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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

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Heh. There's a thread right now in the Basses forum called Headstock art photos. A solid majority are just closeups of the posters' FSOs. Art is in the eye, I guess. Lots of cool and beautiful instruments in that thread though.

Mine included ;) Looks great with D'aD tapes :thumbsup:

What really makes me smile is the bass pron G&L headstocks with a middle finger pointed an outfit whose identity is fairly obvious. :laugh:
 
Thank you! I see a lot of young gals with kool-aid blue or red highlights. It's all braver than I ever dare LOL. I thought I was very brave that first henna, because I knew up front if I didn't like it, it would be permanent anyway. That was probably about a year of reading, and studying, and considering, and finally testing before I jumped in the deep end!
Very nice, we should all wear our hair henna way we like it. :)
 
Heh. There's a thread right now in the Basses forum called Headstock art photos. A solid majority are just closeups of the posters' FSOs. Art is in the eye, I guess. Lots of cool and beautiful instruments in that thread though.

Edit: and in predictable fashion, here are mine:

Very much kidding:

My eyes.

P.S. There are some very nice headstocks there, something (the pedestrian) I don't give a lot of thought to.
 
Fender Shaped Object

I always thought that the Fender lines were supposed to be based on an pear or hourglass shaped woman’s body. Something about subliminally marketing to males.


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Heh. There's a thread right now in the Basses forum called Headstock art photos. A solid majority are just closeups of the posters' FSOs. Art is in the eye, I guess.
Yeah, lots of fairly pedestrian photos, not so much art photos. But, everyone has their own ideas about what art is. ;)
What really makes me smile is the bass pron G&L headstocks with a middle finger pointed an outfit whose identity is fairly obvious. :laugh:
I have always seen the shape of the 4 string headstock as a profile of a pregnant woman.

It's not quite that serious. I feel both of our spouses would object somewhat :)
Have you two asked? ;) :D
 
A strong Blue 'n' White statement.

Sadly, lost the blue and white motif very recently as I swapped in La Bella tapes with purple silks. Doesn't look as svelte. And actually believe I like the D'Addario tapes better. :banghead:

No actual art attempted.
 
I always thought that the Fender lines were supposed to be based on an pear or hourglass shaped woman’s body. Something about marketing to boys.


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If my dim memory is working (if is doing a lot of work here), Ian S. Port in 'The Birth of the Loud', about Leo and Lester, went on a bit about the space-aged-ness of FSOs.

In 1980, was the sexist musical instrument industry different than any other? Things have changed for the better in that respect.


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I'm really glad to have this stuff, to the extent that it is, in the rear view mirror. (Remember the ol' Ridgid tool pictures? Very happy to see those have gone bye-bye. Etc. Etc.)
 
We have become so politically correct we're scared of our own shadows. I remember moving to Seattle and one of my first jobs was mail delivery boy in a business that housed three stories of workers. I'm not any Brad Pitt but when I was delivering the first day the women were commenting on me, and it felt odd. I ended up dating a few of the ladies at the office-- who winked at me lol.

That was a million years ago. I actually wonder how young people signal to each other that they are attracted to each other. Either way either gender can scream harassment nowadays.. sheesh what a different world we live in now. I never condoned or condone now any form of sexism but I feel the pendulum has swung a bit to far in the wrong direction....
 
Behold the new do:

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I'm happy with it. Got home, applied my own products, strategically applied the straightening iron, and this was the end result. I'll go lighter with it over time but I'm pretty happy to have found someone who can cut curls well.

Wow! The new do you! I like it.
 
We have become so politically correct we're scared of our own shadows. I remember moving to Seattle and one of my first jobs was mail delivery boy in a business that housed three stories of workers. I'm not any Brad Pitt but when I was delivering the first day the women were commenting on me, and it felt odd. I ended up dating a few of the ladies at the office-- who winked at me lol.

That was a million years ago. I actually wonder how young people signal to each other that they are attracted to each other. Either way either gender can scream harassment nowadays.. sheesh what a different world we live in now. I never condoned or condone now any form of sexism but I feel the pendulum has swung a bit to far in the wrong direction....


Treat others as you wish to be treated yourself is the old saw. Falls apart fast when considering people who just don't care.
 
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