Ask a music scene micro celebrity

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1. You are in the BB and unknown player makes a standard button raise. Do you 3-bet AJs/AJo/AQs/AQo? What about AT?
2. Same scenario as above except this time you have a small or mid PP.
3. UTG+1 opens, BTN calls, you are in the BB with 22/77/TT. Do you 3-bet?
4. You open OTB with 66 and average aggro TAG 3-bets in the BB. Do you call?


1. You open in the CO and BB calls. The flop is 9s 6c 2s. You cbet and get called. How often and on what cards do you 2nd barrel? (assume you have no hand no draw)
2. Same scenario as above except the flop is T55r.
3. Same scenario as above except the flop is 632r.
4. Same scenario as above except the flop is Q72r.
5. Same scenario as above except the flop is Kh Jh Tc.

[electrical]

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Let's say I live just north of Chicago (which I do) and am a fellow poker player (which I am) and want to sit in the studio with you one day.

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There's a phone number on the studio website. You use the telephone to call it. That's the thing right there on the desk next to your computer.

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P.S. You going to The Taste?

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I've had my quota of REO Speedwagon and Buddy Guy for the year, so I'll pass thanks. Big public scenes full of white hats, guidos and suburban blues fan dorks... no thanks. I'd rather have my nuts crushed in a vise.

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Can you tell us what your home audio system consists of? Be specific plz <3

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Not all put together at the moment, but here's what I got:

VPI record cleaner (incredible, I recommend it)
Studer linear-tracking TT (to be replaced by a VPI JR)
Ortofon cartridge (to be replaced by a pair of bayonet headshells, one with a Shure VR15X and one with a Sumiko Blue Point "nude" special)
Hagerman Bugle phono preamp
Marantz integrated amp (to be replaced by a home-made tube amp once I get off my ass and finish it)
Custom Linnaeum-tweeter speakers with reflex bass cabinets. No model number, but made by Linnaeum with Focal drivers.

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Have you heard any Wolfmother? If so what do you think of them?

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They're okay. On the whole, I'd rather listen to Dead Meadow.

[oddjob]

how many musicians have you nailed?

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Hey Steve,

Do you do any mastering work and how valuable is it to a recording? Do you have a take on the so called 'loudness war'?

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mastering is the last step before CDs or records are mass-produced. Lately there has been a trend toward making records "loud" at this stage by compressing and clipping the audio for a more aggressive sound. I am of the opinion that the record shouldn't leave the studio until it is pretty close to exactly what the band want, and consequently I prefer more judicious mastering.

If a record needs aggressive mastering to "save" it, then aggressive mastering isn't enough to save it. Given a choice between sound quality and apparent loudness, I will side with sound quality every time.

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This quiz is probably going to expose how much of a fish I am, but I'll try to answer it off the top of my head.

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1. You are in the BB and unknown player makes a standard button raise. Do you 3-bet AJs/AJo/AQs/AQo? What about AT?

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Call AT AJ, three-ball AQ+ and donk any low or Ace flop.

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2. Same scenario as above except this time you have a small or mid PP.

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Three-ball anything bigger than Fives. Call other PP. Check sets and big card flops. Donk middle card flops. Check-raise flops where I make a draw that also have an Ace.

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3. UTG+1 opens, BTN calls, you are in the BB with 22/77/TT. Do you 3-bet?

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Not usually. TT+ occasionally I will reraise a healthy amount, but small pairs I'm hoping to bust somebody with a set.

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4. You open OTB with 66 and average aggro TAG 3-bets in the BB. Do you call?

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Not usually. This isn't a great gamble if he's for-real tight and won't go broke with one pair. Also, very few flops will help my hand.

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1. You open in the CO and BB calls. The flop is 9s 6c 2s. You cbet and get called. How often and on what cards do you 2nd barrel? (assume you have no hand no draw)

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Second barrel depends on history with opponent, but probably half the time I bet any Nine and non-spade Aces, Kings. Maybe other non-straight cards if I get weird hair.
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2. Same scenario as above except the flop is T55r.

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I'll probably check behind here. Maybe bluff an Ace.
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3. Same scenario as above except the flop is 632r.

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I'll bet any big cards, depending on opponent's trapping tendencies, about a third of the time, and the bet will be pretty big. One pair and a draw, set or made straight are his most likely hands, and I'm hoping to fold the pair+draw hands and find out if I'm drawing dead otherwise. Less often he has a medium overpair, and won't like the continued aggression.
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4. Same scenario as above except the flop is Q72r.

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Check behind about always. He has a weak queen or a set and isn't folding often.
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5. Same scenario as above except the flop is Kh Jh Tc.

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I'd have to make a pretty big bet here if I'm going to bother, and that would probably be about 10 percent of the time.

[Biosludge]

Steve thanks for doing this, in a completely heterosexual way I want to sex you.

No I am not gay or something.

How was working with Smog (Bill Callahan), if you remember?

[Wondercall]

Steve,

What do you think of The Mars Volta?

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PITTM (Penis In The Mouth), you should totally lodge a complaint about me in ATF.

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if you dont say retarded [censored] i have no complaints. its your call baby.