Rick's World

The below Youtube video does an excellent job of explaining the problem with compression in music these days. This is why so many albums I buy these days just sound horrible! I wish music producers would stop doing this... more »

This is cool. The rock band band Nine Inch Nails has released 3 of the songs from their newest album 'Year Zero' as GarageBand files. They did this with a couple of songs for their last album. I really like that they are doing this. It gives you a go… more »

I haven't written about my attempts to learn guitar in a long time for a reason - I haven't been using the guitar much lately. It's been literally weeks since I've even picked it up. Why? In part it's been laziness, and in part because I've been very… more »

In more ways than one... Last night my friend Dave and I went to see the Queensryche concert. This was their 'Complete Mindcrime' concert. Operation Mindcrime was an album that they came out with back in 1988. This ablum tells the story of Ni… more »

Ok, I confess. I did something stupid that I shouldn't have done and it almost damaged a very expensive guitar. In a previous post, I wrote about how I'd gone to guitar class only to find out from my teacher that my guitar was defective. It turns o… more »

Well, I was originally going to title this blog 'Back to School' and talk about what happened on my first day of my latest semester of the guitar class. Things didn't turn out quite that way. It's what happened after class that turned out to be interes… more »

I passed!!!! Tonight I took my final exam in my beginner guitar class. This is the second time I've taken the course. The first time, I didn't quite pass the final exam. This time I did. I had considered skipping the class tonight. I haven't pra… more »

A few weeks back, I bought myself a new acoustic/electric guitar. Why did I buy another expensive guitar, when I already have a nice electric guitar that I can't even play? Well, I bought it because I wanted something 'easier' to learn on. It turns ou… more »

In two days I start my second 'semester' of my beginner/intermediate guitar class. At the start of this class, the teacher is going to essentially give me my final exam from last semester again. If I pass this 'makeup test', then I get to go to the adv… more »

Today I bought an acoustic/electric guitar. It's a Takamine EG544SC. It's a great guitar. The sound on this thing is absolutely fantastic. I think I like this better than my electric guitar. Why did I go out and buy another guitar when I'm still lea… more »