Recent content by Phfat

practice a 4 beat pattern with three fingers by advancing beat 1 to the next finger in sequence. Such as, I m r i/ M r i m/ R i m r/ I m r i... Start SLOW, keep your beat EVEN, using a metronome will help immensely.... I started playing this way after retiring from a 50 some year run as a...

How do you tell which dings are real, and which are relics? ;)

well okay, but looking old and being old are two different things entirely.

So, what I don't understand is why someone would pay 5 grand plus for an instrument that looks all beat to hades. "Relic" as they call it...?

thanks to all for the replies! You CAN teach an old dog new tricks....

you start going down that road, you'll wind up spending more money on upgrades than the cost of the bass. If it sounds good to you, why change anything? I was in the same quandary with my squire p/j bass. My only upgrade was a set of labella flats. Problem is, it has a neck that is twisted...

does putting your active bass in passive mode when you are finished playing save on battery power? Thanks.

So, I've come to the conclusion that I now can have at least three separate rigs with the components I have... Basic setup I started with...marshall mb 30, 1x10 and bass. Plenty of sound for a small, coffee house, winery kind of gig. I can run this setup, mic'ed with the sontronics dm-1b and...

So, I just put together a similar setup, but the further I got, the bigger the rig got... Original idea was to run my bass to a di/preamp (sgt-di), then preamp to active PA speaker (Mackie xt15...advertised 1400 watts, with two channels...38 pounds...$425 on sale...). Well then, I decided...

Arnold schoenburg Kenneth's sax reed was in the wrong key. However, Mikey is in fine voice, as usual...

You know why Debussy wore those Bangs in his hair? He had a misshapen, protruding forehead that he was extremely embarrassed of.

did Pete give all the money he made, with the who, back?

reminds me of the one that two colleagues of mine pulled on an administrator that docked the two of them a day's pay, back when that sort of punishment never happened... The administrator was a fitness guy, and ran some obscene number of miles every day after work. After his last run, he went...

the dessert incident took place in the late sixties...

yeah, buddy was a real piece of work. Like, firing band members in the middle of a gig... A college friend worked in a restaurant /club where buddy was playing. The band was finishing up a break, and as buddy walked back to the stage, a server passed him with a tray full of sumptuous desserts...