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- Dec 8, 2018 at 2:48 AM
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- Occupation:
- Care for family, make the most of Heaven.
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About
- Gender:
- Male
- Location:
- Overlooking the Salish Sea
- Occupation:
- Care for family, make the most of Heaven.
- Current Setup:
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Basses
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- URB "Samantha": 3/4; Rumanian; ~1980; spruce top, maple back, ebony board; nice old pernambuco bow, french heel; Evah Pirazzi orch.
- "Eddie" - 1973 Precision - Tomastik-Infeld Jazz flats
- "Taj" - 2006 Music Man bass - Rotosound flats
- "Molly" 2018 Fender Mustang PJ - TI flats - Lindy Fralin pups, 1 stacked V/T knob & 1 pup blend knob. - no switch See it here: https://www.talkbass.com/threads/fender-mustang-club.1327751/page-22#post-21397959.
- 1995 Ibanez TRB80
- "Thumper" - modified Jacinto Lemus Reyes guitarron - with four flatwound electric bass strings EADG (the extra two tuners were removed), an extended, raised ebony fingerboard, carved ebony & spruce bridge, and custom-milled 2-piece brass tailpiece. Unsure of age - probably not quite as old as me. You can read Thumper's story and see pics here:
https://www.talkbass.com/threads/guitarron-anyone.285638/page-2#post-20663720
I name my instruments after cats I've loved and lost.
Amps
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- GK MB150S/112
- MarkBass CMD 102P
- David Eden WT300 Traveler hybrid head
- GK 410/8 RBH cabinet
- Favorite Genres:
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Pretty much anything played well and not too damn loud. Preference runs to nice instruments played with minimal electronic bull**it and more fingers, ears, brains and heart.
Heart-of-heart favorite: Big Band jazz
- Gigs and Ensembles:
- They come and they go.
- Previously Owned Gear:
- Many variations of my current inventory. Seems like I've always had a couple of electrics and one URB, and a couple of amps - one smaller, one with more beef.
- G.A.S. List:
- Happy with my current stuff. Could use a better bag for my URB.
- Influences and Teachers:
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- Never really 'studied' with anyone in particular. I played string bass (and learned to read music) in public school and community ensembles from age 8 into college, and got my first electric bass in the US Army.
I read a lot of symphony, concert and stage band music until I was out of the army on my own, then started learning to play folk and pop music - most of which had no written parts. I'd need to learn some tune for a band and spend hours with a tape player learning bass parts playing along by ear. I still do this, but the technology is way better now, and learning doesn't take so long any more - usually. ;-)
Somewhere in the 80s I started getting gigs with a jazz-playing guitarist and learned to read lead sheets and improvise lines from chord markings - basic theory, then more, etc.
- Influences: too numerous to mention, and besides I don't remember so good no mo. Everybody I ever heard play the electric or upright bass, no doubt - some more than others.
- Teachers: many, but primary credit (or blame) and my undying gratitude goes to Miss Downs, the patient California public circuit music teacher who put a 1/2 size Kay string bass and my first Simandl book in my hands in the 1950s, showed me the basics of the instrument, and taught me to read music - back in the day when the state supported music education in public schools. Since high school I've been on my own... me and my radio/record player/tape player/cd player/HD/internet/space-time continuum/ether. - and often still, written music.
And of course, I've always been heavily - even mostly - influenced many many other players of all instruments.
- Hobbies and Interests:
- boating, camping, skiing etc
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