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#123,241
Count Bassie said:
There's the Bic Lighter aspect of Class D, et al. I don't like the new business model, I want to be able to fix it and have it a long time.
The fact that I have flipped a metric ton of gear in my lifetime has nothing to do with it. I like my Trace and Acoustic heads... and I'll probably never have to send them to the landfill.
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Yeah, flipping != trashing. I hate disposables.
 
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#123,242
PillO said:
None of that stuff will end up in a landfill (unless you take it there and dump it while no one is looking). It will go to the 3rd world where it will be stripped for all the recyclable elements in it (copper, lead, tin, zinc, silicon, germanium, strontium etc.).

:D:thumbsup:;)
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Uh huh.
 
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#123,245
fasterpussycat said:
Think I have scored myself a slimmer hardshell cello case for an excellent price -- my singer is going to check it out/nab it for me at the weekend. With any luck, all three basses and the cello will fit in the available space. Think I'll wait until we have some gigs and critical acclaim under our belts before I try to sneak a Casady past The Mod.

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My JC hard case is thicker than my Thunderbird hard cases. But, having said that, you REALLY NEED a JC. More so than the Mod needs trucker jackets and shoes...
 
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PillO said:
I always thought that Don Rickles was hysterical.
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He was funny in some ways. Kind of got on my nerves a little. But a lot of comedians were "offensive" back then, and oddly enough most weren't weren't--or didn't know they were supposed to be offended. It wasn't meant to be offensive and was generally taken that way. I recall Jews, blacks and a few other ethnic flavors saying things others could not and would not dare say today for fear of the earth coming to a firey end. I withhold any judgment, but I think people understood comedy could be a little offensive/edgy (like some "art" today), and still not be a personal attack. (Though some art does seem to desire to offend the target and not care. This seems to not have been true of most comedy, which sought to make people laugh at each other and themselves.) I recall Redd Foxx saying things that would get a white cat eternally unemployed. He (and Pryor) would say things about blacks and whites that today would catch hair on fire by the sensitive (no Pryor pun intended). I just found them crazy funny because there was an element of truth in it--even when talking about a white dude like me. Never crossed my mind to be offended. If I was, I would have just not listened anymore.
 
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PillO said:
All it takes is one twitchy parent and there are a lot of them about these days. Police have been called on parents that let their children play in the yard without an adult directly supervising.

I miss the days of free-range children (I was one and I suspect most here were)
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We even played with Lawn Darts!!! Oh my!
 
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dagrev said:
He was funny in some ways. Kind of got on my nerves a little. But a lot of comedians were "offensive" back then, and oddly enough most weren't weren't--or didn't know they were supposed to be offended. It wasn't meant to be offensive and was generally taken that way. I recall Jews, blacks and a few other ethnic flavors saying things others could not and would not dare say today for fear of the earth coming to a firey end. I withhold any judgment, but I think people understood comedy could be a little offensive/edgy (like some "art" today), and still not be a personal attack. (Though some art does seem to desire to offend the target and not care. This seems to not have been true of most comedy, which sought to make people laugh at each other and themselves.) I recall Redd Foxx saying things that would get a white cat eternally unemployed. He (and Pryor) would say things about blacks and whites that today would catch hair on fire by the sensitive (no Pryor pun intended). I just found them crazy funny because there was an element of truth in it--even when talking about a white dude like me. Never crossed my mind to be offended. If I was, I would have just not listened anymore.
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I played sax in a band backing up a Jewish comic[I'm a wasp]. I had shoulder length hair and a beard(still have the beard, hair long gone). The comic would walk back and forth in front of the band and there was a guy operating a 'follow spot' from the back of the room. At one point the comic stopped suddenly, the spot didn't and landed right on me. Without missing a beat, the comic said "Loved your sermon on the mount" and continued his act. The audience laughed and everybody in the band cracked up, too.'Course this was the 70's when people expected there to be an 'edge' to humor.
I always appreciated the humor of Pryor, Foxx, Carlin, Callas, etc., all of whom could be a bit crude where it fit unlike some of today's "comics" who say an obscenity that has nothing to do with the story and people laugh(nervously?)and think it's funny.
I've heard a few ex-stand up comics say they won't do stand-up again 'cos people get so easily offended and it's just not worth the hassle. Too bad.
 
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