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03-01-2012, 11:54 PM
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03-02-2012, 07:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Jsn  Next time the Blue Man Group needs a new member, you're in. | Forget it! Then I'd have to shave my head!
What I think is cool about this picture is that my bass is glowing it's mostly natural orange. Plus I love pictures of me the most that make it hard to tell what I actually look like.
1 part mystery - 4 parts sick of seeing myself
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03-03-2012, 02:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Chris Fitzgerald He told me up front that he wanted a bass with the lowest possible act... er, STRING HEIGHT. So he chose to use the school bass (Shen SB-100) with the weichs on it cranked all the way down | It's no wonder then, that he sounds like that. |
03-03-2012, 03:05 PM
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Originally Posted by MR PC It's no wonder then, that he sounds like that. | In response to this, I'll paste something I responded to someone else with in a PM: Quote: |
Originally Posted by DURRL Playing with him was fun, although my piano chops aren't what they once were. The experience has forced me to consider working some piano practice back into the schedule. It would be a shame to let it go. Eddie was also very gracious about this, making sure that I was comfortable with the tunes he called before counting off. I wish I could have played a bass duet with him, but it didn't work out. You know, it's funny: his signature sound and style of playing is almost diametrically opposed to mine, but I respect it as his voice and learned a few things that I can "borrow" even with three times as much tension on the strings and probably 3-4mm of extra string height. I hope I can be as good a person as he was to those hosting me should I ever get to do a "visiting artist" gig at some point in the future. | Eddie plays beautifully with that setup. He plays the snot out of the bow, sounding amazing on a plywood bass with a borrowed student bow with no rosin on the concert. Some of the things he was doing would be hard to do with a different setup, but he makes it work for him perfectly. If anybody else doesn't like his setup of sound, that's cool. I'm going to keep my own preferences, but I like what he was doing with his sound a lot, too. Win-win.  |
03-03-2012, 06:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Chris Fitzgerald Eddie plays beautifully with that setup. | Yes, he always has! And I think he is the #1 "go to" guy to imitate if you need to express yourself in the style. It's good for students to know that Eddie (and others) do set their instrument up with the super low action. |
03-12-2012, 03:16 AM
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Originally Posted by Chris Fitzgerald He told me up front that he wanted a bass with the lowest possible act... er, STRING HEIGHT. So he chose to use the school bass (Shen SB-100) with the weichs on it cranked all the way down rather than either of the LaScalas with the Dominant/Spiro Stark E barbed wire. He loved the Shen, though, and went on a big rant about how lower range instruments are getting so much better these days. | Chris, what is the string height on this particular instrument?
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03-12-2012, 04:31 AM
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recent gig in western jersey |
03-12-2012, 05:43 AM
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Originally Posted by John Crosley Chris, what is the string height on this particular instrument? | I'm not sure, as I didn't measure it. I put it down as low as the adjusters would take it, tuned it back up, and that was it. "Pretty low but I've still seen lower" is about as close as I could guess. |
03-12-2012, 11:19 PM
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HPF Technology: Protecting the Pocket since 2007 | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Madison WI | | | Amusingly, Eddie Gomez almost borrowed my bass, sometime around 1991. I got a call asking if he could use it for a performance at Notre Dame, where I was a grad student. At the time I was playing a battered Kay that had probably never been touched by professional hands -- luthier or player -- and frankly I thought it would be an embarrassment. So I told the organizer: "Sure, I will bring it, on the condition that you have to keep looking for a better instrument." Sure enough, they did. |
03-27-2012, 01:32 PM
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and marching to some ridiculous location envisioned by Bridezilla.
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04-10-2012, 06:24 AM
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04-23-2012, 12:58 PM
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04-23-2012, 01:33 PM
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04-23-2012, 02:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Marc Piane My daughter and I C Jammin' at her recital yesterday. | Talk about a ringer!  Nice photo. |
04-24-2012, 09:56 AM
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Two weekends ago did a recording session in a cabin in North, WI. Was a great place to record with no distractions. 
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04-24-2012, 10:48 AM
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08-26-2012, 03:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Minneapolis, MN | |  I am not playing the bass when the photo was snapped, but this was a great picture taken at a gig. I'm on the left playing the Balalaika for this tune.
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08-27-2012, 07:42 AM
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... and make other campers dumbstruck.... |
08-27-2012, 09:30 AM
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Portable practice room... sweet! Does the scroll stick out the top? |
08-27-2012, 01:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Chris Fitzgerald Portable practice room... sweet! Does the scroll stick out the top? | Quite a bit - you have to open the roof window..
To give you something to chuckle:
The bass did its journey sleeping on the bed inside while I my wife and the kids had to sit cramped in the car.
Anyway my son (3yo) did revenge on the bass. While we've been working to erect the awning he take seat on top of the bass that laid on its back - sitting right on the bridge smiling at me when I entered the caravan to put the bass away.
I think my wife had to do quite some revitalization on me....
According to my daughter he climbed up on the scroll along over the fingerboard to reach his throne right on the bridge.
Fortunately its a ply and took the rough handling with grace... | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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