Mitch Powitz

@RobertTalisse Nice. Thanks.

@powitz I've used various gauge large-triangle Dunlops for a while, now beginning to like the feel of their smaller curved-side triangles. .88 gauge

I've been rethinking my approach to guitar picks lately, just FYI....

One of the most remarkable things about the preservation of Robert E. Lee's Headquarters is the photos of the home taken just days after the Battle of Gettysburg in July of 1863. Join Garry Adelman as he "steps into" Mathew Brady's historic shots. Take note of Mary Thompson, who can be seen in the foreground of the photos. She had lived in the house for 17 years by the time of the battle, and remained in her home, tending wounded soldiers, as the battle raged outside her door. #WomensHistoryMonth

@Chiprockabilly @ca92075 My wife and I were singing ZZ Top right as we listened 😂😂😂🎸🎸🎸

@ca92075 @powitz Appreciate you putting your ear to it. Yes, there’s Chuck n ZZ 👍

Installment 3 from guy that played in rock n roll cover bands for decades. 8 bits from popular songs here. How many can you identify?

Just trying to “pick” your brain 🧠 🎸😂

🎶#Tele #Sunday This year @Fender celebrates 75 years of the #Telecaster. Often stereotyped as a country guitar, it's actually foundational to the history and tone of #soul. Here’s my take on sitting in a classic soul pocket. Who can guess the track? 🎸 #guitar #Fender #cover

@PawnshopGuitar Nice. Right!

@powitz It’s an 07 Ariel Levine Signature Squier.

Happy Straturday!

George Lucas traded $350,000 in directing salary for something Fox executives thought was worthless: the right to sell Star Wars toys. It was 1976. Over 40 studios had already passed on his script, including Disney. Fox only greenlit the project because they wanted Lucas for other films. Nobody at the studio expected to make money on a space opera with no stars, so when Lucas offered to cut his directing fee from $500,000 to $150,000 in exchange for merchandising and sequel rights, Fox said yes on the spot. Movie merchandise was a dead business. Fox had lost money on Doctor Dolittle lunchboxes a decade earlier. They thought they were getting the better deal. Lucas couldn’t even find a toy company that wanted in. Kenner, a division of cereal company General Foods, finally bought the licensing for a flat $100,000. Then Star Wars opened. Between 1977 and 1978, Kenner sold $100 million worth of toys off that $100,000 investment. They couldn’t make enough for Christmas ’77, so they sold empty boxes with IOUs inside, promising to mail the action figures later. Parents paid real money for cardboard and a promise. Nobody around the production saw any of this coming. Alec Guinness, who played Obi-Wan, privately called the script “fairy-tale rubbish.” But he was shrewd enough to negotiate 2.25% of royalties instead of a flat fee. About 20 minutes of total screen time earned his estate somewhere between $50 million and $100 million. Lucas himself was so convinced the film would flop that he offered Spielberg a bet while visiting the Close Encounters set: swap 2.5% of each other’s profits. Spielberg took it. That handshake has paid him around $40 million. And then the money started compounding. Lucas poured his Star Wars profits into ILM, the effects house he’d built for the film. When its computer graphics division got too expensive to maintain, he sold it to Steve Jobs in 1986 for $10 million. Jobs renamed it Pixar. Disney bought Pixar twenty years later for $7.4 billion. Then in 2012, Disney came back for the rest, buying Lucasfilm itself for $4.05 billion. Total franchise revenue today sits around $46.7 billion, over $20 billion from merchandise alone. The filmmaker 40 studios passed on is now worth $5.3 billion according to Forbes. Fifty years ago today, cameras rolled on a desert in Tunisia. The $350,000 pay cut that made it all possible might be the best trade in business history.

The dog tags of 58,307 US soldiers killed during the Vietnam War at the Harold Washington Library Center, Chicago

@PawnshopGuitar @SentimentalStr4 First glance I read “Stevie Nicks” 😂🎸

Oh whatcha do to me

Chicago on writing "25 or 6 to 4"

Babe Ruth hit 149 home runs after William Shatner was born.

Mellow Sunday. "St. Swithin's Day" - Billy Bragg

Lindsey Buckingham...Dreams...Fleetwood Mac guitar cover. Such a talented and original songwriter and player!! This preset took a lot of research and took a while to build. You are only hearing what my phone mic is picking up. The preset is enourmous with lots of panning. Follow me I follow back!! for guitarists: (Fractal Axe FX 3) First block is a very much used volume block..I am swelling almost every note and chord, a drive block (microboost at just .66 boost for a little bite) plexi 50w jumped amp block (lindsey used a marshall for this song), VCA trem block 7.700 rate 80% depth traingle lfo, I also have a parallelblock above this for dry signal, my special sauce chorus block analog stereo at just 10% mix for body, a rotary block 2.281 rate, dual delay block (left) 375ms 26% fb (right) 500ms 26% fb 16.3 mix, reverb sun plate 2.40 ms 5.1% mix (in) (vol) (drive) (amp)-(pan trem)-(cab)(chorus)(rotary) \(empty) / (dly)(rvb)(out 1 and 2) 1 for stage monitor 2 for front of house #lindseybuckingham #keithwhite #fleetwoodmac #dreams #stevienicks #guitarcover

Spoke with some friends in the plastics business. They are just about out of raw materials and cannot find new supplies as China restricts exports of petroleum-related downstream products. This is going to get much worse before it gets better.

"Soul On Fire" - Danzig's best post-Misfits song and it's not even close...

📹SATURDAY’S FORECAST | It’s our warmest weekend in 4 months! Enjoy it. The end of March will close out just like it began, chilly. cupajoe.live/jersey-shore-w…

Happy 89th Birthday to Dave Thies! Minnesota native (DeLaSalle HS + St. Mary’s basketball scoring record holder) who pitched 9 games for the 1963 KC @Athletics (0-1, 4.62 ERA). 15 wins with the Hawaii Islanders in 1961 PCL! #baseball #mlb #MLBPA #MLB2026 #nostalgia #sports #fyp #nostalgic #kansascity @MLB @MLBPA