Proper English pubs do some pretty decent nosh but there is a lot of franchises now that aren't all that great, cheap as chips though.
I'd rather have a bk or kfc. Or an Indian or Chinese. Or Tex mex.
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I'd rather have a bk or kfc. Or an Indian or Chinese. Or Tex mex.
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I haven't been to Britain anywhere since the summer of 2001. At the time, I don't recall seeing a KFC or BK. I'm not sure there was even a Starbucks infestation there yet. My family went to visit my wife's family, and we had our son, who was 10, with us. So, no time in pubs. Before that, we were there in 1989 before the kid was born, and did spend time in pubs. Pub grub was the way to go. It was far better than anything KFC or BK puts out. I also don't recall pubs being anything but individually owned. They had affiliations with one brewery or another, but they were all different. The independents had the best grub, so far as I recall, but it's hazy at this point. It's probably also wrong by now, pushing 30 years later.
Yes, there's a lot of franchises now, like harvester. Massed produced food in God knows where and reheated on site and it still takes them ages.
The far and few independent pubs usually do very decent grub, but not many left as they are being taxed out of business.
The far and few independent pubs usually do very decent grub, but not many left as they are being taxed out of business.
Pubs used to have landlords who rented premises from the breweries, like Tetley's or Whitbread. They then put managers in.
Some Canadian content from Saturday’s gig. Just an intro, but for a change, you can see and hear my Thunderbird!
yeah, she looks good huh?....
And sounds.yeah, she looks good huh?....
I've read that the pups on the originals are.......questionable.
I think there were different ones you could swap in there with no soldering
Swell. More stuff to lose.
Smaller body and neck, less wood.
Mine has two guitar size humbuckers. The bridge one is a Schecter.
The short scale and body shape make it feel like a guitar when playing it on a strap.
She is a blast to gig with!And sounds.
If I get any more I will post it.
Well that was an interesting experiment. Here's the findings...
Neck Pickup - volume setting full on, tone set at zero
Both basses sound virtually identical on the open E, A, and D strings with the Gibby slightly brighter on the G string. Tele volume is very linear from 0 to 10, no effect on tone and much louder than the Gibby in every setting until the Gibby volume hits 10. At that point the Gibby jumps up over the Tele in volume and the Gibby tone becomes noticeably brighter (even with tone knob still set on zero). The max tone setting on the Tele was about equivalent to the 8 tone setting on the TBird.
Bridge Pickup - volume setting full on, tone set at zero
Again both basses sound virtually identical on the open E, A, and D strings with the Gibby still slightly brighter on the G string. On this Pickup the Tele is much louder in every setting but the Gibby gets closer at max volume. The max tone setting on the Tele was about equivalent to the 8 setting on the Gibby.
Conclusions
If you normally play a modern Gibson TBird on a tone setting of 8 or less and play either Pickup on a volume of about 8 or 9 you'll likely find the TBird indistinguishable from the Tele MP. If you play the TBird at any of the lower volume settings it will sound thin as compared to the much beefier Tele at the same setting. The TBird is capable of going slightly brighter than the Tele If you max out the birds tone knob but it's not as much of a difference as you'd expect. Where the TBird starts to differentiate itself from the Tele is when you turn the volume of the bird past 9 to the max. It's then that the TBird throws away any linearity and makes a noticeable mid and upper mid tone bump and perceived volume increase as well.
In other words, To get the most balls to the wall sound out of your bird just max only one of the two volume knobs (more likely the neck) the tone knob and other volume knob really won't help or hurt much where ever they are set. In nearly every other setting the Tele MP matches or bests the TBird.
So there you have it, the Fender Telecaster Modern Player is pretty much a mocking bird capable of delivering nearly all of the TBird greatness, except in a bulkier, less sleek and more clunky kind of way. Get one if you want to retain your TBird sound roots but visually look like every other bass lemming out there.
Number one take out food in England (last I saw, and I think it was according to the Economist).
I am partial to a good curry. And that is why I make it at home.
Actually, there are some great curry places. But there are at least as many poor ones.
US retailing is better than just about any other and so it has dominated globally. Starbucks (despite everyone's complaints about it) are everywhere...
Trying to fool the hipsters with that shirt - they think it is Che Guevara but you know it is Jimi.
It's amazing how advertising can make people think that something is better than what it is.
