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dcbc

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  1. ESPN but no ABC here. Glad I got the antenna situation situated.
  2. Inspired by the guitar thread, which never shall be merged, I started watching a 1962 Bluesbreaker demo, which led me to ask for no related reason, is Matchless still around. And I saw this demo on their cite. And while there's no way I'm paying $3000+ dollars for no new Matchless, I haven't had a demo make me want an amp so much since the demo I watched for the Magic 5e3 I now own.
  3. As the owner of a Tweed Twin from the Custom Shop as well as a Harvard and Deluxe, I'm gonna tell you there are amps you can crank and amps you can't. That Bassman isn't exactly an Amp you can't crank. So I'm gonna make a ruling right here. Crank it! Yeah, that 1x12 Harvard clone was my last purchase. It hit just the right spot. And while not the $100 Bassman 100, I felt like it was priced pretty reasonably.
  4. Yeah. She was hot; you were hungry.
  5. I remember those Houston summers on a BMX and later a 10 Speed. At age 12, my only geographical limit was whatever my endurance (2x) was.
  6. I said what I wanted to say. It does sound good cranked, but it's a different sound than the tweed circuit by a mile. But what wasn't nasally but would definitely have that thing sort of like a 50 watt Bassman was the Bassman 100. My first real amp was a 1973 Bassman 100, which I bought from my guitar teacher for $100. I also bought from him an early 70s Sunn 4x12 with Eminence flat magnet speakers in it. At first, I used it as a PA for a band I sang in, but as I played guitar more, it became my main amp for years. I was a simple person and just ran both channels bridged with all knobs on 10 and the master at 3 or so. When I sold it, I did a demo with the master on 10 and the rest dialed down and learned I could have really gotten some pretty (window shaking) sounds out of that. The Bass channel, which I never played through really, was beautiful sounding (I was playing through a pair of 1968 Jensens) when I discovered that, having sold the Sunn speaker a couple of years earlier. Suffice it to say, I acquired both of these items in the early 90s and got 5x for them before the market went COVID crazy.
  7. So isn't the difference between the 62 Bluesbreaker and the Bassman just using EL34 or KT66 power tubes? Edit to add that speakers are a huge part of the equation, especially in 62 when they went 2x12 Celestion. Apparently 61 was 4x10 like the Bassman.
  8. $900. I'm honestly not a huge fan of the piggyback Bassman tones. Yes, you can make some nice, heavy rock sounds come out of them, but they're a bit nasally most of the time. They were cool things to grab when you could get them for under $500, but those days have been long gone for a while.
  9. The 1968 drip edge AB165 is intriguing but already is at the top of what I'd ever want to pay for it. But I'm eyeballing that hat and those flared pants. /signed 5'10" and definitely chubby /5'10" and chubby should be the new Surly motto
  10. I hit up a Braum's last year and left feeling that, like everything else, it really had lost a step. The next week, for the sake of research, I hit up a DQ and was pleasantly surprised to get a pretty decent fast food burger.
  11. They fit just fine. In fact, you can do two on a 22" WSM.
  12. Can someone explain the current motto to me. I know it's copied from immamac's post in the TX/GA thread, but I'm dumb and curious.
  13. Not a bad idea. But it doesn't seem porky enough.
  14. The person doesn't even need to be that rich or powerful. Back when I was in private practice, my boss got the owner of a middling, unbranded-gasoline distribution company to admit to participating in a price-fixing scheme during her deposition. He kept dancing around asking the question because you don't want to let them answer "No" necessarily. But he had his Gessup moment and finally flat out asked her, "Did you participate in price-fixing scheme." She looked at him and answered, "Yes." No. Further. Questions. He wasn't even a very good lawyer.
  15. Even so, to quote Willie, I remember when a dime bag cost a dime. It hurts my soul to pay $2.49 for that 59-cent bean burrito. That thing is outpacing inflation assuming the former price was around 1995 or so. And don't tell me labor cost on that item. I've seen that squirt gun.
  16. That deescalated quickly.
  17. That's what I said about Taco Bell above. Even if these restaurants weren't all less mediocre than before, now they want to charge us a pair of Lincolns for the privilege. Nah.
  18. $.59 Bean Burrito with some fire sauce was the definition of the gift that kept on giving.
  19. $7? Get outta here! But in all seriousness, "cheap" generally was the wrong word. Not as cheap would have been a better description. On average, the cost has increased by around 81% over the last six years with some items increasing by as much as 132%. So when the nearby mom & pop will sell me some bangin' tacos for under $6, I've just been less likely to run through Taco Bell for their variation of the same. That's not to say I won't hit up Taco Bell or that I think that it hasn't maintained what it always was way better than a lot of fast food places out there (looking at you, Wendy's).
  20. Username checks out.
  21. Good point. With that in mind, I should have gone in dry like so many in-laws' turkeys.
  22. Do you foreplay?
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