got pretty soft after the late 50s, a couple of exceptions aside). I mean seriously, I don't think anyone aside from Muddy, Elmore James, and the Stones has covered a Robert Johnson song without looking like a dork. Anyway the Stones did more than anyone else in the 60s to craft the image side of rock and roll as it would play out into the 70s and what good remained of rock and roll in the 80s and 90s: thin, dressing dangerously, agressive hint of bisexuality... you know, punk.
Anyway, they're both pretty great and there are a whole lot of great songs out there whose recipe is basically one part Beatles, one part Stones, shake and mix will.
such as:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAtUw6lxcis
John Peel's favorite song of all time. He once played it on the air twice in a row.
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