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Gibson Basses / Re: Blue Sparkle Epi Thunderbird
« Last post by 4stringer77 on May 17, 2024, 06:18:28 AM »
Congrats on the blinged out new bass. That'd go great on stage with a blue sparkle tuck and roll Kustom amp.
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Fender Basses / Re: '74 Tele project and another Vintera II Tele Bass
« Last post by Ken on May 17, 2024, 06:11:51 AM »
Scott, you could always just make one with no holes and use double-sided tape.  I did that with my NR and it looks really clean.
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Fender Basses / Re: '74 Tele project and another Vintera II Tele Bass
« Last post by godofthunder on May 17, 2024, 03:36:04 AM »
   The pg fits fine though two holes don't line up. They are the two at the waist of the body right where you set the bass on your thigh when playing sitting down. All the other ones line up.  I've no idea why Fender did this.   I'm still trying to decide if I should just drill two holes in the bidy and be done with it or make/buy a pg with the right hole pattern.  For now it functions just fine.
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: David Sanborn …
« Last post by godofthunder on May 17, 2024, 03:28:01 AM »
   I loved his work on Ian Hunter's All American Alien Boy album.
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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: Vile Rickentrafficker ...
« Last post by uwe on May 16, 2024, 03:30:57 PM »
It always exasperrated Steve Morse who didn't become a real touring musician until he was in his forties (and joined DP, his first band that really toured internationally), but Purple have always been a touring engine. Even in the 70ies they played way more gigs than Led Zep (Zep just played to larger crowds, but less often). It's the only life they know since adolescence. At this point they have resigned themselves to the realization that one of them dying on stage or not waking up in a hotel room one morning is well a realistic possibility. But if that is how you wanna go, then that is how you should.

Touring life did in the end become both too much for Ritchie Blackmore (who only does mini tours with Blackmore's Night) and Jon Lord (who stopped touring with DP after the millenium because travel ate too much of his remaining time) as well as for Steve Morse (who had his wife to attend to, but had been moaning about the length and the density of DP's worldwide trecking for many years, he has a hay farm to take care of in Florida), but Paice, Gillan, Glover and Airey are cut from a different, more resilient gypsy cloth. And for McBride, who's in his mid-40ies, it's still a new and exciting thing.
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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: Vile Rickentrafficker ...
« Last post by 4stringer77 on May 16, 2024, 02:32:42 PM »
Funny story but what grabs me is the ambitious tour schedule. I looked at what Marty Stuart is doing and he has way more off time dispersed throughout his tour compared to what Deep Purple is about to set out on. Good luck to them making it through all those dates.
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Rickenbacker Basses / Vile Rickentrafficker ...
« Last post by uwe on May 16, 2024, 09:23:50 AM »
https://www.loudersound.com/news/roger-glover-rickenbacker-crime

We must thank the fearless officers of Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs for the boundless leniency they showed the longhaired hippie culprit/smuggler. Had they kept that Ric impounded, Machine Head would haven been recorded with a Fender Precision (meaning you wouldn't have heard it well just like on In Rock) or a Fender Mustang (meaning it would have had no balls just like on Fireball), shudder the thought!
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Gibson Basses / Re: Blue Sparkle Epi Thunderbird
« Last post by Pilgrim on May 16, 2024, 08:46:08 AM »
Beauty, eh!!
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Bill's Shop: Projects, Mods & Repairs / Re: Brooks Fenderbird
« Last post by gearHed289 on May 16, 2024, 07:12:54 AM »
That's great. Matches the amps!  ;D
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Roger Corman ...
« Last post by uwe on May 16, 2024, 07:11:52 AM »
Those guys are great!  :mrgreen:

To the defense of the recently deceased, calling the film Teenage Caveman wasn't his idea, he was dead against it, it was the film company's do. Corman did not cast Robert Vaugh as a "teenager" and he wanted the film to be titled "Prehistoric World".



Actually, the twist in the movie (not spoiling it!) isn't so bad, a bit like Planet of the Apes, but 10 years earlier (oops, I did spoil it now!).

Two further important observations:

- If cavewomen who knew no shame (at 00:04 and 01:11) really looked like the highly appealing Miss Darah Marshall,



I wanna go back, pleeeeeze! Anthropologically speaking, I could bolster their evolutionary development in my own selfless way.

- Using a real monitor to play a dinosaur (at 00:08 and 01:34) and then not even naming it in the movie credits is callous & despicable + should have rightfully been taken up by the Monitor Lizard Motion Picture Extra's Scaly Union! Let's not talk about the baby alligator (introduced at 00:01 and mock-battling with the monitor at 01:34) doubling as a sail-backed dimetrodon! I don't even want to speculate about how they go that fake sail fixed on that poor creature's back.  ;D What's worse, in the battle as the alligator/dimetrodon is spinning around its axis (something they don't do on land), there is obviously someone grabbing the silently suffering critter's tail twisting it around manually - ouch! And they have somehow attached the likewise poor monitor's head to the alligator snout to make it appear he's being swallowed. Yes, animals were definitely harmed in the making of this movie, did perhaps someone from Kristi 'gravel pit of doom' Noem's family co-produce?

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