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MCF said:
I’ve heard of the Flat Earth Society. This place is starting to sound like the Flat String Society.

Chromes on a MIM P and DA tapes on the Epi TV Silver Tbird. Everything else has stainless rounds of one type or another.
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And I ordered tapes for the acoustic bass and will put Power Flats on the second VP once I move the bridge pickup.
 
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RedVee said:
Yes it was Rememberance Day yesterday. I met my sister for a coffee and the shopping centre played the bugler, the Ode and we had a minutes silence. That was a nice piece of tradition that is still going.

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The Ode of Remembrance is a poem that is commonly recited at Anzac Day services to commemorate wartime sacrifice.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

The Ode comes from For the Fallen, a poem by English poet and writer Laurence Binyon. The poem was first published in The Times on 21 September 1914. It was later published in the Winnowing Fan - Poems of the Great War.

By mid-September 1914, less than seven weeks after the outbreak of war, the British Expeditionary Force in France had already suffered severe casualties. Long lists of the dead and wounded appeared in British newspapers. It was against this background that Binyon wrote For the Fallen.

The Ode is the fourth stanza of the poem. The verse, which became the League Ode, was already used in association with Link Removed commemoration services in Australia in 1921.
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We certainly remember those who gave their lives at Gallipoli.
 
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GonePlaid said:
My first bass was a 66 Gibson EB-3(wish I hadn't sold it :banghead:), so whatever Epi/Gibby wants to call it, it'll always be an EB-__ to me.
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I knew it was EB something but for years I only knew that shape as SG - which I can remember. Just calling random shapes Electric Bass <number> doesn’t always remember well with me.
 
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godofthunder59 said:
60s NRs have a 1.5 nut width and neck thickness front to back varies greatly from somewhat thin to Louisville Slugger territory. The new NRs have a 1.6 width nut (honestly I thought I'd hate it but I don't) and rather full profile front to back bordering on beefy. My favorite are the 60's 1.5 with a beefy profile but at this point in the game I've learned to adapt to all manner of necks.
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I can adapt (at least to any 4 string I’ve played), but thinner necks are easier on my hands, equaling less effort and more joy, so I generally stick with them.
 
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PillO said:
I saw Def Leppard a while ago (couple of years?) playing, I think, the RnR HoF induction (or something else maybe?). They sounded really good.

I passed on seeing Motley Crue (why isn't there a cover band called Motley Cruex?) as everything I have seen of them recently has me thinking that it is a cash grab - Vince can't sing and the rest are just putting in time. Has anything happened with them and the Mick Mars lawsuit recently?
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Not sure, but the guitarist the other night was John 5 (ex Rob Zombie’s band). Of the three originals Tommy Lee looks by far the healthiest….

In contrast, Def L look older but not necessarily “worse for wear”.
 
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Miles_ONeal said:
I knew it was EB something but for years I only knew that shape as SG - which I can remember. Just calling random shapes Electric Bass <number> doesn’t always remember well with me.
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Not being a 'treble' player, I first knew that shape as EB-3(didn't know-or care-that there was an EB-0(and -1 and -2).
 
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PillO said:
How am I so busy all the time? I can play again, but I seem to have so little time to actually do it these days.

Today, we went bowling to celebrate my brother's birthday. Went for lunch afterwards. I felt the need to scrub my hands well as god knows how many people have handled those balls...
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Ahem!
 
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