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Club Alleva Coppolo (Part 10!)

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#721
narud said:
really? ime, the guys that were around in the alder/rosewood era were the guys complaining how cbs ruined fender with their boat anchor ash and shoddy quality control. never heard any happy switch overs.

hell, if what you really want is fat and smooth, get some flats on there, youll love em:smug:
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Not really worth having a discussion about. No right or wrong... no rules.

Interestingly, my LG is the first bass in 30+ years of playing that I've used nickel rounds on. I never felt the need, but that bass just didn't sound 'right' to me with the various steels I tried on it.... made it sound like it was trying to be my LM and failing. The Lo Rider Nickels just speak to me personally with that particular bass.
 
#724
ricksy said:
i have had many gigs where it hurts to decide which of my 3 or 4 fantastic basses is the right one to use... after seeing your list of gear Tom, ive always wondered how you do it... i feel more sorry for you! ;)
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Actually, the BGM gig has actually made it easier to decide what to bring, since I am almost always reviewing something and need to get it to a gig. :cool:
 
#725
tombowlus said:
Rock 'em all. :bassist: :bassist: :bassist: :cool: :D
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Tom your a good guy for this. See when it comes to upright I know what I need to practice and I've got one bass to do it on. But when it comes to electric instead of focusing on real practicing I tend to pick up each instrument and say that sounds cool how does it sound on this other bass and at the end of the day I did a bunch of noodling and very little practicing. Gigs are much easier I never bring more then 2 basses almost always play one the entire night and almost never change basses in the middle of a set.

I used to bring one bass to a gig for the last 15 years, until these (always have a backup threads) got me paranoid.
 
#726
peterpalmieri said:
Tom your a good guy for this. See when it comes to upright I know what I need to practice and I've got one bass to do it on. But when it comes to electric instead of focusing on real practicing I tend to pick up each instrument and say that sounds cool how does it sound on this other bass and at the end of the day I did a bunch of noodling and very little practicing. Gigs are much easier I never bring more then 2 basses almost always play one the entire night and almost never change basses in the middle of a set.

I used to bring one bass to a gig for the last 15 years, until these (always have a backup threads) got me paranoid.
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Well, one advantage of practicing/noodling on a variety of basses is that hopefully you can get pretty comfortable pretty quick with almost any bass you pick up. There certainly is an advantage to being super dialed in to a given instrument, where you know every nuance and exactly how it will respond. But if I never practice with a short scale bass, and then I need to play one on a gig to review it, I would probably struggle a bit. As it is, I regularly play 34's, 34.5's and 35's, with 30.5's and 32's being a little less common, but still in the rotation.

Like you, I only have one upright. For now... :ninja: :help: :D
 
#727
A few of us had a mini-gtg today. Took a few pics you might like to see. Basses may be familiar too?

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Birdy's LG5's and 70's Fender Jazz. These three basses have lived 'The High Life' in bass circles! Recognise them?

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#728
Went to Jason Langley's clinic today at Berklee. What a cool guy. He spoke a lot at first, just talking about coming up in the music scene after Berklee, moving to New York, and then L.A. Really interesting stuff. Lots of pointers on working in the biz that have nothing to do with playing, which was really helpful. He also repped AC, Aguilar, and Dunlop really well without going overboard about it. There was a table of Dunlop swag (strings, straps, and shirts) which was cool, I'm curious to see how the Dunlop's sound though I've been a Hi Beam devotee for over 6 years.

His fingerstyle tone on the LG was pretty sweet. I was trying to listen to it with as much scrutiny as possible (again, strictly tone-wise, his playing was great) and couldn't really say anything bad about it.

I think I might pick up some tickets for my girl and I to see Dreamgirls on Valentine's Day.
 
#732
Looks like Paul Tuner showed up.. His bass is the only older LG with full size 66 tuners that can remember. But i have been wrong in the past.... sometimes..:smug:
Flanker said:
A few of us had a mini-gtg today. Took a few pics you might like to see. Basses may be familiar too?

AllevaFender018.jpg




Birdy's LG5's and 70's Fender Jazz. These three basses have lived 'The High Life' in bass circles! Recognise them?

AllevaFender015.jpg
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#736
jonno1707 said:
What is he currently playing?
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Still Allevas when he requires a 5 string as far as I am aware. He borrowed my green striped one for a while so that we could check out how they compared and they were/are pretty close. The green one has the indian rosewood board and is maybe not quite as dark sounding as the white one.

Interestingly the white 77 Jazz in the photo was also Paul's. He sold it last year to a guy in France and I just bought it off him this week. That bass has an AC preamp in and sounds absolutely amazing!!

Steve
 
#739
svtb15 said:
Looks like Paul Tuner showed up.. His bass is the only older LG with full size 66 tuners that can remember. But i have been wrong in the past.... sometimes..:smug:
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The CAR RA5 I recently sold had the large tuner heads also. While that made the tuners a bit cramped (not a big deal), I REALLY like the look a lot.... more 'balanced' with that big headstock than the smaller tuner heads on my LG and LM IMO.
 
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