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Dumb jokes! Absolutely! Me: "Spencer, I heard you wrecked your car last week. How are you getting around?" Spencer: "Air and water." Me: "Air and water?" Spencer: "Air you going my way? Water 'bout a ride?" Ba dum bum, crash! Greg

Two classics: Greg

I was gigging in the early 1970's and we most certainly knew the difference between guitar cords and speaker cords (well, at least most of us did). I don't know about Fender bass cabinets by themselves, but Fender Bassman rigs (especially the black face ones) sounded great and were very much...

This isn't one cover, it's a bunch of covers played on the guitarron. It's just stupid cool! Greg P.S. Stick with it long to hear the cover of Stevie Wonder's "I Wish" (cut #3). It's supa-badd!

No, it wasn't "legal" in the US and by the 1970's it was pretty rare, but I know a good number of teenage musicians who played club and bar gigs in the early and middle 1960's (even strip clubs). It all depended on the city and the degree of local enforcement. Greg

Yes, well that's you. Some people (many people) micromanage everybody because it's the only way they know how to manage or the only way they know how to feel "in charge". Greg

I don't think anyone could or would try to argue with "punctuality and working gear". My impression from the OP's first post was that, in his case, the BL's demands were significantly exceeding those oh-so-reasonable expectations. Greg

In the mid 1970's, I played in a North Carolina-based southern rock band. Our bassist was a black guy (I was singer/harp player in that band). Gigs in some of the small towns got VERY dicey. Sometimes we had to have a talk with the bouncers about some "problem children" and sometimes we walked...

I've read a lot of this thread but not all. It seems to me that you've gotten lots of good advice here, that I'll try to summarize. First off, if she's become quite adept at fretted bass and wants to try fretless, by all means support her. It'll be great motivation. Do find her a fretless with a...

Glad to hear your 15-year-old friend got a good one. Just a few years ago I tried a then-new, short-scale Ibanez bass and it was one of the worst instruments I've ever picked up. I was extremely disappointed. Ibanez has become similar to most major instrument manufacturers these days. Some of...

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup: Greg

M "Mid tempo to fairly slow grooves"? I guess you missed this one (only their biggest hit). Greg

His schoolmate was Paul Bigsby?;) Greg

Aha! This poster nailed it! Vulfpeck reminds me of the Average White Band in the mid-1970's, a good funk band but not in the league of The Meters or their successors, The Neville Brothers. Greg

I think this poster has pretty much nailed it. I'm not a Fender guy because I'm a short-scale guy and the few Fender short-scales are pretty forgettable. It's also true that the OP's premise is somewhat flawed. There are other vintage basses commanding very respectable prices these days. Has...