Recent content by StAntiElvis

Love hearing stories like this! Sounds similar to something in my life - the daughter of a friend of my wife's recently wanted to join band playing bass. Her parents don't have much, so they were leery of spending the money for something that they didn't know if she'd be interested in...

Pink Floyd - "One of These Days". Also got me interested in effects pedals for the echo effect.

Well, I've got $1 fingers, so what the Hell. ;)

Granted, I've got a lot less experience than a lot of people on here, but I've got a few pedals that I use to play with: - Electro-Harmonix Crying Bass fuzz and wah pedal. The interface (for lack of a better term) is a little weird (rock forward to turn on and off). "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"...

Have to say that it was an anniversary present my wife got for me - an old, beat up, Washburn Bantam headless. Plays a lot better than it looks. And I think that it might be a prototype because the lettering's wrong and the jack's in a different place...

My wife got me a Gretsch G2220 Electromatic Junior Jet and D’Addario flatwounds for it. And I got a yellow leather “Police Line - Do Not Cross” strap for my Epi T-Bird.

For me, I was always humming the basslines from the kind of music I like (blues, hard rock, metal, punk...) I took violin in grade school and was pretty close to marginally acceptable, but got out of it when I could. I wanted to learn to play bass when I was in high school, but never had the...

Hey everyone. I’ve been playing for about a year and a half now. Guess it’s never too late to start (I’m 50 now). TalkBass came up on a bunch of searches I was doing for info, so I figured I’d join. I’ve got a collection of 8 basses already. I’m having fun experimenting with different tones...