Return to the Promised Land!It has never left the country.
Alas!, so even in 1977 they already had secret underground Fender decal forgery workshops in the Holy Land? ;)I used a Fender ad from the Melody Maker magazine, and Letraset dry transfer letters. Remember Letraset?
Happy as the outcome seems, one question lingers, lieber Ilan: What happened to your fetching 1977 dungarees? :mrgreen:Thank you for not mentioning the horrid sweater.
You've aged. :mrgreen:
Cool story.
You've aged. :mrgreen:
Mind you, those cryogenics studies in the secret Negev Desert underground labs are vastly advanced. It's where they manufacture the wild fire inducing lasers too!
Yep. Almost 61. But that’s just a number, you know, what matters is that I feel like a grumpy 78 years old.
I have no chanced of ever finding back my first bass, an Ibanez Blazer.
But why the pose on the newer pic pretending you're a finger player who needs a thumb rest? That stretched out pinkie on the adolescent one is much cuter!
You have more hair at 61 than I had at 21!
I know. As have I (probably more agnostic though), but I was brought up a Catholic by my agnostic/atheist parents of likewise Catholic descent (I gave up believing when no one could explain the Holy Trinity to me coherently when I was about 10 and inquisitive, that bugged me no end - I still haven't heard a good explanation). So I refer to myself as 'culture-Catholic' these days, because to me Catholicism - like being Jewish - transcends religion and is actually a cultural umbrella. There is no Jewish 'race', that is an invention of antisemitism, and religious belief is only one aspect of Jewish culture, which as you have said has many Eastern European influences too, not just Holy Land.
"He's a real hairy Esau" was a common comment when I was a child, meant to describe anyone with prominent body hair. Probably also a cultural thing. Tellingly, I've never met anyone with a Protestant/Lutheran background who knew what it meant.
That's cool that you found LITERALLY your first bass!
I hope my Montoya has been burned, it was so bad nobody should suffer with it.
Permanently warped neck made the action horrible, and the pickup was either permanently muddy or the tone control was shorted to full mud all the time.
(https://i.imgur.com/m9wIzRA.jpg)
Well, it only cost $50 USD used in 1980, and it was enough to learn "Hey Joe" and "Day Tripper".
Two years later I got a quite decent Ibanez Blazer P-copy, which I still own, though it's been much abused and modified.
(https://i.imgur.com/MZB4AXa.jpg)
You have more hair at 61 than I had at 21!
Ah, the goat skin hoax, I remember!
The Old Testament would make one great Game of Thrones type series. Blood, guts, gore, non-consensual sex, fate, vengeful deities and deceit. And the good guys are all eventually killed.
You were kinda the earnest, serious-minded kid, weren't you? :mrgreen:
I don't care what color it is if it's still present.