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I have played on the colored DG guitar strings a number of times. I haven't been impressed. String bending makes the color layer flake off and they wind up looking pretty ratty. The tone quality is also meh. I have heard much better reviews on the bass strings.

I do 99% of my practice on an acoustic and so I string my electric guitars on the heavy side of things - .11 to .50. I have just discovered DR strings and I'm really impressed by them. I'm using these. https://www.amazon.com/DR-Strings-Blues … es+strings

I use my God-given hand sausages and flatpicks with those strings and they respond well in both situations.

Russ, not sure if you have this album or have heard this version, but I have loved this song ever since I got the album in high school. It's one of the reasons I started playing blues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu1mKfl5Zyc

If you play high up the neck I think you'd need to eliminate the Epi. Less room on that cutaway than the other two options.

Are you going to put this to music? I like it. It captures a moment very well.

My approach to guitar buying is largely utilitarian and based on filling a function rather than just having them to have them. I have three acoustics, all the same model. Guitar 1 is the guitar I learned to play on and got when I was 5-6 years old. It's very important to me and I rarely travel with it. Guitar number 2 is same model and I use it for traveling. Guitar 3 is also same model and I use it for a stage backup or when I have acoustic jams at the house.

I have a strat-style guitar for rock playing, a tele as a stage backup to that, a semi-hollowbody for jazz and blues, an SG-type guitar with humbuckers for heavier songs. Finally, I have an electric traveler that I use to keep guitar withdrawals away on long vacations and long work trips (of which there are many).

And that's it. I also have a lap steel but I consider it to be a piece of home decor.

My WTB guitar list is also small. I want a high-end acoustic. All the acoustics I've ever owned have been in the sub-$300 range. I want a really nice taylor or Tak or Guild acoustic.  And I want an electric acoustic nylon string guitar because I have 0 nylon string guitars.

Roger that.

I’m not an attorney but have dealt with countless intellectual property matters in my time.

You’d be fine if this was happening in US. It’s a work of parody, you aren’t making money on it, and even if an artist got pissy worst that would happen is SoundCloud would get a dmca take down notice and send you a nasty gram.

Shim the bridge.

It’s directly related to your capo. My guess is it can be attributed to one or more of these things:
1 you are leaving the capo on your neck after you play. 
2 you are capoing too close to the fret
3 your capo is too tight.

Do you have a tension adjustable capo? If so try and dial it in so you use the least tension necessary to sound all the strings.  Also given that you have reduced string tension due to the dropped tuning you are probably driving the strings really hard into those frets.