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Thunderbird Club
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Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
Somebody already bought it. Phwew! I don't have to explain the scar and missing kidney to my wife...Shame Baz is selling that one
- Mar 13, 2008
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He mentioned on LBO that he took them down for now...........
This one's still up..... So Cool
Hamer FB IV Thunderbird 8 string Bass 1990 Candy Apple Red Custom Made 4 Tom Petersson Cheap Trick
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I've said this before: the stock position for strap buttons on Gibson basses in the 50s and 60s was the heel. No exception, including Thunderbirds.
As to that bass, Baz has been known to stretch the truth but an added strap button is a small and common mod. On special order colors you could probably request different knobs...Gibson also made black knobs with gold inserts. That's what's on my Polaris white '64.
On the topic of smoking, I wonder if this image would work on packaging to frighten consumers and deter smoking or if it would send the wrong message because he seemingly defies death?
He looks an awful lot like his famous skull ring in this photo.
He looks an awful lot like his famous skull ring in this photo.
My father-in-law quit for 20+ years and went back to it for some reason. Aside from the occasional cigar I don't smoke at all anymore. Haven't in probably 20 years.
I was never a tobacco user but I think that the medical literature supports that, like other addictions, it is lifelong. From what I understand, it is especially hard to quit if you started as an adolescent. The brain is still forming until your mid-twenties and you are "mainlining" nicotine, which provides stimulation and elicits dopamine (pleasure) response. You have essentially rewired things. So, I wonder if smelling cigarette smoke wouldn't still "prime" a former smoker's brain later in life and create a craving? And like a teenager, in a vulnerable moment, they might use the rationale of "one won't hurt" or "I quit once". It is like the relapse of someone who has a problem with drugs or alcohol. It defies reason as it is not rational.
I wish you guys the best in your efforts to quit!
I wish you guys the best in your efforts to quit!
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- Mar 13, 2008
- 18,898
- 142,238
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- Endorsing Artist Mike Lull T Bass pickups, The Bass Shop, Seattle WA.
I'm 279 miles from Spokanistan, probably closest.
Nevermind, saw a killer deal @ guitar center there, wanted to have it checked but took a chance and bought it
that didn't happen without a link!
I quit Smoking in january 16, haven't looked back. but I was an irregular smoker. when I was out, during rehearsal, during car rides... I would smoke like a madman, when at home I could spend days without a cigarette. So, luckily, I had no big difficulty quitting. Only Thing is, I find myself going outside with the smokers on parties :-D
My REAL Problem was Softdrinks! I was a Cola addict! I drank only sugared Drinks, on "good days" up to a gallon of that poopie! After I quit that (I drink mostly water and occasionally a sugarfree tin of coke) I felt like I was on a withdrawal, really!
Now I've lost ~30 Kilos (65lbs) of weight, still 35-40 Kilos to go! I said so earlier in this thread, I weighed like 175 Kilos (385lbs) last year, down to 145 (320 lbs) now, want to come Close to 100 (220 lbs). Long way to go.
My REAL Problem was Softdrinks! I was a Cola addict! I drank only sugared Drinks, on "good days" up to a gallon of that poopie! After I quit that (I drink mostly water and occasionally a sugarfree tin of coke) I felt like I was on a withdrawal, really!
Now I've lost ~30 Kilos (65lbs) of weight, still 35-40 Kilos to go! I said so earlier in this thread, I weighed like 175 Kilos (385lbs) last year, down to 145 (320 lbs) now, want to come Close to 100 (220 lbs). Long way to go.
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I smoke cigars now. At some points every night of the week, at others one every few weeks. I quit cigarettes twice, dipped for a while, but haven't drunk a drop of alcohol in 7 years, so i guess i can handle one vice (my real addiction is caffeine i think)..... at least for now.
I quit smoking when my first born came home almost 16 years ago.
As for the smell of cigarette smoke, I can't stand it now... it makes me wonder what the hell I was doing to myself and others for all those years.
As for the smell of cigarette smoke, I can't stand it now... it makes me wonder what the hell I was doing to myself and others for all those years.
I started smoking at 16 and quit at 25. It wasn't that hard because none of my friends smoked. I kind of felt like an outcast.
I still have my cigar habit even if I am down to 1 every 4 or 5 years. I'm just not ready to give that habit up yet.
I still have my cigar habit even if I am down to 1 every 4 or 5 years. I'm just not ready to give that habit up yet.
It used to be a lot worse. At one time I was up to 3 or 4 per month. I decided to cut back a little without giving them up completely.Not sure I'd call that a habit.
Can't just say there was a killer deal at a GC and not tell us what it was.
