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CWB 16: Taking Canada

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DerTeufel said:
Sounds like a crazy weekend!

That P-bass is awesome.
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It is awesome. I actually have my customized cheapo version of it, consisting of a '51 P reissue which I modified to put in this Seymour Duncan vintage style single coil pickup:

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the end result is the bass on the right:

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I'm very happy with the sound of this bass and use it with a blues/oldies group that will probably start gigging this summer. However, up close the look and feel is nothing like the real thing at the top of this post. Mine is made in Japan and has a glossy finish that looks pretty cheesy up close, although it's fine with me for what I use it for. The real '53 has beautiful old wood and a ton of mojo. :bassist:

(however, mine set me back like $750 - $500 for the bass and $250 for the modifications. $12,500 is a lot for the mojo.)
 
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chuck3 said:
crazy last five days: Thursday and Friday in San Francisco on business; then the red-eye back to Newark to catch a small plane connecting flight to the college town upstate where our youngest was graduating. Had a GREAT time with all three kids and mrs C3 at the graduation. During some of the "down time," made my way over to a vintage guitar store in this town which I know has some amazing basses. (Been there before.) Played this 1953 P bass in mint condition:

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hey, they're only asking $12,500 for it, and I think they'll be negotiable. :p
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Oh. oh. oh. oh. oh. How awesome.
 
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Tat2dHeart said:
Oh. oh. oh. oh. oh. How awesome.
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It's not your normal music store. All vintage stuff. The guitars are insane. Here is the bass that I was actually looking at seriously (justifying my playing the other ones). It's a 1991 G+L fretless with the Leo Fender "signature." Very nice bass at $1,250 but it overlaps so to speak with other basses I have, so I just couldn't pull the trigger on it:

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By "overlap" I mean look at the fretless Sterling on the left in the pic of 4 basses, above. The G+L is a double HH whereas the Sterling is a single H, but both fretless and with similar necks (both sexy necks) and a similar aggressive sound. Just couldn't justify the G+L much as I liked it.
 
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I did also put my hands on this serious piece of bass porn, a 1967 Gibson EB-2D hollowbody with a very unusual 2-pickup placement, perfect in my view. It's listed at $2,995 which is more than my budget for such a thing but actually a pretty reasonable price for this bass IMO. The '53 Fender P is an outlier at $12,500 - really the collector's market.

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all photos from the store's website, BTW. They don't sell these basses at a very fast rate, so they're up there for a while.
 
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chuck3 said:
It's not your normal music store. All vintage stuff. The guitars are insane. Here is the bass that I was actually looking at seriously (justifying my playing the other ones). It's a 1991 G+L fretless with the Leo Fender "signature." Very nice bass at $1,250 but it overlaps so to speak with other basses I have, so I just couldn't pull the trigger on it:

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By "overlap" I mean look at the fretless Sterling on the left in the pic of 4 basses, above. The G+L is a double HH whereas the Sterling is a single H, but both fretless and with similar necks (both sexy necks) and a similar aggressive sound. Just couldn't justify the G+L much as I liked it.
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Oh this little doll is stunning. Care to PM me a name of that store?
 
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DerTeufel said:
I'm with Tat..that G&L is absolutely gorgeous!

So..I just got an email that the female singer sent. She's gone. We all saw it coming. No biggie!!
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yeah, I've been in love with the G&L for like 6 months. It's an awesome bass and the price is very reasonable. Only problem for me is it overlaps with other fretless basses I have, and I can't just pick up basses because I love them. But I think this bass is a great value at the price, and it has some collectibility factor.

Sorry to hear about your singer but sounds like you have it handled. So ... now you're the lead singer? :D:bassist:
 
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chuck3 said:
yeah, I've been in love with the G&L for like 6 months. It's an awesome bass and the price is very reasonable. Only problem for me is it overlaps with other fretless basses I have, and I can't just pick up basses because I love them. But I think this bass is a great value at the price, and it has some collectibility factor with the Leo Fender signature and its role in Leo's theories of bass guitar. (A subject I can discuss all night.)

Sorry to hear about your singer but sounds like you have it handled. So ... now you're the lead singer? :D:bassist:
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I've been toying with the idea of turning the Schecter into a fretless.

Lead singer..me? HA! We really didn't have a lead singer per say before she came along..the singing duties were split between the drummer and the lead guitarist. The drummer has heard me sing in between songs and has been encouraging me to sing.
 
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BassGen said:
Singing and playing bass is a tough gig DT.

I'm vocally challenged at the best of times but when my brain tries to concentrate on singing words at the right time my fingers struggle to find the notes at the right time.
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I figured that out this week. Find just one note that fits where you need to sing.....and remember to hit it every now and again. :D
 
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Tat2dHeart said:
I figured that out this week. Find just one note that fits where you need to sing.....and remember to hit it every now and again. :D
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That's why Billy Idol works. It is just pounding out roots which is like playing rhythm guitar. I can sing an strum but bass is something else. It's also why I sing that one Wilcox song. Mist of the notes aren't played while singing and when they are it is very basic. McCartney is indeed a hero in this respect. Bur if this is how you earn you bread and butter you better be good at it. John Entwistle is another example and his bass lines are extremely complicated.

Even the odd bit of background vocal is tough to do.
 
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BassGen said:
Singing and playing bass is a tough gig DT.

I'm vocally challenged at the best of times but when my brain tries to concentrate on singing words at the right time my fingers struggle to find the notes at the right time.
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The song that kills me in that regard is Paul McCartney singing "All My Loving." It's not the easiest vocal to sing, and at the same time he was playing that walking bass line that was pretty much revolutionary at the time.

I can harmonize pretty well while playing bass, and the Vague Assurances use a lot of harmony singing. Singing lead is another story, though. Basically, I don't. One night Laura (our lead singer) was ill and couldn't make a gig, and Kevin (guitarist) and I had to sing lead all night for three hours, 32 songs or so. It really made me appreciate how much a lead singer has to do.
 
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Jack Bruce, Sting and Peter Cetera were exceptional bassists & vocalists. In 1967 I saw a band named "The First Edition" when they played at a freshman mixer at Davidson College in North Carolina. Kenny Rogers was the bass player and the lead singer with that band. I hear he later went on to bigger things :hiding:
 
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chuck3 said:
that thar is some collection of basses! :eek::bassist::hyper:
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I finally thinned out a lot of basses over the past few years ..... I had way too many, nearly 30 at the peak

These are my working basses. The Barker B1six does most of the jazz gigs, along with the DB when I feel like dragging that moose around. The two FBBs do all of the funk and fusion work, the P is just a parts bass that I use for teaching, and the Stylist is, well, just kinda cool to have. The only bass not in that pic is the fret less 8 string (single course) which was having some work done at the time :)
 
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pointbass said:
I finally thinned out a lot of basses over the past few years ..... I had way too many, nearly 30 at the peak

These are my working basses. The Barker B1six does most of the jazz gigs, along with the DB when I feel like dragging that moose around.
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lol, I don't feel so bad having ten or so. :bassist:

The Barker is really cool. I play a fair amount of jazz but I don't have an EUB. If a double bass is too big for the gig, I use the '78 fretless P. I've thought about getting an EUB but they are not exactly cheap. (Not that they should be.)
 
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