Hilarious...

[line6man]

Someone with a "Rosewood" neck needs to send that dumb muthr fooker a picture, and say look you DMF I have a rosewood neck...What an asshat..

He'd just tell you it would be "pretty wacky sounding," and then you would point out that he argued it would make no difference, and then he would call you a DMF for questioning him, even though you caught him in a contradiction. :dontknow:

Seriously, did he just say that a Rosewood neck would be pretty wacky sounding, and then go on to say how it wouldn't matter?

I wonder what a rosewood neck would sound like up against his skull...

Too MF'n warm, if you hit him with the wood, and super bright if you hit him with the inlay.

 

[Cagey]

Traumatic Brain Injuries behave in all sorts of weird and bizarre ways, can truly change who you are.

I live to tell. I had a traumatic brain injury about 12 years ago, and it damaged the muscle control of the left side of my body as well as giving me substantial retrograde amnesia and my short-term memory is shot. They didn't think I'd ever walk again, but I do. Some memories come back with the right stimulus. They're not gone, they're just not normally accessible. Psychological testing showed I still have the same IQ so I can figure complex things out, but without the recall my ability to concentrate and learn is dramatically reduced, and most of my education/experience is gone. It's a bitch. I used to be a top-notch programmer, now it's all I can do to run Linux. And Windows? Fuhgeddaboudit. I'll never get next to the plot of that nightmare again.

What's been fun about it is the stuff that got erased that didn't do me any good. For example, I used to be quite skittish about spiders. Now, one could run over my foot and up my leg and I don't think it would even crank my heartbeat. Just kill it and be done with it. Whatever memory made me weird about them is gone.

 

[DangerousR6]

Traumatic Brain Injuries behave in all sorts of weird and bizarre ways, can truly change who you are.

I live to tell. I had a traumatic brain injury about 12 years ago, and it damaged the muscle control of the left side of my body as well as giving me substantial retrograde amnesia and my short-term memory is shot. They didn't think I'd ever walk again, but I do. Some memories come back with the right stimulus. They're not gone, they're just not normally accessible. Psychological testing showed I still have the same IQ so I can figure complex things out, but without the recall my ability to concentrate and learn is dramatically reduced, and most of my education/experience is gone. It's a bitch. I used to be a top-notch programmer, now it's all I can do to run Linux. And Windows? Fuhgeddaboudit. I'll never get next to the plot of that nightmare again.

What's been fun about it is the stuff that got erased that didn't do me any good. For example, I used to be quite skittish about spiders. Now, one could run over my foot and up my leg and I don't think it would even crank my heartbeat. Just kill it and be done with it. Whatever memory made me weird about them is gone.

I had to read this 6 times, I kept forgetting what you said at the beginning...What was i saying... :icon_scratch:

 

[DustyCat]

Is it not all in your mind?  :dontknow:

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

In his defense, he said the rosewood fretboard and maple fretboard sounded the same (and proved it with open strings  :icon_scratch.  He said a rosewood neck would sound wacky.

 

[DangerousR6]

Traumatic Brain Injuries behave in all sorts of weird and bizarre ways, can truly change who you are.

I live to tell. I had a traumatic brain injury about 12 years ago, and it damaged the muscle control of the left side of my body as well as giving me substantial retrograde amnesia and my short-term memory is shot. They didn't think I'd ever walk again, but I do. Some memories come back with the right stimulus. They're not gone, they're just not normally accessible. Psychological testing showed I still have the same IQ so I can figure complex things out, but without the recall my ability to concentrate and learn is dramatically reduced, and most of my education/experience is gone. It's a bitch. I used to be a top-notch programmer, now it's all I can do to run Linux. And Windows? Fuhgeddaboudit. I'll never get next to the plot of that nightmare again.

What's been fun about it is the stuff that got erased that didn't do me any good. For example, I used to be quite skittish about spiders. Now, one could run over my foot and up my leg and I don't think it would even crank my heartbeat. Just kill it and be done with it. Whatever memory made me weird about them is gone.

But seriously Cagey, all kidding aside. You're real lucky to come out the other side with some positive aspects of life still intact.. :icon_thumright:

 

[Cagey]

In his defense, he said the rosewood fretboard and maple fretboard sounded the same (and proved it with open strings  :icon_scratch.  He said a rosewood neck would sound wacky.

I was more than a little curious about that as well. How do you test the effect of a fretboard by not using it? Then, he didn't have a Rosewood neck to support his contention that one would sound wacky. I'm surprised he didn't point out how Maple necks repelled tigers, since there weren't any around. I mean, it's obvious, right? Maybe it just goes without saying.

 

[Cagey]

But seriously Cagey, all kidding aside. You're real lucky to come out the other side with some positive aspects of life still intact.. :icon_thumright:

Yeah, I know. They didn't think I'd live at first, then didn't think I'd walk, on and on. Pretty pessimistic, for a bunch of doctors and therapists. In their defense, it was pretty dicey at first. I didn't even recognize my own mother when I came out of the coma. Made her cry. Terrible thing to do to your mother.

Also in the professional's defense, they busted their humps bringing me back. A lot of what the therapists want you to do makes no sense, and if you over-think it you won't do it (to your own peril). But, as goofy and sometimes simplistic as many of the things they ask you do do are, they work. They didn't make this stuff up last night; it's experience talking and it's valuable.

 

[line6man]

In his defense, he said the rosewood fretboard and maple fretboard sounded the same (and proved it with open strings  :icon_scratch.  He said a rosewood neck would sound wacky.

Thought he said something about aluminum necks sounding the same, too. I'll have to watch again.

 

[DangerousR6]

In his defense, he said the rosewood fretboard and maple fretboard sounded the same (and proved it with open strings  :icon_scratch.  He said a rosewood neck would sound wacky.

Thought he said something about aluminum necks sounding the same, too. I'll have to watch again.

Actually he said there is a guitar that the neck is just an aluminum rod with the frets attached to it. No actual neck.

 

[Cagey]

He was probably talking about one of these...

It's not aluminum, it's stainless. They're made by Gittler.

 

[line6man]

He was probably talking about one of these...

It's not aluminum, it's stainless. They're made by Gittler.

There was another company that did something similar. They also had some cool wooden puzzle piece inlay basses, and some really funky basses that were covered in fuzzy stuff. I've been trying to find their website again for a while now.

 

[Strat Avenger]

Cagey, from reading your posts here over the past couple of years, I would never have guessed you ever had a brain injury. You always come across are quite intelligent; even more so than the average guitar enthusiast.

It appears you got lucky.

 

[Dan025]

my neighbor was a talented electronics engineer and self taught programmer. he made his millions pioneering a lot of things that apply to digital music. his company had the first expansion cards that could encode .mp3 audio in real time. turned a lot of heads in trade shows at a time before the whole digital music revolution. recently he had a stroke, well likely it was several small hemorrhages as his behavior became reclusive and he was getting confused and losing time. then he had the big one and lost most of the function in one hand, most of his speach, curiously unless he was trying to calm his wife when he was perfectly coherent, he could tell his wife he was fine and sounded weird because he just woke up but when he was trying to recall/explain what he was experiencing he couldn't form the words and just kept trailing off and saying "wow" when he realized he wasn't making sense. then he went into a coma and the doctors were suggesting a DNR but he came out of it. now his speech is basically normal, he has all of his knowledge from engineering but not the concentration. i watched him go from a point where he couldn't operate a computer or hook up his cable box to setting up his home internet in a remarkably short amount of time. the brains ability to heal is amazing. but more relevant, he does have outbursts of anger, or blaming. something insignificant becomes a problem and it's somebody's fault kind of thing.

 

[Dan025]

I was once an EMT. When I took the class one of the teachers told us of going on a gunshot call once. He gets there and there's this older gentleman, he's nice and friendly, polite as can be, sitting up talking to him. Paramedic is getting confused when guys son walks in and says -, he's not like this - he's a mean SOB. Dude tried to commit suicide, bullet traveled around the front of his skull = frontal lobotomy. He died from infection, rather than the injury itself.

Traumatic Brain Injuries behave in all sorts of weird and bizarre ways, can truly change who you are.

I also know people who I could call  - and I use this term very carefully and specifically - emotionally retarded. Mentally, physically and socially they're completely normal. But deep down they have some pretty ugly scars, and it's like they have no more control  over or sometimes even awareness of  their emotions than a young child.  They can be ..challenging to deal with.

i know what you are talking about with the "emotionally retarded" thing. it can be frustrating. sometimes (but bit always) it's not "scars" some people are just born that way. sometimes i think people look for too much meaning in things. sometimes there aren't scars that shaped a person to be a certain way, some people are just not like others.

 

[Cagey]

Cagey, from reading your posts here over the past couple of years, I would never have guessed you ever had a brain injury. You always come across are quite intelligent; even more so than the average guitar enthusiast.

It appears you got lucky.

Thanks. I did, indeed. I was so far gone when they got me to the hospital that they gave me Last Rites (it was a Catholic hospital).

But, as DanO said, the brain's ability to heal is amazing. Things get re-routed, other areas get utilized, etc. It seems we have a great deal of redundancy in there. It's not 100%, but you get to stay alive, and that counts for a lot.

 

[alterbridgefan]

Look up Daniel Tammett, or savant. Very interesting, the rewiring thing.

 

[DangerousR6]

Cagey, from reading your posts here over the past couple of years, I would never have guessed you ever had a brain injury. You always come across are quite intelligent; even more so than the average guitar enthusiast.

It appears you got lucky.

Thanks. I did, indeed. I was so far gone when they got me to the hospital that they gave me Last Rites (it was a Catholic hospital).

But, as DanO said, the brain's ability to heal is amazing. Things get re-routed, other areas get utilized, etc. It seems we have a great deal of redundancy in there. It's not 100%, but you get to stay alive, and that counts for a lot.

In some situations, the right of left hemisphere can take over duties of it's opposing half in a time of need. They say we only use 10% of our brain, but maybe the other 90% is just reserve... :dontknow:

 

[Dan025]

Cagey, from reading your posts here over the past couple of years, I would never have guessed you ever had a brain injury. You always come across are quite intelligent; even more so than the average guitar enthusiast.

It appears you got lucky.

Thanks. I did, indeed. I was so far gone when they got me to the hospital that they gave me Last Rites (it was a Catholic hospital).

But, as DanO said, the brain's ability to heal is amazing. Things get re-routed, other areas get utilized, etc. It seems we have a great deal of redundancy in there. It's not 100%, but you get to stay alive, and that counts for a lot.

In some situations, the right of left hemisphere can take over duties of it's opposing half in a time of need. They say we only use 10% of our brain, but maybe the other 90% is just reserve... :dontknow:

i think what that means is we only use 10% of our brain at a time. i mean pretty much all of the brain becomes active during some activity or another but since humans don't really multi task, more switch tasks as needed there aren't too many situations where more than 10% is being used at once. in a normal brain specific areas do specific tasks. but in a person with a damaged sense or damaged brain weird things start to happen as the brain compensates. blind people can access there visual cortex with touch or even sound. other weird things like that.

 

[swarfrat]

[i know what you are talking about with the "emotionally retarded" thing. it can be frustrating. sometimes (but bit always) it's not "scars" some people are just born that way. sometimes i think people look for too much meaning in things. sometimes there aren't scars that shaped a person to be a certain way, some people are just not like others.

True, there are people who are just A******* or PEBFH. I wasn't trying to make everyone out to be a victim of circumstance.  Just saying that not everyone who comes across that way means to, or realizes the intensity of what they're doing.  In this case we have a clue that something has happened.

I have seen quite a few , some close to me, from Autism Spectrum Disorders where they really don't have a clue about this whole emotion thing, to abuse, to people who were  just never taught that this emotion thing needs to be controlled or at least filtered for different contexts.  This scares me about dementia more than memory loss, the idea that someone I love, or even myself, becomes cranky and spiteful to those taking care of them.

So cut people some slack. Its ok to avoid them if you have no social obligation, no point in getting worked up over something you don't need to put yourself through.