Retired and still healthy enuff to stand up for a 4-hour gig, I am returning to a non-professional player status.
I was out of the playing loop for over 40 yeas, and with the new retired status, I am making a
personal comeback.
My history:
Played some C/W in topless bars in LA/Orange Counties in SoCal; some surf and pre-Brit invasion music in places like the Rendezvous and Pavalon, and The Cowboy (aka: Pinnacle Peak), The Lamplighter, The Roadrunner, Harriet & Pappy's Cantina in Pioneertown and like I said: a few topless joints that shall go unnamed.
I "retired" with a family to feed and it just wasn't gonna fly on $500/week split three ways, so I just went to work, not playing at all.
The story is long and like Forest Gump's in a few ways, but in the
in-between times I got a few toys.
A Fender P-Bass - year unknown, but clean and no dings. I hate this bass! It never felt right from day-1. I had it "tuned" by a luthier, and he said it was just a bad instrument.
Even though I have other guitars (a pair of Kaman GTX-23s, an Epiphone ???, '60 Tele, a Mosrite "Ventures" model, made in the US, a Kasuga, and a Hofner like the one some British guy played in a small band from Liverpool. I got rid of that Hofner as it could only go "thump" and had NO tone or resonance at all!) I still wanted to play bass again.
.........and then I attained a few amps too:
Peavey P-100 for my Alesis QS 6.2 keyboard and some mic work, a Fender Princeton 2x12, a Crate GFX-1200-H and matching Crate short stack w/4x12, and some other medium budget combos. Nothing spectacular, fer sure. But I was a home player and maybe a little back yard BBQ playing with a friend or two.
So-o-o - I went out and bought an Ibanez SR500 and an Acoustic B-450 with a side cab B-410. I like the
P O W E R.
Just getting to know the bass yet - I can honestly say it is sweet and plays like a magic harp.
I am NOT going to take any gigs away from anyone, as there's a NO-Comp clause posted here insisted upon by my wife. I just play with a couple of other guys. I even whipped up some "business" cards that say:
"just for fun - play loud"
Anyway - I am concentrating on just bass playing and although I have kept most of my toys, I just let others use them if they "forget" to bring theirs when we play - or they need a second guitar for emergencies.
Me? I play the
SR500! and am trying to remember some of the jazz boxes.
Did you ever crank an Acoustic B-450 to volume level 5 - with side cab on - in the house - ???
Old n00b-guy here - - - 
