The Praise and Worship Band Bassists Club part 22

[kbaxter26]

Originally Posted by MissingHighs

Don't! When you started talking, did you suddenly sprout forth with a vocabulary akin to the Oxford dictionary? Unless you're some weird genius, it's doubtable. It's not inadequacy, it indicates you have been given vast opportunities to take the talents you have and multiply them beyond measure, and then hand them back to Him who gave them to you in the first place.

M. <><

p.s. I do know how you feel. It just takes a post by steverolfeca and I feel pretty small... and then remind myself what I've just said to you.

Best advise I have received in a LONG time. Thanks!!!

[caeman]

By Sunday night, the chest cold had lessened. Today, I have coughed a few times, but for the most part, the sinus & chest cold are on their way out. I am on bass twice this coming weekend and I hate to cancel, even when I have a valid illness. I feel like I am letting G-d's people down. Since it was purely a chest cold brought on by my own sinuses, I knew I wasn't contagious, but I take my commitment to music ministry seriously. My wife thinks I end up being too tired as a result, but I have so much fun as a result of the playing time.

We are supposed to rest. I know.

I am seeing more double-dates at the Synagogue this winter (Friday night AND Saturday morning), so I may have to say no to Sunday morning gigs for a few months. Friday night keeps me out late, only to wake up early for Saturday Shabbat service. And with two little boys that want daddy's attention, I end up going non-stop for 72 hours.

[caeman]

Originally Posted by kbaxter26

I feel so...inadequate....

Watch the YouTube video linked in my signature.

You are part of a brotherhood of musicians and you will always have our support when you need it.

[MissingHighs]

Originally Posted by caeman

We are supposed to rest. I know.

Lets apply a bit of logic. The moon comes out at night. We tend to rest at night. Monday is named after the moon. Therefore, Monday = rest day

Glad you're on the mend

M. <><

[bassman314]

Originally Posted by kbaxter26

I feel so...inadequate....

When I feel inadequate, I buy more gear... More gear = better player, right?

Just kidding.

[Versatek6]

Originally Posted by kbaxter26

I feel so...inadequate....reading these posts by you folks who have so much knowledge and understanding of BASS. I have always just plugged my bass (whatever it is at the moment) to whatever amp was available. I guess I am just not a true musician, in the pure sense of the term. Just a Lover of Christ who loves to play bass.
I am trying to get an education reading all these wonderful posts. I spend more time looking up some of the equipment you all mention. WOW what a group Ihave found here. Bless EACH and everyone of YOU!!!!

I will respectfully disagree. You may be more the "true musician" than many of us. You are more focused on the end result than the process.

The musician is the real instrument.

[ExaltBass]

For all of you who recommended the ST-200 tuner... THANK YOU! I just received mine today, and I'm looking forward to using on worship team. I've been using my Boss TU-12 for the last decade or so, and I needed a second tuner. Good call!

[mtb777]

Originally Posted by Swipter

A Pedulla Pentabuzz, haven't I looked at those for a number of years just can't pony up the funds.

They are surprisingly affordable when God wants to put one in your hands! Mine? I stopped a a little shop just checking it out looking for a replacement Fretless neck for my MIJ Jazz and the owner said, here.....you like Fretless? Check this out. Goes in the back with a case that says.....Pedulla, You NEVER played better. And whips out my bass with a story about some guy having a heart attack and his widow selling it and he's afraid to hang this up fearing someone will drop or scratch it and tells me it's mine. $1700. I looks brand new!
I say, sorry, I can barely afford a replacement neck.....can you get me any catalogs for replacement necks? He says, yeah! Come back in a week, so I say I'll see him next week after church. I stop by the next week for the catalogs and no catalog but the case is open on the counter as I hear him opening it up and we go through the same thing. He hands me a cord to plug it in and I say....NO......I've got about at least 25 hours on one or two that I'd played at 2 different GC's on Sundays week after week. That thing was NOT GOING TO TOUCH MY FINGERS, I'd be done for. this game goes on for weeks.....I'm going into depression struggling with 50% take home child support and this guy flashing my favorite bass in my face week after week. I'm thinking God is really, really cruel to me after 8 or 9 weeks of this I don't stop by because guy can't even get me a catalog. So I finally stop by a few weeks later and he says I'm not getting you a catalog, this is your bass. Give me $1300 and you can make payments for however long you need. On my third payment, he said, take this thing home, it's collecting dust here.

I have a similar story with a 50th Anniv. American Deluxe Jazz 5 that was in a color that I searched everywhere for over a year. I walked in to shop down south...they had all the guitars and basses hanging overhead like a reverse forest and you had to get underneath an instrument to see what it was, so I see blue metallic and reach up and unhook it. It's a blue burst Jazz 5. I'm in shock and start coveting and drooling and shaking. I walk over to the amps and plug it in. It plays sweet! The guy comes over and starts the talk........I can't really afford it. Then, I see a funny yellow and red tag........it's on clearance, $625, I'd never seen one cheaper than $919, I go into panic mode. I ask about layaway, he says YES......... I SPEED WALK to the cashier. Plunk $100 I had on me, sign away.......walk back to the amps, plug back in and start playing again still in slight shock. The guy comes back over and says "there's been a mistake........this is below our cost", I say I already have it on Layaway! He says yes you are a lucky man. Then he freaks me out and takes me in the back and opens a case and there's ANOTHER BLUEBURST JAZZ 5. Wheels are smoking with thoughts of wire nippers and maple strips and a matching pair of Fretted/ Fretless BLUEBURST Jazz 5's. But the reality hit when he said......NO, you can't have 2 at the same price. I am now in a bittersweet euphoria, happy and sad. God is good through all of this stuff, waiting and longing and searching, God says he will give you the desires of your heart and when you are in alignment with his will he can make anything happen, anything.we don't serve a puny god, we serve a Mighty Jesus!
I was once told something that stuck in my head.....The only thing that God can't make or provide for himself is Worship. And that's ALL I want to do!
Be blessed this week

[mtb777]

Originally Posted by _aflores_funk

I use a Fender American Deluxe Jazz Bass V, her name's Samantha I got her last Saturday and then played for all of our 3 services on Sunday, and of course the jam sesh between services, I also played the best solo of my life while jamming with our drummer. This bass is intense!

They are making them really, really nice right now! I'm Gassing for one big time. Black with the maple neck please!

[mtb777]

Originally Posted by MissingHighs

Oh, He showed me His mercy 36 odd years ago (who's counting!). It's one of the reasons I get upset when His work is done halfheartedly. But, with all this talk of turntables about, the one thing I'm being shown is I'm not too old to learn.

Hmm, maybe I shouldn't be so hard on the sound guys; they're all retro freaks and, if memory recalls, one of them doesn't own a CD player. He will equate the 75Hz roll-off with a rumble filter. Even the best Shure cartridge battled with anything below 100Hz, and then comes this earth shaking sound out of the FOH mains (my lo-B at full force)... not having heard real bass before, it's not defiance, it's FEAR! Didn't a speaker cab not take its name from the word!?

It's all falling into place. Oh, sigh, how do we educate this poor chap....



M. <><

Too funny, the Thunder of God strikes fear into all the unknowing.

[TodB]

Originally Posted by AlecRob

So what kind of gear does everyone use for praise and worship? Personally, I'm using a Rickenbacker 4003 strung with D'addario chromes with an Ampeg BA115 and vintage morley power wah boost and Big Muff (I don't use the muff very often haha)

Usually a Dingwall Z1 5 string into a house supplied Ashdown combo amp. I still have my trusty Rick 4001 fretless and an American Standard J bass. I got rid of all the effects a while back because I was more interested in a clean attack and I thought the effects compromised that. I still have an SWR MoBass head if I want to get crazy with subwaves and synth stuff.

[MissingHighs]

Originally Posted by mtb777

Too funny, the Thunder of God strikes fear into all the unknowing.

or, as a bit of Mark 3:17 mixed with a bit of Mark 3:15 would put it...

[MissingHighs]

Originally Posted by TodB

I got rid of all the effects a while back because I was more interested in a clean attack and I thought the effects compromised that.

Jesse Reeves would give a big thumbs up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31q8y1yJbzI

[SteveC]

I need to watch that again as I think about getting a Custom Roscoe again.

[mkandolf]

Originally Posted by _aflores_funk

I use a Fender American Deluxe Jazz Bass V, her name's Samantha I got her last Saturday and then played for all of our 3 services on Sunday, and of course the jam sesh between services, I also played the best solo of my life while jamming with our drummer. This bass is intense!

Darn! I'm jealous! I'm still saving up for my wine transparent one of these.

[mkandolf]

bassman, nice wedding photo, but I kinda expected more of a cowboy wedding from the previous photos you were using!

[english4bw]

Originally Posted by _aflores_funk

I use a Fender American Deluxe Jazz Bass V, her name's Samantha I got her last Saturday and then played for all of our 3 services on Sunday, and of course the jam sesh between services, I also played the best solo of my life while jamming with our drummer. This bass is intense!

Originally Posted by mkandolf

Darn! I'm jealous! I'm still saving up for my wine transparent one of these.

Do you mean something like this... ?



And YES. This bass is very intense. Love mine.

[steve_rolfeca]

I stumbled across an interesting way to find inspiration on Friday night...

City-wide worship event, sound check over, standing near the door when a women stumbles into the hall, shoeless and incoherent. She started pulling on my arm, and mumbling something about her husband and their van and a seizure.

I called 911, we went outside. There was no van, but she kept pulling on my arm, and asking for help. I let her pull me into an empty lot behind the facility. There were headlights across the field, but she kept pulling us into the dark at the other corner.

Sure enough, as our eyes adjusted, my friend and i could see the top of a van wedged deep into trees and brush, behind a small hillock. I couldn't figure out how it even got there at first, until I saw muddy tire tracks with the aid of my iPhone, and realized that they had pelted full-throttle in an arc across the field, gotten air over the hill, and landed, wedged, in the stand of trees.

We started hearing sirens while my friend was comforting the woman and I was scrambling around in the brush, trying reach the guy in the truck, and it all got a bit blurry after that...

To cut a long story short, they got the guy out of the van, confused, but not too banged up, and found the woman's purse and shoes in the field, where they fell as she ran for help for her husband.

My friend and I were back on the platform about 15 minutes later, getting ready to start worship, when I realized that I was feeling confused and a little "shocky". Typical of our team, they dropped their instruments, gathered around and started praying for me. I have no words for the feelings of peace, strength and faith that surged through me over the next 10 minutes, or the gratitude I felt as I realized that an expectant crowd had joined in, and didn't even bother to ask why their event was being held up.

A brother was in need, and that was all they needed to know.

Needless to say, I played with more concentration, energy, freedom and joy, than I have in months...

[christle]

Thanks for sharing that Steve. Very inspiring.

[khutch]

Originally Posted by mkandolf

With all the talk about strobe tuners... anyone remember turntables with built in tuners on them and the ability to adjust/tune them? Still have mine! Never figured out how far off I could get it to go out of pitch.

I still have mine too ... and a bunch of records I need to "transcribe" to a format I will actually take the time to listen to!

Ken