In the US, both league and union are played. If memory serves there is some divide (IIRC geographical at the Mississippi or something) on popularity.Oops!….thanks Geoff…
sorry @PillO and Stealth57…..
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They were being made up to '02. Started around '72 because they would be taxed as a motorcycle rather than a car. Sold well in the north of England I think.
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Is this the bit you remember?
Ah, thanks. I'd love to hear how they compare to the stock TB+. For some reason I rarely hear tonal details about different pickups, just that people love them.
That reminds me that I owe you a couple of recordings.
You deserve it, but the 805 is my calling cardtoo kind Dave….like Rog says, humbled…next case of 805 on me!…
Hope to see you when we are both in country so you can wave a magic wand at the Sixty Five.
I definitely don't have P envy. I play a THUNDERBIRD.
Or an Embassy. I don't recall ever even holding a P(bass).
I’ve played a couple of Ps. Not sure I’ve played a J. Happy with my Ts.
The RiffRiders, RiffRaffers, and RoughRafters.Hey you are missing Canadian Football. Used to be fun when the Roughriders would play the Rough Riders... 11 teams and they manage to have two with the same name.I figured that they should just name every team some variation of the Roughriders.
I recall seeing one in Dover. It was happily keeping all three rubber bits down.
Played a J once(sitting in).
Caught the original post. It’s 10am here…what else do I have to do but carefully study each and every post
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Hey you are missing Canadian Football. Used to be fun when the Roughriders would play the Rough Riders... 11 teams and they manage to have two with the same name.
The Ruff Ryders and Ruffryders, the Wruff Wriders and Wruffwriders, the Ruff Wriders and Ruffwriders, the Wruff... you get the picture!
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on the house Sir..You deserve it, but the 805 is my calling card
Hope to see you when we are both in country so you can wave a magic wand at the Sixty Five.
Union BIG down here in Arg….for some reason, many folks look up to Britain ‘round these parts…
I have heard of the Canadian football. I believe that way back - late 50s early 60s??? - that Canadian football and Rugby League were quite similar.Hey you are missing Canadian Football. Used to be fun when the Roughriders would play the Rough Riders... 11 teams and they manage to have two with the same name.
according to Grohl, NFL is a Canadian influence?….. need to look up, aware of thee down Canadian gridiron but…
They are brighter, more articulate and much more open sounding while being significantly less aggressive. I am a minority in that I actually really liked the stock pups in the mix when I was playing in bands (heavy rock to metal), it was just at home solo I didn't so much. Now I am 35 with a six month old daughter most of my playing is at home alone and I'm trying to have less stuff in my life, so I just wanted something a bit more expressive in what is now my only bass.
True. Though often it is mostly the same playing group. The US RL comps are amateur leagues, and often set up that they run for 8-10 weeks between RU comps. The main areas of RL in the US are (I gather) in NY, Boston, Delaware, one of the P states and Rhode Island has/had a team too. Then further south on the East coast Washington, Georgia and Florida (3 or 4 teams).
Then little pockets of stuff. Chicago Stockyarders lasted a while as a team that played invitationals against other areas teams but couldn’t get much else happening locally. I think the guy that was putting all the work in has given it away now.
Utah keep threatening to do something because of the Pacific Islanders there, but nothing ever seems to come of it.
California has about 4 teams but they are RU clubs looking for a diversion really.
Texas & Arizona are always spoken of as great RL possibilities…. But obviously not from anyone from there cos afaik nothing has ever happened there.
Then every 5 years or so there is a split in governing bodies, the baby gets thrown out with the bath water and they (almost) start all over again. As a RL fan it is frustrating but it seems to be RL’s way.
Sorry for going on and on.
The Pumas are a good team. There is a fledgling Rugby League presence there but not even as big as some other South American countries like Chile. The Brazilian Amazonas qualified for the Women’s RLWC held last October.
With the Mens RLWC, 1 Sth American country could go through to the American Conference playoffs. So Chile won through to play Canada, USA and Jamaica.
Jamaica won and went to the RLWC for the first time.
The US went to a last chance game against someone that I can’t remember but lost that and missed out for the first time in a while.
