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I started on guitar but wasn't inspired. Then at a high school pep rally, i heard a friend's band playing Grand Funk songs, and felt the gut-rumble of bass for the first time. It made me feel good. I bought a used Hagstrom for $25 and learned all the GFR songs I could. So it was a high school...

Most recently, I've been playing upright with a folk/alt-rock trio. With either electric or upright, I've usually avoided soloing, because it never really fit my idea of the bass's role in a band. However, we do one cover song now that is kind of a darker tune, and as we worked out our...

Thanks! I played a multi-band gig at the World Cafe earlier this year, and a couple of the other bassists came up to look at the "vintage" bass. I think they were disappointed when I pointed out that it was actually just a 15 year old MIM Fender. Both the GL and the P-bass go to every electric...

I missed this thread the first time round. Okay, here's my 2002 Geddy Lee, stock and unmodded, sitting next to my 1995 P-bass - a different twin of the GL. My two favorite playing basses.

Thanks for the info and link! I.m pretty certain from the pictures and price that it's not a solid carved instrument, but good to know that it's also not from a manuacturer known for shoddy construction. And with a label referring to "West" Germany, I know it's survived at least 21 years...

Yes, I saw those links, but was confused re: "G.A." vs. "T.G." It doesn't seem the initials would be interchangeable, but . . . . I gleaned little information from them.

I've done some internet searches for info on this bass, but come up with zero. It's a T.G. Pfretzschner, "handmade in germany", with an additional "Made in West Germany" label. So, it's probably at least 20 years old. :) This picture was sent by the seller. The other pictures show a fairly...

Zero watts. Get an upright.

I find that when I spend some time away from this forum, the GAS abates. For a while, anyway. Then again, I've been splitting my GAS between bass and keys for the past half-year or so. :hmm:

Stage right is my preference, and I've been there in practically every band I've been in for decades. In my current electric band, we set up for rehearsal with me to the drummer's left, and at the end of the evening, my right ear hurt from the snare hits that I usually don't hear coming from...

When I dig in, I pluck close to the bridge; for mellow and deep, pluck nearer the neck. Everyone knows this, right? When I use the pickup as an anchor (digging in), I'm not plucking above the pickup. So for me, the cover doesn't get in the way. It also served as a substantial thumb anchor...

Hey, I think I've worked with this guy before! Oh wait . . . my guy was in his late 40s. Relax. No guilt. Move on.

My partner got the "hardened" edition, because it has extra maps, zombies and a COD outfit for her avatar (*why does xbox dashboard look like Wii now?*). When she entered the code for the outfit, she got this message: "This outfit is for a male avatar. Please give it to a male friend!" She...

. . . for an old Roland D-50 (plus a couple hundred bucks). Just because I wanted to do something different, to learn how to program a hardware synth. Because you know that eventually, I'm gonna try to run my bass through it!

Yeah, my partner pre-ordered. She's debating whether to go to the midnight release to pick it up. I'm saying yes . . .

Some of these effects are fantastic! I didn't know you could do so much with pedals. Here's one even less expensive: you can get a USB A/D/A converter and use it to access a slew of different VST plugins through your computer. For a free VST host, you can use the Cantabile Lite program...

A lot of people say Topographic Oceans was atricious, but it's one of my favorite Yes albums. I pretty much stopped following the band closely after Tormato, but I think there are still many nice tunes on all the albums that came out afterward.

I started deer hunting again last year after my son asked us along with him and his new wife. None of us got anything last year, but she got two in the previous two seasons, one of them an 8-point buck. She almost accidently removed her thumb cutting the thing, too. You'd never know to look...

GFR --> "All the Girls in the World Beware" Maybe even everything after "We're an American Band".

Up until this summer, I had a basic cell phone that was data capable, but no special plan for it. After two grandchildren were born in rapid succession, I discovered how expensive -- and inconvenient -- sharing texts and pictures with the kids on a basic phone can be. My son had just...

+1. EB-3, varitone position 1 (choked mudbucker), rotosound flats. Pure deep!

+1 for me, too, but in reverse order. I'd also include Dennis Dunaway, Ray Bennet (Flash), even Kaye and Jamerson (although I didn't know it at the time).

One of my cats pissed on our drummer's drum bag once. She was a good judge of character. He turned out to be a dick.

An earlier iteration of my bass synth setup: The StudioLogic MP-113 pedals feed via midi into my Digitech pedal board, and my bass plugs into the pedal board via regular input. The pedal board, besides containing its own effects, functions as a 4in/2out A/D/A converter, which plugs...

We have many cats at our place, inside and out. Never had a problem with the basses, but they did go after the carpeted cabinets. I tend to keep the equipment in the sunroom and keep the cats out of there. Once the patriarch got in there and peed on the drummers vinyl case. She proved to be...

Following the links, I'm seeing what you mean. I have a software converter and when I send the output to, say, Absynth, well . . . the results are less than spectacular. The synths with built-in converters track much better, but they are less versatile. And I was unaware that the "midi...

So I took my "new" Laguna to rehearsal this morning to see how it does in a band setting. It's a real nice player, but I have to say that it's quite dominate in the midrange in the mix. It would be a great slapper - if I slapped. Because it is a nice player, I'd like to do something...

+1. I have many different stations I rotate through, ranging from Arlo Guthrie to Yes to Sunn O))).

I fell off the back of the riser on our high school stage with my new (then) EB-3, and chipped the finish off the neck about the size of my thumb. Over the years that bass took so much abuse, and when I decided to refinish it a dozen years later, I could not get rid of the discoloration at that...

Mine was a 1973 Ford Country Squire Station Wagon. Bought it in 1975, specifically for carrying my amps and equipment around. It lasted a little less than a year, when someone pulled out in front of me at an intersection early one morning on my way home from a gig. No injuries, but both...

Oops -- yes! ;)

Nothing particularly special, just something different. This past Saturday I traded an older Washburn acoustic 6 string even up for a Laguna LB224, black. It's already got more playing than the acoustic did in the past year! The bass is mint, still has the plastic protective sheet over the...

It doesn't make sense the way he did it. He really wasn't doing ANYTHING but just standing there. It looks like he was bored and just decided to smash up the bass as a random thought. Now, if he'd been bouncing around for a while and working himself up into a frenzy, I could see the...

Trio is my favorite line-up, and it's what worked most effectively during much of my professional life. Sometimes a trio with an extra guitar, or a singer that did incidental keys. I felt it allowed me to spread out more, not necessarily to overplay and clutter up the sound, but to explore...

This was the ad: [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] I emailed and asked for make, model, pictures. This was his response: "no pics brand is peavey not sure of the model the amp is an older peavey tube amp very loud and the speaker is a 20inch black widow call to come see it" I was...

Yeah, I'm seeing the Black Widow 18" rated at 700 watts program, so maybe that's what he's reading from the back of the cab. The amp though? I dunno . . . . he's not being really helpful.

I was contacted by a guy who has an amp for sale. He claims it is an old tube Peavey (doesn't know the model), 700 watts, and has a 4-feet tall cabinet with a 20" Black Widow speaker. I suspect he's mistaken about some particulars. No pics. Rather than drive a fair distance to check it out...

At rehearsal with my last band: Performing at an AC "Pizza Slaughterfest"

I've dealt with this before, regarding an agreement of sale and refund that went bad. The plaintiff from the midwest sued the defendant from the east coast in the midwest jurisdiction, and obtained a default judgment -- naturally, because the defendant wasn't going to travel out there to...

My upright cost me $700, so when I do those kind of gigs, that's it. For electric jobs, it's generally my$300 MIM P- bass and/or my $600 GL jazz. I have an old one I paid just $360 for but I'm reluctant to take it to gigs, because I suspect it's probably appreciated in value over the past 43...