Recent content by Benthoven

I'd sorta like to meet her...

Lol that reminds me - back in that same fusion band I mentioned in the original post on this thread - we were playing in a really great music venue in Spartanburg SC, (1982) and our tunes were mostly pretty heavy on the funk side. We finished our last set, and this well-known black musician...

OK I will finally weigh in on this "Ya'll" spelling controversy here. I was born and raised in South Carolina. We often pronounce 'you' as 'ya'. I. E. What's it to ya? Where ya going? Haven't heard from ya lately. We don't care how ya do things up north. So, when I contract "ya all" to...

Yeah, each bass is just a standard J-bass (with Bartolini's) , and there's a bass selector switch between them. I originally built it as a short scale, (which I never fell in love with) and just recently made the two 34" scale necks - and WOW! It sounds amazing now.

Sorry, I don't even know what "Momo" is! Lol~

Oh boy, you should like this then. I built this in 1982 and still use it on some gigs.

Wow! I snuck into a club when I was 16 to see them!!

I was gigging in a mostly-original fusion band one night, and admittedly probably mis-booked into this particular club. Just after finishing a kick-ass funk tune at the end of our first set, this chick comes up and asked, "Was that a real song, or did ya'll just make that up?" :laugh:

I don't know about sounding "better", but my bass always sound different when someone else plays it. Partly due to how they play it, but also due to the difference in how the amp sounds 30 feet away instead of 5-10 feet. I let another bassist play my Ampeg fretless for a whole set at a blues...

Ok, I have my reservations about the 'look' of headless basses, but I actually had functional reasons to make this double-neck bass headless - #1) I wanted to get the necks as close together as possible so that the ergonomics of switching between fretless and fretted would be as easy as...

It's held up well. The owner is a good friend of mine, and he's told me it still plays great. However, it's only fair to mention that Las Vegas is in the desert, where the humidity never changes much or for very long, so once acclimated to that environment, setups stay stable for a long time...

Our keyboard player was a well-known FM radio Drive-time DJ on the local oldies station. He handled all the microphone duties for the band, of course, and always, always maintained strict FM radio DJ speech discipline, with rehearsed lines etc., never a colorful word. One night he had...

I just talked to the owner again recently and he says it's been very stable for him, but then again Vegas is a very stable environment, once an instrument gets acclimated to it. SF is a ridiculously unstable environment - I'm doing truss rod adjustments with practically every season change. I...

Cool beans! I wish I still had the Peavy T-40 I had back in the early 80's! Yeah, before doing anything, completely loosen and remove the truss rod nut, and take the opportunity to clean and lubricate the threads. It's possible that adding a few flat washers under the nut going back in, will...

Hey, I've had some good successes restoring twisted Fender necks. Hit me up if you're interested.