Little by little... Good about the lower gas price. Hidden message at plain sight: We are not our younger selves anymore (Thank God for that)! :lol: :lol: The gas prices in California sound awfully high to me too! Mickey Currently, gas prices in LA range from $4.50-$5.00 a gallon (usually closer to...

Well, California is officially behind me! I crossed the state line over the Colorado river, so I couldn't do a happy dance, or the other thing, but I did let out a loud "Wooooo-Hoooooo!" and hollered: "I'm Back, Arizona! Didja miss me??" :lol: When I got Lake Havasu City, I had a...

Well, I had a successful launch today, and I'm currently trucking through the Mojave desert. I'd show you some pictures, but there's really nothing to look at here. I'm on Rt. 40, not far from the California/Arizona border. I think I might have to stop after crossing the border to do a happy dance, ...

Thanks for all the well-wishes, everybody! Sadly, I didn't make my escape this morning. I grossly underestimated the number of things I would have to do before launch, as well as the time it would take me to do them. But I'm just about ready to go now, and will hit the road Monday morning! I still h...

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Well, today was my last day at work... I feel sadder about leaving than I expected to. I've always felt kind of ambivalent about the job (neither loved it, nor hated it), and I work alone, so I never really made any close bonds with any of my co-workers, but still... I've been working here for 8.5 y...

Another prodigal son returns! Welcome back! I'll go slay the fatted calf... I was absent from the forum for about 14 months meself due to homelessness. Sorry to hear about your mom, and your dental problems. I can relate. I had to have about $4,000 worth of dental work done recently, and my mom pass...

"Did you happen to notice my return policy when you tried out that guitar?" "No?" "That's because I don't have one... You tried it, you liked it, you bought it, you own it." Somebody bought my Harley Benton bass last week, which is so heavy it generates its own gravitat...

I loves me some funk.

I've found that there used gear pricing is all over the place for a long time. Great deals can still be found but not as easily as it used to be the last thing I bought from them was an SX strat for $89 while it's not unusual to find them priced at $250 or more. I did my typical rebuild to it trem ...

There was time when I thought about opening a local music store because I had more stuff than most local stores. Instead I sold the bulk of it to a young man who was doing just that, opening a local music store. I had to wholesale a ton of stuff so he could make money but it was nice to move so muc...

I live in an area with several GCs a short drive away. Three of them have some major scarcity of certain categories. I went into one to get a Fender Rumble 800 that I knew in advance was there. I got it, but would have loved to a/b it against some competition. Sadly they had like 7 total bass amps ...

Unfortunately they do. Yesterday I ordered a *cheap* talkback mic, no big deal online, didn't look for any discount. Today I got 3 emails, 1 text, and 1 voicemail from Sweetwater because of that one order. It's just so over the top unnecessary! Wow... that's worse than before. You would think commo...

Possibly accurate or not, your comment has very little to do with the topic at hand and very much to do with your political world view. You're entitled to believe whatever you want, but you know the forum's position on politics. I'll leave the thread open for now, but everyone needs to stay out of ...

I like Sweetwater and will always buy from them first on most things. Oh yeah, me too... Sweetwater was/is always my first call when I want to buy new. I had the same Sweetwater rep (or, uh... "sales engineer") for years, and he almost always gave me a good deal whenever I asked for a dis...

redman wrote: ↑Sat Apr 22, 2023 10:15 am I've only had one HB a TE-52 and it was a great guitar but just heavy a tad above 10 lbs so I sold it.

This was it.
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Being the Tele nerd that I am (and a big fan of Ash), I always had low-simmering case of GAS for a TE-52, but the weight was what put me off.

You don't mean these guys? Bummer. They were frickin' great! msg.jpeg Exactly what i was thinking: post Scorpions Michael Schenker Group. Both of those things popped into my head at the same time when I read the title.... I imagined a sphere made of monosodium glutamate where the Michael Schenker G...

It's been said that the real commodity of value that has backed up the US dollar since we went off the gold standard (which technically happened in 1933 under FDR) has been the US military (and the CIA). As we should all know by now, the invasion of Iraq and the subsequent execution of Saddam Hussei...

I think GC is getting desperate. I heard they got ahold of Sweetwater's playbook and adopted their most hated play.... Bugging their customers by phone. I don't even think Sweetwater does that anymore. And yeah, every guitar in Guitar Center is a demo... You're lucky he knocked ten bucks off. I've n...

I bought this on impulse a few years ago, and then bought a Zoom G5n shortly thereafter, so this has barely gotten any use.

Dunlop Cry Baby Mini Wah...

SOLD


And I still have the box too! Yay!

I got a lot of immediate responses for this from Craigslist, but unfortunately, they've all been flakes. My initial inspiration for this build was to create a Geddy Lee Jazz Bass killer. I call it the "War Hammer". The neck is from a Squier CV '70s Jazz Bass, the body is made of Ash from a...

Well I guess I'm not the only one who lives in a true mobile home. Hope you got a full sized cause mines a mini caravan. I had to leave all my gear with my bass player. I used to have a guitar and small usb amp to play on but that left me with little room for me. Hope you find good places to park a...

uwmcscott wrote: ↑Thu May 04, 2023 3:39 pm

Thank you for clarifying because I was one who was unsure what you meant. Some very nice gear you have for sale although i'm also in the reverse-GAS phase of my life too.

Believe me, if I were in a situation like that, I wouldn't be coy about it. I appreciate your concern, though.

Buddha Pickups wrote: ↑Wed May 03, 2023 8:38 pm Good luck with the sales
And I don't blame you for leaving CA, who can afford it anymore?

Heheh... Yeah. I don't know if you've seen my other thread (viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3878), but I've been living in a van for the last year.

It has come to my attention that some of you took my earlier reference to "blasting off this God-forsaken planet" to imply that I'm dying. I assure you I am not. I often refer to California as an alien world, and my van as a space ship. My comment was purely metaphorical. I apologize if I ...