The One Truth's Lounge Thread

[Dreamtimer]

When you posted Eminem, I recalled that I was amazed at his ability to rap. I never forgot the white dude I knew in college who could rap. He was in the school of theology.

Eminem had to earn his creds.

[Dreamtimer]

I'm not sure who recalls this college mash-up from Boston University that I posted back in 2019. I didn't make a big deal of who was in it, only a mention of the fact that one young lady in it was just elected to Congress.

I'm also not sure who's seen the various other selectively edited, slowed, and shortened versions which omitted the other students in the original creative piece and only focused on the member of Congress.

Because, you see, the idea was to make her look bad. Those altered videos are still all over the place and if a person doesn't know the real origin....well, we see the continued obsessions.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj5dY0qwkzs


For those who may not know, the mascot is a Boston University mascot. (in case of furry trigger)

[Wind]

Because, you see, the idea was to make her look bad.

Looks pretty good to me.

[Emil El Zapato]

Looks pretty good to me.

The old clipped video trick. lol, most people with any sense are wise to that one. After watching this video it makes me wish I had been paying more attention ...

[Aragorn]

Some Van Hagar...

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN8Ncoenewg

[Dreamtimer]

[Aragorn]

Some Van Hagar...

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN8Ncoenewg

A cookie for whoever can guess what the "5150" in the title of the song stands for.

[Wind]

A cookie for whoever can guess what the "5150" in the title of the song stands for.

Any hints?

[Aragorn]

A cookie for whoever can guess what the "5150" in the title of the song stands for.

Any hints?

Now that would be unfair, wouldn't it? Then I might as well give up the answer myself.

[Emil El Zapato]

Now that would be unfair, wouldn't it? Then I might as well give up the answer myself.

I can't drive 50 or 51

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvV3nn_de2k

[Dreamtimer]

Reference to a kind of car?

[Aragorn]

A cookie for whoever can guess what the "5150" in the title of the song stands for.

Any hints?

Now that would be unfair, wouldn't it? Then I might as well give up the answer myself.

I can't drive 50 or 51

Okay, since none of the people who regularly look at this thread have provided a proper answer, I'll eat the cookie myself.

The song title refers to Eddie Van Halen's guitar amplifier. During the 1990s, Eddie was using a Peavey 5150 amplifier, well-known for its high-gain sound at the time, courtesy of no less than eight 12AX7 preamp tubes/valves for the 100 Watt version, or seven 12AX7 tubes/valves for the 50 Watt version.

Eddie later on severed ties with Peavey ─ I don't know why ─ and started his own company, called EVH. And because he had trademarked the 5150 name, he released his own EVH 5150-III guitar amplifier, available in three different configurations, i.e. a 100 Watt head with eight 12AX7 preamp tubes/valves and a 4x12" speaker cabinet, a 50 Watt head with seven 12AX7 preamp tubes/valves and a 2x12" speaker cabinet, and a 50 Watt combo with a single 12" speaker and a built-in attenuator, so that you can drop the volume all the way down to bedroom level without losing any of the drive provided by the preamp section.

All three versions have three channels with individual controls per channel: a clean channel that can produce a fair amount of crunch, a crunch channel that can range from only mildly driven to fairly high-gain distortion, and a lead channel that can go from high-gain to completely over-the-top distortion.

Eddie wanted it this way because he never used any external distortion effects, and back in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, he was using Marshall amplifiers with an external attenuator, so that he could lower the volume of his amplifier without having to diminish the amount of gain ─ the Marshalls he was using at the time did not have separate controls for gain and master volume, so he used the attenuator to lower the voltage of the wall power going to the amplifier. And as a surprise effect, he discovered that the attenuator actually created even more distortion because it was starving the tubes/valves.

Peavey continues selling their own version of the amplifier Eddie used in the 1990s, but they've rebranded it to 6150, given that Eddie owned the 5150 trademark.

All EVH gear ─ the amplifiers and the EVH Wolfgang guitars, which he named after his son ─ is in fact being manufactured by Fender, but is exclusively sold under the EVH brand. The amplifiers and the top-level guitars are manufactured at the American Fender branch, while the more affordable versions of the guitar are manufactured in the Far East, at the same company that makes the Asian versions of Charvel and Jackson guitars, both of which have for a while already been Fender-owned brands.

Eddie's first ever electric guitar, the so-called Frankenstrat, was built by himself using the body of a Charvel Stratocaster copy and an aftermarket replacement neck, back when Charvel was still an independent company that manufactured the "hot-rodded" versions of Fender models that would later on become popular among 1980s hard rock guitarists, and at some point during the 2000s, Eddie collaborated with Fender on a limited run of Charvel Frankenstrat guitars that were hand-taped by Eddie before being sent to the paint-spraying booth, so that they would all have a unique striping pattern, but all in the same style as Eddie's original red Frankenstrat.

[Aragorn]

This week's HSCC...

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V26PchV8uAM

[Aragorn]

And this week's LLB...

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70kh_kD1NlM

[Wind]

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lin-a2lTelg