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Gil Bang

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  1. I posted a pic upthread of Ringo at a Who show. His backstage pass said "Zac's Dad"
  2. Friendly reminder: this motherfucking cocksucker is from La Jolla, CA.
  3. Paul McCartney’s long-lost Höfner bass guitar — dubbed “the most important bass in history” for its role in the creation and recordings of dozens of the Beatles classics — has been found over 50 years after it first went missing. The Lost Bass Project, a grassroots campaign that hoped to discover what happened to the instrument, announced Wednesday that the 1961 Höfner 500/1 bass guitar had been rediscovered, and McCartney himself confirmed in a statement that he was back in possession of the bass. “Following the launch of last year’s Lost Bass project, Paul’s 1961 Höfner 500/1 bass guitar, which was stolen in 1972, has been returned,” McCartney’s official site announced. “The guitar has been authenticated by Höfner and Paul is incredibly grateful to all those involved.” The Lost Bass Project was launched in 2018 but only came to prominence in 2023 when worldwide coverage reinvigorated the search. Initial tips revealed that the bass hadn’t simply gone missing: It was stolen from the back of a van on October 10, 1972, in the Notting Hill area of London. Without naming names, The Lost Bass Project managed to track down the perpetrator of the robbery and then who the thief sold the bass to, the landlord of a Notting Hill pub. “Looking into old records we established who that was and then gained further information about what happened next, who had the bass and what was done with it. We were able to trace the bass over the years,” the Lost Bass Project wrote of the search. A September 2023 article in the British press brought additional attention to the search, including its most important lead. “As a result of the publicity someone living in a terraced house on the south coast of England remembered an old bass guitar that was in their attic,” The Lost Bass Project wrote Wednesday. “They got this out and realized just what they had. Within days it was back with Paul McCartney!” Despite its half-century in the wilderness, McCartney’s 1961 Höfner 500/1 bass guitar — which he purchased that year in Hamburg and used on the Beatles’ first two albums, including the hits “Love Me Do” and “She Loves You” — thankfully just had some wear-and-tear. “The bass is complete and still with its original case,” the Lost Bass Project added. “It will need some repairs to make it playable again, but a team of professionals can easily carry these out.”
  4. Maybe a bit off topic, but it looks like Paul is back in possession of his original ‘61 Hofner bass, stolen from a van in the 70’s.
  5. In all fairness to Jason, who among us didn't lose our minds a bit after a divorce. I fucking cringe when I think about what an asshole my newly-single self turned into. Started dating a few women and I was horrible. The wonderful woman I've been with for a decade wouldn't have spent 15 seconds with me in the immediate aftermath of my divorce.
  6. Tell me more about the gibson. What was the problem, and what was the solution?
  7. I've been over here, just minding my business, being not gay and not noticing Gucci and Balenciaga because of the whole not gay thing.
  8. yeah, that photo is just fucking weird, particularly for an Alabama boy. I'd rather see him go full Billy Gibbons than look like some motherfucker that drives a Peugeot.
  9. blah blah blah J-6 Hostages blah blah Nobody from ANTIFA ever went to jail blah blah Antifa defendant Jesse Merel Cannon of San Diego will serve five years in state prison for conspiring to riot against a pro-Trump rally in Pacific Beach and assault with a dangerous weapon in two separate cases. His weapons? A folding chair (on Jan. 9, 2021) and a “very large log” (on Dec. 4, 2023), Deputy District Attorney Mackenzie Harvey said Tuesday after a sentencing hearing in downtown Superior Court. Cannon, 33, who called himself a political prisoner in a Jan. 4 note to Times of San Diego, sat quietly throughout the hearing before Judge Daniel Goldstein. His only words: “Ah, yes” — while responding to a discussion about restitution to unidentified victims in his Pacific Beach riot case. Three fellow defendants will face trial soon, however. Jury selection begins March 25 for Los Angeles residents Luis Francisco Mora, 32; Jeremy Jonathan White, 41; and Brian Cortez Lightfoot Jr., 27, with a single trial set to start April 2 “downstairs” in a larger courtroom than Tuesday’s 1901. Mora, White and Lightfoot are also accused of conspiring to riot in 2021 and various felony assault charges. But their attorneys don’t expect Cannon to testify against them. John Hamasaki of San Francisco, Lightfoot’s attorney, says the DA’s Office has no “cooperation agreement” with his client or seven other defendants who have pleaded guilty. But Curtis Briggs, the San Francisco lawyer for White, told Goldstein that he would be filing a “plethora of motions” — including one asking the judge to dismiss the case for “selective prosecution.” Briggs, younger brother of San Diego attorney Cory Briggs, made a similar case in his failed November effort to disqualify District Attorney Summer Stephan and her entire office. At that hearing, Goldstein didn’t accept Briggs’ claims that Stephan and her office should be recused because they didn’t bring similar felony charges against violent right-wing demonstrators at the Pacific Beach “Patriot March.” The San Diego County District Attorney’s Office has said in prior public statements that “video evidence analysis shows that overwhelmingly the violence in this incident was perpetrated by the Antifa affiliates and was not a mutual fray with both sides crossing out of lawful First Amendment expression into riot and violence.” Briggs — who like Hamasaki attended remotely via MS Teams — also appears poised to challenge an expert witness on antifa that prosecutors want to use. The new expert, who wasn’t named Tuesday, is from Washington state and would replace Dawn Perlmutter, who testified at Grand Jury proceedings in the Pacific Beach case. FBI consultant Perlmutter is director of the Symbol Intelligence Group, which “works with law enforcement analysts and agencies to identify and interpret tattoos, symbols, symbolic dates and ritual activity to determine the ideology or religion that they are related to,” according to court records. Judge Goldstein instructed prosecutors to share information on the new antifa expert. “I don’t want to walk into a land mine during the trial,” he said, adding later: “I’m going to need at least a week for [pretrial] motions.” Bearded defendant Cannon, wearing a dark-blue jail outfit, sat next to his attorney, Lauren Angelos, and stared straight ahead for his 20-minute appearance. He accepted a “stipulated” agreement that included concurrent two-year prison terms for his San Diego actions three days after the Jan. 6 Capitol siege. A three-year term was added for his Dec. 4 actions. San Diego-based attorney Angelos wouldn’t comment on Cannon’s case but indicated he wouldn’t have to pay restitution until receipts were provided to prove victims lost items. A restitution hearing is set March 13. Sentencing for six of the original 11 defendants was delayed from April 19 to June 12. — City News Service contributed to this report.
  10. After two mowings, I've learned that the grass catcher sucks. Grass goes everywhere except the grass catcher.
  11. literal nazis that elected a Jew as president.
  12. Ronna is out on here ass, and the orange asswipe as decided that Whatley and Ms. "Won't Back Down" shall run the show. So, any non-Trump candidate is uber fucked. As a dem, this gives me a 3/4 erection.
  13. Feel free to try to turn it into something. Your name can go first, like "Lennon-McCartney"
  14. Back in the old days, he would have gone full Jimmy McNulty and slammed Jameson while assembling shitty Ikea furniture. Now he's a big shot.
  15. Foster's from Tustin IIRC. Local kid, bleeds powder blue...I like it.
  16. Gil Bang

    The Wire

    Beyond impressive. Greatest rack ever.
  17. Hello darkness my old friend I've come to talk with you again
  18. You need to hire the best, toughest home inspector that you can find to rip that house to shreds. I'm talking Bud fucking Ferguson*. Convince her dumb ass that the negative inspection report is a message from Christ himself to back the fuck off of the place. *Bud Ferguson
  19. bullshit. Donohue stayed there 20 years. UCLA can be/should be like North Carolina. A basketball school, in a great location, with great academics. They should/could be good enough to be a playoff team every few years.
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