The Last Bass Outpost

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! 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

unfortunate overtones of defeat and living in Holland ...


 

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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

I'm not sure we really want to understand this. A girl's gotta have her secrets.

Seems like a case of "Kevin - Home alone!" In this case at his wicked Uncle's John home where contraptions such as the Gizmo and the Kahler roamed pulling the poor kid into the abyss ... He really couldn't help it from then on. Blame Uncle John, not the kid. Perhaps, the poor kid even played a Fanger bass at one time - that would explain it all to me.

A Vampire wrestler is at least something new and behind all the WWWF bad boy do he looks like a nice enough guy. I actually prefer watching wrestling to, say, boxing, exactly because it is all fake. Nobody gets really badly hurt unless somebody makes a mistake. I can't stand watching a boxing match in the 9th round with both guys having their faces swollen up and their reflexes battered to hell trying to hit each other in the face for real. I know I'm a whimp, but that is barbaric. I prefer showmanship without people getting too badly hurt like in professional wrestling or something that is severely ritualised and brief like Sumo wrestling.

Uwe

I like your singer on that, way more cool and shall I say experienced than Fräulein Wilde's nasal approach.

I think the Nemo one could be disconcerting for children!

I can't believe the non-intonatable bridges.  Madness takes control ... That is all very well with vintage instruments and recording techniques used back then, but not today when your CD player lets you hear each and every out of tune note clearly.