Mysterious disappearance of the Gibson Brands Forums

[GAD]

You think you've got problems?
I recently bought a used computer, called WOPR, a brand I'd never heard of, and every time I log in, it asks me to play a game: Global Thermonuclear War.
Very confused.
RBSinTo

I have a WOPR missle launch code decoder in my pile of things to build after the new house is done.

 

[twocorgis]

My current feelings on browsers is a lot like it used to be with laptops: they all suck so use what you like.

I use Safari because it used to be great and the integration across devices in the Apple universe is superb. I also complain about it non-stop because it sucks. It’s a memory hog, and it often slows down my 24-core xeon Mac Pro with 197G RAM until I kill and restart it. How a company like Apple can manage to screw up something like Safari is beyond me, but here we are.

I also use Firefox and Chrome. They all suck equally for varying different reasons.

I use AdGuard system-wide which makes them all better, but I really don’t recommend any of them.

Also I broke my temporary crown and it hurts to breathe so I’m crankier than usual. Grrrr

Ouch! I think I'll just stick with Brave...

 

[RBSinTo]

I have a WOPR missle launch code decoder in my pile of things to build after the new house is done.

Hey!
Those numbers appear up in the corner of my screen too.
Is that a good or bad thing?
RBSinTo

 

[bluesypicky]

You know English AND 'Murrican?

Edit: I speak 3 foreign languages!

 

[Canard]

Whatever ... um.... like ... the Givson Guitar site stayed up all the while. Sometimes the offshore manufacturers do do it better, eh?

givson – givson

www.givson.com

 

[gjmalcyon]

I've been using Brave (instead of Safari with an ad blocker Wipr) for quite some time and really like it. What browser do you recommend?

I'm usually running Chrome and occasionally Edge for work-related stuff.

I've been playing around with Vivaldi which is based on the Chromium browser engine so some of the DNS tomfoolery GAD mentions may still be present.

 

[awagner]

I miss Netscape

My current feelings on browsers is a lot like it used to be with laptops: they all suck so use what you like.

I use Safari because it used to be great and the integration across devices in the Apple universe is superb. I also complain about it non-stop because it sucks. It’s a memory hog, and it often slows down my 24-core xeon Mac Pro with 197G RAM until I kill and restart it. How a company like Apple can manage to screw up something like Safari is beyond me, but here we are.

I also use Firefox and Chrome. They all suck equally for varying different reasons.

I use AdGuard system-wide which makes them all better, but I really don’t recommend any of them.

Also I broke my temporary crown and it hurts to breathe so I’m crankier than usual. Grrrr

I miss Netscape.

 

[GAD]

I miss Netscape

I miss those days in general when it comes to the Internet.

 

[geoguy]

Hey!
Those numbers appear up in the corner of my screen too.
Is that a good or bad thing?
RBSinTo

Depends on whether you're closer to the launching point, or the destination . . .

 

[CarvedTop]

I just tried a search on Gibson Brand Forum, and it came up. Appears it's back online.

 

[RBSinTo]

Depends on whether you're closer to the launching point, or the destination . . .

geoguy,
When you're playing Global Thermonuclear War, I hardly think that matters.
RBSinTo

 

[wileypickett]

Whatever ... um.... like ... the Givson Guitar site stayed up all the while. Sometimes the offshore manufacturers do do it better, eh?

givson – givson

www.givson.com

I have a Givson archtop that I bought at a yardsale for, if I remember right, five bucks. I loved the faux / mock "Gibson" logo, the main reason I bought it. When I got it home, I kinda came around to the funky charm of the thing. (The F holes look like they were carved with a pocket-knife.)

It's easy ot make fun of it, but in India there is a lot of poverty; guitars like this are at least an option for a big segment of the population.

I set it up for slide, and it sounds good! Got my money's worth for sure.

 

[Default]

I had one of those! I wish I had kept it. The neck was bowed like a banana, but knowing now what I didn't know then, I could have straightened it out.

 

[Canard]

I have a Givson archtop that I bought at a yardsale for, if I remember right, five bucks. I loved the faux / mock "Gibson" logo, the main reason I bought it. When I got it home, I kinda came around to the funky charm of the thing. (The F holes look like they wre carved with a pocketknife.) It's easy ot make fun of it, but in India there is a lot of poverty; guitars like this are at least an option for a big segment of the population.

I set it up for slide, and it sounds good! Got my money's worth for sure.

It is my understanding that there once was an American military base of some sort in southern India during WWII and that one of the servicemen played Hawaiian slack-key slide guitar. He apparently mixed with locals while off duty, and the locals took to the guitar with a vengeance adapting it to Indian music. There is a tradition now of Indian slide guitar.







Canadian guitarist, Harry Manx, is a follower of this tradtition.

 

[Brucebubs]

I'm still 'Banned'.

 

[bluesypicky]

The neck was bowed like a banana

The scientific term is "Peyronie's disease".

 

[wileypickett]

It is my understanding that there once was an American military base of some sort in southern India during WWII and that one of the servicemen played Hawaiian slack-key slide guitar. He apparently mixed with locals while off duty, and the locals took to the guitar with a vengeance adapting it to Indian music. There is a tradition now of Indian slide guitar.







Canadian guitarist, Harry Manx, is a follower of this tradtition.

Close!

With the popularity of all things Hawaiian in the early 20th Century, and especially music, the Tau Moe Family went on a worldwide tour that lasted for about 60 years, with only short visits to back to thier native island.

They were popular everywhere and especially in India. One of Tau and Rose's kids was born there and several of the group's scarce 78s were recorded there.

Someone who heard them was a young musician named Brij Bhushan Kabra, who was inspired by their steel guitar guitarist to convert an archtop F-hole guitar into a lap steel, and to learn to play classical Indian music on it with a slide. He studied with Ali Akbar Khan.

Brij was the first to play raga on guitar, and was the inspiration for everyone who came after. The "mohan veena" (guitar) became more elaborate, being constructed with additional drone strings (and tuners up the wazoo) like the sitar.

Vishwa Mohan Bhatt was one of Kabra's musical children. He made a Grammy-award winning album with Ry Cooder. (I can a take a tiny bit of credit for that. I arranged for the album's distribution. Water Lily, the label, had been only available by mail order or in a few audiophile equipment stores before we negotiated national distriibution terms with them. The record sold like crazy, and its being made widely availalble brought it to the attention of the Grammy committee.)

Kabra's records (the first one came out in the'50s) are very hard to find, and expensive when they turn up. Only a couple of his 20 or more albums were issued in the U.S., one them part of a series of Indian music albums issued by World Pacific in the late '60s, which sometimes turns up in used record stores.

Four of the ones only issued in India were recently reissued on LP, out of the UK I think -- possibly bootlegs.

There have been a couple Tau Moe records, including a full album (Rounder) and a recent CD of their rare 78s (Grass Skirt Records).

Lots more info out there. See the entries for "Tau Moe" and "Brij Bhushan Kabra" on Wikipedia for instance.

 

[LeFinPepere]

Close!

With the popularity of all things Hawaiian in the early 20th Century, and especially music, the Tau Moe Family went on a worldwide tour that lasted for about 60 years, with only short visits to back to thier native island.

They were popular everywhere and especially in India. One of Tau and Rose's kids was born there and several of the group's scarce 78s were recorded there.

Someone who heard them was a young musician named Brij Bhushan Kabra, who was inspired by their steel guitar guitarist to convert an archtop F-hole guitar into a lap steel, and to learn to play classical Indian music on it with a slide. He studied with Ali Akbar Khan.

Brij was the first to play raga on guitar, and was the inspiration for everyone who came after. The "mohan veena" (guitar) became more elaborate, being constructed with additional drone strings (and tuners up the wazoo) like the sitar.

Vishwa Mohan Bhatt was one of Kabra's musical children. He made a Grammy-award winning album with Ry Cooder. (I can a take a tiny bit of credit for that. I arranged for the album's distribution. Water Lily, the label, had been only available by mail order or in a few audiophile equipment stores before we negotiated national distriibution terms with them. The record sold like crazy, and its being made widely availalble brought it to the attention of the Grammy committee.)

Kabra's records (the first one came out in the'50s) are very hard to find, and expensive when they turn up. Only a couple of his 20 or more albums were issued in the U.S., one them part of a series of Indian music albums issued by World Pacific in the late '60s, which sometimes turns up in used record stores.

Four of the ones only issued in India were recently reissued on LP, out of the UK I think -- possibly bootlegs.

There have been a couple Tau Moe records, including a full album (Rounder) and a recent CD of their rare 78s (Grass Skirt Records).

Lots more info out there. See the entries for "Tau Moe" and "Brij Bhushan Kabra" on Wikipedia for instance.

Interesting! And -as always with Indian music- pretty impressive !! I hear some Indian influence in Derek Trucks'slide playing......I wish I had a bit of that stuff in my guitar- vocabulary....(just for the pleasure: , where did the goddam Gibson forums go? Still waiting for the black boxes to be spotted?