Thunderbird Club

[Dr_Feelgoood212]

Geddy Lee, Canadian Club...

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Crown Royal, 40 Creek.... both are preferred over CC

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Translated...
Hey sucker, get off your butt and put a black TBird sticker on that now! I get hard thinking about it... look, look a squirrel running crazy!!

Actually you'd be surprised how close you got!

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

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Crown Royal, 40 Creek.... both are preferred over CC

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

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Crown Royal, 40 Creek.... both are preferred over CC

Yeah but CC is a true rye

 

[Dr_Feelgoood212]

Yeah but CC is a true rye

Fair enough

 

[theFixer]

Hey sicuro che non te resta un Tbird sticker in nero? Difficile a trovare questi...cerca, cerca per piacere
Ti Ringrazio mille!!

{translation}:

"Hey would somebody put this T-bird sticker on my @ss? I gotta go to church with my Mom"

 

[Moody Tuner]

Thunderbird players...lend me your ears a minute...

 

[PillO]

Sir Les would be proud

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Well there is a week of nightmares...

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

{translation}:

"Hey would somebody put this T-bird sticker on my ass? I gotta go to church with my Mom"

Begging Larry V for a sticker. didn't want to beg in English

 

[PillO]

I have a metric crap ton of hockey jerseys. Somewhere north of 50. Here is one from a Tragically Hip themed tournament. I just happened to score the game winning goal in the championship game. View attachment 3002142

I would have guessed a Who themed tournament with you playing left Entwistle

 

[GBassNorth]

Begging Larry V for a sticker. didn't want to beg in English

Yeah, but why did you want to put it on your ass?

 

[PillO]

View attachment 3002237 May Day in Paris, and my earworm.

Dude! Did you fall off the turnip truck in Paris? Tuck in your shirt!

 

[theFixer]

Begging Larry V for a sticker. didn't want to beg in English

FixerTranslate is still in beta...

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... and will be, for a veeeeerrrry long time

 

[theFixer]

Yeah, but why did you want to put it on your ass?

Now now GB... it's not really our place to judge

 

[JJR58]

So Jaded.

 

[JJR58]

Was it somewhere here that someone said Tom Hamilton plays a Thunderbird on this?

 

[kat888]

Was it somewhere here that someone said Tom Hamilton plays a Thunderbird on this?

Intro sounds like a Bird

 

[JJR58]

Intro sounds like a Bird

Sure does to me.

 

[PillO]

I have a note in my FB feed from a friend that writes for the Dutch magazine Die Bassist that Gibson has filed for chapter 11

Allow me to unpack some of this for all of you:

The Chapter 11 filing on Tuesday in Delaware keeps Gibson in business but gives ownership to noteholders, replacing stockholders that include Chief Executive Officer Henry Juszkiewicz, the company’s leader for more than three decades. According to court filings, current noteholders include Silver Point Capital, Melody Capital Partners and funds affiliated with KKR Credit Advisors.

Chapter 11 is a reorganization, wheras chapter 7 is a liquidation. Chapter 11 allows a company to reorganize its finances (most important settle debts with equity or other consideration) while the business continues to operate.

The restructuring will allow the instrument business to "unburden" itself of a consumer-electronics unit that Gibson blamed for its financial woes. Gibson owes as much as $500 million, and lenders will provide a new loan of up to $135 million to keep the company in business, according to court papers.

They are selling off the electronics portion of the business that has sucked up all the cash flow from the musical instrument business. There is some new financing to keep enough cash in the bank to keep the company running.

Juszkiewicz, who has found himself Invalid Link Removed with creditors in recent months, will continue with the company upon emergence from bankruptcy “to facilitate a smooth transition,” according to the agreement. Court papers call for a one-year consulting deal and compensation package for Juszkiewicz. A representative for the company didn’t respond to questions about whether Juszkiewicz will remain as CEO or in a separate role.

Henry is gone. But he is not being fired as that would trigger severance. He was offered the choice of being put in a situation that would result in him being fired for cause (no severance and huge embarrassment) or take a 1 year deal that does away with severance and save face. His "consulting" will consist of things like "hey where did you leave the keys?"

A group of bondholders led by KKR-affiliated funds and advised by investment bank PJT Partners Inc. and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP had been pushing for a restructuring that would hand them ownership of the guitar maker and let them install new leadership. The group had Invalid Link Removed new funds in Gibson while Juszkiewicz remained in charge, Bloomberg previously reported.

KKR hates Henry and wanted him fired. They like the guitar business and hate the other businesses that he acquired.

Editorial - It is quite possible that from the start KKR hated Henry and liked the guitar business and handed him enough debt to hang himself. The long plan being that if he fails, they take the guitar business they like if he succeeds, they make good money on the debt.

Working with Jefferies LLC, the company had sought a sale or recapitalization, approaching 58 businesses and signing 27 non-disclosure agreements. Still, Gibson said it didn’t have enough capital to pay down its debt and get more time to strike a deal, according to court filings.

They talked to everyone that might want to buy Gibson (and that likely included FMIC, the parent of 7ender). A lack of interest might indicate that for many, they are in similar circumstances and unable to raise new debt and worried about paying their own creditors.

Gibson was engaged with negotiations with the creditor group in March, talks that ended because shareholders and KKR were “Invalid Link Removed in their views regarding the appropriate consideration for the various parties involved,” according to a company statement. The company had also been talking with other potential investors in hopes of receiving new money to refinance its debt and take out the existing creditors.

At one or more meetings someone pounded the table and yelled "Fvck You!" and walked out.

 

[theFixer]

Was it somewhere here that someone said Tom Hamilton plays a Thunderbird on this?

(Don't look for relevance)