Thunderbird Club

[RedVee]

If you made it to Earls Court, is it still full of Aussies?..,

I didn’t. But at one point I was looking for accommodation there, but when I decided to spend a week in Paris & Brittany I changed my plan and found a hotel near (15 min walk) to the International station.

 

[Gaolee]

Well, you were a NY cabbie once. Must be something innate.

I also can't tell you which way is right or left most of the time. I have to think about it a lot or I'll screw it up. Ordinal directions are a whole lot easier most of the time, but I'll flip those on occasion, too. Who knows. I think it's inattention more than anything else.

 

[TBird1958]

Working the money frets on the Lull last Friday......

 

[Gaolee]

was there last 5 years ago and I'm sure GPS changed things but back in 89 when living there cabbies (and most Londoners) called this "The Knowledge" and apparently it took cab drivers years (5 or so) to learn and they would not be considered "appointed" (they could still drive but not command the full rate) until they passed a pretty stringent test....
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Driving a black cab in London was a difficult achievement for about 100 years. I don't know whether the Knowledge is as important any more. Since you lived in London, you know how obscure addresses can be there. It's not like Costa Rica where they don't have addresses at all for the most part, but it's certainly not straight forward like most American grid cities. My wife grew up at 2 Vawdrey Close. A cabbie would know that's off Cleveland Way, between Mile End and Cephas Street in Tower Hamlets. The rest of us would never find it, even with a map, unless we knew where to look. The Stepney Green tube stop was very close. Bethnel Green was a bit farther, but close enough. We spent time there in the 1980s for the most part. When we moved to Seattle, it got a whole lot harder to get to London, and impossible once we had a kid. By the time we could get there again, my wife's family had moved to Hornchurch. They have all left London by now.

 

[Gaolee]

Working the money frets on the Lull last Friday......

All the frets on that one are money frets.

 

[Stealth57]

Driving a black cab in London was a difficult achievement for about 100 years. I don't know whether the Knowledge is as important any more. Since you lived in London, you know how obscure addresses can be there. It's not like Costa Rica where they don't have addresses at all for the most part, but it's certainly not straight forward like most American grid cities. My wife grew up at 2 Vawdrey Close. A cabbie would know that's off Cleveland Way, between Mile End and Cephas Street in Tower Hamlets. The rest of us would never find it, even with a map, unless we knew where to look. The Stepney Green tube stop was very close. Bethnel Green was a bit farther, but close enough. We spent time there in the 1980s for the most part. When we moved to Seattle, it got a whole lot harder to get to London, and impossible once we had a kid. By the time we could get there again, my wife's family had moved to Hornchurch. They have all left London by now.

I love Costa Rica directions. Go down the road to the futbol pitch, turn left, at the big rock turn right, go past the blue house to the fire station and turn left, it's the pink house on the right. If you get lost, stop at a bus stop and ask an old lady.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Driving a black cab in London was a difficult achievement for about 100 years. I don't know whether the Knowledge is as important any more. Since you lived in London, you know how obscure addresses can be there. It's not like Costa Rica where they don't have addresses at all for the most part, but it's certainly not straight forward like most American grid cities. My wife grew up at 2 Vawdrey Close. A cabbie would know that's off Cleveland Way, between Mile End and Cephas Street in Tower Hamlets. The rest of us would never find it, even with a map, unless we knew where to look. The Stepney Green tube stop was very close. Bethnel Green was a bit farther, but close enough. We spent time there in the 1980s for the most part. When we moved to Seattle, it got a whole lot harder to get to London, and impossible once we had a kid. By the time we could get there again, my wife's family had moved to Hornchurch. They have all left London by now.

I was there in 1989 and 1993. Bizarre it's been so long. In cities like London ("There are no cities like London." -London) I treat tube (or equivalent) stops as centers of smaller cities and tend to learn the areas I need/want to spend time in relative to those city centers. If I don't have specific instructions to a place, I just wander around until I find it, learning the landscape as I go. I've always enjoyed getting lost on purpose as a way to learn a new area.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I love Costa Rica directions. Go down the road to the futbol pitch, turn left, at the big rock turn right, go past the blue house to the fire station and turn left, it's the pink house on the right. If you get lost, stop at a bus stop and ask an old lady.

That's the deep south, too. "A ways down that highway, turn left at the big tree with the broken branch hanging down, look for the rusted blue tractor (the others are red) and turn right at the barn after that. Then go until ya can't and it's on the left. Ask anyone ya see for help if ya need it, except old Bart. Beard like a mountain man, always carryin' a double barrel shotgun. Just keep goin' if ya see him."

 

[dagrev]

Gotta watch this.

 

[TBird1958]

One of the oldest pictures I have of the band, back about 20 years now, we're at a really sweaty dive in Pt. Angeles called "The Crazy Fish", I'm playing a '76 that I later refinished in 7Up Green.
The young woman in the white T-shirt is still a friend of mine, she was a Forest Ranger at the time, now a U.S, Marshall.

 

[TBird1958]

I think my Imgur burped, I haven't seen this pic in a while, from a photo shoot a long time ago, note the black hardware on my '89. Obviously I had only begun to be influenced by the likes of Uwe, Scott, George
and quite a few others that insisted that Chrome was "The Way"

 

[Stealth57]

I think my Imgur burped, I haven't seen this pic in a while, from a photo shoot a long time ago, note the black hardware on my '89. Obviously I had only begun to be influenced by the likes of Uwe, Scott, George
and quite a few others that insisted that Chrome was "The Way"

Pre tat?

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

I was there in 1989 and 1993. Bizarre it's been so long. In cities like London ("There are no cities like London." -London) I treat tube (or equivalent) stops as centers of smaller cities and tend to learn the areas I need/want to spend time in relative to those city centers. If I don't have specific instructions to a place, I just wander around until I find it, learning the landscape as I go. I've always enjoyed getting lost on purpose as a way to learn a new area.

totally hear that....sometimes I'll go as far as wearing the local garb (and partaking in local vices such as kiefer) to better fit in.....Tangier 1995....

 

[Stealth57]

totally hear that....sometimes I'll go as far as wearing the local garb (and partaking in local vices such as kiefer) to better fit in.....Tangier 1995....
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Me too...sort of.

 

[TBird1958]

Pre tat?

Yeah, I used to be a nice girl, I think I weighed about 160 at the time.

 

[TBird1958]

I used to have one of these, to say the very least it dove like a Dauntless at Midway. Today it's probably worth a lot of money, but I don't recall this bass with any fondness.

 

[JJR58]

I used to have one of these, to say the very least it dove like a Dauntless at Midway. Today it's probably worth a lot of money, but I don't recall this bass with any fondness.

I’ll take that amp!

 

[TBird1958]

I’ll take that amp!

Not my amp! I was using a GK at the time I had that V.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I’ll take that amp!

Most of us would!

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

I used to have one of these, to say the very least it dove like a Dauntless at Midway. Today it's probably worth a lot of money, but I don't recall this bass with any fondness.

Kramers from that period are pretty cool, heavy but great sounding, Model1 pup? Mine had a Dimarzio P in the conventional midway position, a high output bucker in that position must have sounded great....did it have the coil split switch, hard to see....
Always wondered if the earlier models had pups made in house by Kramer...