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09-21-2011, 12:18 PM
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I just gotta share. I played in several bands back in the day, then put it down. Early this year, the juices stared flowing again. It had been thirty years since I played. Jammed with some Craigslist folks with mixed results. Found a band I liked. Good drummer. Good singer. Competent guitarist. They had been having trouble with bass players. Then.....the bassist they had lined up for Saturday night crapped out on them. On Tuesday. I began to prepare, and to convince them I could do it. Learned 42 songs, or at least made myself capable of muddling through them with a minimum of mistakes.
I feel really good. Musical thinking patterns are mentally VERY challenging, even if you once knew them fairly well. It has been a struggle to fight back to my old level of proficiency. But now a goal has been achieved. I'm a gigging bass player again. Woohoo!  |
09-21-2011, 12:49 PM
|  | lover of all things groovin, player of many basses | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Metro-Boston North Showahhh | | | Awesome.. Welcome back to the bass brethren.. |
09-21-2011, 01:04 PM
|  | Drummer, percussionist and bassist. | | Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA | | | That is very cool!
I have a couple of friensd who got back into music after an extended hiatis, and they are loving life. Welcome back.
(That is a long time between sets...)
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09-21-2011, 01:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: bronx, nyc | | | very cool
quite an accomplishment all those songs in a week!
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09-21-2011, 01:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Reading, PA | | | Cheers man! Welcome back and all!
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09-21-2011, 01:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Reading, PA | | | Also, my hats off to you for learning 42 songs in a week. That had to be strenuous. I'd imagine your playing benefited from it though!
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09-21-2011, 02:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Windermere, FL | | | I had the same problem. I quit for over 10 years due to among other things, a bad case of carpel tunnel. My brother got tired of having no one to jam with, so he got me a bass as I had sold all my stuff years earlier when I quit. Took me about 3 months of practice to be able to do anything at all with any level of skill. Its now been 3 years. Thru alot of patience and changing my posture, hand position, strap length, finger and picking styles, I can play thru a whole night without serious pain issues. Hopefully I will be able to continue this for some years to come without any serious flare ups. I really missed it alot, and my life was very empty without music. Im glad to be back as well.
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09-21-2011, 02:48 PM
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Welcome back.
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09-21-2011, 02:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Belleville,New Jersey USA | | | That is great to hear welcome to the bottom once again soon it will be like you never left. |
09-21-2011, 02:50 PM
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09-21-2011, 02:51 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Tampa | | | now THAT's a hiatus. welcome back. |
09-21-2011, 02:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Belleville,New Jersey USA | |
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Originally Posted by jowens004 I had the same problem. I quit for over 10 years due to among other things, a bad case of carpel tunnel. My brother got tired of having no one to jam with, so he got me a bass as I had sold all my stuff years earlier when I quit. Took me about 3 months of practice to be able to do anything at all with any level of skill. Its now been 3 years. Thru alot of patience and changing my posture, hand position, strap length, finger and picking styles, I can play thru a whole night without serious pain issues. Hopefully I will be able to continue this for some years to come without any serious flare ups. I really missed it alot, and my life was very empty without music. Im glad to be back as well. | Wow two in the same thread! Welcome back to you as well CT is a serious pain to live with don't push to hard and as you mention concentrate on your position of hand and wrist good luck |
09-21-2011, 03:00 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | | Congrats! I went through a similar thing, laying off beginning in 1973, recovering my bass gear in 1997 and doing my first gig about 2001. Feels great, dunnit??
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09-21-2011, 03:17 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Tampa, FL | | | Best wishes to your brother, I did the 10 year hiatus..kids etc. Now, I have a great singing girlfriend, who inspires me to play better. We've been gigging together for less than a year and I am twice the player I was when I sold my 1996 purple Carvin LB ebony neck beast. back in the 90's I played in a lot of bands....now...this band is good, and I am having the best of times.
Even with loading half the PA equipment into my SUV. Loving life. |
09-21-2011, 03:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Forest Hills, New York | | | Awesome ..it's only going to get easier for you...but enjoy the ride and have a blast.
We here on Talkbass will teach you about some developments that took place while you where gone ..one is called GAS.. |
09-21-2011, 06:35 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: N.H. | | | Yes, Extreme GAS!!! |
09-21-2011, 06:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Yellowknife, NWT Canada | | | Yes, welcome back to the fold. I never left and this old fart is 59. |
09-21-2011, 10:12 PM
| | | | Welcome back. Only a few months in front of ya, similar story. |
09-22-2011, 06:01 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: South Wales | | Really nice story. Welcome back... never put it down again 
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09-22-2011, 07:58 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Vortex of sin and degradation | | | Great story.
I'm waiting anxiously to hear how the first gig went. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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