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#211,503
Miles_ONeal said:
IIRC, my Lab L5 was what I played bass through now and then in the duo many moons ago. It sounded just fine.
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dude wants 350 for this one….
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Miles_ONeal said:
There's an L5 on Reverb allegedly[1] owned by BB King. Asking price $10K. Good luck.

[1] No idea, didn't read the listing to see how it's documented, but I assume it is. Half the surviving L5s were probably owned by BB at some point.
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And the other half were rented by him whenever he came to town.
About a year or two ago one guy was selling both of his L5's. 300 euros each, 500 if the buyer buys both. If I had had the money....

I secretly wish one of my L2's belonged once to Mats Hulden, the Wigwam and Jim Pembroke Band bassist.
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#211,509
WillyW said:
NR 7irebird body finally shipped today!

some sort of blue or green is what I haven’t settled on….

been thinking of getting some gearless banjo tunas too…. I should just get it over with and order them…

been lazy and haven’t finished my Ric and my V paint yet but I’ll get it done before the weekend….
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How’s about a blue green burst?
 
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dagrev said:
So each one on the committee threw one letter each on the table and there it was?

I'm sure the name actually means something to the chemically enlightened. Not as in the 60s and 70s chemically enlightened.
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It was a committee of four; we didn't want the 'too many cooks' problem. You need enough to get some diversity of input but no so many that meetings take too long as everyone wants to have input. And you can't just leave it up to me. I might have named it "Bruce".

The trade name is intended to be enticing to the decision maker; the prescriber would know some Latin and Greek. It suggests movement.
 
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stlrocker said:
did someone say international harvester? heres mine. '67 travellette 1200.

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That's a real Truck! :thumbsup:

When I worked construction years ago a friend had a IH Scout. He'd had it a long time and it was when 4x4 were becoming the cool status symbol for the fragilely minded and guys would show up with their new 4 Wheel and brag. He would always say, "My old IH will pull the paint off that truck." They would laugh and run down his Scout. He would say, "lets hook up and see who drags who!" No one ever took him up on it. The Scouts and Jeeps were the only true 4 Wheel drive at the time, IIRC.

They built tractors here. He was offered IHs main plant but he didn't want to move my cousin when he was in HS, or go North away from family. If their trucks were like the tractors, they just about built them too well to stay in business.
 
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PillO said:
It was a committee of four; we didn't want the 'too many cooks' problem. You need enough to get some diversity of input but no so many that meetings take too long as everyone wants to have input. And you can't just leave it up to me. I might have named it "Bruce".

The trade name is intended to be enticing to the decision maker; the prescriber would know some Latin and Greek. It suggests movement.
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I suppose it means something to somebody. It is an unpronouncable drug name to the rest of us.
 
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