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#194,003
JIO said:
26022950[/URL], member: 171973"]I watched Route 66 as a kid in the early '60s when it aired. Loved it for obvious reasons, namely that cool '62 Corvette. Much later when they appeared on the internet, I watched a bunch of them again. Kinda' repetitive but fun; on the road to anywhere (a true road theme), got a job wherever they landed as some sort of day-laborer, got in a fight with locals (over a girl, or whatever), got laid by the local girl(s) and by the end of the episode - drive off to the next destination, wherever that ends up to be. In retrospect a possible homosexual (abet closeted at the time) hint in the air - but as it was the early '60s... they were "brothers" with a shared camaraderie.

On this point - I was in a bar in KC/Mo in the late '80s with a good (artist) friend I'd known for years and I hadn't seen for a while, and we were laughing and slapping each other on the back sharing art-school war stories when a 'local' cigarette smoking older woman at the bar next to us said under her breath "homosexuals". We looked at each other, then at her and just laughed. (at her!) As Seinfeld would commonly say... "not that there's anything wrong with that" - but there is such a thing as 'male bonding' w/o a sexual side. (duh! needless to say to open minded people) I love watching old b&w movies from the '30s-'40s where men have their arms around each other in friendship. The depression and WW2 were part of that - men relied on other men to 'work together' and to 'cover their backs' etc - talk about bonding! In the Mid-East, men walk together holding hands. The US has evolved since the '80s... but still not enough to align with many civilized nations in the world.
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Maybe Hollywood should have more men holding hands and less firing weapons
 
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#194,005
dagrev said:
I'm missing something. Where was the problem? Sounded like mission accomplished to me.:roflmao:

May be a lesson in how the tones we shoot for play a role. Not meaning you at all, but hopefully it will be clear by the end. Leon Wilkeson was the loudest bass I've ever heard (before kicks through subs got crazy). Literally the floor seemed to shake. This had been his thing even before getting famous. Never experienced anything like it. He was competing with drums, keyboard/piano/organ, three guitars and vocals. He was that loud and everything else could be heard just fine. Reason being...he wasn't trying to "cut through" anything. ("Cut through" often is knowingly/unknowingly code for "I want to sound kind of like a guitar or take up the same sonic space.") He was surrounding everything. Hence my "Bass--the original surround sound" tag. He was what everything else sat in. For a ZZ Top or that great trio from Canada, Triumph,;) that likely might not work. Though Mike from Triumph had some big thick bass going on. My point it that bass can be really loud, it just has to sound like bass in that it's not competing for the same sonic territory as other instruments and vocals.
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This, this, this. this!
 
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New Parts Day!
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#194,014
Engle said:
I like the look of those cloth wrapped cables, but I find they're not flexible enough for me.
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They are a bit less flexible than most of my other cables, but I find that handy for use in my living room; they're generally less likely to get tripped over, because they tend to stay where I put them better - meaning my cats don't move them around as much with their shenanigans.


The cats also seem to like chewing on them less, for some reason :thumbsdown:
 
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#194,015
KaraQ said:
They are a bit less flexible than most of my other cables, but I find that handy for use in my living room; they're generally less likely to get tripped over, because they tend to stay where I put them better - meaning my cats don't move them around as much with their shenanigans.


The cats also seem to like chewing on them less, for some reason :thumbsdown:
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I had a dwarf bunny that would chew on my guitar cables... luckily they don't live that long...
 
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KaraQ said:
They are a bit less flexible than most of my other cables, but I find that handy for use in my living room; they're generally less likely to get tripped over, because they tend to stay where I put them better - meaning my cats don't move them around as much with their shenanigans.


The cats also seem to like chewing on them less, for some reason :thumbsdown:
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Less destruction is good.
Our cat hasn't chewed a cable in a long time.
Our Whippet has alligator jaws. Its usually other stuff thankfully.
 
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#194,017
JIO said:
I am envisioning a documentary! "...two bass-players, two vintage T-birds - one reverse, one non-reverse, one hot AMX - on a road-trip to meet the Thunderbird Queen ... Staring Chucky Milner and Geo Maharis" (Sunday at 6:00/9:00 EST) :laugh:

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You're killin' me!

You guys are the best :D
 
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