Recent content by Gramby1138

I wondered about that! I was looking at bass kits last night, actually, because I'm thinking of making one for my stepdaughter for her birthday, and happened to see this Utah Slab kit. I took one look and immediately recognized it as a Ric kit in disguise. :) Seems like one just needs a good...

Everyone in this club be like...

Dude, nice job on the restoration! That looks great! And you know what, a fellow wiser than myself once said, "throwing my leg over any bike makes me smile." You're absolutely right to realize that riding something is more important than not riding something else.

Ha ha. No, they were great about it. :)

Here's my bike. It's a '78 Kawasaki Kz200. I also have a '74 Kz400 in the garage, but the top end is in pieces right now. And I used to have a beautiful '72 Honda CB750, but it was parked outside my girlfriend's apartment last summer and a drunk driver lost control of his vehicle and...

Anything by Yamaha, Ibanez, Spector, Carvin, Warwick, etc. I respect that people enjoy them a lot, and I respect that Yamaha and Ibanez have provided excellent first basses for a lot of bass players, but I just. Can't. Handle. The. Body. Style. Seriously, I haaaaaaate the design of them. I'm...

Oh, I totally agree. I appreciate that as much as they copied existing guitars, the designers really tried to do some different things and make something unique, and as a designer myself, I enjoy seeing what they were trying to do.

I shared this in the other "notes = better" thread:

One of my favourite bass players is John McVie from Fleetwood Mac, and one of my favourite bass parts of his is "Dreams." It's probably the simplest bass line ever played (at least in the top 10), but man, that bass part has some balls. He's just holding down that low end with his...

I thank you, good sir!

Hey, y'all. My shorty just arrived this past weekend. It's a '65 Framus Strato Star, just like the one I learned on. This one has a Hofner tailpiece, though, which is interesting. Looks like the headstock was repaired as well, but it's solid. Sounds awesome! Also, I used to own a Kasuga...

I'm in. I write and eat left-handed, but I play guitar and drums and throw right-handed.

I don't know what my number would be, but I'll join this club, since I play bass in my church. I also play drums and guitar if they need it, but it's mainly bass. The church I go to is kind of arts-based, so the house musicians write their own songs, which is really cool. Not only do they...

South Minneapolis, here. I'll take #Threve (or #300 if I have to pick an actual number). New-ish to the forum. I started playing bass when I was 13, which is when I discovered my dad's Beatles records. I learned to play on an old Framus Strato Star, and then moved up to my dad's Fender...

BamaBird, I love the kit-build Rick! I've been seriously considering doing something like that myself. Did you get that kit from Pit Bull Guitars in Australia? What was your experience like building it? Your version there is almost exactly what I had in mind for myself.