{"id":993,"date":"2010-06-03T20:13:41","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T02:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=993"},"modified":"2010-06-03T20:13:41","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T02:13:41","slug":"the-seven-string-motherfucker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=993","title":{"rendered":"THE SEVEN STRING MOTHERFUCKER!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I gave myself a treat today.\u00a0 I went to the music store and bought another guitar.\u00a0 I now own seven of them.<\/p>\n<p>Holy fuck!\u00a0 What the hell is wrong with me!?\u00a0 Why the fuck do I own so many guitars!?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/crazy-white-640_0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-991\" title=\"crazy-white-640_0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/crazy-white-640_0-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/crazy-white-640_0-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/crazy-white-640_0-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/crazy-white-640_0.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThere is a logical explanation for this all.\u00a0 Bear with me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/bear-with-me-iphone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-992\" title=\"bear-with-me-iphone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/bear-with-me-iphone-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/bear-with-me-iphone-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/bear-with-me-iphone.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFirst of all, one of them is an old and very cheap classical guitar that my dad bought from Sears in the 60s.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a piece of crap.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s broken.\u00a0 I only included it for shock value.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/broken_guitar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-994\" title=\"broken_guitar\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/broken_guitar-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/broken_guitar-300x211.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/broken_guitar.jpg 378w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nNext, one of my guitars &#8211; one of them newfangled &#8216;lectrical guitars &#8211; will now be gotten rid of.\u00a0 The strings are too close together at the head, and my clumsy big fingers can&#8217;t seem to get into them right.\u00a0 Plus it has a whammy bar, which I don&#8217;t use and don&#8217;t want.\u00a0 So that one is targeted for termination.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Cameronporn2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-995\" title=\"Cameronporn2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Cameronporn2-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Cameronporn2-243x300.jpg 243w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Cameronporn2-830x1024.jpg 830w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Cameronporn2.jpg 1581w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAnd one of them is also an electric&#8230; but it&#8217;s the first guitar I ever owned.\u00a0 Sentimental value, you know.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Sentimental-Journey-Nose-Art.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-996\" title=\"Sentimental Journey Nose Art\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Sentimental-Journey-Nose-Art-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Sentimental-Journey-Nose-Art-300x190.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Sentimental-Journey-Nose-Art-1024x650.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOne of those is a classical guitar&#8230; which I keep at work so I can play it on my lunch breaks.\u00a0 It can stay there because it goes out of tune too easily.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/too-loud-for-kids.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-997\" title=\"too-loud-for-kids\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/too-loud-for-kids-300x259.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/too-loud-for-kids-300x259.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/too-loud-for-kids.jpg 434w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOne of them is my new(ish) classical guitar, which sounds really good and is what I play the most now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/024_love_my_guitar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-998\" title=\"024_love_my_guitar\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/024_love_my_guitar-258x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/024_love_my_guitar-258x300.jpg 258w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/024_love_my_guitar.jpg 298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOne of them is my Ibanez 5-string bass&#8230; which I don&#8217;t play as much as I should.\u00a0 This is an actual picture of it that is in actual use on the actual Wikipedia site:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/5-string_bass.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-999\" title=\"5-string_bass\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/5-string_bass-222x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/5-string_bass-222x300.png 222w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/5-string_bass.png 371w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAnd one of them is the very first guitar I owned, a bass guitar that looks incredibly fucking cool and WAY FUCKING METAL, but unfortunately sounds like a big pile of shit and is also broken.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Tantra_Women-Sentimental-Inside_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1000\" title=\"Tantra_Women-Sentimental Inside_b\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Tantra_Women-Sentimental-Inside_b-300x275.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Tantra_Women-Sentimental-Inside_b-300x275.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Tantra_Women-Sentimental-Inside_b.jpg 418w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBut you know me.\u00a0 I&#8217;m a pack-rat.\u00a0 Or am I a raccoon&#8230; meh.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, now that I&#8217;ve rambled and rambled on about this stultifying gibberish, I will announce to your complete ambivalence that I have bought me a sweet-ass 7 string electric guitar with which to play dirty and nasty distorted sounds like I just can&#8217;t play on my classical guitar.\u00a0 Also, to bend strings.\u00a0 Can&#8217;t really do that on a classical guitar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2362300233_de5e9cd500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1001\" title=\"2362300233_de5e9cd500\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2362300233_de5e9cd500-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2362300233_de5e9cd500-300x175.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2362300233_de5e9cd500.jpg 395w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/congressmanletsc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1002\" title=\"congressmanletsc\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/congressmanletsc-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/congressmanletsc-300x227.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/congressmanletsc.jpg 475w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\\m\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I gave myself a treat today.\u00a0 I went to the music store and bought another guitar.\u00a0 I now own seven of them. Holy fuck!\u00a0 What the hell is wrong with me!?\u00a0 Why the fuck do I own so many guitars!? There is a logical explanation for this all.\u00a0 Bear with me. First of all, one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[316],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-guitars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions\/1004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}