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01-14-2011, 05:37 PM
|  | zulu as kono
Endorsing Artist: FEA Labs Effects | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: los angeles, CA | | | the downside to multiple basses
Gig in a few hours, some new tunes in the mix including: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZfT2T1wRzo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBCteWVR6kw
The question is does the fretted or the fretless Roscoe go along with the RA. I don't know how you guys with even more basses get out the door.
And no, I'm not going to take 3 basses to the gig. I've done that before, it's just too much to keep track of, and then I get paralysis of analysis in-between songs instead of just getting out the door  |
01-14-2011, 05:40 PM
|  | Cogito Ergo Idiot | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: SF Bay Area, CA | | | Fretted. The fretless goes on the date when the RA stays home on the couch, eating bon-bons.
Not that I have an opinion or anything. |
01-14-2011, 05:45 PM
| | zulu as kono
Endorsing Artist: FEA Labs Effects | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: los angeles, CA | | | Yeah, that's been my MO and was the plan for tonight. Last rehearsal though I just took the Roscoe fretless. Pretty good chameleon - even for playing Chameleon. |
01-14-2011, 05:51 PM
| | Cogito Ergo Idiot | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: SF Bay Area, CA | | | There's your other option, right? Leave the fretted Roscoe and the RA on the couch...with enough bon bons for both of 'em, and offer up enough vibrato on Mr. Magic to make Grover smile from up high. |
01-14-2011, 06:17 PM
| | zulu as kono
Endorsing Artist: FEA Labs Effects | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: los angeles, CA | | Well, gotta take the RA. Working with 3 different vocalists, a fair number of ballads, and the Deep 5 just kills those tunes. As in Raid kills 'em dead. For a Steely Jam I'd never have the balls to just take a fretless - too many high pressure reading tunes where I need the security blanket of frets. But tonight? Just jammed both basses along with Put it where you want it and Mr. Magic. Fretted was the cleaner solution and definitely safer.
I'm taking the RA and the fretless  |
01-14-2011, 06:25 PM
|  | Providing the Lowend for the High One | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Bonaire, GA (near Macon) | | | My choices are a lot easier now.
Fretted 5 or 6 (lately always fretted 6) and fretless 5. |
01-14-2011, 06:29 PM
| | Cogito Ergo Idiot | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: SF Bay Area, CA | | FWIW....I'm taking three basses to tomorrow's hit. Nothing else, though...well, at least nothing that won't fit in the front pockets of both Mono bags. Two of the three are a Roscoe and a Rob Allen....yaba daba doo. |
01-14-2011, 09:33 PM
|  | Well, Ahoy Paloi | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Cape Cod, MA | | I feel your pain, with 3 Roscoe's (see below), I usually bring the Century fretless and either the Cent fretted or (can I say this in this thread  ?-) my beloved Modulus Q5, which always sounds kickass. Or the SKB 6er and the Century Standard 5.
New "audition" tomorrow afternoon for jazz trio and I think I will just bring the SKB 3006 & my combo amp. If things go well and my sight reading chops improve then I will also bring the Roscoe fretless.
FWIW- I never bring our use my 4 string Musicman.
It is tough owning more than 2 basses..... |
01-14-2011, 09:38 PM
|  | Groovin' Eskrimador
Lark in the Morning Instructional Videos; Audix Microphones | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Santa Cruz Mtns, California | | | You know, there are bad problems to have, and good problems to have.
You, and Jerry, and me, and the problem of "which incredible bass do I bring to the gig tonight" - that's a good problem to have.
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01-16-2011, 11:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Hampton Roads (Norfolk), VA. | | You guys are bad for my OCD  This why I can't own a lot of gear, y'all already got me lining up ball ends on strings... Sheezzz!!! LOL!
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01-16-2011, 11:23 AM
| | zulu as kono
Endorsing Artist: FEA Labs Effects | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: los angeles, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by kesslari You know, there are bad problems to have, and good problems to have.
You, and Jerry, and me, and the problem of "which incredible bass do I bring to the gig tonight" - that's a good problem to have. | Yeah, I'm spoiled. I ended up taking all 3 at the g/f's insistence.
Speaking of her, we walked NAMM yesterday and of course saw the best of the best. Since she's an artist (sculpture), she's pretty keen on design and aesthetic. When we walked back in the door at home, she looked at the wall and said, "you apparently have three of the nicest basses in the world." |
01-16-2011, 02:07 PM
| | Providing the Lowend for the High One | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Bonaire, GA (near Macon) | |
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Originally Posted by nostatic Yeah, I'm spoiled. I ended up taking all 3 at the g/f's insistence.
Speaking of her, we walked NAMM yesterday and of course saw the best of the best. Since she's an artist (sculpture), she's pretty keen on design and aesthetic. When we walked back in the door at home, she looked at the wall and said, "you apparently have three of the nicest basses in the world." | Marry Her Todd!!!  |
01-16-2011, 02:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Warner Robins GA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JOME77 Marry Her Todd!!! | +1 and quickly
And as a single bass guy...I'm having trouble working up a tear for all the "suffering" in this thread. LOL. |
01-17-2011, 03:02 PM
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Originally Posted by bassWR And as a single bass guy...I'm having trouble working up a tear for all the "suffering" in this thread. LOL. | +1 
I've got too much awesome to decide which awesome is awesome enough to take along  . 
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