Recent content by Monsterbass74

1. Some Brownsville bass. It had a 26 frets, maple neck, red quilted maple top, junk pre-amp (yanked it out in 2 days), a garbage MM styled pick up, and the head stock was like a classical guitar's with the name brand on a piece of metal crowned atop the neck. I turned the name tag around. Junk...

Perfect album!

Ged's playing become quite bad since after Hemispheres, but he doesn't care. He laughs about it all the way to the bank. Happy Rush Hashanah.

That sucks, man. I had a band where the leader had his sister in the band just for female vocals. It was all she did. Showed up and sang her 4-5 songs, sat in between songs, bragged, and was paid equal. She sang well, but was lacking in everything else (oinked, waddled and belched). It was the...

I used to.

I bought this 1982 Ibanez (that model Mark Egan played) from GC mega cheap with a case a few months ago... it stunk of a billion dead and soggy Marlboros so bad that I sold it on Ebay for a huge profit within 24 hours. Sssssss.... DUN!

...and... BOOM! Well played.

Get whatever your heart tells you, a copy, A FAKE or not, be it for that gronky-splatty Rick tone, or the look and feel, or the prestige in which you can reference Paul McCartney, Geddy Lee, Lemmy, (early DD) John Taylor, Chris Squire or some obscure player no one knows and who ever else in one...

Go passive. Those EMG-HZs are great passive pickup for what it's worth. You'll be surprised how much the preamp does nothing good for those pickups. I've done it before with both of my old Korean Spector NS2000-4s and my 2 Spector NS-2As (used DiMarzios). Get 4 250k pots (one as a dummy) or make...

Great stuff... perfectly put. :bassist:

The of pricing of used and "rare" basses has become based on arbitration and very obscene. If it's Japanese: Mastumoku, Fuji-gen, a heavily beat up Aria Pro II, Electra or Vantage? $$$$$$$$$. American made? Twice that. Pissed on Alembic? Thousands. A few USA Peaveys (6 stringers) are still...

Boston, Billy Joel, Zep, Stones, Bon Jovi, anything from Metallica's "Black" album... sometimes, I think, we all can feel what song is next and we're always correct. How many times have I guessed "More Than A Feeling", "Pianoman", "Old Time RnR", and "Heartbreaker/Livin' Lovin' Maid" after the...

I had the MIJ 32'' scale. It sounded great! Now this?? Want!

^ This. A mass of bass players in the same space reminds me of comic book conventions. P-U! Fork on plate slap happy freaks with tap-aholics galore with "speed is best" &55h07735 and music/bass Nazi BTers? No thanks. I can throw my new USA Spector down concrete steps and get better...

Tobias Growler. Asymmetrical neck. Weighed nothing. You active snobs would have loved it. Sucked so much. Was as bad as my active MIM Jazz, Spector NS-2 (which I gutted), and Alembic Epic. Every overpriced active bass I ever got was one of those. Since then I only bought passive basses. I...