Mike’s most commonly used alternative tunings are: Dropped D, Open D, DADGAD, Open G, Open Gm (DGDGBbD) and G Modal (DGDGCD).

Make sure you can perform without worrying about the juke box, the television set or waiters carrying food. Open mikes that mix music, poetry, etc. with comedy tend to be more fun for the audience members than those that just feature bad, open-mike-level comedy. Yes, censorship is bad, but there is nothing worse than a bad comic doing stupid enema jokes while people are eating. Especially when it's the same bad enema jokes you've hard 50 times before.

Mostly DADGAD, sometimes Open G (DGDGBD) and Open D (DADFshAD) and sometimes even standard tuning! Info on tunings and tab for some songs is available at the music section.

Pierre Bensusan uses an open tuning in his book, DADGAD Music. Martin Simpson also uses open tunings in his book, Cool and Unusual: Creative Fingerstyle Guitar Solos. There are also the Open Tuning Chord Book and other products. Try searching for "open tunings".

To protect the innocent and add to the mystique. Also, because only a handful of people can pronounce my last name correctly, anyway.

Open tunings are built off a chord, scale, mode, or key across all six strings. Michael Hedges uses the tuning BF#C#EAA in his arrangement of "Pinball Wizard". The tuning is based off of an F# minor 7 chord with a B in the bass. He uses many othe runings such as CCDGAD, CGDGBD, and ACEF#AD. Keep in mind when tuning strings higher than their standard tuning that you can usually only tune them about 2 to 3 whole step up without breaking the string or damaging the neck.

Alternate guitar tunings are becoming increasingly popular, and occasional use of these tunings will neither adversely affect your guitar nor require any adjustments. However, frequent or sustained use of alternate tunings requires specific allowances that necessitate adjustments to the guitar. If you want to use lower overall tunings, the neck might need adjusting, because the decreased tension might back-bow the neck and cause buzzing.

For many years his main stage acoustic guitar was a white archtop built by the NZ luthier Kevin Almy. This white guitar became something of a trademark for Mike. Sadly after more than 1000 concerts and countless tours around the World (combined with the damage that only airlines are able to inflict on musical instruments…) it is in well-earned retirement. His current favourite acoustic is the M32 CP concert-size six string, hand built by a small company in Germany called Lakewood. (www.

Mike is currently endorsing Elixir Strings. He finds they sound superb on both his Lakewood’s and on his various electric guitars. He uses their Nanoweb-coated light-mediums (.012-.056) for acoustic and their Nanoweb-coated heavy gauge (.012-.052) on his electrics.

Well you could move, but consider starting your own Open Mike. Go to a local bar, or club, or even shopping mall and pitch it to them. Tell them you are going to run a comedy night once a week or so. If you don't have, or can't afford equipment, a bar, or anyplace bands play are usually a good venues. The point is, make things happen for yourself. If you depend upon others for your success, you'll often end up getting screwed politically, financially, or creatively, but seldom physically.

According to Daniel he tunes whatever that sounds good to him and just play whatever feels right. And for Neon Ballroom he used some tunings he never have used before: quot;Most of the songs are in some strange tuning. I'm not sure what they are (laughs). I know that on Point of View the low E string was tuned up to a G#, and the rest of the songs were tuned to an open G# chord. And Emotion Sickness, Paint Pastel Princess and Spawn Again are all tuned down to C#.

Very few. He tours with a small rack containing two Mindprint Envoice valve preamps (one for vocals, one for guitar…) both of which run through a Behringer MX882 splitter and a TC Electronic M300 dual engine effects processor. He adds a little reverb to both guitar and vocals, and occasionally a touch of chorus to guitar.

His guitar goes first into a Petersen StroboStomp, which he believes is the finest guitar tuner pedal available. Then it goes into a Boss compressor and finally into an old Ibanez delay pedal from the late-80's. sometimes, depending on how he's feeling, he adds a Boss CE-5 chorus pedal to the signal chain.

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Probably the use of Ommadawn as the background music in an xxx-rated adult film. Approximately 10 minutes of Ommadawn were used in a pornographic film called "Pandora's Mirror", directed by Warren Evans in 1981. Evans was clearly a big fan of Ommadawn, as he also used it in his 1983 film "Hot Dreams". The scene involved two couples on a pleasure boat engaging in various forms of sex. It takes place outside, during the day, while they are cruising around Manhattan Island.

We have noticed that the time it takes to open our search programs under Windows ME is considerably longer than under any other version of Windows. This has to do with the default extension used when binding the template to the user version of the program. By changing the extension code in the file name to anything else, the files open MUCH faster.

Over the years Mike has used many different amp/speaker combinations. His favourite for a long time was an extensively modified blackface Fender Twin. Sadly this amp was stolen, along with his van and other equipment in London. He’s also used at various times a couple of hand built valve amps, various Jansen amps (Made in NZ), a Marshall JCM 800 stack and various other Fender’s, his favourite being a late-1950’s Bandmaster.

I don't do much traveling to conferences to speak because I'd rather use my time off for family vacations. I like to restrict speaking events to 3-4 a year. I can do radio much more frequently. I can be reached at michaelsheiser@yahoo.com. Back to Top Mike has written an in-depth paper on this very subject entitled "Why Eden's Serpent Was Not A Snake" - it is available in PDF form from Acid Test Press. Back to Top

Not much. I actually don't think Sitchin knows any ancient languages. His books suggests that much. He even makes mistakes in Hebrew and he's Jewish. That's understandable, though. Just because Hebrew is one's native tongue doesn't mean that the person could do grammatical analysis in the Hebrew Bible (or even know much Hebrew grammar).

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Yes, and no. If, for example you play exclusively in DADGAD, then your guitar will perform its best if set up with that tuning in mind. Besides the more obvious action work, this may include special bridge compensation to account for the fact that the strings tend to play more sharp up the neck when their tension is lowered as the pitch is dropped, especially the sixth string.

No, I don't accept the Sethite interpretation. It simply has no merit. It cannot account for the morphology of the Hebrew term "nephilim"; it is contradicted by the New Testament; it was not held by anyone, Jew or Christian, prior to the 3rd century A.D.; and it's internally contradictory. There are a number of decent critiques of this view on the Internet (e.g., here and here; note that inclusion here does not necessarily mean endorsement of the entire articulation).

Approximately 60% of Mike’s concerts are performed solo. The remainder is split between using a second guitarist, and a full band. With the January 2006 release of "Beneath Southland Skies" Mike intends to lift the percentage of concerts using the full band. He will though continue to play the largest percentage solo.

From reading the Telus Mike and Nextel forums it has become abundantly clear to me that people are mis-interpreting the meters on iDEN phones. People assume that these meter reflect Signal Strength, and subsequently do not understand why these readings can fluctuate so wildly, even while they are sitting in one place. The fact of the matter is that Motorola has never built an iDEN phone with a signal strength meter.