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I had a job as a night janitor in a trucking company maintenance shed. It was union and paid very well for the time. It was miserable. On the way home, I would stop at a White Castle across from a Timken bearing plant and buy a buck's with of sliders. Six of them, as I recall. That was the fuel I needed to get the rest of the way home and get through a day. Sleep wasn't really a thing while I had that job, but White Castles will always be a favorite. No matter how awful they are.
1963, Royal Castle, 2 burgers(they weren't called sliders back then), a birch beer(frosted mug), and a piece of lemon meringue pie=$.47.:)
 
Yes, being a franchise it was "_____" Big Boy. When I was in my HS combo - we'd end up at Denny's after our show ordering cheese-frenchies, onion rings and a 'bottom-less' coke.
In Miami there was a 24 hour diner called "Jack Murphy's". We called it 'the theater' 'cos after 2AM, there was always sumpin' weird. Sometimes us.
 
Are you sure you aren't the Green Bastard?
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I had a job as a night janitor in a trucking company maintenance shed. It was union and paid very well for the time. It was miserable. On the way home, I would stop at a White Castle across from a Timken bearing plant and buy a buck's with of sliders. Six of them, as I recall. That was the fuel I needed to get the rest of the way home and get through a day. Sleep wasn't really a thing while I had that job, but White Castles will always be a favorite. No matter how awful they are.

The White Castle Chronicles :)
 
Still looking for a good analog chorus pedal to use with my Birds...
Watcha guys usin' these days ?

I haven't really tried any other chorus pedals than the mid-80's Ibanez 10- and L- series and only the Bi-Mode Chorus (BCL) is analog. Sounds great but I'm biased.

The DCF10 (Digital Chorus/Flanger) was one of my first pedals ever and I'm so used to it (both as a flanger and chorus) I always come back it.

Not a very helpful posting is it? :D
 
You eat bait?

:laugh::laugh::laugh: When it comes to prawns, I certainly do! When we were kids on holidays we would go prawning at night. A lamp, a net and go tramping up the local estuary when the prawns were ‘running’. These days I’d be too scared of bull sharks.

PS: also been known to eat squid and calamari. Not got a big wrap on oysters, but scallops are good as are mussels in a nice tomato chilli sauce and crispy bread to soak it up.
 
:laugh::laugh::laugh: When it comes to prawns, I certainly do! When we were kids on holidays we would go prawning at night. A lamp, a net and go tramping up the local estuary when the prawns were ‘running’. These days I’d be too scared of bull sharks.

PS: also been known to eat squid and calamari. Not got a big wrap on oysters, but scallops are good as are mussels in a nice tomato chilli sauce and crispy bread to soak it up.
We eat oysters on the half shell a lot in the season. Raw oysters are not for everyone. A friend of mine said he tasted a raw oyster twice. Once going down.... :)
 
I haven't really tried any other chorus pedals than the mid-80's Ibanez 10- and L- series and only the Bi-Mode Chorus (BCL) is analog. Sounds great but I'm biased.

The DCF10 (Digital Chorus/Flanger) was one of my first pedals ever and I'm so used to it (both as a flanger and chorus) I always come back it.

Not a very helpful posting is it? :D

I beg to differ, good sir.
I see old Ibanez pedals popping up here and there in the locals, so I'll keep them on my radar.
 
A couple of interesting projects ahead:
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The left one will have the T-Bird plus pickups (I haven't locked the neck pickup placement yet but the pickguard in the picture has the hole cut for a P-pickup location so I might go with that).

The right one has the J-humbucker in the Richard Sinclair '75 location (a.k.a. 4001 bridge PU spot) and the reverse-P's inherited from the left one will go to the spots they are placed in the photo. As it happens the bridge pickup placed right next to the J-pickup is the exact Lee Sklar's Frankenstein bass bridge pickup location so naturally I'll use his for the neck pickup too. With good luck various combinations with the J -pickup might sound good too. Anyway, a Fender-style bass with absolutely no trad P or J sounds available. :D