Recent content by Tripper

Not to resuscitate an old thread, but I own this very bass now, probably a few owners later! I saw the pictures and went - wait...let me look at the grain on that headstock - and it seems to be the one! If you care, it's in a happy home, about to play its first show with me tomorrow night.

I started out on a 4-string, but always felt like it was tiny in my large hands. Got a 5-string in 2000 and fell in love with the way they feel. I've owned mostly 5s since then, though I do have an el Cheapo 4-string Dean ML bass I tune B-E-A-D and have used at exactly one show. And of course my...

Here are my two #1s (since I play both about equally): The one on the left is an LB75 from the early-to-mid-2000s, and the one on the right is about a 1999-2000 B5. Bought the B5 off Craigslist and the LB75 at Bass Emporium here in Austin. Love them both...B5 is more aggressive or...

I hate logos on cabinets, so I always take mine off if I can. Doesn't matter at all if it's Peavey. I had a beat-to-**** XR600C that's about a 1981 vintage (or so) with two column speakers (sans logos, though I still have them) with a 12, a 10, and a horn, and that thing still works really...

I like the signal-splitting idea - I've wanted to do that for a long time but never did. One more thing to think about: On songs like "Roundabout" he doubled his bass lines with a picked guitar (I think a Gibson ES-175) direct to a preamp and the console, which make up part of the signature...

Got one from AMS...I'm really excited about it. It'll arrive Thursday (if UPS is to be believed). I played a white one at my local Best Buy (it's one of the weird/cool ones with a musical instrument store inside). They had it for $499, and I was tempted at that price. It had such a nice...

I'm another Bernard Edwards junkie - I love his playing. Just wanted to chime in. :) I know John Taylor (from Duran Duran and Power Station) was an obsessive fan of him as well. Tripper

If they get the Variax Workbench working for this thing as well (it's been announced for the guitar Variaxes), yes. Looking at the other pictures I've seen, they have a setting on the knob for 8 & 12-string. That'll be interesting to hear. The advantage to the Variax Bass over the V-Bass...

Um, as long as you keep fresh AAs in the bass (you can buy those charger/8 AA rechargeable packs they sell for digital cameras), you can use your wireless all you want. I do it with my guitar Variax all the time. It functions exactly like any normal bass that requires batteries...with the added...

So you're playing it in A? That'd sound pretty weird if the guitarist was still in E... You know, that song always amazes me for one main reason...it's rare to find a bassist that actually plays the bass part with the right rhythm. They almost all follow the guitar line, which is wrong...

I apologize for not doing a search on this one, but does anyone have the tablature for that crazy, intricate line on this song? I remember even when I was a kid, way before I even understood electric bass was an instrument, thinking this song had a cool bassline. Just last year, when they...

I was watching the old video for "Do You Think I'm Sexy", and Phil Chen actually plays it "index on the low note, middle-index on the octaves". It's a jump, but it can be done (obviously), and the tone is more consistent than using the thumb for the lower octave...you don't get as much of that...