do TB threads ever send you down a musical rabbit hole?

[rtav]

Been down a lot of holes here, not all of them musical, either.

 

[gorneyg]

nope

 

[EdwardofHuncote]

I've been in the TalkBass rabbit hole for quite some time now. I think maybe I used to play bass... or something.

 

[fhm555]

All the time.
I used to visit song of the day every day but i found myself taking longer and longer trips down memory lane or boldly going where no man (well, this man) had never gone before. Now i limit my exposure to those times i’ve got a couple hours to kill.

 

[bholder]

Because I am from the Chicago area I am honor bound any time City of New Orleans appears on the internet to mention that while Arlo (and others) made a fine recording of it, Steve Goodman wrote it. Some are confused on that point, some are not, I'm not accusing you of either one!

And now back to your regularly scheduled rabbit holes....

That particular rabbit hole just a wee bit deeper, thanks!

 

[rydin4lifebass]

Genres of Music? No
Gear? Yes
Theory? Yes

If I just stuck with my p bass and combo amp that I started with, I probably would be a better player and have saved a lot of money. Instead, I've spent a lot of money and TON of time overthinking things instead of just playing them.

Not complaining by the way - TB is awesome and a terrific resource, just hard for my OCD brain not to overthink things instead of just doing them most of the time.

 

[BigBigGuy44]

Yes. I spent all day looking for the box my compressor pedal came in and COA on a bass that I thought should have had one.

 

[edencab]

130 pages of rabbit holes it if hasn't been mentioned
TB's Post your song of the day!

 

[Plectrum72]

Someone had to

 

[turbo2256b]

here comes peter cotton tail jumping down the.......

 

[pcake]

Because I am from the Chicago area I am honor bound any time City of New Orleans appears on the internet to mention that while Arlo (and others) made a fine recording of it, Steve Goodman wrote it. Some are confused on that point, some are not, I'm not accusing you of either one!

And now back to your regularly scheduled rabbit holes....

i knew that - i just like the arlo version. and that makes me think...

 

[rodak]

Definitely! There was a thread a while back about a band that wasn't getting the groove the way the bass player wanted - it included a link to said band doing a rough, but passable rendition of Chicago's "Make Me Smile", and that launched me to rediscover Chicago and several other horn-based pop bands from the 70s. I wound up buying the "Best of Chicago" CD set and have been listening to it while I swim. I also became very interested in Pete Cetera's sound, and have been considering getting a P-bass with flats. (I've been a Ric guy since 1974, never played a P-bass or Jazz bass!)

 

[khutch]

Not very often. But every now and then something peaks my curosity. As an example, there was a thread a month or so ago where the subject was something to the effect of the down-surge of musicians in the younger generation.

Every year in Iowa there is a mass bicycle ride across the state from the western border to the Mississippi River. I've been doing that since 2012. Last year in one of the towns we rode through I could hear a fairly nice band playing off to the right behind a wall of trucks the vendors that serve the ride use to carry the stuff they sell us. Odd place to park a band, I thought, but they were good enough that I made my way to the end of the trucks, parked the bike, and walked back to see the band. It was not at all what I expected from the quality of the performance I was hearing.

It was three boys on the front lawn of their home, about the age of the two on the left on the video thumbnail that you posted. Guitar, bass, drums -- your standard sixties power trio but five decades later. They were really doing it right and most other opinions I have heard disagree only to the extent that they think these guys were better than I give them credit for! There's hope for the young....

 

[khutch]

i knew that - i just like the arlo version. and that makes me think...

I suspected the same. Part of the reason I bring Steve Goodman up is that invariably when I do someone "discovers" him and there will be a lot worse days in your life than the one when you discovered Steve Goodman!

 

[inanimate_carb]

TB threads send me down rabbit holes about abnormal psychology all the time....

 

[Zooberwerx]

Not very often. But every now and then something peaks my curosity. As an example, there was a thread a month or so ago where the subject was something to the effect of the down-surge of musicians in the younger generation. In that thread someone posted a video from the School of Rock. To this day I still find myself caught down this rabbit hole. It just warms my heart to see the younger generation so involved the the art of music. Not to mention the talent that these young folks possess. You also cannot cannot forget about the dedicated parents and teachers. With that said, I'll post another of their videos in hopes that others will follow me down this rabbit hole!

Excellent! My guilty pleasure: Choir!Choir!Choir!



Riis

 

[bassbrad]

Those side trips of musical discovery and rediscovery are all the beauty of social media and the internet with the wonderful availability of music we can listen to at a click (and a small monthly fee).

 

[SactoBass]

Not very often. But every now and then something peaks my curosity. As an example, there was a thread a month or so ago where the subject was something to the effect of the down-surge of musicians in the younger generation. In that thread someone posted a video from the School of Rock. To this day I still find myself caught down this rabbit hole. It just warms my heart to see the younger generation so involved the the art of music. Not to mention the talent that these young folks possess. You also cannot cannot forget about the dedicated parents and teachers. With that said, I'll post another of their videos in hopes that others will follow me down this rabbit hole!

Those youngsters in that vid are freakin AWESOME!!!

 

[SactoBass]

Sometimes I take the red pill, and sometimes I take the blue pill.

 

[T_Bone_TL]

But did your rabbit hole include the significance of the pickle?

I stopped out front of the deli
And out in front of the deli was a man eating the most tremendous pickle
A pickle the size of four pregnant watermelons
Just a huge monster pickle

He walked up to me, pushed the pickle in my face and started asking me questions
It was about the same time I noticed the pickle in my face
I noticed a cord hangin' from the long end of the pickle
Goin' up his sleeve down his shirt, into his pants and shoes
Out into a briefcase he had near his feet

I knew it wasn't an ordinary pickle
But it was about the same time I noticed the cord hangin' out of the pickle
That a four foot cop arrived with a five foot gun
A cop that one time musta been around six foot three
But was met at the bottom of a mountain
By a flyin', singin' writin' weirdo freak

He walked up and with one tremendous hand
He grabbed the pickle away from the other guy
He threw it, a hundred feet, straight up in the air
And while the pickle was half way between going up and coming down
He took out his gun and put a three inch bullet hole
Right through the long end of the pickle
It started comin' back down
He stuck out his foot
He caught the pickle on his big toe
And balancing the pickle on his big toe
He reached his huge hand into his little pocket
Pulled out a 10 foot ticket
He borrowed my pen
He wrote it up
Then he rolled it up
And stuffed it in the bullet hole in the middle of the pickle
Took the pickle with the ticket
And shoved it down my throat

It was at that very moment that the pickle with the ticket was goin' down my throat
That I knew for sure that, that I didn't want a pickle