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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out
- Thread starter Korladis
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Mostly, IMO they are the last of the great leadsled SS Peaveys that grind/breakup when you push them hard. Past MkIII becomes more sterile to my ears, not in a bad way, theyre perfect pedal platforms and good bass tone but miss that magic. MkIVs are a good balance between grind and sterile, past that I wont buy em. MkIIIs are for sure way more versitile than Tuxedos.
Im now on the hunt for a MkIII and a Mace head or combo for what Im calling PVYHenge 2.0...
150 shipped? I can wait for it to locally pop up. I have a line on a Mace right now.
God no.
I'd be happy to a acquire it for you but I doubt anyone can swindle then down far enough for that.
I'm supposed to be in that area this weekend. If I can seeing by there I'll see if I can get it for a hundy or so. Not much hope for that.
I was just talking conversationally that being at a pawn shop it's priced up but still about market value.
Yeah, Ive seen them go for as much as $250+ ...If Im patient I can probably find one for under a hundo
Skunk-ape!!!!Yeah the " spaces in between "are impossibly long but cities like Houston and Dallas are hell to drive in too.
Too many people and not enough reason to use public transportation.
I do miss some stuff in TX, like the rose farms in Tyler and the international part of Houston but not enough to drive through it again. It'd be neat to see the assend of the Ozarks too. Maybe peek at skunk-ape.SXSW might be worth flying in once. Maybe.
Never heard anyone bang there beer for service. That's not texas behavior, he's just being a texas sized douche.
Yeah, the Ozarks are awfully pretty and one thing I like about them is that they aren't so high that you get snowbound for months out of the year. They can get pretty dramatic looking, but they are more like large, rolling, beautiful hills in most areas. I haven't been in the Missouri Ozark area much, but have been all over Arkansas. The drive around Eureka Springs is effin' gorgeous. Where I am at in Oklahoma is pretty fugly, although a little further west is starts looking more like "The" Southwest with red rock plateaus and such.
The Eastern part of Oklahoma, around Tulsa and just that easternmost 1/4th of the state is more lush and hilly because it's the tail end of the Ozarks.
I did it twice in the 90s. I imagine SXSW has only gotten crazier/crowdier since then.
Yeah, that is a rough situation. I feel trapped too, and I don't even own a home. It's just that things seem so tenuous. I live in a "Right to Work" state which basically means employers have the right to fire your ass at any turn, and don't have to even offer you an explanation. I think I'm good though, but I am scrambling to get my old job back with the state. Less stress, more stability.
Yeah, don't know Hampton Roads. When we were in VA (2005-2008) we lived in Roanoke. I thought it was a nice town. Was working so much I didn't get to do much music-related stuff.
Ha! Funny, with me, it's more my wife who has this idea that an RV will solve our problems. I mean, I like the idea too, in some ways, but she feels like it would be a backup so we'd never really be homeless if things went south with our income or something, and I can see that. But the fact is, I can't envision trying to live that way with a family of four. Maybe when my kids are out of the house, but while we aren't terribly materialistic and don't actually own a whole lot of stuff, I'm not willing to get rid of a big percentage of my belongings just so we can downsize to living in a big vehicle.
Plus, I don't think my wife has considered the amount of fuel RVs take, the maintenance, the fact that in a lot of places you have to pay by the night, etc. to park it and camp there...
At the same time, there is a certain appeal to the idea of living that way...
My wife and i rent our little house, it's in a great neighborhood that we wouldn't be able to afford if we were to buy a place ( can't find anything for less than $250k). If something breaks the landlord fixes it for free. So we'll be here for a few years while we figure out what we want to do.
I've watched my sister and her husband get hosed on 3 houses that were supposed to be investments, no thanks.
Max, I'll keep an eye out for a MKIII.
I've watched my sister and her husband get hosed on 3 houses that were supposed to be investments, no thanks.
Max, I'll keep an eye out for a MKIII.
I've owned 3 houses now. Lost a bunch on the first one by overdoing it on a remodel for the value, lesson learned. On the second one, I made a little money. This one, we will probably break even, if we move in the next couple of years. I really don't look at it as an investment, really. Our philosophy is "If we sell it for what we have in it, we lived there for free for xxx years."
We rented a few places before we bought our first home.
Which was great at first. Then Katrina hit and house prices went way up, which seemed good except I got laid off a few years later and our income dropped by 2/3s. Then our daughter came along and between the income loss and hospital bills things went south fast.
When we sold the house we should have cleared close to 30k, except for all the recent debt we broke even.
So now we're renting way below our income level to have some savings and insurance.
I really want to buy some land and build but we gotta be smart this time, so those are really long term plans.
Which was great at first. Then Katrina hit and house prices went way up, which seemed good except I got laid off a few years later and our income dropped by 2/3s. Then our daughter came along and between the income loss and hospital bills things went south fast.
When we sold the house we should have cleared close to 30k, except for all the recent debt we broke even.
So now we're renting way below our income level to have some savings and insurance.
I really want to buy some land and build but we gotta be smart this time, so those are really long term plans.
Hampton Roads really isn't that nice, I am like the farthest northern part before it turns into the Northern Neck region. I put Hampton Roads as I doubt anyone knows where Deltaville is. I'm about a half hour to Yorktown and 45 minutes to Williamsburg. I live in the town where the rich people from Richmond have their weekend/seasonal homes, so it is laid back and quiet and well boring if you don't own a boat.
My buddy lucked out with keeping an RV around. He bummed around the Southwest for a while in it doing out jobs after he got tired of having to leave the family so much on business at his old job, then came back to VA and landed a decent job but then lost that and they had to live in the RV for a while till the money came in from the new job. They weren't tooling around in it after he lost his job, just drove to the new job in South Carolina and parked it at a cheap RV place. 4 people and a bunch of pets in an RV LOL. I helped them move, what a nightmare that was, breakdowns and what not.
Yep it's a Right to Get Fired state here in Ol' Virginny too.
I used to live in Newport News when I was younger. Lived in this nice golf/club subdivision....Kiln Creek? Haven't been back in forever. That subdivison was nice, though
