I've alway ridden alone; I have no need to be associated with such organizations. I don't need a symbol or patch or other such non-sense.

Same here. No club, no patches, no roadrags. I've ridden with various clubs but haven't felt the need to join. If I could fine 4-5 guys to ride with that share my passions, I would not be opposed to it. Most of the guys I know just use events as an excuse to drink and party excessively. Not that I don't like a good drink, I do, buy I have higher priorities.

For the record, I don't mind prohibiting politics, my problem is allowing some politics and not others.

 

and a Fender Jazz bass...
and I do like to feel the wind on my face...

Have you seen the, "Precision Bass"? No frets on it!
If my skill, with no frets, is what you call, "precision", we're in for trouble.

and, I like the wind in my face, too. Some of my best memories are about riding the ridges in Orange County or Tustin to El Toro in a tunnel of trees.

 

While we're on the guitar thingy...
I have a classical, folk, 12-string, one strat clone, one Fender Telecaster, and a Fender Jazz bass...

and I do like to feel the wind on my face...
with one unicycle, two bicycles, three ebikes, one electric tricycle...
... price of gas don't bother me.

Maybe I should rephrase that at this time of year:

My true love gave to me:

• Five guitars
• Four ebikes
• Three computers
• Two soldering irons
• And one hell of a lot of love, space and freedom to enjoy them all!

 

Have you seen the, "Precision Bass"? No frets on it!
If my skill, with no frets, is what you call, "precision", we're in for trouble.

Are you sure?
I've played the Precision and it has frets.

 

Have you seen the, "Precision Bass"? No frets on it!
If my skill, with no frets, is what you call, "precision", we're in for trouble.

lol

If my skill, with no frets, is what you call, "precision", we're in for trouble.

Same here. I can't play and sing; I can barely do both. But, I sure can howl with the best of them lol !!!

 

Are you sure?
I've played the Precision and it has frets.

Darn. Missed again. Maybe that was some other brand of, "Precision" bass. I best remember the exact thing I said here. No frets? And you call that precision? You must be addressing somebody besides me!

 

Yeh. I've played a 5-string fretless bass too. Takes awhile getting used to. You need a good ear which I don't have.

 

Check this out; lol.

From Left to right these are my friends I grew up with back in the day. It's a local TV channel and it was recorded on degraded steel tape. Check out the hair. lol

Dave Clark on bass; he and I still jam together. Ray Beerman lead guitar; lost contact with but has been spotted and still living. Steve Long; Lead guitar just got off the phone with say's he put in a recording studio in his house wants all of us to get together and record songs we've written over the years. Last is Russell Thomas; also a lead. Shane Hatch on drums; but wasn't in the band just asked to play these events only.

Some of the other vids they replaced Dave Clark when he was un-able to play. At the time he was in another band as well.

They thought they had something with 3 lead guitars? seemed stupid to me back then but hey everyone needs something trying to separate your self from the crowd.

If you go to betadragonking's channel there's more of them.

One day hanging out with them and once again; didn't have a bass player; before long they put the bass in my hands saying play these 3 notes when we tell you. Haven't been able to put them down since. 13 at the time.

Enjoy,

kv

The Bands name was "Toxic Shock"

 

They thought they had something with 3 lead guitars?

Somebody told me Boston used 2 lead guitars playing exactly the same notes. Personally, I like it.

 

Somebody told me Boston used 2 lead guitars playing exactly the same notes. Personally, I like it.

They weren't to bad; but they have an interview and told the interviewer some really cheesy crap. lol

If you listen to the others they did a song that is a lot like some "Blue Oyster Cult" they were into them back then; they tried to use a little of there styling.

I did enjoy their cover stuff; not recorded wasn't originals.

Jimmy Hendrix, Doors, Lynyrd Skynyrd, ZZ Top, Cars to name a few. I used to enjoy their version of cheap sunglasses lol

 

I used to enjoy their version of cheap sunglasses.

I still do. Working in the shed with the radio on.
At one point I phoned the oldie station and told them that I would have to find something else to play loudly if they didn't quit airing a Viagra commercial every 12 minutes.

What? They think everybody that listens to oldies is, "out of gas"?

 

So do I need to start a thread about guitars and motorcycles so we can talk about cheap gas in it?

 

So do I need to start a thread about guitars and motorcycles so we can talk about cheap gas in it?

Here, here! (or is it Hear, hear!)

I was wondering if I had jumped into a different thread entirely.

We just got back from a couple weeks in the Virgin Islands (which was fabulous!). The gasoline prices there (on St. John) was $4.43/gal and on St. Thomas it varied quite a bit, but everything I saw was well above $4/gal. In Denver on the drive home we saw it as low as $2.27/gal and I suspect that it is near or perhaps even below $2/gal at the usual low-cost outlets.

I can't help but chuckle at all the grief I took a year or so ago when gas was pushing the $4/range nationally and I said that I fully expected it to go back below $3/gal and that I would not be at all surprised if it went below $2/gal for a bit.

 

Yeh. I've played a 5-string fretless bass too. Takes awhile getting used to. You need a good ear which I don't have.

I played the trombone for 20 years. Same problem; no indication if the positioning is tonally correct except by ear and memory. Never did get it quite right.

 

So do I need to start a thread about guitars and motorcycles so we can talk about cheap gas in it?

I guess pointing out some topics in the news relative to gas and oil can send a thread into topics of politics? I guess the point seemed to hit a sore spot in another member.

So I felt it would be good to deviate out at the moment; hoping to clear the air.

But; since you want to talk about it; be careful what you say about oil or we might be back on a slippery slope.

Point out more on fracking. I find that particularly interesting

Gas here is still $2.49 ? Nothing has changed in a week or more.

 

Really I don't care where threads go. I just don't play guitar and its winter so I cant play with the motorcycle either.

 

I cant play with the motorcycle either.

I was just thinking; he's got one.

I just know it.

 

It's winter so I can't play with the motorcycle either.

What? I did 3 years in Indianapolis on a Honda 160. There were 2 days that I couldn't use the bike: 6 inches of new snow with a layer of ice under it and a freezing rain that took me to hypothermia in about 3 miles. Then again, a North Dakota winter is my idea of some kind of Hell.

 

So do I need to start a thread about guitars and motorcycles so we can talk about cheap gas in it?

gas -> cars -> motorcycles -> bikers -> bands -> guitars

Seems to be still on topic.

 

I went down to Lee, New Hampshire yesterday for a Christmas party and saw gas for $2.36/gal. Lowest I've seen it since around 2008