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The Outpost Cafe / Re: This explains a lot
« on: March 22, 2011, 02:22:32 AM »
Aliens plugged Sammy? 
I thought he wasn't quite the type.
I thought he wasn't quite the type.
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Gibson Basses / Re: Babybird
« on: March 19, 2011, 02:57:37 AM »
More than 20 years into their making and being put on pretty much every Gibson bass in that time (IV/V, TBird reissue, LP Special, LP Standard, EB-650, Money, Grabber II, TB Studio, SG-RI and Standard) a little more variety wouldn't do any harm and I love the TB Plus sound. Still, the short scale will make this baby sound quite a bit different, it's not just cosmetics. TB Plus pups have a certain character, but they don't make all basses sound alike.
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Calling our Nederlands friends
« on: March 18, 2011, 06:19:11 PM »
I don't think John meant to advocate it - it was more a social commentary.
This is treacherous ground, say you don't like this type of public branding and next thing you know someone says "Uwe defends pedophiles". He doesn't, but he defends having a second chance for people who have erred, even gravely. And I don't see this helping that second chance. I know, repeat offenders, but nine repeat offenders can't justify the naming and shaming of one who has changed his life. If you want to see a good movie on a touchy subject that avoids obvious answers then see The Woodsman with Kevin Bacon. It will make you think.
This is treacherous ground, say you don't like this type of public branding and next thing you know someone says "Uwe defends pedophiles". He doesn't, but he defends having a second chance for people who have erred, even gravely. And I don't see this helping that second chance. I know, repeat offenders, but nine repeat offenders can't justify the naming and shaming of one who has changed his life. If you want to see a good movie on a touchy subject that avoids obvious answers then see The Woodsman with Kevin Bacon. It will make you think.
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Gibson Basses / Re: New Schaller bridge option for shortscales
« on: March 18, 2011, 06:06:12 PM »
And all credit to your dad for that, Nofi, not only did he survive, but he risked his life for the right values. And even for my freedom though I share the same gene pool with the ambushers. America isn't always automatically right, but it sure was in WW II. Give your old man my regards.
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Ric Grech
« on: March 18, 2011, 12:21:39 PM »
I have it too and like the original album it sounds a little ... lame. Maybe I have to listen even more to it. I like Windwood, I like Traffic and I'm not one of those "Eric should've stayed with Cream and forever played his Gibsons over Marshalls"-whiners either, I even like his new solo album, he's making great progress in becoming a second rate J.J. Cale, but Windwood and Clapton together is not what I would call a combustive mix.
Ok, I'll listen to their stuff again ...
Ok, I'll listen to their stuff again ...
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Gibson Basses / Re: Music videos that feature Thunderbirds
« on: March 18, 2011, 12:12:38 PM »
In restrooms? No doubt someone must have leaked information then.
Ouch. I had too.
Ouch. I had too.
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Gibson Basses / Re: New Schaller bridge option for shortscales
« on: March 18, 2011, 08:38:37 AM »
I'm a major culprit, so I guess I have to say something:
It's like watching an accident. Horrible, but intriguing. Nazi Germany stands out as a high (or low) point in human evil, the fact that what was by and large a civilized nation could err so grotesquely has a dark, unsettling fascination. But shutting it away and making it a taboo is no way to deal with it.
And the Nazis, btw, hated jokes about themselves, they would murder you for it.
I can do all three: Marvel at the technology of a Kingtiger tank (but not forgetting that it was a means to a horrible end), crack low pc jokes about Nazi/German clichées (how does the saying go: "German jokes are no laughing matter!") and be devastated/shamed when seeing a concentration camp documentary. And if you read closely, then we have reasonable in depth discussions/comments on all three areas here in various threads though the screwball jokes are of course ze Löwenanteil, jawohl.
"Don't mention the war!" (Fawlty Towers)
was never for me. It deserves discussion again and again both from a historical/sociological perspective and as the controlling ritual of ridiculing demons.
No one here has ever seriously identified with or defended the Nazi mindset though. In another forum in another time with largely the same people we once had someone (not a member here) who defended Italian fascism along the lines of "it wasn't all bad, you're just not allowed to say that today" and he hit vocal disagreement from everyone like a brickwall. And the Italian fascists compared to the German Nazis like a goldfish does to a Great White.
It's like watching an accident. Horrible, but intriguing. Nazi Germany stands out as a high (or low) point in human evil, the fact that what was by and large a civilized nation could err so grotesquely has a dark, unsettling fascination. But shutting it away and making it a taboo is no way to deal with it.
And the Nazis, btw, hated jokes about themselves, they would murder you for it.
I can do all three: Marvel at the technology of a Kingtiger tank (but not forgetting that it was a means to a horrible end), crack low pc jokes about Nazi/German clichées (how does the saying go: "German jokes are no laughing matter!") and be devastated/shamed when seeing a concentration camp documentary. And if you read closely, then we have reasonable in depth discussions/comments on all three areas here in various threads though the screwball jokes are of course ze Löwenanteil, jawohl.
"Don't mention the war!" (Fawlty Towers)
was never for me. It deserves discussion again and again both from a historical/sociological perspective and as the controlling ritual of ridiculing demons.
No one here has ever seriously identified with or defended the Nazi mindset though. In another forum in another time with largely the same people we once had someone (not a member here) who defended Italian fascism along the lines of "it wasn't all bad, you're just not allowed to say that today" and he hit vocal disagreement from everyone like a brickwall. And the Italian fascists compared to the German Nazis like a goldfish does to a Great White.
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Japan ...
« on: March 18, 2011, 07:17:10 AM »The Story about the "Faceless 50" is truly an inspiring story- The 50 workers who went back to the plant knowing it will probably kill them.
http://orgtheory.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/the-faceless-50/
I hope they at least get a nice place in the Shinto Shrine. Not a sarcastic remark, I'm serious. It will mean something to them and their families. Some of that old Kamikaze spirit lives on.
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Calling our Nederlands friends
« on: March 18, 2011, 07:14:02 AM »
I had hoped we had left that behind us.
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Other Bass Brands / Re: Need a bass ID'd
« on: March 18, 2011, 03:57:57 AM »
Red Rubber Ball sounds outright cynical to me and very sneaky in its sunny arrangement.
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Calling our Nederlands friends
« on: March 18, 2011, 03:55:51 AM »
Needless to say he played a Fender. I am not surprised. 
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Gibson Basses / Re: Music videos that feature Thunderbirds
« on: March 18, 2011, 03:52:05 AM »Sorry! The intern logistic system failed...
Bunch of Brits that started out with hammering power pop riding the punk wave turn Motown! Billy Ocean could have done a lovely version of this. Cute.
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Other Bass Brands / Re: Need a bass ID'd
« on: March 17, 2011, 01:05:13 PM »
Hey, those guys made nasty lyrics! Is this true sixties stuff or just made to sound and look like it?
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Gibson Basses / Re: The Epi Explorer is back?
« on: March 17, 2011, 12:58:45 PM »
I assume it is the same light, soft wood that I have on my rotten wood Exsporer to which my luthier said, it's not classic korina, but some related species to it, not bad acoustically at all, just very ding-prone. The veneer on the outside is actually also protection for the soft wood which looks non-descript. But it has a very warm and fuzzy tone even when played unplugged. You can try mine when you are here, Rob. The mock-korina is too soft for a neck structure though, hence the (again not classic, but similar) "maho" neck.
In my book, the Epi Explorer even in unpimped form beats the crap out of the eighties Gibson Explorer (either alder/maple or maho/maple) for the superior wood construction alone. I see no reason why that should not be the case with the Epi Flying V as the original Gibson Flying V was a sorry affair made of alder and maple (I know it works fine with a Fender, but it didn't with the Flying V). One of our brethren here has an Epi Flying V and likes it. I forgot who though. Some old geezer, but aren't we all?
Both Epi Flying V and Explorer were consistent sellers in Germany, probably the most prevalent Epi basses after the TBird. I remember that exactly around the time they were deleted they even had a glowing review (as somewhat "different" budget models) in one of the magazines and I thought "what horrendous timing, have those basses featured favorably and deleted at the same time, only Gibson/Epi can blunder like that". The German distributor must have had a heart attack, but he couldn't do much about it as Gibson replaced him with a subsidiary around the same time (prices got cheaper that way, but service a lot worse!, there is no free lunch). With the buying power of Thomann, I think they simply decided to take things in their own hands and resurrect the buggers.
I'm not above getting one of those someday and maybe transform it into a rotten wood pimp brother of my Explorer!
In my book, the Epi Explorer even in unpimped form beats the crap out of the eighties Gibson Explorer (either alder/maple or maho/maple) for the superior wood construction alone. I see no reason why that should not be the case with the Epi Flying V as the original Gibson Flying V was a sorry affair made of alder and maple (I know it works fine with a Fender, but it didn't with the Flying V). One of our brethren here has an Epi Flying V and likes it. I forgot who though. Some old geezer, but aren't we all?
Both Epi Flying V and Explorer were consistent sellers in Germany, probably the most prevalent Epi basses after the TBird. I remember that exactly around the time they were deleted they even had a glowing review (as somewhat "different" budget models) in one of the magazines and I thought "what horrendous timing, have those basses featured favorably and deleted at the same time, only Gibson/Epi can blunder like that". The German distributor must have had a heart attack, but he couldn't do much about it as Gibson replaced him with a subsidiary around the same time (prices got cheaper that way, but service a lot worse!, there is no free lunch). With the buying power of Thomann, I think they simply decided to take things in their own hands and resurrect the buggers.
I'm not above getting one of those someday and maybe transform it into a rotten wood pimp brother of my Explorer!
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Phil Lesh
« on: March 17, 2011, 11:22:28 AM »
Someone has to say it and with all due srespect for the man and his work with the Dead, but his sound on that first vid is the epitome of horrible to me! I don't care what he plays (the more the merrier), but that sound is crap. 
Second vid is a nice song though and his bass is pleasantly inaudible on that!
Second vid is a nice song though and his bass is pleasantly inaudible on that!