The Last Bass Outpost

I think this is one of the most beautiful things.

Quote from: uwe on April 01, 2025, 04:49:37 PMAccess to education is a key driver to development and progress in any society and economy. I always thought the West had agreed on that long ago. As our societies and economies develop, not having a proper education will push you into fringe jobs with precarious job security and pressure for low wages. You will spend a good deal of your life fighting off to be redundant and never quite make it.

I don't want elites, I want well-educated masses. That is one of the things that makes a country strong and resilient.

I understand that people long for the 50s, 60s and early 70s when an unskilled auto worker in Detroit could pay off a house, have a small boat on Lake Michigan, cars for himself, the wife and his kids plus send them all to Ann Arbor for college, but that time won't come back. Established Western countries are doomed to develop into information and knowledge-based societies.

The problem here in the US now is that the people in power don't want people educated.  That way the masses can't question or understand what they're doing.  Classic dictatorship.

Quote from: Highlander on March 17, 2025, 02:20:06 PMAh... living the dream in Scotland...
Also having a mother that was born in Vancouver BC before being repatriated to Scotland because of some financial fracas in 1930, gives me the right to claim Canadian citizenship...!
My sister holds duel nationality...
Presently awaiting Bernie Sanders to ask the good people of Vermont if they wish to stay in the Union or become a Province, as was discussed in the State prior to Biden's win...
No idea of the political leanings of the other 12 States that border the Provinces but wouldn't that make a pretty flip of the switch...   

Yes please.

Quote from: uwe on March 07, 2025, 12:20:34 PMProper effing rock'n'roll, Jewfros rool!

And make America great again, who wouldn't want to be a Dictator for a day?

Handsome Dick is an incredibly nice and charismatic guy.  He's my friend's daughter's godfather.

Quote from: morrow on March 16, 2025, 06:26:55 AMPeople are making a point of not buying anything from the US. The other day I noticed some things in the grocery store were turned upside down ... it was to alert people not to buy the item.

Can't blame them.  At this point we deserve to be pariahs.  It's sad and embarrassing.

Sad loss.

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/brian-james-the-damneds-founding-guitarist-dies-at-70/

Damn that sucks.

Is this just a special edition or how they're going forward with the standard releases?

No prob.  I'll figure it out.  All I know is that I will not buy Schaller.

I always thought those were clovers. These are what I thought are called elephant ears. The E, A, and D. The G is the Schaller M4S.

Sherlocked!

That is a thought, but the Gotohs' housing seems closer to the stock one, and I do really like the Gotohs Y keys on my Thunderbirds. Too bad there's no lightweight version of the stock elephant ears. I think they look the best.

My 1976 BC Rich Bodine bass came with the stock elephant ear tuners, maybe made by Grover, or maybe Schaller.  These have these little pegs to hold them in while screwing down the post of the tuner.  The only lightweight direct drop-in is the Schaller M4S, which I have in it now.  I hate them.  Since this is such a rare bass, I haven't done any irreversible mods to it.  But since I despise them (and Schaller) so much, I'm thinking of just having the peg holes filled in and redrilled for other tuners that are close.  There's a Gotoh RES-O-LITE that's similar, but it only has clover tuners.  Thoughts on how this would look with them?


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Love James Gang.