Old Traynors are fantastic amps, man, and Yorkville makes some top notch PA gear as well.
As a kid in the family band, we had some stuff made by Garnet too. Seems Canadian gear found it's way across the border.
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3 ways America should be more like Canada
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Old Traynors are fantastic amps, man, and Yorkville makes some top notch PA gear as well.
As a kid in the family band, we had some stuff made by Garnet too. Seems Canadian gear found it's way across the border.
psst,hey bill,these guys forgot about crash test dummies,he he,.........oh....is this thing still on....damn....
The oil sands and lumber industry are not that bad... The media tends to blow these things out of proportian for a story, I see that it has worked on you.
I didn't say that the tar sands or lumber industry were bad. They are what they are, and they have driven much of Canada's economic success post-crash. Where would the US economy be post-crash without the great fracking boom in Texas and the Dakotas?
That said, there are distinct drawbacks to commodity-driven booms. With every boom comes a bust.
This thread needs some Sathington Willoughby.
He'll sort your sorry asses out.
He'll sort your sorry asses out.
we used to have a big mining industry up north of here.....they used to have a half page advertisement for workers in both papers every day for years....a rich ore strike in chile and "poof" it's all gone.....resource based economies are definitely time sensitive....sooner or later you gotta be looking at a plan b
Yep, made in Winterpeg and made famous by The Guess Who. One of my 1st bass amps after my Sears Silvertone mini farter.
My cousins were tree planters in BC every year til middle aged arthritis kicked in and put them on the dole.
I spent 1981 and 1982 making good money playing bass in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta on a work-visa (and a Union card, which was mandatory, at least in those days).
I was impressed that everyone (even the rowdy-crowd I often found myself with) routinely removed their footwear just inside the front door when entering as a guest at someone's domicile. I thought that was very considerate for a bunch of partying cowboys, hippies, and Rig-Pigs. Do Canadians still do that? Just Curious.
Also, My first bass teacher when I was a kid was a local rock-n-roller named Casey Starnes who played a 4001 through a Traynor tube head and two Traynor cabs, one a W-box, one a six-ten, IIRC. That rig sounded great to me, so I have no complaints about things Canadian.
They had good beer too, all of it in the same short & fat returnable brown bottles, and everyone had a Bic lighter in their pocket with a chewed-up butt-end from popping the bottle-tops. Good times.
I was impressed that everyone (even the rowdy-crowd I often found myself with) routinely removed their footwear just inside the front door when entering as a guest at someone's domicile. I thought that was very considerate for a bunch of partying cowboys, hippies, and Rig-Pigs. Do Canadians still do that? Just Curious.
Also, My first bass teacher when I was a kid was a local rock-n-roller named Casey Starnes who played a 4001 through a Traynor tube head and two Traynor cabs, one a W-box, one a six-ten, IIRC. That rig sounded great to me, so I have no complaints about things Canadian.
They had good beer too, all of it in the same short & fat returnable brown bottles, and everyone had a Bic lighter in their pocket with a chewed-up butt-end from popping the bottle-tops. Good times.
what band?.....i was around then and might have seen you....ever play the zoo?....the kick off,etc....I spent 1981 and 1982 making good money playing bass in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta on a work-visa (and a Union card, which was mandatory, at least in those days).
I was impressed that everyone (even the rowdy-crowd I often found myself with) routinely removed their footwear just inside the front door when entering as a guest at someone's domicile. I thought that was very considerate for a bunch of partying cowboys, hippies, and Rig-Pigs. Do Canadians still do that? Just Curious.
Also, My first bass teacher when I was a kid was a local rock-n-roller named Casey Starnes who played a 4001 through a Traynor tube head and two Traynor cabs, one a W-box, one a six-ten, IIRC. That rig sounded great to me, so I have no complaints about things Canadian.
They had good beer too, all of it in the same short & fat returnable brown bottles, and everyone had a Bic lighter in their pocket with a chewed-up butt-end from popping the bottle-tops. Good times.
Southern Pride. (Not the one with a website now, we were active 1978-1983). We played Southern-Rock, Classic Country, and Western Swing. I don't remember The Zoo or Kick Off. We played Dance-Halls, Hotel Bars and sometimes Hockey Arenas.
you would certainly remember the zoo.....a winnipeg hotel bar,plaza hotel,or plazoo,or zoo....still there but a shadow of it's former glory....i don't know how i missed it,cause i listen to that stuff ....around then the harvey henry band was doing some serious allman,tucker,daniels things out of winnipeg and i saw them probably close to a 60-100 times....
Canada has about 10% of the US population. Also, the demographics are totally different. For that matter, the history of Canada is very different from the US- they were ruled by the Crown until recently. Too many in the US feel that they're entitled to far too much but even education isn't seen as the way out of poverty. Figure it out.
are you kidding....canuckistan is ground zero for entitlements....you name it there's a program for it and another thousand people hollering for more funding.....down east college kids think they should be getting free tuition....
Which color of the demographics are you specifically blaming?
He can blame me. I'm cool with it. Being a multi-cultural American, I can act as a blame sponge without even trying and not be bothered by it.
I think another drawback is that rather than focus on the fact that even with fracking we are heading for a petroless future the powers that be are able to ignore that rapidly approaching future due to a short term glut.
I still support $10 a gallon gas.
I find it interesting that rather than look for solutions blame seems to be the focus.
I understand we have several folks from other places. Is a situation like this, where blame is the game, the ways things work in your homeplace.
Or do you prefer solutions?
