Mister Gorbachev, tear down that wall!

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 3:18 am

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endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 3:19 am

they made guitars too!?!?!

I've always known them as a Motorcycle company.

jcyphe · Post by **jcyphe** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 3:32 am

There was this really bad movie where Naomi Watts plays a midwife and gets into some shenanigans with the Russian Mob, only cool thing in the movie was she had an Ural.

Post by **dots** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 3:40 am

jcyphe wrote:There was this really bad movie where Naomi Watts plays a midwife and gets into some shenanigans with the Russian Mob, only cool thing in the movie was she had an Ural.

eastern promises? hahahaha! don't let nan find out about you disparaging that flick. . . she loves it and vigo mortensen more than air.

the upside is, i have reason to watch it again. i'll just close my eyes during the gratuitous dong scene.

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 3:43 am

They're real shit bikes, but they look fucking rad. I'd love to have one, but I'd never depend on it to get me home.

Hopefully they did a better job at making guitars.

vivadeluxxe · Post by **vivadeluxxe** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 3:15 pm

Wow he can do sweep arpeggios, but can't even play the riff to Smoke On the Water properly.... the mysteries of The East...

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 5:40 pm

endsjustifymeans wrote:they made guitars too!?!?!

I've always known them as a Motorcycle company.

^ Want - a lot. But not with a sidecar, that's terrifying.

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 5:44 pm

They're poo, they really are. A guy named Shane in my scooter club has one. Looks awesome but it's been falling apart since day one.

If you want that style of bike, go for one of the new Royal Enfields. The new Engine is remarkably well done and it has all of the looks of a classic with the modern bennefits of fuel injection and gas shocks and such. And they're cheap as all fuck too.

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 5:45 pm

But they look awesome.

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 5:47 pm

benecol wrote:But they look awesome.

can't argue with the trooth.

blacktaxi · Post by **blacktaxi** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 5:48 pm

I had few chances to play Ural guitars, and a bass one time I think. They are pile of shit. Heavy as fuck, never intonate properly, can't do good action on them, stay in tune really bad, sound like shit and look awful. Pretty much everything is bad about them.

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 5:49 pm

blacktaxi wrote:I had few chances to play Ural guitars, and a bass one time I think. They are pile of shit. Heavy as fuck, never intonate properly, can't do good action, stay in tune really bad, sound like shit and look awful. Pretty much everything is bad about them.

HA, apparently the companies quality transfers from bike to guitar perfectly!

blacktaxi · Post by **blacktaxi** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 5:50 pm

endsjustifymeans wrote:
blacktaxi wrote:I had few chances to play Ural guitars, and a bass one time I think. They are pile of shit. Heavy as fuck, never intonate properly, can't do good action, stay in tune really bad, sound like shit and look awful. Pretty much everything is bad about them.
HA, apparently the companies quality transfers from bike to guitar perfectly!

Sad, but true.

However those bikes look cool, and believe it or not, up until USSR broke up they were all over the country, because it was hard to get anything else.

jcyphe · Post by **jcyphe** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 5:54 pm

dots wrote:
jcyphe wrote:There was this really bad movie where Naomi Watts plays a midwife and gets into some shenanigans with the Russian Mob, only cool thing in the movie was she had an Ural.

eastern promises? hahahaha! don't let nan find out about you disparaging that flick.

That's the thing it's just kind of a chick-flick running as something else. But let's look at the plot facts a baby gets saved, almost all the guys are evil, Vito's character is a cop so he's the whole tough guy with a good heart bullshit women love. I saw that plotline coming right away that he was a cop. Even the wise old russian uncle is a nut.

Not saying this movie is anti-man but it has all the hallmarks of chick flick. Terrible.

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 5:57 pm

jcyphe wrote:
dots wrote:
jcyphe wrote:There was this really bad movie where Naomi Watts plays a midwife and gets into some shenanigans with the Russian Mob, only cool thing in the movie was she had an Ural.

eastern promises? hahahaha! don't let nan find out about you disparaging that flick.

That's the thing it's just kind of a chick-flick running as something else. But let's look at the plot facts a baby gets saved, almost all the guys are evil, Vito's character is a cop so he's the whole tough guy with a good heart bullshit women love. I saw that plotline coming right away that he was a cop. Even the wise old russian uncle is a nut.

Not saying this movie is anti-man but it has all the hallmarks of chick flick. Terrible.

My wife loved it... I think it was the dangly fight scene.

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 7:15 pm

Tonika the Soviet Telecaster

Ural The Soviet Stratocaster

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 6:06 pm

Revolutionary sound of the Tonika!

(click photo to listen)

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 6:45 pm

I found this vid on youtube.Poster said his guitar is a Ural but it looks like a Tonika

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Zack · Post by **Zack** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 7:12 pm

westtexasred wrote:Ural The Soviet Stratocaster

that with a sovtek would be fucking grand, fucking samurai headstocks rule. Oh man, I just zoomed into the image those pickup covers have sweet insignias.

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 4:42 am

Check out the guitars on this webpage:

Electro-guitars of the USSR