Recent content by Tennesseemick

Someone in an FB bass forum asked what brand this is. No one knows. Most of us think it’s a one-off by a luthier.

You’re not alone in you aloneness.

In the early ‘80s, The Pretenders were classified as a punk band in some circles overlapping with bands such as the Ramones. I didn’t hear how The Pretenders were in the same genre as Flipper. Nowadays, radio punk and grunge have been appropriated into Classic Rock. So, the resolution to your...

That’s sweet! The Q switch is an interesting touch. I’ve thought about adding one to my Alembic Epic, and I was looking to get a Casady—until the hobby band I started with a rhythm guitarist broke up last night. Y’all know the story: Ego-centric (and occasional) lead guitarist bonds with rhythm...

Wait! What?! Colonialists appropriated American music then claim they invented it? I’m shocked, just shocked.

Same here. Wouldn’t pick one up if I knew the salesperson would go there. But, I’ll take all references Jack because of my Epiphone Casady and Alembic Epic.

I tried to accentuate Entwistles respect for his Alembics. I did. I tried.

Not according to Buddy Guy himself.

He was likely holding a custom 5-string Alembic; so, yeah, destroying one would not be on a set list.

I never think about reselling used strings. For instance, I had my TIs taken off to try some “locally hand made” strings. Because I didn’t sell them, I can put them back on. Yes, the strings were cut, but they still fit my bass. FWIW: Too much winding around the post is unnecessary and a pain...

My music taste is so varied that Apple’s Genius Mix could find few relationships between the 1,000+ songs on my iPod.

I, an American Radical Behaviorist, once suffered through a series of Rom Harre’s (an English Social Constructionist) lectures on social constructionism, relativism, a Derrida-esque theory of language, and other stuff in the books we was trying sell. At one point he meandered off into a...

My spouse and I agreed, up front, that money I got from gigs goes into gear, or not; it’s my choice. Why lie? (Rhetorical question) Every sitcom starts with such lies and ends with hugs. Start with the truth and skip the unnecessary drama. IMHO. So, it he a bad person? He just may be, but this...

I’d get an Ibanez 4-string, new cables, a killer bass cabinet and head, dinner for my wife and I, and a week’s worth of mad money in my pocket. I already have an Epiphone Casady and Alembic Epic, so a sweet bass somewhere between the two is reasonable.

I found that one on consignment in Knoxville (where I live). This pristine, mint-condition 1996 Epic had been owned by a collector who had never played it and even had the original strings on it! The "picker" got it at an estate sale and had priced it right smack-dab in the middle of reasonable...