Word: setups
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...Fighters followed Queens of the Stone Age, who played a 50-minute set admirable for its instrumental layering, but lacking in any real melodic structure-a perfect point of departure for Grohl and his boys. The Queens' simple black curtain background was replaced by the Foo Fighters' somewhat whimsical setup of two drum kits, five white boxes suspended in the air for reflecting lights and lasers and bouquets of flowers scattered about the stage. The somewhat tepid crowd immediately warmed up when the Foo Fighters burst onstage with "Stacked Actors," a guitar-heavy power ballad bemoaning the superficiality...
Having created room in the tournament for three new teams, the CWPA scrapped its old, reliable tournament configuration and instituted a bizarre round-robin setup in its place...
...raised an obvious question. "What if teens are not willing to be seen in public with their parents?" Given genetic predisposition, I expect my kids to develop a powerful aversion to any setting that smacks of a setup for a formal "talk." (I'm creeped out just imagining it, and I'm the parent.) Try informal chats to establish a connection, Wolvin suggests. Even the instant messages my daughter routinely sends ("hey mom how r u, school was good, g2g") can create a rapport that could prove useful during more, uh, delicate face-to-face conversations...
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...number of tunes had four or five separate guitar tracks. These required using an electric Fender with space echo additions to an acoustic strung up in Nashville tuning, an old trick that replaces the lower strings with high ones, producing a clear, ringing sound. Ian also outdid my studio setup of two bass amplifiers by using a total of six guitar amps, though never, I believe, simultaneously...