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I'm not selling the SG and the Amp to actually buy another high-dollar amp. There is a village we visited in Tipitapa, Nicaragua, where my wife's relatives live and they don't have water. They are carrying buckets several miles from the nearby river, and we are going to help them sink a new well....I want to generate some dough to help them out...
 
eSGEe said:
Very unselfish of you Robert -- WELL DONE-- good on ya and Gods Speed in the sale ---
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I found a mint Marshall 8280 Valvestate 2X12 and I will probably score an 8100 head to go with my Jackson Cabinet....The Valvestate really delivers that chug with clarity...I was plying this morning at almost 3/4 volume and the chug on F# was so clear that it would make your teeth vibrate...my next door neighbor called and said, "Play Round and Round Again!!!"
 
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amen brudda that they do--- many say its a 1 trick pony but that one trick is STELLAR !!!!!

IF you like that tone -- -if your a Jangle oriented clean VOX tone guy --- well then -- no
 
That is something, Robert.

The impression my visit to the jungles of Bolivia stays on my brain very vividly even though it has been nearly 26 years ago.
Visiting a village way more backward than even this but only seeing women and children there, mounds of earth with smoke coming out of them where the women baked in, plus open fires burning over a set of leaf springs up on some rocks to hold pots for cooking in. The women walking across fields to and from a hole in the ground that they pulled a 2 foot section of pipe up on a rope enough times to fill up a 5 gallon bucket of water then toting it back home on top of their heads without even holding onto it.

Supposedly the income level in those parts was what amounted to maybe $120 per year.
 
Cool thing you are doing Robert. My father-in-law is from Nicaragua, and was the first of his family to leave and emigrate to the United States. Over his first few years here he saved enough to bring his entire family and they all became citizens. Our collective family now sends money back to the extended network when possible.
 
gball said:
Cool thing you are doing Robert. My father-in-law is from Nicaragua, and was the first of his family to leave and emigrate to the United States. Over his first few years here he saved enough to bring his entire family and they all became citizens. Our collective family now sends money back to the extended network when possible.
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Gball, I used to help a buddy in his tile business. Another guy who worked for him was from Guatemala, but his wife was from Nicaragua. My cousin was stationed in the Philippines while in the AF. His wife to be was born and raised there but when he got out, he brought her back here to Ohio to start their family. A number of years later, they went back to visit and brought her dad back to Ohio during winter no less. The man had never worn shoes, used doors, or even seen cases of beer etc. Needless to say Ohio was an adjustment from the jungle in Philippines. He went back home as fast as he could, especially when the snow started piling up.
 
chilipeppermaniac said:
Gball, I used to help a buddy in his tile business. Another guy who worked for him was from Guatemala, but his wife was from Nicaragua. My cousin was stationed in the Philippines while in the AF. His wife to be was born and raised there but when he got out, he brought her back here to Ohio to start their family. A number of years later, they went back to visit and brought her dad back to Ohio during winter no less. The man had never worn shoes, used doors, or even seen cases of beer etc. Needless to say Ohio was an adjustment from the jungle in Philippines. He went back home as fast as he could, especially when the snow started piling up.
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It's crazy when you hear the stories, for sure. My father-in-law was born and grew up in/around Managua, so the city wasn't completely foreign to him when he came here, just the state of the city if you know what I mean.
 
gball said:
Cool thing you are doing Robert. My father-in-law is from Nicaragua, and was the first of his family to leave and emigrate to the United States. Over his first few years here he saved enough to bring his entire family and they all became citizens. Our collective family now sends money back to the extended network when possible.
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That's a very noble thing...
 
gball said:
It's crazy when you hear the stories, for sure. My father-in-law was born and grew up in/around Managua, so the city wasn't completely foreign to him when he came here, just the state of the city if you know what I mean.
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My wife is from the San Juda Barrio of Managua...
 
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