Also on craigslist "Looking for a Gibson Tbird Bass will pay up to $850 for a newer one and $1500 for one from the 70s looking for one with no repairs minor issues no problem let me know what you have"
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Thunderbird Club
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hillerup
There are basses, and there are Thunderbirds!
According to KISS | Gene Simmons | LoBue custom bass the whereabout of the Lobue is surrounded in mystery:
"Exactly what happens to the LoBue is matter of some confusion. In 1978 Gene recalled that: "[I used that bass] For about four years, until one night I threw it to my roadie. At the end of our show walk offstage and I throw the guitar off the stage, and everyone gasps. That one night he dropped it and the neck broke in half." [*] Spiro of tribute band fame has mentioned that Gene told him it was stolen while being away for repairs after Gene "fell off the front of the stage". Gene had another story in 1996: "A couple of years later I lent it to Micki Free, whose band Smokehouse opened for us once, and never saw it again." In a 2013 interview at G-Club in Tokyo Gene threw another wrinkle to the story of the LoBue's demise, this time suggesting that he used the bass on stage in 1982 when he fell off the front of the stage, cracked the neck and promptly gave the pieces to a member of the audience.
Seeing how Gene is, shall we say, slightly inconsistent and prone to exaggeration methinks it's best to take the word of one of the participants of one of the stories. According to Micki Free the story is true that Gene lent him the bass and that it was subsequently stolen while in his posession."
So maybe the neck was broken and maybe the bass was stolen... Only Gene knows...
hillerup
There are basses, and there are Thunderbirds!
I'll give you a hint, JJR: across the river from you
I meant that Perry might have been quoting from another lyric. I don't know the blockheads, how old is said song? This thing was on an intro to a song on ritual de lo habitual from the very early 90sMaybe because he wasn't quoting a Ferrel lyric. That's a Blockheads's lyric.
Gaolee
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As a really boring person with 'burst 'Birds, I may have to look for a 'burst '79. KingFace can't have all the fun. Ah, who am I kidding. I'm married and we just bought a new car for my wife. A new to us car represents some multiple of 'Bird purchases. That's how to think about things - this bag of groceries cost .25 Epiphone 'Birds. That car cost 10 Gibson 'Birds. Etc. It makes justifying n+1 far more straight forward.
It's just down the road a bit from you. Go get it!
I know, i know..............
Gaolee
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Reality altering drugs are kinda fun for a while, but losing touch with current conditions is a problem if you use too much.
Do i ever!!!!!!!!!!!!
There is no one in my family i could plead my case for a loan for this.
We can learn from TV and movies as well as broadway musicals. Start cooking blue meth and you will have more money than you can launder in no time.
Just don't dip your pen in company ink or you'll end up like the other guy on craigslist
"Looking for a Gibson Tbird Bass will pay up to $850 for a newer one and $1500 for one from the 70s looking for one with no repairs minor issues no problem let me know what you have"
n+1 is no joke. We Canadian's don't joke about stuff like that
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I remember this being much more of a punk song, but now I think it is more of a pop song with punk lyrics. Funny how things were perceived in youth.
