Recent content by Syd Rayne

Without trying to repeat anybody on the linked list.... I personally don't care for these voices: Lou Reed Neil Young Helen Reddy Kenny Rogers David Johansen Lindsey Buckingham Jim Dandy Mangrum (Black Oak Arkansas) Alan Wilson (Canned Heat) sounds like Michael McDonald after a snort of helium...

The majority of my basses are neck-thru. However I do have this Ibanez SRX690 DX which is the deluxe neck-thru model. You don't see many Soundgear basses that are neck-thru... at least I don't. This also has the dot markers away from the centerline, and gold hardware. I call it the "Carol Kaye"...

Another firecracker memory.... one time a buddy and I were cruising Van Nuys or nearby... with the windows down, so you could yell at the girls. We were at a red light, and some dude flicked a lit firecracker in the passenger window at me. My buddy was yelling "Get that thing out of the car...

Living in SoCal - I believe ours came from Tijuana. Someone knew someone who went over the border and brought home packs of them. Pretty cheap.

Once in a while, we kids would take an entire roll of caps, and hit it with the biggest hammer or rock we could find. That always made the neighbors think it was a gunshot. One July 4th we were setting off illegal fireworks in the city limits, and I remember picking up a lit rocket that had...

I recall we had one of those for a couple years when I was a kid. That rear window was great for venting out the cigarette smoke clouds Mom & Dad made. Worked best if you cracked one or two of the door windows an inch or two.

Sure is...! Good eye.

My Warlock had the same issue upon arrival - and was noted in the listing. But it was the neck pickup. Because mine has the "Moser" electronics, each P-bass PU has the toggles for Series/Parallel mode. The neck PU had no discernable output on the D+G block unless the switch was in one of the...

Oh, and this guy. King Tut from the Batman TV series. Not his wives... but still had the hotties.

Coca-Cola gum that came wrapped in a drinking straw. Anyone remember that? Or... Shake-a-Pudd'n Ooh... how about a cattle call for a Polio vaccination. With a horde of folks at some big L.A. church. (And no, it wasn't served in Kool-Aid) :smug: Air Raid siren drills... and local buildings like...

Which led the way for: The Flintstones The Munsters The Simpsons King of Queens The Drew Carey Show Family Guy The Goldbergs That 70's Show (specifically Bob and Midge) ...to name a few :)

Bob's was great. We were in the Mall - so officially a Bob's Junior. But you could drink all the pop you wanted, provided you brought your own mug from home. I don't get the $$$ aspect of that myself. I know it was to save the paper cups for the customers - but drinking pop through the day had...

Reminds me of when I first moved out of my parent's house (the late 70's). Threw a housewarming party of sorts, and invited my co-workers from Bob's Big Boy (SoCal diner). There were two tall female volleyball players that everybody liked. At one point, they decided I was too uptight, and needed...

My wife named her acoustic guitars. Don't need Sherlock Holmes to decipher what the company is: Gilda Gretchen Martina Inez If I were to name my bases and guitars in a similar manner, they might be: Ricky Calvin Bernie Fernando Pepé Le Fone Homer Rich Dano "Syl" Vester "Billy" Squier As...