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04-04-2010, 02:52 PM
|  | Providing the Lowend for the High One | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Bonaire, GA (near Macon) | | | That Roscoe Fretless magic!
So, the sun has just crept over the horizon, You're still trying to focus your eyes as you're getting a sound check on a song that you've never played before.
The song doesn't have a fretless bass in the recording but you just instinctively reach for the Roscoe fretless because you just feel in your gut that's what's the songs desperately needs.
The song starts off with just acoustic, light drums and a tasteful soft electric riff floating over the rest of the band....
You slide up to an Ab on the D string, let is swell, then to an E on the A string, let it swell, then to a B on the E string, and let it swell, riding it like the Silver surfer rides his magic flying surf board. Every movement of your left hand brings the mwah growling more intensely. Every note, falls perfectly in the space of the music, left there specifically for each of the 3 notes.
Just 3 notes, but sometimes less is really more! Sometimes, what you don't play is just as important as what you do play! 
Just thought that I'd share a Roscoe fretless moment with you! 
Feel free to share yours!
Brought to you by too much coffee and the pleasure of owning a Roscoe fretless!  |
04-04-2010, 05:34 PM
|  | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | Ahhhh! Its a wonderful feeling, one I really like too, is doing a slow rootsy walk, and dropping to the B string, sliding to a low note, say Db, holdin' on tight, and watching the other guys jaws distend slightly.
I always like to mention, that I very rarely played fretless, I had a few bouncing about with years, but I almost always played fretted, until last Nov. when a sans speedbump Roscoe came a knocking and a mwahhing..... Heh, I can't stop with fretless now, sounds, and feels just so good! 
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04-05-2010, 04:58 AM
| | Providing the Lowend for the High One | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Bonaire, GA (near Macon) | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Darkstrike  Ahhhh! Its a wonderful feeling, one I really like too, is doing a slow rootsy walk, and dropping to the B string, sliding to a low note, say Db, holdin' on tight, and watching the other guys jaws distend slightly.
I always like to mention, that I very rarely played fretless, I had a few bouncing about with years, but I almost always played fretted, until last Nov. when a sans speedbump Roscoe came a knocking and a mwahhing..... Heh, I can't stop with fretless now, sounds, and feels just so good! | +1
That's what I'm talking about Bill!
Just one note can make a grown man cry! |
04-05-2010, 02:51 PM
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Owner: LilRay's Leatherworks | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Between my Roscoe and Leather | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JOME77 Just one note can make a grown man cry! | I would add something poignant to such an eloquent thread, but....... 
God Bless, Ray
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Originally Posted by RocketMusic Ray is correct! | |
04-05-2010, 06:14 PM
| | Providing the Lowend for the High One | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Bonaire, GA (near Macon) | | Quote:
Originally Posted by LilRay I would add something poignant to such an eloquent thread, but.......
God Bless, Ray | Come on and admit it Ray.
I saw your eyes water up the first time you heard the mwah and growl of a Roscoe fretless! 
Come on Bro! The truth will set you free! |
04-05-2010, 06:34 PM
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Originally Posted by JOME77 Come on and admit it Ray.
I saw your eyes water up the first time you heard the mwah and growl of a Roscoe fretless!
Come on Bro! The truth will set you free! | You got me there Joe! As I listened to you play tears welled up in my eyes as though you told me Gard ran over my dog.  But Just about the time I was ready for a good sob fest you handed the bass to me.
I went from to  in an instant. You saved yourself a lot of floor mopping though
Roscoe fretless' are in a class to themselves when they're in capable hands.
God Bless, Ray
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Originally Posted by RocketMusic Ray is correct! | |
04-08-2010, 04:07 PM
| | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by LilRay Roscoe fretless' are in a class to themselves when they're in capable hands. | This is the one problem my Roscoe fretless has, the dumbass thats piloting it these days....
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04-08-2010, 04:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Darkstrike This is the one problem my Roscoe fretless has, the dumbass thats piloting it these days.... | Brother If you can get anything "musical" out of it, your doing better than I did.
God Bless, Ray
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04-08-2010, 04:36 PM
| | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | Its debatable if anything I ever done was "musical"
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04-08-2010, 04:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Darkstrike Its debatable if anything I ever done was "musical" | Hey man, I've "cut one" after a big Mexican dinner and it was musical   (Kinda Trombonish)
I just couldn't get anywhere on a fretless. Kinda like I was in my socks and trying to run on glass y'know? 
I'm sure I could "get it" if I tried, that and pestered the crud outta anybody for help. But as they say "Endeavor to Perservere"
God Bless, Ray
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Originally Posted by RocketMusic Ray is correct! | |
04-08-2010, 05:01 PM
| | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | Heh, true 'nuff on all counts.
Biggest lesson I ever learnd with fretless, is before you jam, make sure *the guitarist* is tuned up...
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04-09-2010, 06:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Darkstrike Heh, true 'nuff on all counts.
Biggest lesson I ever learnd with fretless, is before you jam, make sure *the guitarist* is tuned up... | Try having TWO guitarists, both slightly out of tune, AND out of tune with each other.
...it was at a jam night, I stopped playing about 30 seconds in, stopped both guitarists and asked them loudly if they had used the tuner by the stage before coming up, and informed them that they could play without a bassist until they did so.
I hate guitarists that won't tune before playing, under ANY circumstance. They should be drawn and quartered, then tarred and feathered, then anything that is left should be covered and gasoline and lit on fire and burned until only ashes are left. Then any fretless bassist that wishes should be allowed to micturate on said ashes.
...not that it really bothers me or anything... 
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04-09-2010, 06:38 AM
| | Providing the Lowend for the High One | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Bonaire, GA (near Macon) | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Gard Try having TWO guitarists, both slightly out of tune, AND out of tune with each other.
...it was at a jam night, I stopped playing about 30 seconds in, stopped both guitarists and asked them loudly if they had used the tuner by the stage before coming up, and informed them that they could play without a bassist until they did so.
I hate guitarists that won't tune before playing, under ANY circumstance. They should be drawn and quartered, then tarred and feathered, then anything that is left should be covered and gasoline and lit on fire and burned until only ashes are left. Then any fretless bassist that wishes should be allowed to micturate on said ashes.
...not that it really bothers me or anything... |
So, does it really bother you when guitar players play out of tune? |
04-09-2010, 06:53 AM
|  | Well, Ahoy Paloi | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Cape Cod, MA | | Gard,
I sense some issues  |
04-09-2010, 08:09 AM
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Originally Posted by JOME77 So, does it really bother you when guitar players play out of tune? | No, not at all, why would it bother me when our skinny stringed brothers make it impossible for me to do my job? 
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04-09-2010, 08:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Bipslapper Gard,
I sense some issues | You really wanna see me have an issue, keep posting that schmuck's photo in the forum...  
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04-09-2010, 08:48 AM
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Owner: LilRay's Leatherworks | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Between my Roscoe and Leather | | AAAAAH CRAAAAAP!
My nightmare has come true!!!!
Please remove the debbil's photo, else I need to unsubscribe.
AAAAHHHH!
"Our lady of blessed acceleration, don't fail me now"
(Powerchair peels out)
(Cowering back in Corner with Roscoe, Tinfoil hat, 30-30 and box of shells)
The debbil melts da brain.......The debbil melts da brain. 
God Bless, Ray
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04-09-2010, 09:45 AM
| | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Gard Try having TWO guitarists, both slightly out of tune, AND out of tune with each other. | indeed....... Quote:
Originally Posted by Gard ...it was at a jam night, I stopped playing about 30 seconds in, stopped both guitarists and asked them loudly if they had used the tuner by the stage before coming up, and informed them that they could play without a bassist until they did so. | Don't blame you one bit.... Quote:
Originally Posted by Gard I hate guitarists that won't tune before playing, under ANY circumstance. They should be drawn and quartered, then tarred and feathered, then anything that is left should be covered and gasoline and lit on fire and burned until only ashes are left. Then any fretless bassist that wishes should be allowed to micturate on said ashes.
...not that it really bothers me or anything... | Total agreement.....
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04-09-2010, 12:54 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Encinitas California | | | Out of tune guitardists have been a problem since I was knee high to a grasshopper. But I developed a cure for that, and I am compelled to let you know the cure as well.
If they won't tune then I play Louie Louie in the wrong key, very badly out of time, regardless what song they play. That pretty much cures the problem, and since I'm bigger than any guitardist I know of, they fall in line pretty quickly... | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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