silly youngster OP. I'm 64. My COVID project was learning the violin (for playing Traditional Irish Music). That's come along nicely. I started reading Russian literature in my late 50's and have...
I was a Defensive Tackle and kicker through high school also a hockey goalie and swam . My son played Defensive Tackle/Nose Guard, long snapper, and could do reps on OLine and as an H back through...
Yep OP, it's cultural. I lived in Saudi for 10 years and everything is negotiable. Heck I would see local's try to haggle grocery prices at the Tamimi Safeway store. Even some of the locals would...
Forget the junk get a Brunton. I trained as a Geologist so I have a Brunton Transit (roughly $600 these days, I paid around $150 40 years ago) fantastic kit but not needed by most folk. Here are...
I doubt I'll be able to read a full blown novel in Russian before I die. But waiting for good, new works to be translated is frustrating. Poems, on the other hand, really need to be read in their...
No, not Tolstoy although Anna Karenina is on my short list (probably in the fall). Dostoyevsky, Sokolov, Sorokin, Pelevin, Gogol, Pasternak, Bulgakov are some of my favorites. I'm trying to learn...
just take time and play lots of basses and have an idea of what tone concept you're going for. It's also instructive to try and find recording stems so you can isolate the bass part and hear how it...
It depends on what your sound concept is for bass. Every studio has a P-Bass with flats on the wall. A whole lot of folk's have had their parts overdubbed by a p-bass. It's good to have a P-bass...
Radio is still useful when you're traveling outside the range of wifi and internet connectivity. I like to go to some obscure places which is why I have XM. Good classic rock there.
Your friend is correct. No death penalty from the courts. Of course you can get the journalist disease and walk off building roofs or a gang in prison can kill you or you have a weird case of food...