Recent content by Robster22

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    Rules: How to Tour in a Band

    This tip from five decades of playing and much touring....... You'll one day thank me for this ........When you first get on the bus make very sure you get the bunk next to an opening window or vent in case like me, you find yourself sleeping below someone who regularly visits the bar before...
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    Great Way To Shut A Singer Up

    Speaking of SUYTs.......I recall approx 30 something years ago when a young n very bouncey Bette Middler played the Uks London Palladium..... Some male fans raised a cloth banner on which was written "Bette, we love your t*ts" Bette's comeback was to immediately whip both of em out and...
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    Chicks at Shows (Part 5), The 'Hits' just keep on coming ...

    Great pic.....a group of beautiful educated women out having fun. Intelligent women.....the sexiest thing in the world :)
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    Compliments you don't like!

    I confess, for many years I too was guilty of a somewhat derogatory mindset towards three note country bass players...that was, until the day I heard Mickey Gilleys bass man on an Austin City Limits show... I learned to play that same hard driving style and (like Mickeys bass man) have tried...
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    Anyone Played at a Nudie Bar (Strip Club)?

    Yes Ive played at the "Wob Lee Tit" club..... once you've seen one you've seen em all...Booooring!
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    Chicks at Shows (Part 4) Cuz 3 wasn't nearly enough.. !

    Nah Ray,,,first right is a real babe :)
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    The lazy bassist manifesto

    Play punk or grunge....that way you get to play one note samba's all night long;)
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    Yamaha BBNE2 sound

    During my 47 yr sojourn through this business I finally arrived at a place where I now own the bass/sound that I'd always been searching for....I bought my BBNE2 last year and its a total treat to play and hear. I first Saw Nathan at the Knebworth (91 was it ?) concert UK when I started...
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    How old is too old to rock? Dazed and confused.

    I'm 62, started playing at 11 and played my first gig at 14....No I dont still have a 28 inch waist, I have some grey hair and my skin isnt without wrinkles.....But ya know what...I can play the ass off the guy I was at 20...30...40 & even 50..... The assumption (made within the intitial post...
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    UGH. Nickelback.

    Re Kruegers voice....I dunno theres something really irritating about this big manly man, Rough Tough gravel voice trying to sing about love, tenderness and heartbreak via hard pounding tunes... He just aggravates me, I now switch em off.
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    real expirience

    Welcome to the biz and the real world... in some professions thats called paying your dues ;)
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    What is that high pitched sound?!?!

    I play a Yamaha bass BBNE2 and once in mid song I heard this high pitched whistling/scream...turns out it was the 9 volt battery that powers the active pick ups.....changed the battery,,,no more screech...all gone !
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    why we love the who

    For moi, and although I'm a bass player it was all Townshend. I saw the Who for the first time during the "My Generation " era at Wimbledon Palais in South west London. I was up front and close enough I could smell their aftershave. Pete totally mesmerised me with his sheer...
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    A Sexy TBer?

    Dont ever let greenpeace see this photo...they'll push you back out to sea.
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    Would you leave your bass or amp at a gig you are playing the next eveing.

    I'm presently playing a $2000+ bass through a $1400 amp and speakers and have learned a few things about people and the world in 40 yrs plus of playing... I dont leave any of my stuff unattended, anywhere....period !.