Being a Creative Genius Can Be a Lot of Work

I get energized and plop myself in front of my computer ready to write, record, compose, play and be that musical genius I think I am.
I compose a score.
I revise and edit.
Rinse and repeat...rinse and repeat.

Finally...hours later, I have a score I like. Yes, this sounds good - in a vacuum.
Now I have to add my guitar for perhaps with a second or third time.

And fuck, I don't have the energy to go on.
This is not new; not age related. I have always had this. After an orgasm, I tend to be hungry and sleepy. Well, the creative process, being another expression of intimate sharing is sex. It is the same thing.
I want a drink, maybe a sandwich and a nap before I go on.

So to be that driven musical genius, I have to learn to have multiple orgasms. Not at the same time. Over a course of a several hours.

I think I am truly on to something. I am not being facetious.
Maybe it is a scheduling thing? Write early in the day and later when I feel it try laying the overdubs down?

Like Sex, Only Better...(I Said That?)

You play and the feeling is sex only you are doing this in public in front of a crowd and garnering applause.
You are having intimate relations with a room full of people.

This area of LA county is home to not a few honest-to-goodness roadhouses.
A Grotto is one. Literally a basement room. Long and low and packed. People who are drinking and looking for fun.
We don't have to be great. Just something to dance to.

Easy. Fun. And the release is palpable. For all of us in the room. Maybe for different reasons, but everyone is finding a way out.

The night began watching another friend at a local lodge. I have been putting it off as I find the lodge scene way too shuffleboard geriatric for me. The only interesting people are the drunks. Again, not for me.

We are playing a mix of Small Faces, old Johnny Winter, jamming 'cuz nobody realizes it's not a Hendrix song anymore...
I realized I had my acid smile on and that I was having a great time doing a huge amount of nothing.
Share, sharing...experiences or fluids, it's all the same to me really.

My guitar sounds great.
I can play a lot more than I imagine if I put my mind to it.
People appreciate what I can do to the point they buy drinks and leave tips.

I am THIS close!

Villex Update

Want to save the shipping? Drive to Sherman Oaks.
(Amp Shop/Bass Exchange)
The Villex demo

(Ask me how I know)

Gud gawd.
Okay I realize that demoing a product is not a strength of mine, yet. There should be more finesse in this but here it goes.
Staring in position five on the guitar (neck pickup) with the VMB off, play four chords & flip a switch.
5 off then on
4 on then off
3 off then on
2 on then off
1 off then on

I watched the output on an oscilloscope and saw an increase of somewhere between 75 and 200 mV depending on the pickup and notes struck. Which means to keep G Ohm happy, we must reduce the current. Conservation maintained.
In the world of guitar pickups and their output, 200 mV is a huge increase.

When gain is employed it is not as noticeable.  However this vastly expands the guitars palette.  What was a weak sound, i.e. without gain is now a very usable option.

When I got my Alairex HALO what I noticed was that it doesn't have one "set" perfect position for me. Depending on what I want to hear I need to flip switches, or turn knobs.

What this little miracle does is it also make the guitar "unstable." Needing input from me to achieve what I want to hear.