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Sounds good! Here's the EP for anyone else interested in a listen.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5W9PBIvmrBrmv3Xw6gZyLQ
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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5W9PBIvmrBrmv3Xw6gZyLQ
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Here's someone else who spelled it "right".
Saxuality - Candy Dulfer (daughter of Dutch jazz saxaphonist Hans Dulfer)
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Welcome to the club! I see you also found your way to the Short Scale club before I did. I'm with you there. My only remaining long neck (a Fender repro of their '63 Jazz) stays in its gig bag. Shorties only for me. Here are mine (played through a Rumble Studio 40).
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She puts on a great show! Seen a couple. YouTube has a few complete shows. Here's one from '09. NOTE: the bassist is playing a Fender Precision, so this is sort of on topic.
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FWIW(and previously mentioned), I played clarinet, bass clarinet, even contrabass clarinet, tenor, and occasionally bari sax in H.S.; then tenor sax in a-not the Navy band and picked up bass my last 1 1/2 years in the Navy. I was never any great shakes as a saxist, but felt right at home on the bass. I read OK on the horns but couldn't fake worth a damn. Haven't played any of my 4 saxes* in about 3 years.I toadja we gots all kinds here. Long as you gots a Rumble, man, we're glad to have you!
Well, our Rumbler #889, @GonePlaid, only has about 20 years sax-duty on ya, but, like, 60 years of bass!Maybe y'all can have some sax talk!
Wow! You got some good axes to run thru that Rumble. Enjoy!
So, here's a link to a shortlist of the most popular TalkBass Clubs & Special Interest Groups for your perusal to find whatever piques your curiosity here.
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*alto, C melody, tenor(Martins), bari(Selmer Paris Mk6)
Shirley, no one ever called you a saxist* pig, right?
[ - I've heard of "saxophonist" before, and I really don't know, but I think you made up "saxist".
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I did. Makes people stop and think(did he say whut I think he said??)Shirley, no one ever called you a saxist* pig, right?
[ - I've heard of "saxophonist" before, and I really don't know, but I think you made up "saxist".
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I started on bass in the navy as well. I was a trombone/baritone horn player. I was in a not the navy band at Millington, Tennessee. The training center had a band, choir, and drill team. Being in one of those excepted you form all the watch and mess duty. Without a doubt, playing trombone in a marching band is more fun the standing watch or washing dishes.
One Saturday I went to the band hall and there were four guys practicing, two guitars, drummer, and a tenor sax. I get to talking with the BL and he said he was trying to find an electric bass player.
Okay, I need to stop for a little back fill here. I grew up in a musical family and was not allowed to even listen to that evil rock and roll music, so my exposure to the instrumentation was lacking. This was late 1962 or early 1963 and most rock was still done with upright bass and I had no knowledge of an electric bass.
Story resumes
I had the BL explain to me what an electric bass was. Well, my dad played upright and my aunt had taought me a little about guitar, so it looked like something that might be fun, so I aske the BL if I could get a bass and get his help learning a bit about it and get good enough, maybe I could be his bass player.
His response was, "If you show up with a bass, you're the bass player. The rest is history.
But the best thing was that I quickly realized I had found my instrument.
I can't solo to save my life, but have sightread more sax gigs that I care to recall including on-call work for touring groups.
Current arsenal
Soprano - Selmer SA80 MkII
C Soprano - 1924 sterling Conn with gold bell
Alto - Yamaha YAS-62 II
Tenor - Yamaha YTS-875 Custom
Bari - Yamaha YBS-52
Various clarinets, bass clarinet, flutes, and a piccolo
I'm another who started out on saxophone. I played from junior high through college and was fairly decent. I started playing bass in high school for the sake of rock, and it became my preferred instrument. I actually sold my Mark VII tenor a couple years ago because I never picked it up.
Seems many of us bass players started on sax. I did too, but only played from 4th - 10th grade. Played alto, then tenor. Then moved to bass when 2 of friends, both guitarists, asked me to pick up a bass and form a band with them. Figured there were more opportunities with the fairer sex playing in a rock band than in a marching band. Well, it doesn't always work out that way, but I'd still rather play bass than sax.
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I started on piano at 8. My second instrument as a bass clarinet at 13. I wanted to play trumpet, but my mother said it was too loud to practice at home. All of the sax and clarinet spots were taken in the school band, so I was given a bass clarinet. There may be some good music for it somewhere, but none in band music charts. Boooooooooooooring. I picked up a bass guitar shortly thereafter and never looked back.
The irony of that story is that my younger brother was permitted to take up the trombone the following year. I was p'd off, to say the least.
The irony of that story is that my younger brother was permitted to take up the trombone the following year. I was p'd off, to say the least.
I started on drums in junior high school. I played everything in the percussion section, and I'm glad that I did. It helped me later on to understand and mesh with the drummers I played with.
I knew I was going to be a bass player when I was about 13 and listened to the Beatles Abbey Road album. Also, bass was less expensive than drums.
I knew I was going to be a bass player when I was about 13 and listened to the Beatles Abbey Road album. Also, bass was less expensive than drums.
There should be sub thread for sax players turned bassists. LOL
Ah thanks that’s very cool of you to track down my EP and provide the link. You da bomb
Just for the record I am not the singer lol I wrote 99% of the lyrics so if they’re bad blame that on me. I came up with about half of the music ideas and of course provided the bass. Anyway, thanks for checking it out to anyone that decides to.
Add me to that list. I played my mom’s old C-Melody sax in 5th grade (‘65, Oboe music charts) Really wish I had stuck with it, but living on base and public school a ways away and band practice at 7 am…. It fell to the side for a number of reasons.
I doubt it, at least in any of the clubs I frequent. The Thunderbird Club is still active and awesome. The Thunderbird group page on FB is cool, but not very busy. And most (not all) of the best skinny there comes from people who are far more active on TB than FB.
