{"id":8386,"date":"2015-12-02T08:30:15","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T16:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=8386"},"modified":"2015-12-02T08:30:15","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T16:30:15","slug":"i-may-be-taking-shredding-too-literally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/02\/i-may-be-taking-shredding-too-literally\/","title":{"rendered":"i may be taking &quot;shredding&quot; too literally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I grabbed this sign out of an office remodel a while ago &#8211; hey, Seattleites, guess where! &#8211; and added it to my studio door at the Lair last week:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/Livejournal\/2015-12\/shredder-room-640.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I may be taking it a little too literally. These are picks after a couple of takes each of &#8220;Thirteen&#8221; today:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/Livejournal\/2015-12\/dead-pick-2-640.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/Livejournal\/2015-12\/dead-pick-1-640.jpg\"><br \/><i>How many of these things am I gonna have to make to record this song?<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I may have to upgrade my picks. I may need something a little more ruggedised, maybe something a bit more <em>metal<\/em>, like these:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/Livejournal\/2015-12\/coin-picks-640.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Seriously, are those shiny or what? <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/img0.etsystatic.com\/004\/0\/6852904\/il_570xN.353351096_clhf.jpg\">They&#8217;re from the GuitarPickCollection Etsy store<\/a>. I&#8217;m not affiliated, the lead dev on Ardour just pointed me at them today and they are very, very pretty. He has a couple and reports they&#8217;re really smoothly polished, and are actually playable.<\/p>\n<p>I think they&#8217;re kind of amazing. Not something I&#8217;d actually want to use; reviews of other metal picks say they&#8217;re great for lead work, but I need more flex than these would have. Even so, they&#8217;re amazing to look at.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>Use cyber2015 at checkout for 20% off all music, including<\/i> Bone Walker, <i>the long-list Grammy Award nominated album. If you&#8217;re with the academy, <a href=\"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/for-your-consideration\/\">thank you for listening, and for your consideration<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I grabbed this sign out of an office remodel a while ago &#8211; hey, Seattleites, guess where! &#8211; and added it to my studio door at the Lair last week: I may be taking it a little too literally. These are picks after a couple of takes each of &#8220;Thirteen&#8221; today: How many of these [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-coolness","category-recording"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}