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Mountains and water together is optimal for me
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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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So you're seriously thinking about it...
I read that Michael Bublés' father was a fisherman in BC and that one time he worked on a fishing boat with his dad for months at a time. He said it was the most dangerous work he ever encountered. From what I've seen on the show Dangerous Catch, I believe it. The scenery of fishing up north for Alaska King Crab is stunning.
Most of the time, I'd be hanging over the rail.
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I never paid attention b4. Do you play strung 'righty'?
I agree with that but, I have Gravol, although, as yet, I haven' t had to take it
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That thing's good-looking. I really like seeing the grain.
I agree with that but, I have Gravol, although, as yet, I haven' t had to take it
I managed to get sick on ferry crossings, although modern boats now have stabilizers to prevent motion sickness. Before there were jet airliners, I always tossed up on the big four engine propeller planes, even with Gravol/Dramamine/diphenhydramine. Jet travel doesn't bother me except for the one time that the plane hit an air pocket. Everyone was soaked through with sweat after the plane landed.
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I was probably about 13 the last time seasickness seriously overtook me. Pro tip: never look idly out a waterline porthole while dressing sandwiches with mayonnaise.
I see the problem...it's built backwards.
I am a lefty and was 13 when I started playing guitar. It felt natural to me playing upside down and backwards. I really wish the one thing I could have changed is to learn how to play right handed. The world of instruments is so limited for lefty's.
Thanks!
Let's see if I have this right, or is it left. You play a left handed bass, left handed but it is strung upside down? Like taking a right handed bass, flipping it over and playing left handed but without restringing?
I'm a left handed player that learned to play right handed. I didn't know about left handed instruments till I saw the Beatles on Ed Sullivan. My music school didn't allow any left handed players.
I am a lefty and was 13 when I started playing guitar. It felt natural to me playing upside down and backwards. I really wish the one thing I could have changed is to learn how to play right handed. The world of instruments is so limited for lefty's.
Thanks!
Yes, it has been a joke for quite some time but, being right-handed, I could not imagine trying to play left handed. Many have done well with what they can do with what is available and my hat is off to them. It is too bad that that more instruments are not available for lefties, they deserve better.
We're the latter.
Waterworld is one of your favorite movies, right?
I lived in a very small town called Wrangell in the 60's. We didn't have TV yet and our phone number was 93! We didn't have much money so I worked for the school after class as a janitor. I saved up enough to buy an Aldens electric guitar and amp. Man, that was the world to me! It had a book of chords and songs and I learned everything in the book, then learned to play along with records. I didn't realize the guitar strings were upside down to me!@SoulReflection the world is much nicer place for lefty bass players today. Especially Ibanez. That's basically why I left Fender-- Ibanez was always good about having lefty basses AND guitars.
Glub glub glub......
Me too! I worked as a janitor in the high school cafeteria. I spent an hour a day mopping the floor in the kitchen and took the trash out. I missed the bus ride home so I had to walk which added another hour.
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Such different lives we've lead to land here. 
As a result of that experience, everyone where I work cleans the floor if it needs doing. Nobody is above doing those tasks.
Not funny. Now you are mocking us leftes...
Don't we have enough problems already with the slim-to-none bass selection?
I believe Alaskleftybass went a similar route as Doyle Bramhall II (Arc Angels and Eric Clapton). Doyle plays a lefty guitar that is strung right handed. I think he learned on a RH guitar upside down but then switched to a LH guitar with the strings RH, like he was use to playing. So now the control knobs are at the bottom of the guitar, not under his arm.
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Which, by no mean chance, also applies to everything
... and no matter how menial any task may appear to be, it's not too difficult to take the responsibility to do it right. Or it would appear not too difficult. Some people in adult bodies never make it that far.
This has been one of the enduring mysteries of my adult life: Sometimes, the stuff you're supposed to like just doesn't turn your crank.
One of the reasons that I used to find this hard to accept, was my dad teaching me that best lumber/best parts/most care = best sound and most desirable.
This theory worked while he was still playing viola and violin, but the wheels fell off that wagon when he traded his beat-up blond ES175 for a jaw-droppingly expensive Gibson Johnny Smith. The ES175 was a peach, and the Johnny Smith was a thin-sounding, feedback-prone nightmare.
Since then I've owned many ugly (and beautiful) basses and guitars, and come to the firm conclusion that while there's a loose connection between price and playability, bonding with any instrument is mostly about intangibles.
The only exception I've seen to that rule, is with a handful of small-volume luthiers who are at the top of their game. Their stuff never fails to outshine the most expensive factory instruments, but even there, the fancy ones aren't always the best fit for a given player.
Happily, it worked out that way in my relationship with Dingwall. I originally bought an ABZ because I couldn't afford a Sklar or a Prima. Since then I've played the rest of the line, and despite price differences amounting to thousands of dollars, it's been great to discover that I'm already in my sweet spot.
As always, if possible, Try Before You Buy. I've in the main been lucky when I've not followed this dictum, but there've been times......
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