December 2009
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PRS CCM Report
So if you receive PRS Guitars’ CCM Report email newsletters, you’ll see that my PRS SE Custom Semi-Hollow demo video was included in the mail-out… Pretty cool! I knew that this was in the works, but I didn’t know they’d use a picture of me for the top of the email! This is a bit of an early Christmas present for me! I think incredibly highly of the folks at PRS, and...
Snowball Fight in Times Square
This is NOT what I think of when I think of Times Square! Awesome! Thanks Mom, for sending this to me! I think my favorite part is the girl yelling “RETREAT!!!” at the end. Haha. Jonathan
Oh We're Getting Christmas-ey!
The Steingard residence is officially ready for Christmas. We’ve got a killer tree and plenty of presents under it for the whole family….. My entire family is coming down to stay with us this Christmas, so it’s going to be a full house! We’re gonna have eight people in the house over the holidays - so fun! I hope your holidays are all wonderful, and you get to spend them...
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How We Think About Money : Part 2
I had a comment on my last “How We Think About Money” post that I thought was worth discussing….timestamp> Anonymous said…Be careful with that credit score - it affects your car insurance premiums, property insurance premiums, any rentals you might want to partake of, mortgage rates, even jobs, as employers often check credit scores. Ramsey ignorantly assumes that people...
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How We Think About Money : Part 1
Today I canceled a credit card. It was as if the heavens opened, and a dove descended from the sky…. and voice boomed “Well done, my good and faithful servant!” Canceling a credit card has got to be one of the best feelings ever. This particular card was the first US credit card I was ever accepted for, 4 years ago or so. I had originally opened it to build credit here in the...
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PRS Roadshow
The Roadshow was a fun event! About 30-40 folks were in attendance, and Paul started off by telling stories from the early days of PRS right up to the present…. He told a story about how many classic guitar shapes came to be…. How the Fender headstock was sculpted to look much like the side profile of a violin headstock, and how the Les Paul shape was basically a smaller, solid...
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PRS Roadshow comes to Nashville
Wanna know what I doing today? Of course you do. I’m going to the PRS Roadshow. In an effort to connect with fans and players of PRS guitars, PRS Amps, and PRS acoustics, the wonderful people at Paul Reed Smith are doing a tour of sorts, and today they’re coming to Nashville. Paul Smith himself will be there along with Johnny Hiland, one of PRS’s foremost endorsees. ...
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End of the World Movies
There have been a slew of “end of the world” movies in the last ten years or so. I’m a fan… because for some reason I enjoy watching scenes of unparalleled destruction. Call it sadistic, I don’t know…. In any case, there are certain things that seem to be constant throughout most of these end of the world movies….. So if you ever grow up to be an...
Christmas "Decorations"
How tempted am I to do this to my house? HAHA! A quote from the “decorator”: “Good news is that I truly out did myself this year with my Christmas decorations. The bad news is that I had to take him down after 2 days. I had more people come screaming up to my house than ever. Great stories. But two things made me take it down. First, the cops advised me that it would cause...
Michael Steingard : We Are One
Hey Guys…. So last fall I spent some time working on producing a record for my brother, Michael. It’s now up on iTunes and available! It’s called We Are One, and it’s something of an experimental worship album…. I’m really happy with how it turned out, and I’m excited to see it iTunes now! Click to view this album in iTunes …. Also, Michael...
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PRS SE Semi-Hollow Demo
So yesterday during our live chat I was asked to DEMO my PRS Se Semi-Hollow guitar by a user named Jkilla - I’m trusting that “J” doesn’t refer to me. .timestamp>Here you go Jkilla! I used my Bad Cat Hot Cat 30r Head through a Heritage 2x12 with vintage 30 speakers. For pedals, I used my TS-808 TubeScreamer first, and then a Wampler Plextasy overdrive. At the end of...
Awake and Alive Tour - FIN!
Last night, in Grand Rapids, MI, we wrapped up this 50 city tour we’ve been a part of over the last 10 weeks. We made lots of great new friends and had a wonderful time LIVING LIFE LOUD! A GREAT MULTITUDE of wonderful memories were made on this tour….. so many I can barely remember them all. Thankfully I don’t have to, because of the miracle of youtube! I’ve been shocked to...
Timmy Ho's!
I know I’ve mentioned Tim Horton’s many times on this little blog of mine…. but it appears as if you’re going to have to endure another rant about this wonderful place…… as there was a Tim Horton’s 0.3 miles away from the venue yesterday! We all walked down to the Timmy Ho’s multiple times….. and over the course of the day I managed to devour...
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Confessions of a Bandwagon Ducks Fan.
Hey All…. So I’ve never been a big football fan…. but it’s hard to maintain that track record when you’ve got a friend like my buddy Adam…. who is the biggest Oregon Ducks fan EVER. He watches every Oregon Ducks game in the front lounge of our tour bus (Adam does merchandise with us, so tours with us wherever we go). As the Duck’s season has progressed,...