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Gibson Basses / Re: Gibson NAMM Photos
« on: January 24, 2008, 12:57:49 PM »
Jawohl, that is what the good Dr Bassman implanted - not that it saved him from German flak!

And the Gibson stool was a free present, ok?  :-[

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Gibson Basses / Re: T-bird Sweden
« on: January 24, 2008, 12:55:06 PM »
Maybe I should just pretend that I see it?  ;D

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Gibson Basses / Re: T-bird Sweden
« on: January 24, 2008, 11:07:18 AM »
Still see nothing ... never had that happen before ... is there anything Staffan did that other people don't do when posting a pic or are you all continuously posting pics that I don't see?  ???

I could see the hawk in George's Outpost Cafe thread. How is that different from how Staffan posted his pic (which he has meanwhile sent me as an email, tack!)?

Uwe

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Gibson Basses / Re: T-bird Sweden
« on: January 24, 2008, 09:32:10 AM »
But I am logged in. I still see nothing. No icon, no pic, no attachment, nothing to click on.

What are you guys clicking on? Where is it?

Uwe

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Gibson Basses / Re: T-bird Sweden
« on: January 24, 2008, 06:42:47 AM »
"I just thought, this picture is to nice not to be seen..."

Exactly, but why are they then not seen in your post?  ???  ;)

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: My Cousin's kid- The Fanged Freak!
« on: January 24, 2008, 05:37:28 AM »
You mean he's not a real Vampire?

Given his close relation to you, John, I would hate to jump to conclusions on that.

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Kids in America
« on: January 24, 2008, 05:27:05 AM »
This is comparatively recent, just a few years ago. Nena (she of 99 Red Balloons fame) recorded an album reworking her old hits and had other singers guest on it who had inspired or impressed her at one time. Nena has always owned up to the fact that she initially patterned herself as the German dark-haired version of Ms Wilde. Nena is leaning on the anorectic side nowadays (she's been more statuesque before - you wouldn't know from her current look that she is the mother of five children, the first one, born in the eighties with a cerebral defect, died after a year, she retired from her career and moved with the child to an island to be there for it until the very end, the other four children are fine). Anyway, even in this official vid a gracious camera cannot prevent Frau Wilde from looking not quite so Matrix-"Trinity"-sleek as Nena, but she's still attractive and probably more, errrm, "comfortable" under the sheets too, not all women do have to look like 16 year old boys with breasts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmkfTi9hCxs&feature=related
     

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: What I saw in my backyard today
« on: January 24, 2008, 04:49:53 AM »
George, you have snow! I envy you. It hardly ever snows near Frankfurt and this year has been particlarly lame as regards flaky crystals falling from the sky. I like snow in winter.

Sorry about the screen writers strike. Up to now I hadn't given much thought how it affects other people working in the industry.  :-[

The bird? It must be a Thunderbird if it's close to your house! ;D Not firm in North American ornithology it certainly looks like what we would call a Habicht (hawk) here in Europe or perhaps even a Mäusebussard (common buzzard - a hawk-like European bird of prey not to be mistaken with the North American vultures you call buzzards).

Great shots by the way, mabe you should take up animal photography?

Uwe

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Gibson Basses / Stalag 17
« on: January 24, 2008, 04:09:19 AM »
Dr Bassman's Rümbelkatze was shot down on a nightraid over ze Reich and now resides - under the comfort of the Geneva Convention it is assured plus the occasional Red Cross parcel - in Stalag(ibson) 17!



Sneakily he tried to to get it away via Ebay, but my searchlights caught him.



Uwe

PS: Great film it was!

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Gibson Basses / Re: A leader by any other, um, name..
« on: January 23, 2008, 09:57:15 AM »
unfortunate overtones of defeat and living in Holland ...


 :D ;D :D ;D

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Gibson Basses / Re: A leader by any other, um, name..
« on: January 23, 2008, 08:06:56 AM »
Why don't you guys just settle for "Groupieführer"?

I know, wishful thinking ...  ::)

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Gibson Basses / Re: Gibson NAMM Photos
« on: January 23, 2008, 08:04:14 AM »

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\Another future Uwe purchase





Ja, natürlich. Why stop now when I have the orignal Gibson Blackbird (still the leanest sounding TBird in my collection) and the Epi Blackbird as well?

This new signature thing is interesting for the maple wings (I'm pretty darn sure those are wings and not just a thin top, one of the GoW Firebirds had maple wings too), that should really add another color to the TBird canon. TBird goes Rickenbacker so to say - not a bad idea at all. And it seems they have done away with the radical on/off toggle and now rather have controls and a toggle that probably switches the pups individually. Plus the novelty optigrab and the acquired taste iron crosses have been deleted which should ensure this model a more lasting impact than the original Blackbird.

Uwe

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Gibson Basses / Re: A leader by any other, um, name..
« on: January 23, 2008, 06:13:00 AM »
Sigh!

Actually, I'm quite happy that history, fate and my birthdate spared me of the "chance" of ever becoming a "Gruppenführer".  ::)

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Gibson Basses / Re: Gibson NAMM Photos
« on: January 23, 2008, 06:06:09 AM »
I'm not sure we really want to understand this. A girl's gotta have her secrets.

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You old-timers are silly sometimes - roller bridges won't work on carved tops not because of the added height requirement, but because they require a large flat mounting surface (parallel to the strings) which just does not exist.

Also, though a break angle is nice on an archtop instrument, it is hardly necessary (just makes setups easier... but also increases the bridge height requirement... see previous point).  He could go with a carved top here if he wanted to (and doesn't have issue with the 3 point, or some other post-mounted bridge).

Duh, that is an obvious point, Jake!  ::) But even if you pinned down the roller bridge with one screw in the middle to the carved top, ignoring stability and looks, it's height adjustment range would still not be nearly enough.

These youngsters, pah .... (walks off mumbling ...)  ;)

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