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Thunderbird Club

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Perhaps new Epi Vintage Pro marketing will roll after April? Does Epi decrease prices as part of their 'April Bass Month' promo?
 
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PillO said:
Great, I had to look up VPL. I was thinking Vancouver Public Library and the internet initially agreed. However, further browsing to Urban Dictionary reveals that both women and men can suffer VPL, although the P is sex specific.
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It could be sex specific - But not in my case :thumbsup:
 
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marko57 said:
It is a concern! Back in '88 we were playing a gig, break between 2nd and 3rd set, our guitarist (who always had a bit of an attitude) hits the restroom to get rid of some beer only on the zip up he catches skin and he caught it GOOD! :) Could not get it un-caught! I $hit you not, he played the 3rd set with his zipper down and his junk a captive! Played the entire set like a statue with his guitar in front of the affected area and white as a ghost! The drummer and I lauged the whole set! This was a karma thing to us! :) End of the set he was GONE in a flash (pardon the pun!) and headed to the hospital where we heard it was a major affair to release the hound! All these years later I still chuckle over that one! :)
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Eventually, this anecdote always makes an appearance.

Years and years ago I worked with a bloke from the deep south of NZ whose family had a civil engineering firm. Bear in mind, this is the sheep-farmingest part of a country about which Australians make incessant sheep shagging jokes (just so you know the exact limits of their intellects).

Anyway, one day Stewart's brother was straddling a hydraulic ram and collapsing it after a job somewhere. He managed to get his willy caught quite nastily, required a visit to A+E, and was sore for a long time. When it was time to fill out the accident compensation form, in the box where it asks you to describe the nature your injury, he wrote 'penis caught in ram'.
 
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I get tweets from Epi - very annoying that Australia is never included in any competitions. They do have a distributor "down here".
Mike.C. said:
View attachment 1103987 Perhaps new Epi Vintage Pro marketing will roll after April? Does Epi decrease prices as part of their 'April Bass Month' promo?
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PillO said:
Free? How could I go wrong? Now I can't afford not to buy another bass.
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kat888 said:
Eventually, this anecdote always makes an appearance.

Years and years ago I worked with a bloke from the deep south of NZ whose family had a civil engineering firm. Bear in mind, this is the sheep-farmingest part of a country about which Australians make incessant sheep shagging jokes (just so you know the exact limits of their intellects).

Anyway, one day Stewart's brother was straddling a hydraulic ram and collapsing it after a job somewhere. He managed to get his willy caught quite nastily, required a visit to A+E, and was sore for a long time. When it was time to fill out the accident compensation form, in the box where it asks you to describe the nature your injury, he wrote 'penis caught in ram'.
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What did the ram say about it?
 
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kat888 said:
Eventually, this anecdote always makes an appearance.

Years and years ago I worked with a bloke from the deep south of NZ whose family had a civil engineering firm. Bear in mind, this is the sheep-farmingest part of a country about which Australians make incessant sheep shagging jokes (just so you know the exact limits of their intellects).

Anyway, one day Stewart's brother was straddling a hydraulic ram and collapsing it after a job somewhere. He managed to get his willy caught quite nastily, required a visit to A+E, and was sore for a long time. When it was time to fill out the accident compensation form, in the box where it asks you to describe the nature your injury, he wrote 'penis caught in ram'.
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Really not helping with the stereotypes, huh?
 
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Sitting here in the Warwick RI Guitar Center, in the bass section. There is nothing at all inspiring here, to my sensibilities. Some SUB basses, a few Fenders, a mess of Squires, a few other cheap things you see around all over the place now... And a 32" scale Hagstrom HB-4, used, for $349, with a very poorly cut pick guard. China... Bummer.

I dunno, maybe someone else would be pumped, but I'm just decidedly underwhelmed.

Nothing to see here, move along...
 
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kat888 said:
[clank] you would imagine
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BAAAAAA!

And, the ram may or may not have been pretty unhappy about the situation. You can never assume anything. Funny thing about the pop-up ads. Now that we have discussed it a little, I'm noticing them. Yeah, lots of Reverb ads, and the occasional women from somewhere in eastern Europe want to have dates with you ads. I wonder if that has something to do with the Thunderbird Club.
 
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kat888 said:
Eventually, this anecdote always makes an appearance.

Years and years ago I worked with a bloke from the deep south of NZ whose family had a civil engineering firm. Bear in mind, this is the sheep-farmingest part of a country about which Australians make incessant sheep shagging jokes (just so you know the exact limits of their intellects).

Anyway, one day Stewart's brother was straddling a hydraulic ram and collapsing it after a job somewhere. He managed to get his willy caught quite nastily, required a visit to A+E, and was sore for a long time. When it was time to fill out the accident compensation form, in the box where it asks you to describe the nature your injury, he wrote 'penis caught in ram'.
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Ironically we have more sheep than NZ, less per head though.

I believe the Poms make the sheep shagging jobs about Aussies (Bazza Mackenzie movie era anyway).
 
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Count Bassie said:
Sitting here in the Warwick RI Guitar Center, in the bass section. There is nothing at all inspiring here, to my sensibilities. Some SUB basses, a few Fenders, a mess of Squires, a few other cheap things you see around all over the place now... And a 32" scale Hagstrom HB-4, used, for $349, with a very poorly cut pick guard. China... Bummer.

I dunno, maybe someone else would be pumped, but I'm just decidedly underwhelmed.

Nothing to see here, move along...
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That sounds like a total crash.

Was surprised to see the '76 Bird when I was in GC here in NY on Sunday, (even though I think the neck was shot), along with those other Gibsons, yeah, not much to write home about otherwise.

Wish it was the mid '70's back on 48th Street. Basses of interest o'plenty.
 
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JJR58 said:
That sounds like a total crash.

Was surprised to see the '76 Bird when I was in GC here in NY on Sunday, (even though I think the neck was shot), along with those other Gibsons, yeah, not much to write home about otherwise.

Wish it was the mid '70's back on 48th Street. Basses of interest o'plenty.
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Late 70's/early 80's me and a guitarist friend would make a monthly pilgrimage to 48th and just stare slack jawed at the variety and amount that was available. Running into a celebrity almost every time was a bonus.
 
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