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pinch harmonics

On the guitar, pinch harmonics is the act of lightly touching a string with the edge of your thumb/palm (picking hand) after plucking it. Similar to natural harmonics except you're not playing off a fret. If you use a lot of distortion and gain it produces a squealing effect.
A lot of guitarists use pinch harmonics, most notably Zakk Wylde, but also players like ZZ Top, Dimebag Darrell, and even Steve Vai.
by bryan18 August 21, 2005
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jack white

Jack White is a buff 6'6" guy from the White Stripes that kicked the shit out of the Von Bondies lead singer after a gig. He had to go to court and got a $1000 fine and community service or something.
the von bondies guy cried like a pussy and took it to court becuz he got his face smashed in
by bryan18 September 1, 2005
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leif ericsson

a pimp from the 10th century
by bryan18 September 5, 2005
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finger tapping

On the guitar, finger tapping is the act of plucking a string with your right hand middle finger (the most common "tapping finger"), either open or fretted, and then hammering on the fretboard with the same finger. Usually you will do hammer-ons/pull-offs with your left hand in between the time that your right hand is tapping.

Tapping can be very simple, e.g. 2 finger tapping where you are simply playing a fast trill (like Toccata and Feuge in D Minor), or it can be very complicated like Buckethead's 10 finger tapping.

Many people claim that Eddie Van Halen invented multiple finger tapping, others say it was Billy Sheehan or Randy Rhoads, etc. But it was definitely Van Halen who brought it to the main stream audience in the 80's.
Finger tapping can add a lot to a guitar solo.
by bryan18 September 17, 2005
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bill and ted's excellent adventure

The most awesome movie ever made. Two punk kids from the 80's (Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter) go back in time with a phone booth.
Bill and Ted's is a most excellent movie.
by bryan18 August 29, 2005
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high school

High school is pointless. If you want to make it in the world, you need an entrepreneurial spirit, not a report card.

All of these preppy straight-A kids are going to end up making ~$100,000/annual or less in the real world. They're going to have a $300,000 house with a white picket fence and a Chevy Suburban for their soccer mom wives to drive their intolerable kids to middle school in. They're going to spend the rest of their miserable lives going to work, coming home 9 hours later to their shitbag kids and nagging wife, getting drunk while watching ESPN and doing the same thing the next day.
Both my dad and my uncle fucked around in high school but are very well off from the stock exchange/business/real estate.
by bryan18 September 5, 2005
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counter-strike

Most addicting video game ever, next to World of Warcraft. Any chick that tells you not to play CS for hours on end can suck a fat one.
Weed, sex, guitars, and counter-strike through high school, then use my dad's money to get me into college.

^^^
the way to live life
by bryan18 September 6, 2005
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