Tonight is the second of a two-night engagement at our usual pub. This weekend, we've had to get replacement fiddlers because ours couldn't get a plane from Calgary to Montreal due to the weather on this side of the country. Neither the guy last night nor the girl tonight are fiddlers we've ever played with or even met before stepping onto the stage with them. Which used to be scary, but now we kind of get off on it.
For tonight, the fiddler let us know about a song she'll want to do, but that we don't play. Since my spalted monster is still at the pub, I grabbed my Fender P off the rack to give the song a go-over.
I love that ugly beast. Made me think on the three basses I have left in my toolbox. I knew when j bought it that the Sadowsky was going to knock something out of the rotation, but I was surprised by which bass gets left behind. I'm generally a modern, active kind of guy, but the Lakland 5502 is the one that stays home. On reflection, I think it's because the Sad and Lakkie both inhabit the same general space in that the necks are similar, modern shapes and they are both fancy-topped, active basses, so I can't help but compare them. And though I can technically get more sounds out of the 5502, the fact is that I'm a set-and-forget player when playing live. And the factory feel of the 5502 just doesn't compare either to US Lakkies or Sadowskys.
The P is just such a different beast that I never look at it in comparison to the other two. And I also sometimes get a certain zing from strapping on what is likely the most iconic bass guitar of all. So every now and again, the P comes out to play. But I'm almost at the point where it's time to let the 5502 go to someone who'd live it more. But, since we have plans of someday doing a second album, I'm keeping it around fog that.
Punching this in while waiting to set up, so all errors are the iPhone's fault.
