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Genz Benz nostalgia. RIP

#21
Jeff Genzler said:
Thanks guys for the nostalgia.
One thing's for sure, it won't be happening in Scottsdale. I've just completed a move to Brooklyn.

What will the future hold...??
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ex-Bay Ridge for me. I lived on Ft Hamilton when my Dad was stationed there - one of the houses was the one that Robert E. Lee lived in...when he was a Captain! Despite the memories, I prefer the weather elsewhere!

Loving the Streamliner 900 - truly the best amp I have ever had.

Dan
 
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#22
When I reluctantly traded my 750 towards a 60's B-15 one of the reasons I let it go was knowing the 750 was current production, easy to buy a new one - not so easy to buy a new 60's B-15. Unfortunate that all these great bass amps are out of production, but at least there is no shortage of quality bass gear still being made. Realized yesterday that I may miss the G-Flex guitar cabs more. I borrowed one from my guitarist to put my newly purchased 80's Carvin X100B through its paces as I have no high powered guitar cabs. Very impressive, but I'm wary of buying a used one that might have been terribly abused.

I should have a shirt and a bumper sticker around somewhere. I've got a mini keychain LED light in a drawer, stopped working but I couldn't throw it out.
 
#25
svtb15 said:
Thats nice. Think that you have the Promenade there... Nice lake and botanical gardens..
I have Lots of friends in that area...
NICE.... Get some Pizza!!!
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He's from out West Kirk....he doesn't know what pizza is. In Arizona, if a restaurant puts up pictures of Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra they think their flatbread with american cheese is pizza.
 
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:woot::woot::woot::woot:Thats funny Roger......
You can go to Joe's and Johns near bleeker in downtown NY... They are down the block from one another....
One had a picture of Sinatra and the other a photo of Springsteen .... Which Pizza are you gonna get. An Italian mafia guys pie or the Jewish guy from NJ pie? Ehhh...Its NY Pizza . Both are great.
Jeff is you want real good pizza. Take the family to Patsy's ... Its the real deal.... None of that cheep mafia cheese on top..
Its on 125th and 1st Ave... You will take everyone that comes to visit you there until you are 100 years old.. Its that good..

hasbeen said:
He's from out West Kirk....he doesn't know what pizza is. In Arizona, if a restaurant puts up pictures of Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra they think their flatbread with american cheese is pizza.
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svtb15 said:
:woot::woot::woot::woot:Thats funny Roger......
You can go to Joe's and Johns near bleeker in downtown NY... They are down the block from one another....
One had a picture of Sinatra and the other a photo of Springsteen .... Which Pizza are you gonna get. An Italian mafia guys pie or the Jewish guy from NJ pie? Ehhh...Its NY Pizza . Both are great.
Jeff is you want real good pizza. Take the family to Patsy's ... Its the real deal.... None of that cheep mafia cheese on top..
Its on 125th and 1st Ave... You will take everyone that comes to visit you there until you are 100 years old.. Its that good..
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Man you guys are makin' me hungry. Headed out to dinner now. Will save the pizza for a special occasion with family and friends.
I have yet to have a bad meal here in the so many trips times I've been here in the past.
I'm going to need to keep working out at the Y or I'll be a BKLYN dough boy soon.

Roger's also been providing some NY style greeting lessons to me....I just wish I could repeat them here.
 
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That is the main thing I miss about N.Y. The food and the "stuff" ... I used to play in a Dead band that rehearsed out in Bay Ridge ... and me being a Bronx boy and all it was .... different but it was fun while it lasted. I've been in the DMV for the last 14 years and while it is great to go back and visit.. I couldn't move back to N.Y.

I wish I could scarff up some of that old GB gear.. I will keep my 900 & my Max 9.2 till they give up the ghost on me. Great stuff that.
 
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Sav'nBass said:
That is the main thing I miss about N.Y. The food and the "stuff" ... I used to play in a Dead band that rehearsed out in Bay Ridge ... and me being a Bronx boy and all it was .... different but it was fun while it lasted. I've been in the DMV for the last 14 years and while it is great to go back and visit.. I couldn't move back to N.Y.

I wish I could scarff up some of that old GB gear.. I will keep my 900 & my Max 9.2 till they give up the ghost on me. Great stuff that.
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Oh crap. I have been off the forums and thought their disappearance was weird but was not aware it actually happened. I guess my Max 9.2 is a keeper now too.
 
#32
hasbeen said:
He's from out West Kirk....he doesn't know what pizza is. In Arizona, if a restaurant puts up pictures of Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra they think their flatbread with american cheese is pizza.
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Ain't that the truth. Sad thing is, it's tough to find the real stuff even in the city, now that so many places have been bought out and franchised. You used to be able to buy a slice that would be 3/4 the size of a pie anywhere else in the US...that had real sauce, good cheese and crust that cracked in the middle when you folded it. More and more, it's soggy mutton that is a shadow of its former self, but like anything else, you gotta know where to look.
 
#33
I had some awesome pizza at this little pizza joint in Greenwich CT this weekend. And believe it or not, one of the best slices I ever had was at a little pizza shop in LaGuardia Airport. Wish I could remember its name. I looked for it while I was there earlier on Sunday, but I couldn't find it.

BTW, turns out I got the city wrong where the Hebrew Home For The Aged was. I said it was Brooklyn and it was actually in The Bronx. What do I know? :D
 
#35
JimmyM said:
I had some awesome pizza at this little pizza joint in Greenwich CT this weekend. And believe it or not, one of the best slices I ever had was at a little pizza shop in LaGuardia Airport. Wish I could remember its name. I looked for it while I was there earlier on Sunday, but I couldn't find it.

BTW, turns out I got the city wrong where the Hebrew Home For The Aged was. I said it was Brooklyn and it was actually in The Bronx. What do I know? :D
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Since I've lived upstate NY, the closest to an authentic city slice I've found is Catskill Mtn. Pizza in Woodstock. They do a great job. I'm a bit of a pizza snob, enough to where I'll pack the fam in the car to search out good places. Today was a total disappointment, as a place we discovered a few years ago that had great wood fired pizza had completely gone down the tubes. Fly in my soda, owner flinging slices in the oven barehanded while a dirty knife just sat on the counter...we left.

So Jeff, are you going to be occupying the same area as Epifani and Fodera? I think there was a time that along with Jimmy Coppola, they were all on the same block.
 
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JimmyM said:
I had some awesome pizza at this little pizza joint in Greenwich CT this weekend. And believe it or not, one of the best slices I ever had was at a little pizza shop in LaGuardia Airport. Wish I could remember its name. I looked for it while I was there earlier on Sunday, but I couldn't find it.

BTW, turns out I got the city wrong where the Hebrew Home For The Aged was. I said it was Brooklyn and it was actually in The Bronx. What do I know? :D
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I think you mean the Daughters of Jacob right? I grew up a block away from that place on 167th St in the Bronx.
 

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