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CWB: Big 10 Inch

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#662
Wednesday night practice with my country band. We've been breaking in a new (to the band) guitar player that I played with for 16 years before this band. In that band he was never fussy about country music. He knew we were mostly country & 60's style rock with a little bluegrass thrown in but missed playing so he agreed to join us.

He shows up tonight and turns out he's been woodshedding a lot. Came in with Old Joe Clark and Foggy Mountain Breakdown nailed. We start off with fiddle, guitar solo while fiddle player switches over to mandolin and then he switches back to fiddle during next guitar solo. What a blast.

He's a talented player and fun guy to be around, always willing to learn or teach us something new.

I've been fortunate over the years to play with some pretty good players who all became good friends. In the last 30 years only had one guitar player with the "attitude". We gave him 6 months to come around, he didn't so we fired him. He's probably the best guitar player/steel player for many miles around and nobody wants to play with him. Shame really.
 
#663
you are lucky...I have to deal with a real pain in the *** guitar player.... Oh wait,, that's me...nervermind

I do have a few guitars, but I play bass because there are fewer strings to keep track of. Because of that I do not suck on bass as badly as I suck on guitar..
 
#664
Dear Penthouse Forum,
EasyJames said:
Went to the grocery store the other night and there was this gal in line in front of me talking with the cashier lady like they were old friends. When they were done talking and she payed and left, the cashier gal, joking around, says, "I hate women like her. She's beautiful and she's nice." I'd been looking at my wallet getting money out and when I looked up, I see she was talking to me. "Women like that are hard to find huh?", says the gal to me. "Oh I don't know about that.", I say. "You're gorgeous and you seem pretty nice." 'Thank you." she says.
Then the lady in line behind me jumps in, "I was at work eating pistachios and one of the guys said if I keep eating pistachios I'll get fat."
That one kind of threw me so it took me a second before I told her, "You don't worry about that. You're pretty nice to look at too." "Thank you.", she replied with a smile.
I love going to the store sometimes.
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Cue the cheesy 70's porn music ....
 
#667
BassGen said:
Oh sure, NOW you remind me that I forgot to do this one!

That and BOTCG reminds me I also forgot to do "Middle of the Road" . Well I guess they are on the list tonight!
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LOL....

OH YEAH!!!! And I forgot. I also finished the bass lesson homework - write a song. Lesson got postponed until tomorrow night, but I wrote a song. Now I'm just stressing over the suck potential.
 
#668
Lee H said:
you are lucky...I have to deal with a real pain in the *** guitar player.... Oh wait,, that's me...nervermind

I do have a few guitars, but I play bass because there are fewer strings to keep track of. Because of that I do not suck on bass as badly as I suck on guitar..
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Ya know, it just clicked in my head that you're a guitarist too. I'm building a Jackson Dinky (6 string guitar) clone when I'm done my Jazz bass. I got a Warmoth birds eye maple neck. Body's gonna be a Jackson Dinky, HH style with a Kahler tremolo. Haven't decided on pickups yet, but Duncan Invaders and/or vintage Screamin' Demons if I can still find them. Thoughts? :)
 
#670
Haven’t been around much, but have an unusual double jam session this week as we work with 2 drummers. Basically to ensure there is at least one available each week. This week both are available, #1 last night and #2 tonight. Mr. 2 was my drummer in a previous project but he wouldn’t commit to showing up weekly so we kind of ‘backburnered’ him with his blessing.

Even though it is a private jam at a music store after hours, there have been a bunch of people drifting in and out weekly, a singer frontman, a third pretty hot guitarist last week and last night, a female acoustic originals artist that I remember from doing open mikes 4 or 5 years ago, good dinger and our weekly only on Wednesday saxophonist. Last night really ran the gamut of songs, if I can recall them. Born Under a Bad Sign, Dream With Me (Mayall), Rock Me Baby (the Jeff Beck version), Jessica by the Allman Bros, Walk Don’t Run, Sleep Walk, Secret Agent Man, Pleasant Valley Sunday (almost the same progression as Jessica), 4 or 5 original tunes, the Blues Traveler tune, forget the name, G C Am D. Half the time guys were laying out, except me, I got a major workout along with the drummer. We took a long break and relaxed and the lady fired up some acoustic, the saxophonist pulled out a few harps and we were off to the races for an unexpected acoustic jam.

Drummer 2 is tonight, by tomorrow my hands should be in pretty decent shape. Playing weekly hasn’t been keeping my right hand calluses is shape so the work is good. So, no CWB tonight it looks like unless I get home a little earlier than last night. My guitar player put new strings and setup the bass for me for free, so the Geddy Lee sounded killer last night.

Here is a pic of all the pedals I use with the bass:





I do use pedals, but only on the rare guitar gig. Then I use a stomp box compressor, DOD I think, , the yellow Distortion feedbacker overdrive, EBS maybe? DOD chorus and that’s about it.

Tat, Scales? Yes. They really should be automatic. It seems like drudge work now but it pays off later.

EasyJames and Lee, check your PM’s.

Catch you later.
 
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lareamond said:
Ya know, it just clicked in my head that you're a guitarist too. I'm building a Jackson Dinky (6 string guitar) clone when I'm done my Jazz bass. I got a Warmoth birds eye maple neck. Body's gonna be a Jackson Dinky, HH style with a Kahler tremolo. Haven't decided on pickups yet, but Duncan Invaders and/or vintage Screamin' Demons if I can still find them. Thoughts? :)
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I have an old custom shop Kramer 6 string, that is a screamer. It is an HSS setup, with the pickups wired in series. It has three phase switches, and no tone knob. You get tone by switching pickups... It was given to a roadie after a Van Halen tour, back when VH was playing kramers... I do not know why I wanted it so bad, but I did, and I was willing to pay for it, so...



I think I am going to sell one of my builds before long
I have two customs with fender jazz bodies and warmoth necks. They are great, but I seem to be leaning more and more toward 5ers, and I really do prefer a two octave neck. I think I am going to part with the one that has dimarzio double wound ultra jazz pups and the Nordstrand passive/active opreamp. it is currently flat black with a chromed pickguard, but I am thinking of pulling that off, and cutting a guard out of polished aluminum diamond plate (I like custom or one off stuff, can't you tell?)
 
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So tonight I remembered "Middle of the Road" but there's still a tiny piece on the tail end of a bridge that I don't have yet. I also had a good run through of "Some Kind of Wonderful" but playing to the record is not quite the same because we play it 3 semis lower and it changes it up quite a lot.

I also worked on "Mony Mony" which in terms of bass is stupid easy but I do need to sing back-up in this one. Also did Albert Collins "I Ain't Drunk" which is a bit busier to play but I also sing back-up and that is always a challenge when playing the rhythm. Psycho Killer, All Night Long, 96 Tears and a few run throughs of Stuck In The Middle. I changed the position I play the "clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right..." bit. I find it a lot easier this way but I have played it the other way so many times I have to re-teach my hands where I want them to go.
 
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BassGen said:
So tonight I remembered "Middle of the Road" but there's still a tiny piece on the tail end of a bridge that I don't have yet. I also had a good run through of "Some Kind of Wonderful" but playing to the record is not quite the same because we play it 3 semis lower and it changes it up quite a lot.

I also worked on "Mony Mony" which in terms of bass is stupid easy but I do need to sing back-up in this one. Also did Albert Collins "I Ain't Drunk" which is a bit busier to play but I also sing back-up and that is always a challenge when playing the rhythm. Psycho Killer, All Night Long, 96 Tears and a few run throughs of Stuck In The Middle. I changed the position I play the "clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right..." bit. I find it a lot easier this way but I have played it the other way so many times I have to re-teach my hands where I want them to go.
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I find when I'm singing lead or BG I'll take advantage of my 5 string using the B string to play around the middle of the neck so I don't have to move around too much when playing my lines.

Just found that was much easier for me.
 
#679
chuck3 said:
didn't practice tonight - sorted through the mp4s from last night's jazz trio session and e-mailed the one I like most to Furry Monkey. :help:

Also e-mailed some YouTube cuts for Sunday's practice to the guitarist in my regular (rock) band, we've got some dude sitting in and need to do a couple more tunes on the fly. :bassist:

I could practice tonight, but my hands don't mind a night off after slapping the upright for two hours last night.
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Enjoyed it very much. Thanks. :p
 
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