CWB 20: Babes and Barbarians

[DerTeufel]

Originally Posted by drummer5359

The ebay action for the old japanese bass like I used to own closes in under ten minutes... wish me luck.

You deserve it, Mike!

[chuck3]

Originally Posted by drummer5359

So we ended up putting up the tiny little tree from two years ago on a table in our living room. When we got donwe we both agreed that we wouldn't even want a bigger tree up.

I liked that story. I have the opposite situation (would kinda rather have yours). We have like 13-foot ceilings at our place in Brooklyn, so mrs C3 insists every year that we have like a 12.5 foot natural live tree. What a production. Here is our youngest kid, who's close to 6'2", with last year's version.



my next "gig" is like 45 minutes of Christmas music on keyboards on Christmas Eve for the multitudes to sing to here - luckily I have a good Yamaha keyboard and I have some idea how to use it. More to come on that ... my new persona for the next couple of weeks is ...

Christmas lounge lizard. mrs c3 wants 45 minutes of Christmas music, that's cool, but I'll do it my way!

[drummer5359]

I "won" the Telestar!

I still don't have a good reason to have bought it... but what the heck. That makes seven basses.

[Mulebagger]

Originally Posted by drummer5359

I "won" the Telestar!

I still don't have a good reason to have bought it... but what the heck. That makes seven basses.

You don't need a reason
Enjoy that puppy Mike. Looks like a beauty

[Mulebagger]

Originally Posted by DerTeufel

My "new" bike

Sweet ride DT!
Red will look great on you! The ginger scooter

[Mulebagger]

Originally Posted by chuck3

I liked that story. I have the opposite situation (would kinda rather have yours). We have like 13-foot ceilings at our place in Brooklyn, so mrs C3 insists every year that we have like a 12.5 foot natural live tree. What a production. Here is our youngest kid, who's close to 6'2", with last year's version.



my next "gig" is like 45 minutes of Christmas music on keyboards on Christmas Eve for the multitudes to sing to here - luckily I have a good Yamaha keyboard and I have some idea how to use it. More to come on that ... my new persona for the next couple of weeks is ...

Christmas lounge lizard. mrs c3 wants 45 minutes of Christmas music, that's cool, but I'll do it my way!

Good luck on the xmas playing C3. Beautiful looking tree. That looks like the Christmas spirit if I've ever seen it.

[chuck3]

Originally Posted by drummer5359

I "won" the Telestar!

I still don't have a good reason to have bought it... but what the heck. That makes seven basses.

Nice! Those switches in the upper horn remind me of my first bass, a '65 Hagstrom. It had these mystery buttons that you could never really figure out what they did. It looked exactly like this - same color even -

[SpecialBlender]

Originally Posted by drummer5359

I "won" the Telestar!

I still don't have a good reason to have bought it... but what the heck. That makes seven basses.

Sweet buy Drummer, congratulations. Let us know how it sounds & plays.

[drummer5359]

Originally Posted by chuck3

Nice! Those switches in the upper horn remind me of my first bass, a '65 Hagstrom. It had these mystery buttons that you could never really figure out what they did. It looked exactly like this - same color even -

My 1972 Telestar wanted to be a Hagstrom when it grew up.


i'm thinking that I may just hang it on a wall in my music room with one of these...

http://www.guitargrip.com/prod_GS1.htm

[SpecialBlender]

Kind of a schizophrenic night for learning some songs.

For my country group
When You Say Nothing At All - Alison Krauss
Dream A Little Dream -Mama Cass
France - Keb'mo

For a jam band I've been asked to sit in with:
Interstate Love Song & Vaseline - Stone Temple Pilots
Sin City & Jail House - ACDC

The drummer (& co-worker) for this group plays with me in a Power Rock trio as well. Apparently a group of people from our shop are going over to the house we jam at after our Christmas Party on Saturday night. Seeing as how they're 30-35 years younger than me it'll be nice to show them the old guy has some rock & roll chops.

[chuck3]

Originally Posted by SpecialBlender

Seeing as how they're 30-35 years younger than me it'll be nice to show them the old guy has some rock & roll chops.

Nice! That has been known to happen to me as well ...

[drummer5359]

They after-party will probably become a jam at the house which will mix a bunch of different players together.

I have a bunch of house cleaning, etc to do... I just took my first sip of coffee.

[Tat2dHeart]

Originally Posted by drummer5359

I "won" the Telestar!

I still don't have a good reason to have bought it... but what the heck. That makes seven basses.

Congratulations!!!!! I'm glad you got it. You deserve it. And...there is no better reason than no reason at all except you're worth it.



7 now? You're catching up.

[DerTeufel]

Congrats on winning the auction, Mike.

I put up our tree on Sunday. A neighbor gave us an 8 foot artificial tree that's in really great shape and looks awesome. I prefer real trees, but they are expensive and getting rid of them is a pain.

[drummer5359]

Originally Posted by Tat2dHeart

Congratulations!!!!! I'm glad you got it. You deserve it. And 7 now? You're catching up.

This one is a short scale, so maybe I'm at six and a half. lol

I think that my parents paid $49 or $59 for the original Telestar bass in 1972. (It was bought at a "Murphy's Mart" discount store, sort of like buying a bass at Walmart or K-Mart.) This one definitely goes down as my silliest purchase. It appears pretty clean for a forty year old bass. The seller thinks that it may have the original flatwound strings from 1972 on it. It has a chipboard case too! lol.

[etoncrow]

That bass stirred some old, old memories. Remember Silvertone from Sears? How about the old Bogen PA systems where the speakers clipped together and the amp fit inside for transporting? One guy could carry in the whole PA system in one trip with one hand. When I was in high school one of the guys in the band's dad owned the local radio station so the mike I sang through was almost as big as my head! The piano player played whatever piano (usually an old upright) was on site with no amplification; his fingers would be bloody by show's end...ah, the early 60's...

[drummer5359]

I remember Silvertone and Bogen well. My parents bought the bass for me, I bought a beatup used mid sixties Silvertone guitar amp and played through that. I have no idea of a model, I've never seen one like it online. I remember the faded blue grill-cloth, open back speaker with a magnet the size of a quarter and big blue block letters that said; SOLID STATE. I'm guessing that it might have put out 5 watts on it's best day.

[etoncrow]

While we are reminiscencing, I remember being 14 and playing drums at a Christmas formal at a junior high (middle school) twelve miles from my home town and having the girls ask for my autograph...weird. Being 15 and playing at the first club in my home town to sell liquor by the drink and having the State Police raid the place. They kept us herded togther until our respective parents came to pick us up...we thought that was so cool.

[chuck3]

Originally Posted by etoncrow

Remember Silvertone from Sears?

ha - my dad actually worked for Sears in those days - and my equivalent of TalkBass bass porn in those days was the music (a/k/a Silvertone) section of the Sears Roebuck catalog, those huge old ones. Wasn't Silvertone made by Danelectro or someone like that? I don't think there was an actual Silvertone company, it was just a name.

[etoncrow]

Check this out Chuck, Silvertone on Wiki; really interesting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvertone_(instruments)