Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[Polish Thunder]

My wife and I went out for dinner Saturday and then watched the sunset along Lake Michigan. A beautiful fall day here in Michigan.

When we got home, I installed the Fender Custom Shop '62 Pickups in my MIM Fender Precision bass. My first solder (or sodder, as we say in the states) went great. The only issue I had was trying to de-solder the old ground wire off of the volume pot. The Fender factory put on a glob of solder about the size of a wad of gum. I struggled a bit until I added some fresh solder and the old came right off.

If I had a quarter for every How-to-solder video I watched, I could have paid a luthier to change them out.

A special thanks to beans-on-toast and Charlie Tango for their helpful advice.

My MIM Player Series P bass, now with the CS '62 Pups and LaBella Flatwound strings, sounds even more vintage than ever.

Next up is for me to research which new Pups to install in my MIM Fender Jazz to also get that old vintage sound.....

 

[Jeff Scott]

...I installed the Fender Custom Shop '62 Pickups in my MIM Fender Precision bass.

.....

My MIM Player Series bass, now with the CS '62 Pups and LaBella Flatwound strings, sounds even more vintage than ever.

It will sound even more vintage-y if you dress like someone from 1962 when you play it.

 

[12BitSlab]

It will sound even more vintage-y if you dress like someone from 1962 when you play it.

Audrey Hepburn was popular in’62.

 

[GonePlaid]

Each guitar player and the sax gets a solo. No respect for the rhythm section. No bass solo, not even that old standard “tuning”.

We considered having a bass solo but we wanted to keep the crowd.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Seems to me drum solos have a higher "I need to use the loo" rate beyond the stage. Come to think of it, that may apply on stage, too.

I can't dress '62 without a leopard skin pillbox hat.

 

[beans-on-toast]

I was out in the car tonight. Saw a few decorated Christmas trees and lights on houses. People are apparently returning to their roots with this new reality. Learning to play instruments, sewing, canning food. Being homey now, they’re starting the celebrations earlier this year.

 

[spiritbass]

I can't dress '62 without a leopard skin pillbox hat.

Stylin'.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Talking Christmas in October is Let's not try and skip Halloween so blithely. I had this very conversation IRL this evening.

 

[Jeff Scott]

Being homey now, they’re starting the celebrations earlier this year.

Funny trick of the eyes: I first read this as "Being horny now, they’re starting the celebrations earlier this year."

 

[GwenOnBass]

Should you be among those who have not heard the bassist uses what appears to my eye a vintage Mustang in the new cover of Heart of Glass by Miley Cyrus, then I've saved you the trouble of looking.

 

[Charlie Tango]

Should you be among those who have not heard the bassist uses what appears to my eye a vintage Mustang in the new cover of Heart of Glass by Miley Cyrus, then I've saved you the trouble of looking.

And hearing, too.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Funny trick of the eyes: I first read this as "Being horny now, they’re starting the celebrations earlier this year."

As you age, you’re declining vision does play tricks to make you think you are still young and virile. In your mind, you don’t see yourself as being old. Reality paints a different story of an aging body that can no longer comply. Enjoy it while you can.

Jane Greer could have fit into any generation. She was born in 1924.

 

[the harp unstrung]

Being homey now, they’re starting the celebrations earlier this year.

 

[GonePlaid]

Funny trick of the eyes: I first read this as "Being horny now, they’re starting the celebrations earlier this year."

So I'm not the only one.

 

[GonePlaid]

Talking Christmas in October is Let's not try and skip Halloween so blithely. I had this very conversation IRL this evening.

My daughter's favorite day of celebration is Halloween(she was born 11/1). The following day Walmart will be "decking the halls". Aaaaaaarrrrggh!

 

[GwenOnBass]

There are witches and there are witches. If a witch is a flapper, can she also be a vamp? She could be vamping hard on the dance floor!

Does anyone even use vamp as a verb any more?

 

[beans-on-toast]

Vamp keeps coming up in the amp world. Of course, Behringer had to steal it for the name of their also stolen from Line-6 pod. A seductrice?, I don’t think so.

 

[Deleted member 268085]

Seems to me drum solos have a higher "I need to use the loo" rate beyond the stage. Come to think of it, that may apply on stage, too.

I can't dress '62 without a leopard skin pillbox hat.

JUST the visual my brain needed before 6am.

 

[GwenOnBass]

I figured some GOF remembered Bob Dylan

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[GonePlaid]

I figured some GOF remembered Bob Dylan

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I didn't wanna 'blow' your cover, Mrs. Zimmerman.