Oh Yeah Kaz, I got my Damien FR Schecter back(on the cheap, guy needed cash, I got it for 100$)
Floyd Rose Tremolo
EMG Hzs (Dual Humbuckers)
Satin Black Finish
Rosewood fretboard
Batwing inlays on the fretboard.


Also (in a different deal with different person) I traded a Peavey 2x12 75watt Chorus amp (heavy as hell) for a Takamine G540C natural (cutaway acoustic electric). needed strings and had to straighten the neck (whoopie , 2 turns of an allen wrench).

If I can make some time, I will take some pics of each and post em.

Got back home about 4 am.

Great show, blew the room away. there were 3 other bands there. We all played 1 1/2 hour sets.
It was the Club Owners birthday bash and every year he has a 'themed' birthday party. Last year it was 80s rock, this year 90s rock so we had to play all 90s covers.

We played 1st and then joined the last band for about a 20 to 30 minute jam. After we played, i went out into the floor area and people were really talking about how they liked us considering we were so 'old' (youngest in our band is 43), LOL.

Had a great time, pretty tired. Fingers a bit sore. I actually got to play some acoustic stuff on a couple of songs (intros and a couple of small solo parts) and I didnt screw up.

Like I said, after our set, I went out in the crowd and (got a drink) and mingled a little. This girl (probably about 24) comes up to me and said "hey, you were in that band that just played werent you?" "Yes". "You guys were really good. I love your hair, you wanna go outside for a little while?" I laffed and said "How old are you?" She said "I am old enough to be in here." I said "How old do you think I am?" She said "I dunno, maybe 30 something." I laffed again. Then I said "I probably have kids as old or older than you." She said "Really? Like how old ARE you?" I said "over 50". She said "No way" I said "yeah, I am." then she said "well if thats true, I cant fuck you, that would be like fucking my dad, with nice hair, ewww." I said, "and for me it would be like fucking my daughter, except you are really hot."

I didnt get laid...shit happens.

Vettie and the boys are gonna be in Nashville tonight at 12th and Porter.

Leaving here in an hour or so to get our stuff together. I actually get to join in a little tonite.

Another Band that Vettie is starting to manage is called Banish the Silence. We got a gig in Sept for a town party called 'depot Days',  Roughly 10 to 12k visitors come to Depot days each year and Banish is the head liner for the entertainment event and I actually get to play a little guitar with these guys too (just some acoustic stuff, nothing fancy).

So i will use this forum to post about music stuff such as guitars and gigs. All are welcome to post and join in.

This is about MWO (and some bad luck)

So a couple of years ago (? maybe, crap I dont remember), I boughts myself a really nice laptop.

It has 4 gig Ram, a 2.5ghz dual core AMD cpu and an AMD/ATI Radeon 4250 (chip).

It plays MW4 GREAT!!!! plus some others like Veng and Black Knight and Megamek and MechCommander and well thats pretty much all I play. It also did all the other things I needed in a laptop, nice big screen, built in number pad, large HDD and DVD burner.

It doesnt meet MWO SPECS (CPU not enough and Vid chip not enough)!!!

To top all that off, I was gonna save up for a new machine (I remember a day when i would just go order the shit and build me one, but now I gotta save). We had a pretty bad TStorm come thru here this past weekend. I was on my old XP Gamer machine (still not enough for MWO) and lightning strikes very close by. Power goes out (for about 20 minutes).

When the storm passes and power is restored, I am a little concerned about me gamer being smacked even tho on a surge protector (nice one). To my surprise, it starts right up and works just fine. However, my olde server machine (I now use it as a testbed machine to check out crap before putting any software on my old gamer or my new laptop) seems to be zapped. It was NOT on and plugged into the SAME surge protector as my other (gamer) machine.

When I hit the power button, the front panel lights up as does one of the internal fans, but that seems to be about it. I am thinking power supply, but it could be more. Cant check it out unless I replace the power supply. Its an old 2.4ghz dual core 1 gig ram XP machine, but it worked and worked great, now, not so much.

So, no PC capable of playing MWO and also down 1 pc that I used to work on other peoples machines as well as my own. Really sux.

From what I have read, gathered and Dev statements, MWO is pretty CPU intensive. They highly suggest Quad core CPU

I been looking at Tiger and NewEgg and price wise/performance I am thinking AMD Quad Core if I ever get up the cashola. I have had very could success with AMD in the past (in fact, I have only owned about 3 different Intel based machines). Price wise, they are MUCH less than Intel and the performance is only a wee bit less (especially for 2oo to 300$ diff in price). Will shoot for 6 to 8gb Ram and I will most likely go with an NVidia GPU. I already have a GREAT sound card and speaker system and probably enough fans out of my old (non working server and currently working old gamer) to keep it very cool inside.

I will still need to buy a copy of Win 7. I have one on my Laptop, but it did not come with a disc (cheap bastards), only a recovery section on the HDD and my backup discs I created when i bought it.

Based on all the above info, it will be awhile before Ole Vettie can get into MWO.
Boo!

So in the mean time, its MW4Mercs and some MegaMek.