August 5, 2018
WATCH C.W. McCall 'Convoy' Trucker Toy - @MegoMuseum liked your Tweet - Jul 24, 2018
C.W. McCall Convoy Trucker Toy 1977 by Mego
The original CB McHaul commercials probably didn't see airtime but here it is for posterity.
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Jul 24
@TylerMahanCoe's FB Group, '20th Cent. American Music. '
• Upload date: 09/29/2007
CB McHaul was introduced by Mego in 1977, the name was patterned after country musician C.W McCall, whose number one hit "Convoy" had become an anthem for the CB Craze.
The CB craze was a short lived national phenomenon, most toy makers were taught a bit of a hard lesson when it came to fads. Companies raced to the market with T shirts, model kits, replica CBs but by the time the products had arrived CB radios were so "last year".
As fast as Mego was churning out product, their action figure line met the same fate despite the fact that it's a very innovative and well made toy line.
For the figures, Mego re-used the three-inch body style of the Comic Action Heroes. While eight-inch figures were still flourishing, Mego knew three-inch was the best size for a line that was selling 18-wheelers. The packaging also harked back to the CAH line, blue cards with the figure standing on a base in the middle.
Click on the links to visit the different characters and Vehicles of CB McHaul
CB McHaul and his crew The Bad Guys of CB McHaul Sgt Brown and the smokies Playsets
CB TECHNICAL LIMITS
CB McHaul was introduced by Mego in 1977.
The name was patterned after country musician C.W. McCall, whose number one hit, "Convoy" had become an anthem for the CB Craze.
The CB craze was a short lived national phenomenon, most toy makers were taught a bit of a hard lesson when it came to fads.
Companies raced to the market with T-shirts, model kits, replica CBs, but by the time the products had arrived CB radios were so "last year".
As fast as Mego was churning out product, their action figure line met the same fate despite the fact that it's a very innovative and well made toy line.
For the figures, Mego re-used the three-inch body style of the Comic Action Heroes.
While eight-inch figures were still flourishing, Mego knew three-inch was the best size for a line that was selling 18-wheelers.
The packaging also harked back to the CASH line, blue cards with the figure standing on a base in the middle.
Here's (Texas Truck Punch) And CB McHaul, the dullest teen trucker, who's drawn to look like the Fonz, but tough.
Many people have difficulty identifying loose figures of McHaul from CB.
add to CB McHaulity
Installation came with a free CB figure, working amplifiers; the concept that the child could stimulate the trucker while playing with CB-A-A observed-Whopper McHaul bad (!?)
(Crazy upper mind) it is difficult to find two of the bad guys re-equipped, most commonly because they come with the secret bear crusher trap compartment.
The Mego troupe has stolen Spielberg's resemblance to the bearmaker trucker story.
it seems so that they have the CB McHaul font numbers (the Baddest relate to the wheels)!?
And the Smokey King was only the available torso and hat 3 3/4 line.
July 26, 2018
Merle Haggard - Drink Up and Be Somebody (James Burton sessionography-lather) liked by Dante Fontana with an essay for real men who don't steal (DangerousMinds MarcCampbell)
Merle Haggard - Drink Up and Be Somebody (James Burton sessionography-lather) liked by Dante Fontana with an essay for real men who don't steal (DangerousMinds MarcCampbell)
i know.
i was making a James Burton #Dobro YouTube Playlist for my musician friend who just bought a Dobro, and found myself deep into the internet on some Telecaster forum; and as you know, there is always one guy on these forums who is both obnoxious and brilliant in a completist way, and he was replying to this other guitar freak guy about who was the best guitar player in Merle Haggard's Golden period, say 68 to 72, and while showing off with his knowledge between Roy Nichols and J.B., he worked himself up into a complete sessionography-lather, which then helped me find all the J.B. electric guitar and dobro guitar sessions of classic Hag songs done during this period.
this being one.
i've heard this title before from some awful contemporary country artist like Garth Brooks or maybe someone less famous, so i was surprised to see that the hag had been possibly the first one to pen it.
well, i know that most people just click on an emoji about something, but I'm not most people.
p.s.
did you see all the posts, after you gave me your blog that Marc Campbell from The Nails (PLEAE, IF YOU HAVE ANY LOATHING FOR POMPOUS MUSICIANS, CLICK THAT LINK TO READ MARC CAMPBELL'S INTERVIEW ABOUT HIS DIVORCE AND PLAGIARIZED SONG,"88 Lines About 44 Women"),
hired by Richard Metzger to Dangerous Minds in 2010 plagiarized from me under the URL of your wonderful and beloved-by-all blog, Mr. Dante Fontana's Audio-Visual Guidance 3.0, well, maybe not that one, but this one, the one i took over.
i found out originally when it happened but only to a minor extent until recently, and then after a lot of research, found that it now numbers in the 30+ posts, some being stolen and posted the same day.
i know you probably don't want to have any opinion that might cause any controversy with this entity (after all, Marc Campbell no longer works for them), but this is the worst thing that can happen on the internet, and one which you and your other blog-friends should stand in solidarity against in support.
i guarantee, i would do it for you or them in a second.
here are some of the first wave of stolen posts and videos with comparisons of dates as proof, which it took way too long for me to gather and bitch slap the fuckers on Twitter.
glad you liked the tune.
that's all i care about in my small life anyway.i also know that no one wants to tangle with the big bad bear which is Dangerous Minds for whatever reason which I can't imagine; so if you do nothing, at least do it in my stead.
search Google for "Marc Campbell" "Terrible" and you're bound to find this. whether from his barely memorable blip of a band - the one with the plagiarized half-hit, unapologetically stolen from Jim Carroll's 'People Who Died,' or his stint on Dangerous Minds, hired by defrauding Richard Metzger, saying he could post "original" content, and then being caught defrauding me in what looks to be over 30 posts and videos.
(see the first wave collected here: https://twitter.com/i/moments/1021242956647403520 )
follow this blowhard after reading this interview and my initial indictment, and wallow in the same pit of self-absorption, vacuity, and oblivion as this pig to your heart's content.
these tags are no comment on people i know, but just a reminder for a possible reassessment after knowing this
Lenny Smith Peter Holsapple Dante Fontana Lex Ten VICE, and anyone else who just realized that he was fired from Dangerous Minds years ago.
for real men who don't steal
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