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Other Bass Brands / Re: Samurai, at last
« on: March 27, 2024, 09:15:23 AM »
Very classy!

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Gibson Basses / Re: The Rickie Hinrichsen Collection from Gibson
« on: March 25, 2024, 08:49:49 PM »
...never mind....

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: So, what have you been listening to lately?
« on: March 25, 2024, 02:06:18 PM »
I watched some Reaction videos on YouTube. Pretty interesting to see how females responded to the Righteous Brothers Unchained Melody and Sound and Inspiration - they all melted.  Those boys did it right; one rapper could not believe they were white!

The Moody Blues got great reactions too.

It was interesting to see rappers and younger people react to the Doors...and the difference between tunes like Light My Fire and darker stuff like L.A. Woman with the growled "Mr. Mojo Rising"...which was an angram from Jim Morrison's name.

Kinda fun. But it was good to see that the greats consistently come across as great.

I was tempted to start a channel with reactions of an old white guy to rap and hip hop. But nobody would be interested.

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Gibson Basses / Re: The Rickie Hinrichsen Collection from Gibson
« on: March 23, 2024, 10:08:45 AM »
Looks to me like someone in design found a leftover box of specially treated sugar cubes from the 60s and has been using them in their coffee.

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Gibson Basses / Re: Cleanest 1969 EB-3 at Norm's (+demo)
« on: March 23, 2024, 10:07:26 AM »
My only entry into Gibsonage is my 64 EB-0.  Nice light bass, easy and fun to play. Not sure if it's worth much with an added pickup and a repaired headstock, but it's a nice bass.

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Yesterday we were having a beer by the lake in our neighborhood here in Colorado. The ice just melted off it about a week ago. Our neighbors' son is in college in NY and was visiting, along with his girlfriend from Florida.

They were shoving off on a little flat-bottomed party boat with the help of the father.  We were sitting about 30 feet away, and I clearly heard her ask "Are there alligators?".  I could not muffle my laugh quickly enough.

Florida.

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: The Man Who Panned the Beatles
« on: March 11, 2024, 12:30:03 PM »
Germany was perhaps a bit later in the game, but by now we've caught up and people are polarized to an extent we haven't seen since the end of WWII.  Any news that doesn't fit your particular point of view is quickly decried as Systemmedien, a term whose usage makes me ache as it is borrowed from what the Nazis called the press in the Weimar Republic ("Systempresse"). I just read an article how the COVID pandemic has dug the trenches even deeper and how fringe groups that never had much to with one another like anti-migration, anti-vaxxers, anti-EU, anti-conservation and anti-Germany-in-its-current-form-as-a-carrier-of-statehood have morphed together into this numb nihilist anti-stance.

It's incredible how closely your summation matches the position of the far right here. It seems odd to me that COVID was a factor deepening the divide in both countries, but something about medications seems to bring out the conspiracy types everywhere. I don't know how we can get past this posturing and division, but I'd like to get back to honest differences of opinion instead of knee-jerk opposition.

In the US, I see the right using the label "socialism" more often than "communism", which was more popular during the cold war.  Maybe that's why I think of the James Cagney movie "One, Two Three" in this context.  Uwe, have you ever seen it?  It takes place in West Berlin during the cold war and I think you'd find it howlingly funny.

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: So, what have you been listening to lately?
« on: March 11, 2024, 11:59:44 AM »
I just have to say thanks to Uwe for the Dave Edmonds clip. I LOVE that piece, and his playing is incredible.

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: The Man Who Panned the Beatles
« on: March 11, 2024, 11:46:36 AM »
In the US, domestic news generally takes first place to news of other countries, but I get the impression that increasing polarization of views is something happening in many countries. It certainly is in the US, where (as noted above) polarization/tribalism has progressed to the point where people do not listen to each other.

I can't even quote an NPR (National Public Radio) story in social media without a knee-jerk reply from someone who tells me everything on NPR is lies and "lefty propaganda." I feel the exact opposite as someone involved with a leading journalism college, and I know that NPR listeners are increasing in number, but rational arguments don't seem to carry any weight.

It makes the situation more confusing that there are elected leaders who are rational and interested in compromise when they can discuss it in private, but when they appear in public they feel that they have to don the mask of their party and oppose everything the other party says.

The situation is worse when we have one really dangerous leader whose closest analog is the uber-nationalists seen in Germany in the 1930s and 40s. Once such a figure gains power over their party, it's dangerous (in various ways) to say anything critical of them. We have long-time elected officials retiring because they're not willing to deal with it any longer.

I think we will ride out the current power figure and avoid going down the path of isolationism and nationalism, but it concerns me deeply. Good news is that there are members of both parties trying to find mutually acceptable ways to make things work without sticking their heads up far enough to lose them politically.

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: The Man Who Panned the Beatles
« on: March 09, 2024, 03:41:46 PM »
I'm not surprised.  The music that gent grew up with had been turned on its head more than once, from classical, to big band, to rock & roll, to rock. I imagine that even what Pat Boone did was a stretch for him.

There are musical forms now that I simply don't enjoy, rap being first among them.  It simply does nothing for me, but I realize that for people one-third my age it's very popular.

In popular music, I'm most comfortable with variations based on the 12 bar blues format which ruled popular music from the late 50s through perhaps the year 2000.  It still is the basic of most country music.  I don't think i will ever make peace with some of the new formats, but at least I'm aware that I shouldn't be reviewing them.

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Bill's Shop: Projects, Mods & Repairs / Re: Brooks Thinline Telebird
« on: March 09, 2024, 01:54:46 PM »
That is one incredibly clean, attractive bass!!

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I suspect that Al is well aware of the story. He spent some years teaching at Texas A&M. Poor guy.

Makes little difference, but I headed up a radio/TV/satellite production unit. I did teach one semester which was a fun experience.

I planned to be there 5 years, but we had kids and I decided that the ticket to get out to a better position in higher ed was a PhD. It took another 8 years before we escaped to a great gig in Colorado, and that has been wonderful!

Met a lot of nice people there, saw many things around that pretty fascinating state and learned a lot (some of it the hard way), but my wife and I were both are extremely grateful for escaping from the cultural mindset in Texas.

All that said, I'm up for a trip to the Riverwalk in San Antonio any time.  ;D

And don't think for a moment that especially back in the day before the campus went co-ed, those A&M cadets didn't know where the goodies were in TX and how to access them.

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No, I haven't heard anything on the radio these days, no doubt you're right. That doesn't make her songwriting any less shitty.

You don't bring me anything but down
Everything is crashing to the groun'


or

I'm gonna soak up the sun
I'm gonna tell everyone to lighten up


Over and over again. Very deep.  :rolleyes:

"Incense and peppermints, the color of time...."

"In-a-gadda-da-vida..."

"Rumor spreadin' 'round
In that Texas town
About that shack outside La Grange..."

Classic rock has many of those deep and meaningful lyrics...


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The Outpost Cafe / Re: This is disconcerting.
« on: March 01, 2024, 08:09:49 AM »
There is a balance to technology - and it seems that positive uses are always countered by inappropriate ones. That's sometimes part of the discussion in the class about technology and society that I teach online. There is so much + and - going on with technology today that it provides endless material for discussion. 

The course is part of a liberal arts degree in Ed Tech and Online Learning.  For the helluvit, here's the description:

THC-6250 Technology and the Human Community: Challenges and Responses

Technology and the Human Community: Challenges and Responses looks at technology historically and philosophically. The course focuses on technological issues affecting contemporary and emerging professional, public, and private structures. A central issue is the role of the citizen in dealing with political, economic, and social pressures related to technology. A key purpose of this course is for students to exchange views by engaging in and discussing serious social and technological issues with a view toward their resolution.

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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: It’s official … 4005
« on: February 28, 2024, 05:34:04 PM »
Although I LOVE the look of the three Rics, fortunately I have no desire to spend the money for one.

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