Al Kraft
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If I had known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.
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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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^^^on that very subject...
An essay...A question...
My ears ring.
My shoulder won’t let me hit the cutoff man anymore.
....prostate cancer and ALL the $#!+ that goes with it...
...but mostly, it’s my feet...I’ve got a party in the front, peripheral neuropathy, And a party in the back, plantar fasciitis, that makes Every minute of every day a burning, painful trudge.
I take my meds to tamp down the burning, but the pain Never goes away.
Enough whining...
I live a wonderful life...a loving Bride of 40 years, 2 happy, healthy children, three happy, healthy grand daughters, 3 sisters whom I Love, and they Love me...more house than I’d ever envisioned, the coolest truck in the county, 9 (count ‘em, Nine!!) beautiful bass guitars...a record collection that Will Not Quit...100-or-so percussion instruments from all around the world...and a good cup of coffee in front of me right now.
We’ve lived a frugal (in the best sense of that word) life, and so we have money enough to travel and have Fun along the way...money earned through honest work that I look back upon with pride...
I am 64.
...so here’s the question I ask myself sometimes...not on a ‘bad foot day’...that wouldn’t be fair...
If you could strike a deal with the Powers That Be; would you trade a day spent inside your 19 year old body for a day shaved off the end of your life?
Just how weird is that thought?
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Al Kraft
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I may offer the odd answer for that thought question, but for me the answer is a resounding no. I am fine as I am now, and my first year engineering school wasn't a time I'd like to relive in any aspect.
Not having any idea when that "one day" might happen, and considering that year 19 was spent at "A" school in the Navy-in Norfolk("Dogs and sailors keep off the grass")-No.
If I'd have taken the straight and narrow path and taken better care of myself, I would have died of boredom....
LOTS of pain now but so many crazy memories.....
Same here. I wouldn't long to relive the past at the expense of the future.
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So who here was Ponce de León in a past life?
Immortals would suck to have around too. Really no personal wish to inhabit the same space as any immortal Borgia family members.
Immortals would suck to have around too. Really no personal wish to inhabit the same space as any immortal Borgia family members.
This one is calling me. $1K US.
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audio samples: Gibson Les Paul Junior Tribute Doublecut Bass Review | Premier Guitar
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Wouldn't want the same general circumstances or mindset of myself at 19 at all, but if I got to keep current muscle memory and what passes for cunning and experience, the facility for something like one great day of powder skiing or wave sailing followed by an evening with my wife in her 19 year old body would make that a very tempting deal on my penultimate day. So as usual, it depends.
Heard a few mediocre things about build quality.....Put me off of getting one....
I was thinking of getting one, but "that" video (you know the one) made me no longer have any interest in anything Gibson.
Gibson has a poor quality reputation that they are addressing. There’s a lot of negative internet comments that I can look beyond.
The demo tracks sounded good. The sample that they reviewed at PremierGuitar rated build/design quality as excellent, four and a half out of five.
Of course, I’d want to see it first and evaluate it based on the price.
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My feeling is I always want to like Gibson basses.
This line from Vox has my visual cortex engaged
This line from Vox has my visual cortex engaged
Interesting.
I saw the guitar versions of these a few years ago in a local store. Different brand name, some little company I'd never heard of before. I wonder if Vox bought them out?
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There's a much more uptown Euro bass like that as well, don't remember the name offhand.
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Errrrrm......no.........
Rickenbacker has a long standing tradition of legal action well beyond Gibson’s current litigious foray. I think that Fender has been hardest hit by infringement of their designs. They lost a big one in court over the strat.
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