Yeah, I was kind of surprised when I first saw them, it doesn't rain here at all, a little mist is a big rainstorm to them
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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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Yeah, I was kind of surprised when I first saw them, it doesn't rain here at all, a little mist is a big rainstorm to them
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I dunno why I like cream colored hardware so much, but I do. I've heard of the elusive left handed Mustang bass, but have found very few online. I'd like a lefty sunburst Mustang with a tort guard and cream pickup covers and volume/tone controls. I recently saw some American Player Mustangs but none lefty. Odd thing about me-- up until around 2000 I always played right handed basses left handed. People would say--that Will Hanbury, who plays his bass like Hendrix! LOL-- but after 2000 I got tired of always hiking up the neck and the controls making marks on my arms from laying against them. I guess I was just getting older..My first Alembic had cream covers on their pickups (P/J style). I ordered black replacements for them!
That Alembic just didn't look Alembic enough with the cream covers. That's the only reason I made the change; it sounded like an Alembic, it just didn't look (completely) like an Alembic. I probably should have kept those cream pickups and used them for something else.
Years ago I, priced out a potential FCS bass with lots of teeny weeny little options (small stuff, really)................
A nice Alembic or Fodera would have been quite a bit less expensive (this was back in the late '90s).
You can have one! FCS at your beck and call (with lots of $$$$$$$$$ flowing in their direction, too)!
Years ago I, priced out a potential FCS bass with lots of teeny weeny little options (small stuff, really)................
A nice Alembic or Fodera would have been quite a bit less expensive (this was back in the late '90s).
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For the FCS buy-in, my bass should come with its own sleeping porch. Buy two and also get a swamp cooler in the deal.
That Alembic just didn't look Alembic enough with the cream covers. That's the only reason I made the change; it sounded like an Alembic, it just didn't look (completely) like an Alembic. I probably should have kept those cream pickups and used them for something else.
You can have one! FCS at your beck and call (with lots of $$$$$$$$$ flowing in their direction, too)!
Years ago I, priced out a potential FCS bass with lots of teeny weeny little options (small stuff, really)................
A nice Alembic or Fodera would have been quite a bit less expensive (this was back in the late '90s).
As my father in law would say-- with that price they must be awwwful proud of their stuff!
Swamp cooler!
That Alembic just didn't look Alembic enough with the cream covers. That's the only reason I made the change; it sounded like an Alembic, it just didn't look (completely) like an Alembic. I probably should have kept those cream pickups and used them for something else.
You can have one! FCS at your beck and call (with lots of $$$$$$$$$ flowing in their direction, too)!
Years ago I, priced out a potential FCS bass with lots of teeny weeny little options (small stuff, really)................
A nice Alembic or Fodera would have been quite a bit less expensive (this was back in the late '90s).
Kind of a sad memory. When I was 17, my friends convinced me to order a bass from Fender-- that was 1969, from a small local store that sold musical instruments along toasters and dishes. I was in the top band in little Sitka, and I needed (or wanted) a Fender. I was also working at the regional hospital and getting paid every two weeks. I went in with $100 down and ordered a Fender Telecaster bass. Blonde finish with cream pickups and tone controls with a maple neck, including case. I was over halfway finished paying for the bass. The nice man who owned the shop knew the bass would take up to six months so he went ahead and ordered it before I finished paying for it.
I used to give Mom $100 a paycheck because I was living at home. One day, I had gotten paid, and Mom came into the store while I was paying the store another $100 for the bass. She saw the transaction and confronted me in front of the store owner. Ultimately I had to ask for a refund and the store owner cancelled my Fender. I then took half the money and turned it over to Mom. I kinda grieved about it for a while, but a high school teacher that was teaching me bass sold me his Jazz bass for $300! It included a brown Tolex case. Along with many of my life's regrets I sold that bass. I think it would have been worth a pretty penny today. I never held it against my mom because looking back we were pretty poor. I don't even know why I'm sharing this but there it is......
By any chance, do you find that you are more inspired to have cream colored hardware when at the donut shop? What shade of cream? There’s boston cream, vanilla cream, coconut cream....
The dumbbell tenement buildings of late 19th c. New York had air shafts, though not 10 feet wide. They had no openings at the bottom, mostly ended up as garbage dumps.
The Living City | New York City >> 1910s >> 1914
Here's a pic of the airshaft of one of them.
Spanish colonial style homes usually had patios with all rooms opening onto them, and no interior hallways. I spent many nights in those buildings in El Salvador and Guatemala, without a/c, and very comfy.
As a matter of fact, I love every form of cream dessert! AND Vanilla ice cream!
We lived very comfortably in southern AZ for 10 years without a/c. Swamp coolers work nicely when the humidity is around 10%. In the areas with higher humidity, not so much.
My first appartment had those type of vents. Depending on the place, the bathroom or the kitchen window opened into the shaft. Higher levels got the bonus of some sunlight through the shaft.
I've owned lots of basses with toasters mounted to them (still have two toasters on a bass, now).......................
Mmmmmmmmmmmmm..................
I was thinking of airshafts, too. It came to mind because of a couple books I'd read about La Contessa's favorite architect, C.F.A. Voysey, who designed them into some buildings of his.
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I see from a few letters typed in the place up top there at the top of this window that new swamp coolers are absolutely available for purchase.
My familiarity with swamp coolers is from time spent inside newspaper composing rooms. Compositor's lives were considerably more comfortable for the combination of swamp coolers and cold type.
The first understanding one comes to when new to the composing room is every single person in there carries very sharp knives.
My familiarity with swamp coolers is from time spent inside newspaper composing rooms. Compositor's lives were considerably more comfortable for the combination of swamp coolers and cold type.
The first understanding one comes to when new to the composing room is every single person in there carries very sharp knives.
Right now(0035),the humidity is 90%. It is NOT raining.
Our first apartment had a central patio right in the middle of the building in which the other first floor apartments opened on to it, someone had asked me about it and I had forgotten about it. It wasn't real big, maybe 20 x 20'.
That is kind of sad. Almost a coincidence, I bought my first new Fender Precision (Sunburst/tort, flatwounds/covers with foam under the tailpiece cover) in 1970 at the age of 17 for $250.00 w/case and put it on layaway. I worked all summer in a sweatshop to pay it off and I mean a REAL sweatshop, the place was called Delco Rubber and it used to coat a layer of (I think) rubber or something or other on giant rolls of material which had to be very hot so the stuff would stick to the material. The machines were probably 30' or more long and 10' wide and were essentially big radiators. There were at least ten of these things in this place. My job was to sit on the floor and pull the wrinkles out of the stuff when it would wind back up onto the bottom reel after it went all the way down on top of the machine to the end and come back under the machine. It had a bonus though, some kind of solvent wafted off the stuff and sent you into outer space, I was a young hippy with long hair and the foreman (person?) used to walk by and make funny noises and pretend he hadn't, he was pretty cool for an old buzzard.
At the end of the day they would shut the giant fans off in the place and the temp would go up to about 160 degrees in ten minutes or that's what they told me anyway, I didn't stick around to find out.
Oh Happy Day is such a raw recording. I think that the imperfections help make it so good. The performers are talented and provide a real feel to the song. I like to change the words to Oh Happy Dog. The following year, The Edwin Hawkins Singers recorded Lay Down (Candles In The Rain) with Melanie Safka. Both songs did well.
Oh Happy Day...what a great choice for a truly Soulful Sunday @the harp unstrung. Thank you for that and for posting the link. After listening to this great tune, I looked at the comments and one that stood out was from Bernard Bochenski. Check it out. I made my day, it just may make yours.
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