Instruments and players. Styles and techniques. Care and maintenance. Pickups and amplification. Picks, strings, accessories. From kumbaya to capos.

Axes, amps, and FX. Strings, cables, and accessories. Tubes and tuning pegs. Stacks and combos. Care and maintenance. Pedalboards and Pods. Getting sounds. Compressors, flangers, fuzz boxes, delays.

Instruments, amps, pickups, strings, effects, DI boxes and virtual amps, styles and techniques, fingers vs. picks, getting a sound. Get ready to rumble.

Drum kits, drums, cymbals, percussion, skins, accessories, electronic percussion. Sounds, styles, and technique. Tuning and maintaining your insturments. Bash away.

Synthesizers, sound modules, controllers, synth workstations, soft synths, sequencing and MIDI, controllers and triggering devices, drum machines, samplers. The wave forms here.

Advice, opinions and questions on performing and producing with MPCs, Groove boxes, drum machines, and sample workstations. Hit it!

Styles and techniques, staying on pitch, singing harmonies, breathing, recording, performing, tools for vocalists. Voice your opinion.

Tracking, mixing, mastering, microphones, preamps, DAWs, converters, plug-ins, consoles/mixers, HD recorders, comps, 'verbs, FX, monitors, 'phones, power conditioners, wiring, patch bays, studio acoustics, studio vibe.

Solder Jockeys welcome. List and discuss any gear modifications here.

Mixers, PAs, stage monitors, and live sound. Is this thing on?

From spotlights to lasers to fog to back projection. Mass hypnosis, anyone?

Turntables, cartridges, mixers, CD players, FX, and more. Spinning records, scratching, cueing up the downbeat, collecting records. The complete 360.

Digeridoos, balalaikas, sitars, bagpipes, doumbeks, santoors, mijwizes, etc. The music of this here sphere.

Lyrics and rhymes, song structure, genres and forms, arrangement and instrumentation. Verse, chorus, verse and so forth.

Share experiences and advice on forming bands, building a fan base and getting gigs, surviving tours, schlepping amps, the ingredients of a good band, choosing the name, getting a look, and living with those artistic differences. Hug it out!

Discuss authenticity and integrity, styles and pigeonholes, fads and trends, heroes and influences, finding your own voice, what constitutes cool. It's only rock and roll . . . or is it?