I was a ROTTEN kid. I could tell you tales about destroyed cars all day.
Surely most of us, would appreciate hear (read) these tales.
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Surely most of us, would appreciate hear (read) these tales.
Beautiful, I love those old station wagons, I had a '65 Pontiac Safari wagon, 389 with no reverse.
In due time, in due time. I wouldn't want to overwhelm the Thunderbird forum with tales of vehicular mayhem and woe.
Whenever I see a late 50s Cadillac I think back to Elvis. His grandparents, who I never knew, were faithful members of a church I later attended. They had been dead a number of years but I remember people saying that he bought them a Cadillac in the mid-late 50s and they would drive it to church. It was funny because the house they lived in was not far from mine and equally small, and most people probably didn't even have cars much less a Cadillac. People in that part of town may not have ever even seen a Cadillac back then except on TV--if they had one of those.
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Ever meet either of The Everly Brothers? I've been big fans of theirs since I was a kid. I didn't realize you were from Kentucky.
Isn't Sailing Vessel Trailer hauler a bit redundant?
But that is a great song though. The only one of his I ever listen to.
There you go again George…LOL - I’d like to see Neil Young and Ted Neugent stranded on a desert island with two power feeds, two massive rigs and two guitars. They could each spend the rest of their lives driving each other even more crazy than they already are.
was down in Ilo with my dad in the early 80’s surveying silver mines (owned by the Johnstons who also own the Crystal breweries) and had a little too much Arequipeña partying with the locals (should have gone to the mine that day…Nice, I really like those things too. Not many of those out here, I do see a few though. Gas is expensive out here and year ago (until it polluted the air) people were taking their gas engines out and putting diesel engines in cars. Me and a friend were sitting in a restaurant looking out the window one day and all of a sudden my eyes focused on the telltale fake scoops on the hood of a '66 Plymouth GTX which originally came with 440's. (There used to be a lot of old Dodges and Plymouths here) We went out to look at it and it was a real one, nice shape too. The owner came along and we asked him about it, he had had it since it was new or almost new and took the 440 and stuck it in his garage and put a slant six in it. We were disappointed but expected it.
Peru outlawed that some years ago and the air here has cleaned up a real lot.
) to the point I got my passport stolen….no bueno since the embassy was in Lima…so, had to take a “colectivo” from Tacna to Arequipa to catch a plane to the capital…..that “colectivo” happened to be a Nova (69/70) with a 396 and 4 on the floor….that guy put that car through its paces…man those were quick!..
My dad always told us "if you get arrested, don't call me because I'm not showing up to bail you out". I assumed he was serious.BOBBY!
Get in here boy!
Now!
I was a good boy. So I enjoy hearing of other people's misadventures.
Neil is an amazing writer. I listen to him all the time.I've been listening to the Neil Young Channel a lot lately on SiriusXM, that guy can write, I'll tell you that.
That would be quite the duel.
And here's the thing. He never sat down to write words. Someone would start playing something and he would just start making them up. Ed King once mentioned that Ronnie said if he can't remember them they're not worth singing in the first place. Something close to that. Ed was amazed that he could just come up with words like that.
But I'm certain this must be how a number of songs from the 60s and early 70s had to have been "written" given some of the word salads that passed for lyrics. At least with Ronnie's you could listen and know what the heck he was talking about since the words actually went together!
How come your fence still has frets? Whats up wit dat!
Misunderstood from what some said who were part of all that.
Quick question: is there any way to swap the original black Epiphone pickup covers for chrome covers?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe the typical Epiphone Tbird pups are a completely different size than the Gibson chrome covers.
The current standard Gibson pup (encased in plastic) will fit the chrome covers if the plastic wrap is first removed. That would also apply to the Eppi CP since it uses the Gibson pups, But not the standard Epiphone Thunderbird IV. I don’t recall which pups the Active Epiphone Tbird Pro uses.
I don’t wonder at all. Your work is amazing and frankly, some I’ve seen on Reverb are reasonably priced. I came darn to buying that blue one a few years ago. Just wasn’t in the cards for me at the time. I’m sad I missed out on it.
No, sure haven't. But talked with Sammy Hagar in the lat 70s. Wait he's not from here or maybe even Earth....
I can't recall what part of Ky they are from, but it's not Louisville.
