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Things You Don't See Anymore Part 3
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Frank Zappa lyric quote from, Joe's Garage. "Got matching suits and Beatle boots."
Don't see bands with matching suits and foot wear anymore, do we?
Don't see bands with matching suits and foot wear anymore, do we?
We bought a newer version of that game for our son when he was young. He was born in 2003.
I don't know for sure about their shoes, but these guys wear matching outfits(metalcore band):
Yeah! And they have matching "eye wear" too......ha ha ha!
I'll check this band out. They look like anything but a metal core band, don't they?
Pretty much yeah. I found them on accident on youtube a few years ago. the video for the song "White Wine Spritzer."
With outfits like that, their music had better be electrifying!
Our grandson was born in 2018, and this is just about his favorite game whenever he visits. I think he likes it because he gets to whack things with a hammerWe bought a newer version of that game for our son when he was young. He was born in 2003.
1978 Volkswagen Type 1 Convertible, 'Wolfsburg Edition' IIRC, the last year Beetles were sold in the Estados Unidos, German (Karmann) production
I had one of these when I started playing in bands. World's Greatest Motorized Lawn Chair. Slow as hell, but the top down on a pretty day, who cares?
We played the last night of a three week stand at a local club, and that morning instead of loading up and clearing out with the rest of the band, I suddenly found I was going to be busy . . . till the next morning (For our younger readers: I was single, and came along after The Pill and before AIDS. A golden era !) I
Next morning, get a call from the club mgr telling me the new guys would be there to load in at 3, and he would not be responsible for my Peavey Bass head and 215 cabinet.
OOPS !
I usually hauled my stuff in the 'band van' when we moved, but I missed out on that. Could not get hold of anybody and the clock's ticking. So I jump in the VW and run over there thinking there must be SOMETHING I can do. Then it dawned on me:
I put the head in the front seat. I stood the 215 up on the back bumper (the top was down), and FLIPPED it over the folded top into the back seat and drove it home, the caster end of the cabinet pointing skyward at about 45 degrees.
Necessity IS the mother of invention.
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I've never seen that Marshall, before. I take it that was their take on the first wave of solid state guitar amplification (FWOSSGA)?
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They were slow stock. But it was very easy and not all that expensive to build a screamer of a motor!
I can remember rebuilt cylinder heads for $19 in the Sears catalog.
I had a 1960 bug. 36hp and no gas gauge. Dipstick in the "frunk". There was a lever on the floorboard that let you have another gallon when you ran out of gas. If you forgot to reset the lever when you filled up you were hosed if you ran out of gas.
40mph top speed on a grade on the highway.
Used drool over parts to build an "Inch Pincher":
Cal-Look.com - Nostalgia Corner by El Dub
Mate built a beach buggy on one of those. He fitted a Mazda rotary in place of the flat four. You had to be careful going around corners as the front end was so light that you could easily lose traction whilst turning.
And there something we don’t see anymore? In addition to the late Jon Lord, who is missed.
