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#123,747
Good morning Thunderbird friends. I am on the road this week. Waking up this morning in warm, sunny Wenatchee. Just before leaving town a new (to me anyway) Gibson found it way to me. I have not gotten to spend much time with her, but loved what I have heard so far. I looked at these some years ago when they were on the Gibson website. I suspect they didn't sell very well as they weren't up there long.
She is a 2013 Gibson model 335. I don't know much about them, but received a little info from Gibson's customer service. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Have a great day
 

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#123,748
GBassNorth said:
All this Chicago talk reminds me of a little something I posted here over a year ago about my first experience with the band Chicago...

When I first saw Chicago, I didn't even know who they were, never really paid any attention to that kind of music. It was May or June of 1973. I was living in the mountains above Boulder Colorado and going to high school in Nederland while casually dating a girl named Gina. She asked me if I wanted to come over to her ranch for dinner. Food was the second most important thing to me at that age, so I said sure.

Got off the school bus with her at the entrance to the ranch, Caribou Ranch, and a black limo picked us up and drove us back to the house, I'm thinkin this limo ride is so cool, her dad must be in the mafia! We got out of the limo and she introduced me to her dad named Jim. Dinner wasn't going to be served for a couple more hours so she asked if I wanted to fool around for a while. Will at that age that was the first most important thing to me, so I said sure.

We went to one of the buildings that wasn't too close to the house and started making out when music started playing. Gina asked if I liked the song, it was called "Just You and Me". I told her it was a bit sappy but sounded ok for that kind of music. She took me by the hand and said, let's go see how sappy it is. I followed and as we came around the side of the building there was an outdoor stage and a band just playing away with no audience. We stood in front of the stage and listened to them play a couple more songs and when they took a break she told Cetera, "my boyfriend thinks you guys sound sappy". Of course now I'm looking for a tree to hide behind before these 6 or 7 guys kick my ass. Cetera replied back, "you need a new boyfriend" and we all laughed. Gina and I got up on stage and danced around while they played a couple more songs.

Turned out that her father was James William Guercio, manager of the band Chicago and I think also with The Beach Boys at the time. The songs they were playing hadn't been released yet but were going to be on their Chicago VI album. They said they were practicing for an upcoming TV show, which I think was a Dick Clark Special called Chicago in the Rockies.

A couple weeks later school was out for summer and I moved to San Jose California. Gina and I only had the one date but it was a cool one.
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Great story - it's true that Chicago was less rock after Kath died and drifted more into the "adult contemporary" category. I also thought they got more schmaltzy at that point.
 
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#123,749
Border said:
Good morning Thunderbird friends. I am on the road this week. Waking up this morning in warm, sunny Wenatchee. Just before leaving town a new (to me anyway) Gibson found it way to me. I have not gotten to spend much time with her, but loved what I have heard so far. I looked at these some years ago when they were on the Gibson website. I suspect they didn't sell very well as they weren't up there long.
She is a 2013 Gibson model 335. I don't know much about them, but received a little info from Gibson's customer service. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Have a great day
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Nice! I always wanted to try one of these. Have fun on the road.
 
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#123,750
fasterpussycat said:
@Gaolee -- anything pink and birdlike landed?
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Funny you should ask. I was rattling around like a BB in a tin can all evening yesterday. UPS was providing the torture by failing to update anything. There's a new "destination" scan as of 5:01 this morning and an ETA of sometime today before the end of the day. Whatever that means to UPS. It has to be fairly early, since I have to leave work to set up for a show this evening. So, more rattling around.

The good news is that there was enough left of the box for UPS to scan something with the correct tracking number. I'm hoping it lands by mid-afternoon. That seems to be about when UPS turns up around here. Assuming they don't set it aside for some reason. They still have not provided an explanation for the "emergency situation or extreme weather." They probably just screwed something up and are shirking the blame. Typical dishonest and unaccountable corporate behavior these days.
 
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#123,751
Gaolee said:
Funny you should ask. I was rattling around like a BB in a tin can all evening yesterday. UPS was providing the torture by failing to update anything. There's a new "destination" scan as of 5:01 this morning and an ETA of sometime today before the end of the day. Whatever that means to UPS. It has to be fairly early, since I have to leave work to set up for a show this evening. So, more rattling around.

The good news is that there was enough left of the box for UPS to scan something with the correct tracking number. I'm hoping it lands by mid-afternoon. That seems to be about when UPS turns up around here. Assuming they don't set it aside for some reason. They still have not provided an explanation for the "emergency situation or extreme weather." They probably just screwed something up and are shirking the blame. Typical dishonest and unaccountable corporate behavior these days.
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Uff, this must really be nerve racking. Not cool at all.
 
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#123,752
MCF said:
Do kids even know what hide and seek is? Or capture the flag? We had epic games on warm summer nights.
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There were no kids around when I was growing up in a rural area, so I spent a lot of time building forts, digging holes, catching crawdads and salamanders in a creek that was about two miles across the corn and soybean fields, and figuring out how to jump a bicycle over logs or other obstacles. Some of those things ended better than others, but none of them involved being inside or looking at a screen. By the time I was 9, I was expected to operate a machine called a Gravely tractor. It looked like this:
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The picture isn't the exact one, but it may as well have been. The blade under that deck would take down a tree up to about three inches in diameter and split and throw granite rocks. You didn't operate it barefoot if you were smart. Starting it meant wrapping a cord around the flywheel and then yanking on it good and hard. You would end up on your butt a couple times, and a couple more times, it would kick back before the cord got to the end. Neither was pleasant. I hated that machine, but I also loved it, because it could clear just about any kind of brush, thicket or anything else, and I got really good at using it. It was a big, crude beast of a machine, and it was a handful, especially for a nine year old kid. Thinking back, I must have operated that machine every summer up to when I was about 20, and then after that off and on when I went to visit my parents. By the time I was 13 or 14, I could use a combination of angles and leverage to get that thing to clear all kinds of steep slopes. It could also be amazingly precise if you wanted it to be. I guess the 10,000 hour thing must have been part of it, because I sure put in a lot of time with that old beast. If there was any reason for anything like that in Seattle, I would look for one.
 
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#123,753
Border said:
Good morning Thunderbird friends. I am on the road this week. Waking up this morning in warm, sunny Wenatchee. Just before leaving town a new (to me anyway) Gibson found it way to me. I have not gotten to spend much time with her, but loved what I have heard so far. I looked at these some years ago when they were on the Gibson website. I suspect they didn't sell very well as they weren't up there long.
She is a 2013 Gibson model 335. I don't know much about them, but received a little info from Gibson's customer service. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Have a great day
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Aside from the fact that it's completely beautiful, what is there to know? I trust it sounds fantastic.

As far as I know, Gibson only made a handful of them around 2013. They were expensive! They were also GAS inspiring, since they are essentially a modern, more Hi-Fi version of an EB-2. I suspect Gibson made them the exact same way as the original EB-2: graft a 30" bass neck onto an ES335 body. I could be wrong about that last bit, since I recall somewhere that the bass bodies might be bigger. I doubt it though. That's all I know, and it probably doesn't add much to what you already knew.
 
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GonePlaid said:
I've played in big bands on and off for about 40 years. Big bands playing rock sound like big bands playing rock. IMHO, it's the arrangements that 'mess' it up. It can be done but the arranger has to have a feel for rock. 13 horns with piano, bass, and drums rhythm section..........Close, no cigar.

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I played with a big band that had “Play that Funky Music” and “Vehicle” on their song list. Seemed like it could be cool...until I heard the arrangements.
 
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#123,758
Count Bassie said:
No need. I like the funky vamp he does, and the whole notes he et's sustain... but most of what's going on there from the bass isn't all that memorable.
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I’m going to come up with something close, and spend my time working on other stuff. The guitarist wants to do the Marcus Miller arrangement of Frankenstein:
 
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Thanks much Gaolee, I suspected they didn't make them for long. I rather expected something similar to my Jack Casady, but as soon as I took it out of the case I was struck by the heavier, very substantial feel of the thing. The craftsmanship is amazing. I will post a couple more pictures when I get home, but the binding, the fretwork, the neck, all of it seems very well made.
 
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JIO said:
Great story - it's true that Chicago was less rock after Kath died and drifted more into the "adult contemporary" category. I also thought they got more schmaltzy at that point.
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They had already gotten a bit schmaltzy- even sappy at times- but post-Kath I lost what little interest I still had.
 
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