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Chucky Stiletti said:
dunno what's more hideous, that white bass or that righty J played lefty..
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Them, no contest :roflmao:. When I was small there were two camps musically: The Rollers, Cassidy and the Osmonds or Slade, Sweet and T Rex. Bowie bridged both camps. Over the years much of the music I disliked at the time I have grown to like but the former three are still firmly in my detest book along with a lot of prog rock and 70s disco. Each to their own
 
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Christine said:
Them, no contest :roflmao:. When I was small there were two camps musically: The Rollers, Cassidy and the Osmonds or Slade, Sweet and T Rex. Bowie bridged both camps. Over the years much of the music I disliked at the time I have grown to like but the former three are still firmly in my detest book along with a lot of prog rock and 70s disco. Each to their own
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Aside from taste, I think demographics played a big part. Growing up in South Florida in the late 70s and early 80s, there were different camps for us as well. Disregarding your first three mentions as these were considered "girl" music along with Andy Gibb, Leif Garret and others (a boy got beat up in high school for wearing a Pat Benatar concert T-shirt) your second lot (with the exception of Slade) was well liked by white boys my age. Because we were "southern" the likes of Molly Hatchet, Blackfoot, ZZ Top (not really considered southern), The Outlaws and Skynyrd were huge. Although a genius, Bowie's image did not bode well with my camp, so, no go.
The others faves were Zeppelin, Purple, Halen, AC/DC, Sabbath and others in the highly testosterone charged hard rock arena. My middle school (6th, 7th and 8th grade over here) was 65% black so then there was that influence, James Brown, The Commodores, earth Wind and Fire and older artists of the like of Wilson Pickett and others. Then there was the musicians camp where more challenging music (to play) from acts like Weather Report, Return to Forever, Mahavishnu Orchestra and all of the Prog Rock (Rush included) was very popular to aspiring players such as myself. As much as we hated disco (the whole vibe, funny hair, rayon, etc..) beginner bass players embraced it for the clever finger bass lines..
 
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Kriegs said:
I'm sure this has been asked and answered previously but even a search of TB is somewhat inconclusive...

Is there any current/ active/ in business source for bridge and over-string pickup covers for T-birds?
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You might check in with Scott @godofthunder59 as well.
 
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Kriegs said:
I saw that site. The last update on the site was in 2016 and when I emailed I got a bounceback for a bad address :dead:
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Paging @Dadagoboi :help:

2 birds with one stone. Carlo works closely with the folks at ThunderBucker Ranch. He may be able to help you find your covers, and get something done about the e-mails getting kicked back :thumbsup:
 
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