Look, dude, I know she looks like she lives her life on a Life Fitness treadmill, doing the old binge and purge and getting regular high colonics, but Jessica Simpson is a lowlife. She is a dim bulb with no morals and will happily go ho whenever necessary to boost her little blond ego. Deal with it.

Seriously. But this gives rise to another topic. Tone. Not muscle tone. Musical tone. Rock and roll tone. Read the guitar mags and it is all they talk about. Of course, in the guitar mags, tone is defined by the core readership. And if you haven’t ever been a reader of guitar mags you may not realize that 9 out of 10 guitar mag readers are metal-heads. So, the tone discussed in these pubs is not necessarily the tone that everyone would be interested in. For example, I am not so into the metal-head tone most of the time.

I have found the tone I love, though. My new Taylor acoustic. Holy geez, I’m in love. It was cheap, by Taylor standards, but man, what a beauty. It’s a grand auditorium style…quieter and less bass-thumpy than pretty much any other guitar I’ve ever played. Great for finger picking and mid-range noodling. Yup. I’m a-lovin’ it baby.