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#139,862
Glenn Johnson said:
By the way, the part about being against talkbass rules wasnt supposed to be part of that message. It was meant as a question to the club about a pm I received regarding a bass brand pitch of possibly dubious origins. I decided not to bother you folks with it. Somehow it got added to this post. ????
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Got saved as a draft (an automagic process) and then got concatenated to the message.
 
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can't wait...:thumbsup:
 
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JIO said:
Morning fellow bird-lovers... what was the T-bird thread doing on page 2??? Anyway, check this out. Don't have any info on it but it looks very interesting - most likely a new relic'd II to my eyes. The bridge is not original (original's narrower and wouldn't allow for correct intonation), the pg is not original (tug-bar holes are in the wrong place, bird too high up on the pg), but.., the body looks legit judging its edge-contours - especially at the bottom edge into the center piece. Looks exactly like my '64 II. And the Gibson Gold would have been a very, very rare one-off custom color if it's legit. It also has the correct black spacer under the pu and the knobs 'look' original.

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looks great.

The Bonamassa Firebird 1 “Treasure” was available in Firemist? Gold. Same colour above but aged over the one below ?

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StephnG said:
My Father & Uncle's all fought in the Pacific Theater of WWII & they were the same way although every once in a while we could pull stories out of them with a good bottle & a pair of pliers lol My Uncle Frank in particular saw some pretty intense stuff, think of the opening scene of "Private Ryan" only in the Pacific, he actually drove "The Duck" onto the beach with all hell breaking loose around him!! Everybody else had it relatively easy in comparison but still had crosses to bear. We can't even imagine what that's like although at least those wars meant something more than "Political Objectives & Oil" God bless them!!
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My Father and a couple of Uncles were in WW2. Dad was part of the force at Balikpapan, then Borneo now Indonesia, after a brief visit to the Moratai battle. He was a gunner and ended up with the eardrum closest to the gun being destroyed. Fixed by a graft in the late 70s - early 80s.

He never spoke about it (his war experiences) until a little bit in his last couple of years.

his Dad, my Grand Father, was in WW1. In the last (2nd?) battle at the Somme. Got gassed but survived until 1960, died of emphysema.


Chucky Stiletti said:
makes sense since post WW1 conflicts became more mobile instead of being stuck in a trench being incessantly shelled as happened in that war...
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Chucky Stiletti said:
looking forward to watching 1917..
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My son took me to watch 1917 last Sunday. It is worth watching.

I was left feeling extremely thankful that neither my son or I needed to be involved in War.
 
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Gaolee said:
Shell Shock was WW I. My grandfather came back with a Silver Star, a Purple Heart, and a good dose of that. He recovered, but it took time. Unfortunately, I never knew him. WW II called the same thing Battle Fatigue. A cousin who served in the Pacific in the Navy had a bit of that. There were things he would not talk about until we took his story as part of the Smithsonian's Veterans History Project. Even then, he asked that nobody say anything about those things until after he was gone. He felt shame and grief about things he couldn't do anything about. As a family, we managed to miss Korea, Vietnam, and everything else that has come along. I don't know if if it was still called Battle Fatigue in Korea. I believe PTSD came into use sometime after Vietnam, but there's no reason I would know for sure.

It's a good reason, among many good reasons, to avoid shooting wars if possible.
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My Vietnam vet neighbor definitely called it “shell shock” in 1975, and I recall it being a common term, at least among those I knew.
 
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Gaolee said:
American English had some incomprehensible regional dialects, but those are mostly gone now. Having spent a fair amount of time in western North Carolina means that I heard and learned to speak and understand the hill dialect that was prevalent in that area. It is not a separate language, but it sounds like one if you aren't familiar with it. I haven't been there for decades, and it would not be a surprise if the dialect is mostly gone now.
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