Recent content by 597feetdown

I did mention the Roadstar. The RB650 is the model that has the P-J configuration. Anyway, since I'm here again, I may as well tell you that I recently saw The Baseball Project again on their latest tour. Mike still has his trusty old Ric with him, and on this tour, he's running through an...

Me again, haha. Since the edit function is now restricted to 60 minutes after posting, I just real quick wanna correct one thing. I'd mentioned in the big post that Mike used his Mesa Boogie rig on (at least) the Green, Monster, and Up tours. This is incorrect. On the Up tour, he'd switched to...

Hey, I'm back because I realized that I'd forgotten some info on one particular bass of Mike's! On April 1st, 2019, a picture was posted on R.E.M.'s Instagram of the band as cutouts. It was part of an elaborate April Fools prank back in 1989. In it, you see Mike holding a fretless bass, but it...

Actually no, I never have. I've just been a rabid fan since about 1997. The research I did on Mike's gear was more just for my own knowledge and enjoyment, and so that others could find out more about his gear a bit easier.

I realize this is a bit of a zombie thread, but I'm gonna chime in anyway since I'm a huge R.E.M. fan and I've been trying to piece together a comprehensive history of Mike Mills' gear over the past few years. Mike has played a lot of different basses in his time, despite the fact that he's...

Just placed a pretty decent-sized order on Fret Nation. Just for comparison's sake, I plugged the same exact order into JustStrings' shopping cart, and... it would've cost me an extra 23 bucks total! I guess I'm sticking with Fret Nation for my strings!

Actually I haven't. Yeah, I missed that thread. Fair enough. It's tough to maintain independent online shops while also juggling a million other things.

I found a receipt from last year of a rather large order I placed from Bassstringsonline. I went looking for those same strings on their site today, and they don't have ANY of them anymore. In fact, a quick browse of the site makes it look like their string selection is MAYBE 1/10th the size...

So, just to keep this thread alive, I gotta say that I'm really loving this bass! Very versatile, very comfortable... it just feels & sounds "right."

So, for those who were curious about turnaround time on custom orders... If you dig through this thread, you'll see that I posted the concept design for my Elwood L5-24 on May 7th. That was the day they received my first payment & began work on it. I just got an email from them today that it's...

Disclaimer: I'm not looking to slander the company or its owner Wayne Richman. I'm sure the company did great work (note the tense there: DID), and I'm sure Wayne is a good guy. But people need to be aware of what I went through, because from what I've seen here on TB and on their own...

I was going through my old posts and saw that I posted a "5 months, no issues" response in this thread. For posterity's sake, I just wanna follow up and say that now, almost 2 years and over 200+ gigs later, still zero issues with my MB212-II. I'd call that pretty reliable!

No, I decided on a Delano Sonar 2, but it does come with a "pull passive" option.

I've been wanting a 5-string, 24-fret Jazz Bass for a few years now. Well, about a week or so ago, I hopped on to the configurator and did this. Went with the "Black Burst" finish, Haeussel noiseless pickups, Hipshot hardware, and a Katalox fingerboard. I wired the deposit on Wednesday, and I...

I agree with every single one of these. Mills was my very first bass influence, Tina is so brilliant at making minimalist basslines VERY effective in a song ("Once in a Lifetime" is literally two notes, but the placements are pure genius), and Tiran was so integral to the sound of the Doobies &...