California Dreamin'

[6L6]

Scratch: If you do give the Tickle Pink a try, first choice would be Room #16. Second choice is Room #4.

Just because I'm having fun now that I learned how to post pics, here's one of my main gigging instrument, an '06 D-55:

Bill

 

[davismanLV]

Well, 6, your fun ends up being fun for us as well. I love it when it all works out like that!! Beautiful D55.... thanks for sharing. 8)

 

[killdeer43]

Just because I'm having fun now that I learned how to post pics,
Bill

Stand back, Bill.
It's a malady you'll learn to embrace. :wink:

Great looking guitars, BTW,
Joe

 

[6L6]

Thanks for the kind words on my D-55! I had Gryphon install a Fishman Matrix pup in it and it's been my main gigging axe for over 5 yrs now.

Here's a link to a dude over in the Martin forum with pics of his 50th Anniv D-55:

http://theunofficialmartinguitarforum.yuku.com/topic/129171/My-Guild-D-55-50th-Anniversary

That's some of the prettiest Braz I've ever seen. His is more spectacular looking than #1 of 50 which still resides at Guitar Showcase in San Jose, CA.

Bill

 

[davismanLV]

The wood on the back of that 50th Anniversary is a MARVEL!! Golly gee..... what a great guitar!!

 

[6L6]

It ain't a guitar pic, but it's from the same trip to Carmel down Route 1 and it certainly qualifies for California Dreamin'...

In the far distance you can barely make out a satellite tracking station. Right below it is famous Mavericks Beach where they hold the annual World Surfing Championships.

The pic location is about 5 miles south of Half Moon Bay, CA:

Bill

 

[Scratch]

Bill,
Where do you gig out? What kind of music do you play?

 

[6L6]

Bill,
Where do you gig out? What kind of music do you play?

Scratch: I'm strictly a covers guy. I cover songs everyone knows from the 50/60/70's. Solo gigs for me are all private party. However, I play at the weekly Open Mic on Route 1 in Half Moon Bay, CA (Cameron's Pub & Inn) every Thursday evening if I'm around.

Cameron's:

That last picture shows the O/M Host Kevy Nova (left) and our friend (and jazz virtuoso) Harold on the right. Kevy is a phenomenal guitar player. In fact, he's as good as anyone I've ever seen in my life!

The deal is 3 songs or 15 minutes, whichever comes first. The O/M runs from 8PM (at which time the five big screen TV's are turned off) until everyone has finished playing. Signup starts around 6PM. We typically get from 10 to 15 players each week.

The first five slots go to the first five who come in and sign up. Numbers 6 thru 12 go to the folks who sign up with Kevy Nova on the phone at noon on the day of the O/M. The remaining slots go to those who are left. No favorites are played and no exceptions are made. In other words, it's a very well run Open Mic! Hope you can make it one day and other Guild Forum members as well!

Bill

 

[Scratch]

What a sierra hotle venue! Looks like an awesome routine, Bill... :mrgreen:

Is that your new Explorer out front? :roll: I'm jonesing for one of those...

 

[6L6]

Nope, not the Explorer. But the 540i Bimmer is mine. Best car I've ever owned and I'll probably drive it to the finish line.

BTW, Bill Harrah originally owned those double decker English buses. He used them to shuttle folks to his Casino in South Lake Tahoe, CA. After Bill died they got put away and Cameron Palmer (owner of Cameron's Pub & Inn) eventually worked out a deal and bought them.

He then had them brought to Half Moon Bay on giant flatbed trucks via a LONG route that avoided underpasses with insufficient clearance. Quite an effort!

Bill

 

[Mr. P ~]

Notice how on the top photo the engines on each wing are pointed slightly inward. This provided a force moment in front of the plane that aided stability and allowed use of the negative dihedral wing. Cool stuff back in the day!

Bill

I always wondered why the engines were canted on that thing. That makes me think of my first series of flights.

My youth choir at church was invited by the Israeli government to sing in Bethlehem on Christmas Eve in '72. I had never flown before, so Memphis to Tel Aviv and back was my first experience flying. We flew across the Atlantic on a 747. I was still in college and was not very educated on aircraft at the time, so I got tricked by the plane.

I am looking out the window as we left our JFK airport flight pattern and the pilot trimmed the plane out and started pouring on the coal! To my amazement I saw the starboard engines Move Forward, then move Up!!! I was amazed!

Later, when I was working at E-Systems building spy planes, I learned more about the 747 (commercial jets in general), and finally deduced that I had NOT seen the engines move forward and up, what saw was an optical illusion when the leading edge slats retracted.

Easy mistake, but it made me feel like a dunce anyway!

My favorite plane I worked on was the E4B Airborne Command Post aircraft. Very cool plane.

 

[fronobulax]

My favorite plane I worked on was the E4B Airborne Command Post aircraft. Very cool plane. [/b][/color]

I rode on that a few years ago. I was in town supporting a briefing. The bigwig receiving the brief had ridden on the plane in the past and asked for a tour. In typical "impress the bigwig" fashion, when the smoke cleared, the tour had become a training mission for the E4 crew and the briefing had been moved into one of the meeting areas on the plane. There was room for me to go along for the ride so I did.

 

[6L6]

That 747 is a simply AWESOME machine!!!

I consider myself extremely lucky to have been able to fly in the USAF. It was a childhood dream for me that came true and if I was 22 again, I'd go the same route for sure.

Of the planes I flew, the T-38 was my favorite. Each one of these would go from a standing start to 32,500 ft in just one minute! It held the record for fastest time to 30,000 ft until the F-15 came along and broke it.

The procedure for a max performance climb was to hold it on the deck to 300 knots IAS and then pull to a 60 degree nose up attitude. The plane just kept accelerating even at that high AOA!

Of the planes I DIDN'T get to fly, the F-104 is my fav.

Bill