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04-11-2003, 02:51 AM
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I have a gig tomorrow--got called about it at 2 AM--playing standards and free pieces for some cultural event at the student union.
IT'S PAYING.
I've never had a paying gig in my life. Ever. Bands here don't get paid.
Do I bring the featherweight fretless 4 and save my back, or the more versatile fretted 5 and take a break every 45 minutes?
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04-11-2003, 04:07 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Hampshire, UK | | Fretless, Pete. You know you want to 
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04-11-2003, 10:20 PM
|  | Mad showoff 7-stringer | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: NW suburban Chicago | | | Umm... you can't bring both?
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04-11-2003, 10:29 PM
| | ****** | | Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Shreveport, LA | | Quote: Originally posted by eli
Umm... you can't bring both? | This man is so much more smarter than you Pete, and I mean it. |
04-11-2003, 11:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Valencia, CA 91354 | | Quote: Originally posted by eli
Umm... you can't bring both? | I lack a double gig bag and bringing both would have been a slight PITA. I went with the fretted 5 on an impulse.
Anyhow, it went great. Setlist:
Well, You Needn't
All of Me
Song for My Father
(improvised two-chord funk jam)
All the Things You Are
Footprints (free-ish version at warp speed)
Blue Bossa
(C Lydian jam, it got pretty bizarre near the end)
Four
My cut was $50, my Clarus and GS112 once again proved their mettle, and I'm a happy man.
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04-13-2003, 10:49 AM
| | Mad showoff 7-stringer | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: NW suburban Chicago | | | Aw, man... I miss college. That's about the last time I got to play those tunes, and you brought me back some nice memories.
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04-14-2003, 12:21 AM
|  | This guy looks like an old me | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Arlington TX | | | Now take that money and go order a double gig bag. Sheeeesh, do we have to explain everything?
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04-14-2003, 01:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Valencia, CA 91354 | | Quote: Originally posted by Bard2dbone
Now take that money and go order a double gig bag. Sheeeesh, do we have to explain everything? | Electric bill, gig bag...electric bill, gig bag...hmm. 
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04-14-2003, 08:37 AM
|  | You don't want to do that. Trust me. Forum Administrator | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: atlanta ga | | Quote: Originally posted by Peter McFerrin
Electric bill, gig bag...electric bill, gig bag...hmm. | candles are cheap.
get the bag.
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04-14-2003, 09:08 AM
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Electric bill, gig bag...electric bill, gig bag...hmm. | How did you pay the electric bill before your semi-pro days began?  |
04-14-2003, 11:35 AM
| | | Go with the 5 -- you'll be glad you did. |
04-14-2003, 11:47 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Valencia, CA 91354 | | Quote: Originally posted by thrash_jazz
How did you pay the electric bill before your semi-pro days began? | I had a job doing tech support. I got fired from it for rampant unprofessionalism...  
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04-14-2003, 02:49 PM
| | | | fretless monitor
I have found using only a fretless bass in an unfamiliar situation can be a problem.
Lots of ambient noise/no monitor/ inability to hear yourself can lead to intonation problems.
The fretted 5 was a good choice.
Nice choice of tunes, btw. Horace Silver.
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04-14-2003, 03:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Valencia, CA 91354 | | | Re: fretless monitor
Quote: Originally posted by rustyshakelford
Nice choice of tunes, btw. Horace Silver.
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It was funny--we started on "Desafinado," and our keyboardist's fakebook had completely wrong changes for it, so we went into panic mode. We vamped on Fmaj7 for a little bit, then the keyboardist called out "Song for My Father," which is in F minor, and all was good.
I have the action on my fretted 5 low enough that I could hammer out F-C, F-C with my left hand while flipping to the appropriate page in my Real Book. (Yes, I know I should know the changes to "Song for My Father." I do now.)
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04-14-2003, 06:46 PM
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Quote: Originally posted by Peter McFerrin
more versatile fretted 5 and take a break every 45 minutes? | Peter
Where is the weight in that bass, I was considering maybe a similar body shape and pick up lay out for my custom FBB project but i think i am closer to having Matt build me a clone of the Warwick Infinity (semihollow).
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04-14-2003, 07:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Valencia, CA 91354 | | | Re: Re: HOLY CRAP
Quote: Originally posted by MAJOR METAL
Peter
Where is the weight in that bass, I was considering maybe a similar body shape and pick up lay out for my custom FBB project but i think i am closer to having Matt build me a clone of the Warwick Infinity (semihollow). | Everywhere. Get a longer upper horn, I'd say, but the whole damn bass is just heavy. Walnut body + bubinga top + thick through-body neck = HEAVY.
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