{"id":2131,"date":"2009-04-24T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-04-24T15:00:12","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T15:00:12","slug":"listening-in-gear-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/listening-in-gear-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening In: Gear Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8vTLVWl-Q_Y?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nDo you partake in gear talk? I don&#8217;t. Although I&#8217;ve played guitar since I was 16 and have been recording music in studios and at home since I was 17, yet I have almost no interest in nor, more importantly, ability to discuss gear. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is it a classic brand guitar of guitar, like a Fender, a Gibson, or a Rickenbacker &#8211; rather than some new-fangled &#8220;pointy&#8221; guitar?<\/li>\n<li>Is it a funny model among one of those classic brands, like a <strong>Gibson Grabber<\/strong> bass?<\/li>\n<li>For recording equipment, does it have big knobs?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That about does it for my interest in guitar and recording gear, the gear I&#8217;m most likely to handle. Likewise, I can&#8217;t be bothered to talk about stereo stuff. <em>Will it play music? Yes? Great!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I do, however, get a kick out of listening to two drummers talk about their gear. The other night, for instance, I spent about 15 minutes listening to discussion between our band&#8217;s drummer, <strong>Townsman Sethro<\/strong>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2009\/04\/20\/richard-lloyd-man-on\"><strong>Billy Ficca<\/strong>, the &#8220;wackoid&#8221; Television drummer touring with his old bandmate, <strong>Richard Lloyd<\/strong><\/a>. When I walked over, Sethro told me wide-eyed that Billy was playing the snare he&#8217;d used on <em>Marquee Moon<\/em>! I had to admit, that was pretty cool, but given the chance to open a dialog about the recording techniques employed by producer <strong>Andy Johns<\/strong>, I just sat back and listened to them talk about what the snare was made of, what kinds of heads they used &#8211; on the bottom as well as the top &#8211; and so forth. Drummers have lots of <em>necessary<\/em> gear, and I think it&#8217;s important that a drummer know about that stuff, much more important than it is for a guitarist to be a gearhead, for instance. Plus, you don&#8217;t have to understand anything about electronics to at least get the gist of what drummers are talking about when they talk gear. Have you ever heard a bassist go on about his or her gear? No offense, but that may be the gearhead discussion I least want to hear.<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you talk gear? Do you listen in to gear talk? Do you prefer to talk gear that you know or listen in to discussions over gear you don&#8217;t really understand?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This will likely be the most discussed topic EVER on Rock Town Hall, so please be patient if the servers slow down. Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you partake in gear talk? I don&#8217;t. Although I&#8217;ve played guitar since I was 16 and have been recording music in studios and at home since I was 17, yet I have almost no interest in nor, more importantly, ability to discuss gear. Is it a classic brand guitar of guitar, like a Fender, <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/listening-in-gear-talk\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[164],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}