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    What is your next guitar/gear purchase gonna be?

    Jazz basses exist in colors other than Jaco-style tobacco burst? No thank you.
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    NGD: Parker Fly Deluxe 1998 Emerald Green

    That would be the NiteFly-M then. (there's also a NiteFly Mojo which is very similar, just with a glossier finish and Seymour Duncan pickups and pickup rings). The NiteFly-M was my first Parker and the only one that I bought brand new at retail price (about $1400 at the time, a huge investment...
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    NGD: Parker Fly Deluxe 1998 Emerald Green

    Not *all* together. I've got them kind of split up. Five of them are here with me in London (1997 Artist, 1999 Classic, 2000 Stealth, a 5-string Fly Bass, and a Southern NiteFly). The rest are stored back at my Dad's place in the US (a Deluxe, Mojo Singlecut, a NiteFly-M, and an older HSS...
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    US Political Discussion: Biden/Harris Edition (Rules in OP)

    So is P. Diddy officially Trump's running mate yet?
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    NGD: Parker Fly Deluxe 1998 Emerald Green

    Yeah, that was basically like 2008 - 2019 or so. I paid under $1k for most of mine on eBay during that time period (sometimes *well* under). I'd be hesitent to take a Fly on tour. They're more rugged than they look, but like OP mentioned, literally every part (except some screws) other than...
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    NGD: Parker Fly Deluxe 1998 Emerald Green

    Parkers suck. Terrible guitars. No one should own them. Definitely no one should own eight of them. Everyone who has one should sell it for cheap so someone with eight Parkers can buy more of them at a reasonable price because he still doesn't have all of the models that he wants.
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    US Political Discussion: Biden/Harris Edition (Rules in OP)

    LOL!
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    US Political Discussion: Biden/Harris Edition (Rules in OP)

    Doesn't his son in law have a fresh couple billion from the Saudis? That he got largely based on trading favors from his time working in Trump's White House? Jared won't help him out? That's cold, man.
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    Bands with names that are frustratingly inappropriate for their music

    Probably another good candidate for this thread. Apparently the band named themselves after a location in Minneapolis, but as a New Yorker for many years, "Marcy Playground" is/was a location in Bed-Stuy, part of the Marcy projects, known to be pretty rough back then. Mostly associated with Jay...
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    Bands with names that are frustratingly inappropriate for their music

    Suicide Machines
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    Pilgrimage worthy music stores.

    Is Rudy's in NYC still good? (haven't been there in more than a decade now). If you ever make it to London, we have a whole street (Denmark Street) that's full of guitar/music stores and pretty legendary for various historic reasons and pilgrimage worthy.
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    Random Pedal Thoughts That Don’t Deserve Their Own Thread

    EQD Acapulco Gold and Speaker Cranker are two of my all time faves (I hear good things about the Special Cranker, but don't see the need personally since I'm happy with the one-knob version).
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    Smart home thread

    Oh, yeah. I set up a VLAN called "IoST" (for "Internet of Shitty Things") on the router and made my partner use that for her smart home stuff so they're all at least isolated from the rest of the network and I firewall that VLAN aggressively. Standard practice with the IoT stuff seems to be that...
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    Smart home thread

    My partner is really into Hue lights and has a Google Home setup. I don't really get the appeal. I'd rather just to use a light switch to turn lights on and off. She's constantly dealing with bulbs coming unpaired, having to find and get into her phone to adjust things, and it drives me nuts...
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    A.I. generated content: share it here

    Your smurfing will be legendary, even in hell!
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