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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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You can count me in that group, though I didn't switch to tenor.
... ... Really, just a few numbers, left? Wow, are there truly that many of us that the number are almost all gone?!?!?!?
I can never remember my number. I assume it goes to infinity....
I'll take -1 for my number because it more closely reflects my grumpiness.
Hmmm, if only there was some way to record a number, then we could sing, "You know my name, look up the number*."
* 2nd worst Beatles song ever, behind Revolution 9 (shoulda given that album side to George)
I was thinking more along these lines.
Wow! You’re 228 years old?
Maybe folks should pick a number based on how old or grumpy they feel.
There’s a market for songs that old people can relate to.
For instance, I envision one called The Prune Juice Express sang a la Johnny Cash.
Come to think of it, there are many songs for old people.
A haunting laptop take on Neil’s song, Old Man
He did a lovely job on four strong winds.
Harvest Moon.
Then there’s Can’t Find My Way Home.
Ball of confusion, Rod Stewart plays a banjo on Mandolin Wind. A mandolin was used on Maggie May. Every Picture Tells A Story was a good album.
The mantra of so many old and lonely people when you go to visit them. The urgency in Stay With Me.
Lonely People, America
We had a request from a gentleman at one of our semi-regular venues for "Harvest Moon". So, we learned it-and haven't seen him since.
(maybe he'll be there tonight?)[prolly not]
Perhaps, but that number might change on a daily basis. For some even, that could be minute by minute!
(DON'T post that song!!!)
Double likes on this. I’m a self professed math nerd.
Just curious...how many paying gigs do y’all play (average) a month? I’m hovering 8-10 on either bass or 6 string, sometimes significantly more, occasionally much less..
In FL, our 'season' runs mid November to May(+/-). 7 to 10/month during that time frame. Rest of the year 3 or 4/month.
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We had a request from a gentleman at one of our semi-regular venues for "Harvest Moon". So, we learned it-and haven't seen him since.
Harvest Moon? NoWay
apparently YesWay
What would Jaco's cousin's twice removed BFF do? Well, let's see here, can prolly pick that melody out without YouTube
With our background(s), we could probably play any request with which we were even vaguely familiar. Lyrics is the problem. Since so many of the songs our typical crowd likes are similar, as instrumentals they're boring. I s'pose we could attempt to get the lyrics off of a Smartphone(I don't have one), but then we'd have the problem of being able to see them.[squint, squint]Harvest Moon? NoWay
apparently YesWay
What would Jaco's cousin's twice removed BFF do? Well, let's see here, can prolly pick that melody out without YouTube
Some friends had a joke they pulled sometimes:
We know all the songs there ever were.
Audience member names a song.
Yep, Joe knows that.
Another title.
Yep, Jim knows that one.
. . .
Wait, you want us to play 'em? All of us at the same time! Guffaw.
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Strictly speaking from the pulpit of Reformed Saxophonist Third New Assembly, taking a very ordinary and simple melody to OUT (and who doesn't listen when someone is really playing Outside) is the territory of Sonny Rollins. Taken right off a cornball Hollywood movie and dropped squarely into the hands of this Harlem kid .... with Ray Brown and Shelly Manne .... first time they ever played together .... man alive these cats are cooking
I'm not lazy, I still have a 40 hour work week. Then my wife is still mending at least for three more months and needs me to care for her. So when I get time to sit alone and play my bass, it becomes tiring that I need to make adjustments. Don't get me wrong-- I've been an Ibanez user since 1980 something. I loved the slimmer fast neck and hot rodded tone. I've loved every Ibanez bass I owned for the last 35 plus years.
A short while back I bought an Entwistle Jazz style bass. I felt the neck was harder and much more substantial than my slim tapered Ibanez basses. But the neck was solid as a rock due to the meatier neck. I only had to adjust it a couple times once I swapped out the neck. I'm kind of drawn to the universal concept of "all parts field replaceable." The J bass just seemed to be more solid in the neck than my Ibanez basses.
Well, I've been on TB long enough that the Fender proclaimers are starting to get to me a bit. I'm thinking of dipping my toe in the water-- maybe one of the new mid-priced J or P basses. Especially the P bass because of its legacy tone. I guess I'm sick of constantly having my hex wrenches around having to adjust the neck and string height. Don't get me wrong-- I still love Ibanez, but I'm growing very interested in the idea of having a heavy duty Model-T style bass like the P bass with so many sources to replace any part of the bass.
Thoughts, GOF's?
A short while back I bought an Entwistle Jazz style bass. I felt the neck was harder and much more substantial than my slim tapered Ibanez basses. But the neck was solid as a rock due to the meatier neck. I only had to adjust it a couple times once I swapped out the neck. I'm kind of drawn to the universal concept of "all parts field replaceable." The J bass just seemed to be more solid in the neck than my Ibanez basses.
Well, I've been on TB long enough that the Fender proclaimers are starting to get to me a bit. I'm thinking of dipping my toe in the water-- maybe one of the new mid-priced J or P basses. Especially the P bass because of its legacy tone. I guess I'm sick of constantly having my hex wrenches around having to adjust the neck and string height. Don't get me wrong-- I still love Ibanez, but I'm growing very interested in the idea of having a heavy duty Model-T style bass like the P bass with so many sources to replace any part of the bass.
Thoughts, GOF's?
In one of my past bands we'd occasionally accepted requests, but....................the requester had to come up and sing the song! 
Will, I've really enjoyed the flexibility of my MIM Players P Bass Special. P pickup & body + J pickup & neck! Gets all the tones with ease.
My first real bass was a Gibson EB-3. I had played one during my last year in a Navy Band. I got used to their skinny necks and have stayed with Gibby/Epi products since. I do have a 5quier VM Jaguar SS for a backup-neck is short and 'J'-ish; and my Ibanez AGB 200(semi-hollow, short scale). I'm just not a 7ender fan-for my hands. In fact, had I been able to find an Epi EB-0 in black, I wouldn't have bought the Jag-which I like better than I thought I would. At the same time I recognize the appeal of a bass that everyone knows. FWIW, I only use the 'P' pup on the Jag and on the Epi 5er.
I would love to ramp up to something like 10 a month or better but paying jobs around here are few and I’ve only had my toes back in the water for a couple of years. So maybe 2 a month right now. On a good month, like this one.
We have learned(painfully)to not let anyone we don't know sing with us. We tell them that management doesn't allow it.In one of my past bands we'd occasionally accepted requests, but....................the requester had to come up and sing the song!
Also, we tell people we accept requests. We won't necessarily play them but we will accept them.
I’ve had a MIJ P bass since 1982 (frets are...well....gone) as well as an ESP PJ bass with a jazz clone neck...but the thing I use for 95% of my live work is a US made Peavey Foundation. The maple neck is stupidly small and fast, but still robust, weighs less than the others, and sounds pretty dang phenomenal. If you can find one, take it for a test drive.
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