Did you have to accept the 'cookie' first?
Watched a film the other night where one (American) character said 'it's a fvckin cookie', which is the exact opposite of what we shout -- 'biscuit!'
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Did you have to accept the 'cookie' first?
Watched a film the other night where one (American) character said 'it's a fvckin cookie', which is the exact opposite of what we shout -- 'biscuit!'
Argggh! a whole room of people clapping on 1 & 3. Reminds me of last time I went to church
Not my church!
Ya gotta go with what you're good at.
I just found out that Bill Wyman (yeah, that one) was associated with Tucky Buzzard. That weirded me out because the only time I'd heard of them previously was 1in Sep of 1973, when they opened for EW&F and Uriah Heep. Their performance did nothing for me. EW&F played their butts off and had the whole place dancing, and Uriah Heep rocked the house.
Verdine White (EW&F bass player) was quite the showman, as well as a monster on bass.
The only thing I have ever remembered about Tucky Buzzard since that night was their name.
Verdine White (EW&F bass player) was quite the showman, as well as a monster on bass.
The only thing I have ever remembered about Tucky Buzzard since that night was their name.
I see a nod to Johnny Thunders on the window (L.A.M.F.).
I'll just pretend that I understood any of that.
Plate (in big, deep, green voice):
"Plate hungry. Plate like many volts. Two hundred volts. Two fifty! Three hundred!! You give plate nine volts?!? NO! Plate HUNGRY! You starve plate! Nine volts for puny god. FEED PLATE!"
Does that help?
NO COOKIE! ONE THOUSAND VOLTS!
Popped the 12DW7 tube in the pedal to replace the 12AU7. Huge difference. I'm actually getting distortion. Initially upon powering it on it sounded kinda crappy, but Mike from LBA said that the JJ tube can sound brittle before burn-in. He gave me times to note for how long it took to get audio from it from initially powering it on. I got the best case scenario: 10 seconds. He said for that amount of time burn-in is probably about eight hours. Maybe I'll just leave it on for 24 hours. It was already sounding better after 20 minutes or so.
Just spent the last couple of hours tinkering with the JAEbird setup.
I initially tightened the TR just over a quarter turn and the neck looked dead straight. That caused some fretting out on the lower frets ... so I loosened the TR an eighth of a turn and it seems good now. I also thought maybe I should drop the pickup slightly, but the bottom end went away, so it's back more or less where it was. There's a strip of card on the G side of the neck pocket. One day I may have it professionally shimmed.
All in all, it's incredible you can take a new neck and just bolt it into place, with one or two small adjustments. The wonders of 20th century technology eh?
I initially tightened the TR just over a quarter turn and the neck looked dead straight. That caused some fretting out on the lower frets ... so I loosened the TR an eighth of a turn and it seems good now. I also thought maybe I should drop the pickup slightly, but the bottom end went away, so it's back more or less where it was. There's a strip of card on the G side of the neck pocket. One day I may have it professionally shimmed.
All in all, it's incredible you can take a new neck and just bolt it into place, with one or two small adjustments. The wonders of 20th century technology eh?
it did thanks. friendly folks the Australian party...they said they wanna move to Santa Cruz 'cause the surf was excellent..
this thing was huffing and puffing......built in 1912, year of the Titanic sinking as was pointed out by the proud driver..
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Plate just pawn...in game of life.
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it did thanks. friendly folks the Australian party...they said they wanna move to Santa Cruz 'cause the surf was excellent..
this thing was huffing and puffing......built in 1912, year of the Titanic sinking as was pointed out by the proud driver..
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That's the interesting side of a Shay, note the linkage running out to the wheels and the bevel gears on the face of them.
Interesting locomotive. I'm a gear head at heart but never considered myself a train buff.
That said, I don't think I've ever seen a vertical piston driven horizontal crank bevel gear drive train on any other locomotive. And if the front driven wheels (trucks?) weren't cool enough it looks like the drive shaft extends back to the coal car (tender?) to drive additional wheels, which I dont think I've ever seen on another train either. Very unique design, with all the boiler and tender weight over the drive wheels I assume it would get better traction and have less slip. If so, was this a special purpose built engine for mountainous logging tracks?
Classic Thunderbird Club derail.
