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Yet another FedMess story:
Wife is filling in at the front desk of a Catholic HS where our nephew is Asst Principal.
FedMess dropped off a package that was going to the Sheriff's office.....in Colorado.
Called FedMess. They won't pickup the package--because it doesn't have a pickup tracking number only delivery number.
Wife had to call the sheriff's office in CO to let them know a school in Louisville, Ky has their package.
With all the problems we've had with FedMess, she said she did loose her cool with them.
The dude in India had to say everything 3x to be understood, but what set her off was when he said she would need to take it t a FedMess drop off location. It when downhill from there and she said it was their mistake, she wasn't doing their job and they needed to get their act together. His reply was, to take it to a drop off location.(Stick to the script at all cost.) :banghead:
 
There's a thread out in Gen Pop to which I responded, Chuck quoted me here............Stay outta the sun!
I don't don't do gen pop. Too much misinformation. Too much crap.
That's a very nice one. The S stands for Sweden. Earlier ones were assembled by Jensen. I always thought they should have called the mid-sixties version the SS; bodies from Scotland with the builds completed in Sweden.
 
At Tim's Tavern......

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Yet another FedMess story:
Wife is filling in at the front desk of a Catholic HS where our nephew is Asst Principal.
FedMess dropped off a package that was going to the Sheriff's office.....in Colorado.
Called FedMess. They won't pickup the package--because it doesn't have a pickup tracking number only delivery number.
Wife had to call the sheriff's office in CO to let them know a school in Louisville, Ky has their package.
With all the problems we've had with FedMess, she said she did loose her cool with them.
The dude in India had to say everything 3x to be understood, but what set her off was when he said she would need to take it t a FedMess drop off location. It when downhill from there and she said it was their mistake, she wasn't doing their job and they needed to get their act together. His reply was, to take it to a drop off location.(Stick to the script at all cost.) :banghead:
Call the sheriff and let them handle it.
 
You have all kinds of great amps---but Ashdown. You need to fix that.
I bought an Ashdown ABM EVO II for dirt cheap, but it was fried. The guy didn't know that and took it back. I like @JIO 's 550 Spyder. Running out of room for stuff (sacrilege). Sunn Concert Bass into a 215M cab, Sunn 200S into a 215 cab, Ampeg B-15NC, Rumble 500c with 115 extension, 6 birds, a Dano, and a JC.
 
I bought an Ashdown ABM EVO II for dirt cheap, but it was fried. The guy didn't know that and took it back. I like @JIO 's 550 Spyder. Running out of room for stuff (sacrilege). Sunn Concert Bass into a 215M cab, Sunn 200S into a 215 cab, Ampeg B-15NC, Rumble 500c with 115 extension, 6 birds, a Dano, and a JC.
those 550s are n a class by themselves....although they both (EVO and Spyder) use the same A/B output card, the 550 pre is ALL tube and if I recall features no comp or octaver.... the tone however...,
 
I bought an Ashdown ABM EVO II for dirt cheap, but it was fried. The guy didn't know that and took it back. I like @JIO 's 550 Spyder. Running out of room for stuff (sacrilege). Sunn Concert Bass into a 215M cab, Sunn 200S into a 215 cab, Ampeg B-15NC, Rumble 500c with 115 extension, 6 birds, a Dano, and a JC.
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Hi Rob @Basvarken. This player is asking about a special run of of twenty CustomShop II Reverses for Sam Ash with what looks like a sidewinder and Rosewood board. Do you know anything about these?
Over the past 9 years since I've released The Gibson Bass Book people have been sending me emails about their bass not being in the book.
But there is no way I would have been able to include every Gibson bass that the Custom Shop ever built. A handful of them happened to be in the collection that formed the backbone of the book. So I was able to make decent photographs and include those. But all the others were not included simply because I either did not know of their existance, or did not have good enough quality photographs to use for the lay-out.
I'm not sure if the specific TBII with sidewinder was even part of the collection when I photographed it in 2011. It sure was when Mark visited Frankfurt a few years later (see pic a few posts back).
 
those 550s are n a class by themselves....although they both (EVO and Spyder) use the same A/B output card, the 550 pre is ALL tube and if I recall features no comp or octaver.... the tone however...,

If they made an all tube pre ABM configured head it would be killer. However, I will say that I notice the single tube doing tube stuff in the ABM more than any single tube pre I ever recall playing. You can't expect miracles out of one tube--but Ashdown figured out how to get the most out of it. Outstanding heads.
 

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