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Help a curious Washington girl out, what/where is the generally accepted line used to define Northern California from the Southern? In Washington it's East/West with the Cascades as the dividing line.

Cat and Bird.

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Anything north of Monterey bay is NorCal. Monterey to Ventura is considered Central Coast. South of that is just traffic.
 
I don’t normally get too excited about Jazz basses, but this is one I’d make an exception for…


Price looks reasonable too…
https://www.johnfoxbass.com/product...luxe-jb-4-string-jazz-bass-matcha-green-sweet
https://www.johnfoxbass.com/product...luxe-jb-4-string-jazz-bass-matcha-green-sweet

I admire G&Ls. I really like the Tele guitars. I’d get one but for the headstock. I do like their old style CLF headstock and could see myself getting one of those someday.
 
Help a curious Washington girl out, what/where is the generally accepted line used to define Northern California from the Southern? In Washington it's East/West with the Cascades as the dividing line.

Cat and Bird.

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When the “Jim Morrison passed out here” plaques are outnumbered by the “Pigpen passed out here” or “Jack Kerouac drank here” plaques, you’re in NoCal.
 
Help a curious Washington girl out, what/where is the generally accepted line used to define Northern California from the Southern? In Washington it's East/West with the Cascades as the dividing line.

Cat and Bird.

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Draw an east west line through Fresno from the eastern border to the coast. That’s based as much on sports teams allegiances as it is anything else. A lot of companies also draw their regions that way as well.
 
Help a curious Washington girl out, what/where is the generally accepted line used to define Northern California from the Southern? In Washington it's East/West with the Cascades as the dividing line.

Cat and Bird.

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LOL - ask a hundred different CA natives and you’ll get 100 different answers. But as a CA native this is about the closest I’ve seen to what I’d call an accurate NorCal and SoCal dividing line…
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The problem is there’s really about four coastal regions and at least three different inland regions, which would roughly breakdown as follows:
SoCal coast - Santa Barbara south to the border
Central coast - SLO to Monterey
Bay Area - Santa Cruz to Bodega Bay
Northern Coast - everything north of Bodega bay
SoCal Desert - everything east of the greater San Diego and greater Los Angeles areas
Central Valley - everything just west of the Sierra Nevada mountains from Bakersfield to north of Sacramento
Sierra Nevada Mountains - pretty much the full length of the state
 
Played an interesting 'final' gig tonite: restaurant/lounge only 2 miles from house. Business hasn't returned to pre-pandemic levels plus it's our 'off' season(snowbirds up and left). Live music had to go, Might return come October. Prolly not. We were on an every third week Friday or Saturday rotation. Oh, well. LSTYD.
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How right you are. If it were my little world I’d redo ASCAP so that 50% of proceeds went to the originators of the music, 10% went to administrative fees for the foundation, with the remaining 40% used to compensate bands that are keeping the specific songs alive by performing covers - as long as they announce or have posted who did the originals and suggested albums or playlists where you can get those originals.
Perfect. It has to be remembered that the original artists can also benefit from a local band doing their music. No telling how many times a "bar band" did a song and was asked what it was because someone liked it and may not have heard it before. The original band may have just gained a new fan.
 
Thanks again TB Enablers.
Just got home a little bit ago.
I competed the clean up portion of the set up.
This one is clean,mean and ready rumble machine.
Is sounds wonderful with a new set of Roto’s
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Clothes were worn during the photo shoot..Thank goodness for you all. :)
Really looks great. That you have clothes on. Thank you.

Seriously, that bass does look really great.
 
The other day a home therapist came to check on me and see if I needed any help with anything. The first thing he said when he came into the room and saw a bunch of basses was “bass is hard.” He’s a guitar player. Really nice guy. Getting back into playing in his fifties. We talked music more than we did about my ankle. I took his personal number and told him I’ll be calling him out of the blue when I retire, hopefully next year, looking for someone to jam with.
That would be great!
 
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In terms of a psychological thriller - Hitchcocks "Rope" is my most favorite. Allegedly based on a play called "Ropes End", which was based on a 19th century essay about crime. But it also was referencing an actual murder case in 1924. Because of the lurid and controversial nature of the crime, it was met with less than praise at the time.

Michael Powell's (another great British director) 1960 film "Peeping Tom" went one step further than Hitchcock and was banned for years. Peeping Tom (1960 film) - Wikipedia I'd suggest these would be a good couple of 'movie night' films to watch back-to-back, starting with Rope as a primer.., that is, if you like twisted psychological thrillers. :) A third would be "Crash" - David Cronenberg's film from '96, based on a 1973 novel by J.G. Ballard - great soundtrack by long time Cronenberg music director Howard Shore.





 
I don’t normally get too excited about Jazz basses, but this is one I’d make an exception for…


Price looks reasonable too…
https://www.johnfoxbass.com/product...luxe-jb-4-string-jazz-bass-matcha-green-sweet


For me, what makes G&L's unique/special is their 9v pre. (L-2000) Minor details aside, a G&L J should be/play/sound pretty similar to a Fender J in a similar price-range; 2 single-coil pu's in the same location, and a passive VVT harness. I'm sure it's nice, but so is a Fender J. Leo's apples and oranges...
 
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