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05-27-2010, 02:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Brooklyn, NY | | | An Electric Affair - Your Secret Is Safe With Us
I was at a party a couple of weeks ago with a bunch of great musicians in Bed Stuy. I would estimate 75% of the people there were musicians and there was a jam going on upstairs. There was no doublebass in the house but there was an electric. I watched and listened a bit and lamented that I couldn't join in. Then, without warning, a friend of mine said "Jason, get in here and play"!. I sat there stunned and said what I always say "no way, I haven't played an electric bass in 20 years". But I thought for a second and reconsidered. "What the hell", I thought, "who the hell am I trying to impress" and launched over and strapped the thing on. You know what, it was fun as hell. Because I had no relationship to it I just played whatever the hell I wanted to, and it felt good. I had a handful of fine bass players gathered around me egging me on and I just had a ball. Of course, I also got a nasty blister on the tip of my plucking finger because I never use that part of it for upright...but I will say, it was an ear opening experience. I don't think I'll run out and get one anytime soon but it was cool to step over to the "light" side and play some music for music's sake without any self imposed limitations. Anyone else have an electric affair they want to get off their chest?
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05-27-2010, 02:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | | Boy, it's been a LONG while for me on an actual bass guitar, though I do play my NS Omni EUB quite regularly (pretty much replaced the Fender J). It's fun to do it now, as you say, really nothing invested in it at this point.
I know that blister, right on the fingertip... yeowtch!! Just don't use that part much anymore. |
05-27-2010, 02:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Chicago | | | No affair here, I've been loyal to both ladies since the beginning, but double bass is seeing a lot more action these days. |
05-27-2010, 02:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Brooklyn, NY | | | Loyal to both ladies huh? I'll try that on the missus.... |
05-27-2010, 02:57 PM
|  | Hip No Ties | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: New York, NY | | Come on over to the bass guitar side, guys! It IS fun! 
Besides, no one will judge you. There are hardly any jazz snobs over here...  
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05-27-2010, 03:02 PM
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Originally Posted by MysticMichael  Come on over to the bass guitar side, guys! It IS fun!
Besides, no one will judge you. There are hardly any jazz snobs over here...
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05-27-2010, 07:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Chicago | | Ok, guys, back over the fence now!  |
05-27-2010, 09:04 PM
| | | | I still play electric bass quite a bit between repairs and equipment reviews. It's been a couple years since an actual gig though. Nothing works for me like my DB and while I miss the Pbass through SVT sometimes I think I'm not there so much as a musician right now.
Wanna talk about affairs though, I'm rekindling my front man days and have picked up my 1946 Gibson J45 for a bunch of singer songwriter and small band things this year. Nothing quite like Guitar and Voice to do a soul good. And I get to dust off some of my old tunes. Might even write a new one.... |
05-27-2010, 09:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Eric Hochberg .....I've been loyal to both ladies since the beginning, but double bass is seeing a lot more action these days. | There's really not much call to play the PBass here. the number of drummers that can actually play a back beat on this small island is, well small. i was asked to play double bass on a session last week and I suggested the electric based on what I was hearing. It was great fun and it sounded great. My old blond PBass was set up by John Caruthers and Jim Demeter for session work. It is quiet as a mouse in terms of noise but it sounds and plays great. I also have a 1960 fretless jazz body with a 1962 Pbass neck that couldn't take another fret job. Ha I said fret on the DB side!  
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05-28-2010, 05:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Treyzer | Funny, Trey. I also have a 60 (I think, with concentrics) Jazz body and two 64 jazz necks, one fretted and one fretless. When I bought the bass in 75, it came with a 64 P neck that I traded with Steve LaSpina for his 64 J neck.
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05-28-2010, 05:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Treyzer I also have a 1960 fretless jazz body with a 1962 Pbass neck that couldn't take another fret job. | I haven't yet met a neck I couldn't do another fret job on.
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05-28-2010, 07:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Uncletoad I haven't yet met a neck I could do another fret job on. | Sign of burnout?
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05-28-2010, 08:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Eric Hochberg Sign of burnout? | Missing an apostrophe nt. Edit. True sign of working to much and not sleeping. |
05-28-2010, 10:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Uncletoad I haven't yet met a neck I couldn't do another fret job on. | Phil, you and Eric crack me up. I know there are other great basses out there, but I love the Fender. Just feels so right!
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05-28-2010, 10:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: New Delhi, India | | the dark side is calling you.. again... heed the call.. serve the electric master
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05-28-2010, 10:47 AM
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05-28-2010, 10:53 AM
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05-28-2010, 11:25 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: NYC | | | Gibson Les Paul Recording Bass. Which I subsequently destroyed with unnecessary and ill advised "modifications".....
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05-28-2010, 11:54 AM
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05-28-2010, 01:45 PM
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