What is the origin of your user name?

[BassPlayerDave]

When I can get a couple guys together, we'll jam electric blues and blues based rock.  Strictly amateur, and mistakes ignored.

When I asked what type of music you play, I was thinking there might be a chance that you do bluegrass, being from NC. Also, maybe you got the idea I play the acoustic bass. That's significant because I also own a Stelling 5-string banjo that I learned to play a little, but haven't picked up for a couple of years.

However, blues is also significant, because I have several chromatic/diatonic harmonicas that I started (and stopped, and restarted, and stopped, etc.) to learn to play blues-style music on. I really like all the instruments I own, and will get serious one day about getting better on them. It's just that if I'm busy, the bass always seems to take precedence.

[Stormtruck2]

If we ever get together then I'll let you have a go at my 57 4000 bass my father bought new, through his 68 bassman amp.  There's a blues set up, and jazz.  I love the sound of my Casino through the Bassman. ;-T

[BassPlayerDave]

If we ever get together then I'll let you have a go at my 57 4000 bass my father bought new, through his 68 bassman amp.  There's a blues set up, and jazz.  I love the sound of my Casino through the Bassman. ;-T

Sounds like a cool, classic rig setup.  Brian Setzer plays his Gretsches through twin Bassmans. I have a Danelectro guitar which I think sounds good through my bass amp (Carvin).

[Stormtruck2]

Sounds like a cool, classic rig setup.  Brian Setzer plays his Gretsches through twin Bassmans. I have a Danelectro guitar which I think sounds good through my bass amp (Carvin).

I have a red Gretsch Country Gentleman  that I play through the Bassman. Must be something wrong with the amp or the guitar.  It doesn't sound like Brian Setzer at all.   It certainly couldn't be my complete lack of talent.  ::)  ;)

[BassPlayerDave]

I have a red Gretsch Country Gentleman  that I play through the Bassman. Must be something wrong with the amp or the guitar.  It doesn't sound like Brian Setzer at all.   It certainly couldn't be my complete lack of talent.  ::)  ;)

Yeah, wonder what it could be?  ??? Seriously, I'd have those two checked out.  :D
I've always liked the sound of Gretsches ever since, as a 10 yr old, I saw George Harrison play his on Ed Sullivan. Your red CG sounds like it's pretty cool.  Photo?

[Lannis]

NCAmother - national coalition of arms  
"mother" - nickname

"Arms" or "Arts" ?  If it's "Arms", it's hiding well!

Lannis

[normzone]

Actually it came from (nor)th american (m)oto gu(z)zi (o)w(ne)r.

 :P

[oldbike54]

Actually it came from (nor)th american (m)oto gu(z)zi (o)w(ne)r.

 

 :D Well dangit , the other story was much better , kept envisioning a giant zuke with a saddle  ;D

  Dusty

[normzone]

Yeah, that's a tough act to follow. I'm sure I'll think of something else when my brain cells grow back.

[Muzz]

Yeah, wonder what it could be?  ??? Seriously, I'd have those two checked out.  :D
I've always liked the sound of Gretsches ever since, as a 10 yr old, I saw George Harrison play his on Ed Sullivan. Your red CG sounds like it's pretty cool.  Photo?

I admit to not being a muso; however many (and I mean many  ::) ) years ago I flatted with one. He came back from holiday with his mates Gretsch Tennessean (sp?) to sell it for him on behalf. plugged it in to his Gibson Maestro and out through his speaker box which ran rather large German Phillips speakers. I don't think I have heard a nicer sound since.  :drool ;-T Just beautiful. Sold to the first guy who came, no haggling and both thought they had a great deal.

[normzone]

Naturally Outgoing Rider of Motorcycles Zooming Over Near Materials

No, really it's the recumbent zuchinni thing. I am just casting false trails because as of late I think they're looking for me. If anybody asks, make something up.

[cruzziguzzi]

Yeah, wonder what it could be?  ??? Seriously, I'd have those two checked out.  :D
I've always liked the sound of Gretsches ever since, as a 10 yr old, I saw George Harrison play his on Ed Sullivan. Your red CG sounds like it's pretty cool.  Photo?

This morning I did one of my regular Clist searches and found two of my favorite off-beat things in the world joined at the nexus of on line trading: A fellas willing to trade a Gretsch Country Club for an IHC tractor.

Can't imagine an IHC man willing to give that one up in trade - maybe he has a couple. Great sounding in general but I think the body and bout dimensions require a modified interaction as well. Let the only one I had go in a fit of Strat-lust. Fool was I, says I!

[CND]

My initials.

[Bill Hagan]

Saw this thread reappear and don't think I've posted in it.

OTOH, it is, I suppose, pretty obvious in my case.

That said, here's proof, too:







 ;D

Bilhelm

[dibble]

This won't translate but people presume that I used to  work as a Fireman on my watch were the Pugh Twins and a bloke called Cuthbert .http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6YE4PCRNwc

It actually dates from my days as a London Motorbike Courier, surnames weren’t used much, a lot of people couldn't remember  the name they were working under or were avoiding Debts, the Law or ex wives.

Nick-Names moved from job to job and stayed with you....

[Chuck in Indiana]

And I play the electric bass, so where does that leave me?

REAL bass men play the tree.. ;D

[Viker]

When I took the course to get my rider's learner permit (L plates), a fellow learner a) told me about the local riders' forum and b) told me I look like a viking.
I tried to join the forum as Viking, but the name was taken, so Viker = Viking + biker.

Since then I've used the same name whenever I join a biking forum.

[kidsmoke]

I'm also obsessed with guitars (apparently not alone in that illness, per the above), and music in general. When joining a guitar forum several years back, and in an effort to be creative, I got to thinking. Bad idea, generally.

So I live in Chicago
The greatest electrics ever made were from southwest Michigan, Kalamazoo specifically.
There is a Chicago based band with three guitarists that sings a song that mentions "on a private beach in Michigan"...southern Lake Michigan shore is a playground for Chicagoans, you understand.

The song is "spiders(kidsmoke)". Seemed like a good idea at the time. Name took. Actually have become good real world friends with several of those guys, and they actually call me by my forum moniker, kid, generally.

Sounded cool. Thought I'd recycle it here.

Hey, you asked.

[normzone]

It's a holdover from when I was the president of the National Organization of Registered MZ Agusta Owners, North East chapter.

MZ Agusta owners are fanatics who modify their MV Agustas until they cannot be recognized as the original machine. There are thousands of them in the US - you probably ride by one every day and mistake it for a rice burner of one type or another. It's kind of like a country club - somebody has to sponsor you for membership, and then your machine has to pass inspection.

The standards are pretty high - if your bike is ever recognized for what it really is by a non-member, you are disbarred and you have to forfeit the bike, which is then ceremonially destroyed while you walk out the gates, similar to the beginning of the " Branded " television show of the sixties.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKmJPnAGUJk

The rumor that Chuck Connors was an MZ Augusta owner has been debunked many times, but still persists to this day.

[Guzzistajohn]

I always liked the show BRANDED, But I change the word branded to galded in the title song. Funnier that way.

[Waterbottle]

Because of this baby I spent my retirement money on



Waterbottle is a nickname that was given to the GT 750 suzuki's here in Australia.
Water Buffalo in the USA and Kettle in the U.K. 

[Triple Jim]

That's a beauty, Waterbottle.  As you know, I'm partial to 2-strokes.

[Lannis]

That's a beauty, Waterbottle.  As you know, I'm partial to 2-strokes.

Me too.  If for any reason I had to give up the Guzzis and BSAs and start again, it'd be a Evinrude Suzuki GT-750.    I loved the one I had .... Just tires, gas, and chain to maintain.   No valves, no oil to change, a quart of injector oil every 1200 miles, just a pleasure to burble along on ....

Lannis

[Petrus Rocks]

Petrus Rocks is the name of my business and a play on words.  I do stonework and also make fountains, benches, etc., anything I can think of from stone. Petrus is latin for Peter stone, and Jesus said "you are the foundation I build my church upon" to Peter.  I'm not real religious but  but the end result of the name is "Peter Rocks, Stone Rocks".  As my name is Peter...
I  also wanted a motorcycle neutral moniker as I have a Triumph T140, stripped down Cal II, BMW 90/6, and a Buell Ulysses

[vintagehoarder]

Self explanatory  ;D

[wikaby]

Wickaby, what I call it anyway, is a small soft leafy tree that grows under maple and other large hardwoods. According to my uncle if the bark is boiled it is an excellent laxative! It is my user name for the forestry forum.

[Muzz]

Waterbottle, as well as the "buffalo" they also got called waterbus, watertruck or, a bit disparagingly, watertank.

The advertising campaign they had for them out here went a bit flat. They started out with "the world's first water cooled two stroke" until someone pointed out that the Scott was watercooled in circa 1920. Then it appeared as "the world's first oil injected two stroke" until it was pointed out that by about 1926 the Scott was oil injected. They gave it away after that as the Scott had a rotary disk valve engine while the waterbus was only piston ported. :D

[crc]

im kicking myself now. I got given a rolling waterbus years ago and ripped the front end off it for a triumph chopper (ok I was desperate for a front end ok). the guy that gave it to me told me to go to the bike shop and pick up the motor which had had work done on it, and I never did as they weren't worth anything back then, like a lot of things

[oldbike54]

You guys are forgetting the term "Tea Kettle" for the GT 750 .

  Dusty

[Yukonica]

Simple for me: (alternately: me simple). I live in a beautiful land north of 60 where interstates and road rage have no claim. Predators and ungulates are by far the highest order of road hazard. Tire thrown stones are next. This magical land is Yukon; neighbour to Alaska. As a young man one of my favorite cameras was a Minolta (aka Konica).
Not difficult to press Yukon and Konica  into Yukonica.
If you like photos of aurora head to my Yukonica photo link on Borealbreeze.com.