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02-05-2013, 07:10 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Fort Worth, TX | | | probably use the tour rig already set up with the band that the original bassist uses. given his/her permission of course to use their basses as well IF it felt comfortable enough.
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02-05-2013, 07:13 AM
| | | | I'd ask the band and would use the one they'd ask me to.
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02-05-2013, 07:15 AM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Wantagh, NY | | I'd use my Abe Rivera custom 4 string. Been playing it since I graduated high school ('86) and to this day, it's still the easiest playing, best sounding bass I've ever played. Big gig, I wanna feel as comfortable as posssible with my bass!  |
02-05-2013, 08:30 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: London | | Got it.
I'd build one of these: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9nGyPz9uT0
Except for bass, I'd probably have to use something bigger, like cattle.
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02-05-2013, 08:35 AM
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Managing Editor, Bass Guitars Editor, MusicGearReview.com | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Pittsburgh, PA | | | Lakland 55-94.
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02-05-2013, 08:39 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Grand Forks, North Dakota | | | I'd use my Roscoe - just like the bass player in the band I'd be filling in for.
Of course, since all I have are Roscoe's I guess that would be the answer for any band.
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02-05-2013, 08:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Deep in the heart of Texas | | | I'd take both the Sadowskys.
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02-05-2013, 08:46 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Mount Airy, North Carolina | | | I'd be playing the Ric for The Who.
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02-05-2013, 09:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: The Motor City | | | If I was pulling a bass off my wall and it was a situation where I was "replacing" someone who usually used a 4-string Music Man or Fender type bass, I'd take one of my Music Man Sabres. Otherwise it would be my Alembic Mark King / Series II 5-string.
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02-05-2013, 10:51 AM
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Endorsing artist: Carvin, Micheal Kelly Guitars | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Austin, Tx. | | | Any of my basses......they all kill. |
02-05-2013, 11:05 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Cary NC | | Quote:
Originally Posted by monkeybass68  I'd use my Abe Rivera custom 4 string. Been playing it since I graduated high school ('86) and to this day, it's still the easiest playing, best sounding bass I've ever played. Big gig, I wanna feel as comfortable as posssible with my bass! | Abe!! It pains me that I never got a Rivera!! What part of Long Island you from? And when did you first meet Mike Frost? LOL... 
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02-05-2013, 11:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Madrid, Spain | | | My `09 Jazz would do the job. |
02-05-2013, 11:15 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Kansas City, MO | | | I would play my own bass that I'm most comfortable with. Currently that would be my SX jazz.
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02-05-2013, 12:05 PM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Wantagh, NY | | Hah! A fellow Frosty! I live in Wantagh, but grew up in Woodmere. I met Abe back in '86. I had already bought this bass (thru Frost who I studied with as far back as '83 - 1st teacher). I had Abe build me a 5 string fretless in '87 or '88. Awesome experience, he let me pick the woods out myself, color (purple burst), etc. Still love both those basses to bits, just don't get to use them as much as I'd like live since I'm not really in any projects now that they'd be a good fit for.
As far as Mike Frost, I still stay in touch with him on FB. He's a MONSTER!!!!!! Quote:
Originally Posted by seang15 Abe!! It pains me that I never got a Rivera!! What part of Long Island you from? And when did you first meet Mike Frost? LOL... | |
02-05-2013, 12:11 PM
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02-05-2013, 02:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Land of Lakland | | | JazzBass |
02-05-2013, 02:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Manchester, UK | | | My '86 MIJ Fender P bass.
Liam
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02-05-2013, 02:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Kingston Ontario | | | No doubt, my 2011 MIM Standard jazz in LPB. It is the best playing, sounding bass I have ever had!
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02-05-2013, 02:55 PM
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Originally Posted by AuntieBeeb You know, just for the hell of it, I'm tempted to say that if something that improbable were to happen, I'd borrow a tuba with a clip-on mic and run that through their rig.
I've never even played a tuba. But I feel it would make the occasion even more memorable. | Brilliant! |
02-05-2013, 02:56 PM
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Originally Posted by svt1233 For 99% of bands Fender Am. std. J or P hands down
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