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Re: Newbie checking in
« Reply #30 on: March 23, 2016, 09:19:47 AM »
as a fairly newish member myself, welcome aboard

 Blues in A and try and keep up !
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« Reply #31 on: March 23, 2016, 09:42:11 AM »
Quote from: gearHed289 on March 23, 2016, 08:23:18 AM
New guy is fitting right in!

He wriggled out of that Blackmore-Page standoff nicely.  :popcorn: I see potential.
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Re: Newbie checking in
« Reply #32 on: March 23, 2016, 09:43:55 AM »


 Kenny - I didn't bring up your Aircraft recognition difficulties this time  :-X   ;D





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Re: Newbie checking in
« Reply #33 on: March 23, 2016, 09:48:38 AM »
   You'll fit right in!
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« Reply #34 on: March 23, 2016, 11:06:53 AM »
That was Scott (of Thunder) who just posted. A man feared for his unimpeded sawing capabilities.
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Re: Newbie checking in
« Reply #35 on: March 23, 2016, 11:17:57 AM »
Quote from: gearHed289 on March 23, 2016, 08:23:18 AM
New guy is fitting right in!

Yar, thar be good signs for this'un in the seas ahead!

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« Reply #36 on: March 23, 2016, 05:19:23 PM »
Thank you one and all! I do believe this is the beginning of something strange...and wonderful! :toast:
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« Reply #37 on: March 23, 2016, 05:45:04 PM »
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« Reply #38 on: March 23, 2016, 07:38:03 PM »
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Re: Newbie checking in
« Reply #39 on: March 24, 2016, 07:06:25 AM »
Major Strasser is my role model!



Actually, Conrad Veidt, the German actor who played him, was more than a decent guy. Although without a Jewish background (though he would regularly provoke the Nazis by claiming he was) and great German popularity as an actor (the Nazis wanted to keep him dearly for their propaganda film industry), he married his Jewish fiancée AFTER the Nazis came to power and refused an offer from Goebbels (then in charge of German filmmaking) to declare her "Aryan", preferring to leave the country for first the UK and then the US.



(That's not his Jewish wife Ilona but his German wife Felicitas he divorced from for Ilona in 1933.)

Casablanca was his penultimate film, he died incredibly young at 50 only a year after Casablanca's 1942 release when he suffered a heart attack on a Californian golf course (for once, he did get to play a Nazi resistance member in his last film - something he had always hoped for, with his stern, aristocratic looks he was typecast for military, darkly unsettling and ultimately Nazi villain roles). Interesting tidbit: He had a higher salary in Casablanca than either Humphrey Bogart or Ingrid Bergman! Who says being the bad guy doesn't pay? And for a good cause too: He donated money to the Allied war effort.
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Re: Newbie checking in
« Reply #40 on: March 24, 2016, 01:33:58 PM »
Quote from: TBird1958 on March 23, 2016, 09:43:55 AM
Kenny - I didn't bring up your Aircraft recognition difficulties this time  :-X   ;D

I'm almost hurt by your indifference... ;)

Denis... Shakespeare walks into a bar... :mrgreen:

PS my maple RD is fretless, now a single pup, somewhat severely modified and sawn up, and you don't want to know how many pieces I snapped the PCB into before dropping it in the bin... nearly got me blacklisted when I posted the details... :vader:
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Re: Newbie checking in
« Reply #41 on: March 24, 2016, 03:10:58 PM »

PS my maple RD is fretless, now a single pup, somewhat severely modified and sawn up, and you don't want to know how many pieces I snapped the PCB into before dropping it in the bin... nearly got me blacklisted when I posted the details... :vader:
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A fretless RD?!? This I gotta see! Sorry folks, the 'f' word gets me worked up! :mrgreen:
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Re: Newbie checking in
« Reply #42 on: March 24, 2016, 03:28:45 PM »
Fretless RDs were readily available from Gibson - if you asked for it. I've seen at least three, but they're hard to get.

If I'm not mistaken, then starting with the Ripper you could get nearly every long scale Gibson fretless from the factory though the option wasn't called often. I own a factory-fretless Ripper, a fretless Grabber, a factory-fretless Victory, a factory-fretless Q-90, a factory-fretless Les Paul DeLuxe, a factory-fretless Les Paul DeLuxe doublecut/Junior prototype, a factory-fretless Super 400 acoustic bass, a fretless Money bass and a factory-fretless Epi EB-1 reissue. I've seen factory-fretless TBirds, RDs and even 80ies Explorers.

Plus a fretless P-Bass, but don't tell anyone that!
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Re: Newbie checking in
« Reply #43 on: March 24, 2016, 06:57:11 PM »
Fretless is doubtless soiling his knickers, Uwe!
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Re: Newbie checking in
« Reply #44 on: March 24, 2016, 07:17:38 PM »
Fretless players don't wear knickers, Denis. It's all part of their holistic approach.
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