You guys missed a great time. Music was hard and girls were easy. ;-)
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There's even a theme song for that year: "1976" by Redd Kross.
I do miss easy girls. Of course I play bass so they would ignore me too.
On April 2nd 1976 a natural Gibson Grabber was born and made its way around the USA before landing in Germany sometime in the distant future. April 2nd 1988 I was born. 14 years on I picked up my first bass, but always lusted after the Grabber series. 2003 came along and I spotted a beautiful Grabber in great condition, £400, listed on eBay, with shipping from Germany available. It arrived in my hands, I immediately loved everything about this bass, apart from the sick smell under the scratch plate. Doing a full clean soon after her arrival I found a piece of cucumber under the pots and the smell of puke was strong. And there stamped on the neck was "Nat - April 2nd 1976".
We've shared some amazing experiences over the last 13 years, almost 300 shows and god knows how many rehearsal hours. Went through a bass drum. Smashed the singer in the face with her headstock, but she's still going strong. Might not be a birth year bass but sure as hell cool to have something that shares the same day of birth!!
We've shared some amazing experiences over the last 13 years, almost 300 shows and god knows how many rehearsal hours. Went through a bass drum. Smashed the singer in the face with her headstock, but she's still going strong. Might not be a birth year bass but sure as hell cool to have something that shares the same day of birth!!
Art imitating life; my cat Rasputin and a friend's tuxedo Sterling.
In 1976 I was 15 and played a Kalamazoo bass through a Univox tube amp.
Any of you guys remember Fallstaff Bicetennial Beer? Awful tasting, but we drank it because we were the class of '76. Good times.
1976 one of the great years of all time. Ouch, I'm getting old.
Charlie's Angels! The tall ships coming to New York! That Kiss Spirit of 76 poster on my bedroom wall! 76 was just one year in a great decade. I think the greatest decade in rock & roll!
Ductapeman
Ringmaster and Resident Geriatric
Pretty sure my next store-bought bass will be an AmStd-or-whatever Precision V-- I do love the Jazz V! But it needs the maple neck, to go with the pau ferro on the Jazz--
And sweet bass, my friend!
And sweet bass, my friend!
I have sox older than you.
In 76' I was sweating my butt off at an Elton John/ Dave Mason 4th of July concert at Foxboro Stadium in MA. 4 months later I joined the service (Seabees).
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76?.... I was in my junior year of high school, 1 year away from graduation, 1 year away from marrying my high school sweetheart( still going strong 39 years later), and 3 years away from buying my 78 P and trading away my Gibson Grabber. Dazed and confused maybe, but good good times fer shore.
In 1976 I graduated from HS, got a decent factory job (they were plentiful back then) and bought a brand new Fender Jazz bass.
The seventies were great in many ways and the rock n roll was fantastic. I miss those days.
The seventies were great in many ways and the rock n roll was fantastic. I miss those days.
Trabean, Rasputin is trying to TELL YOU that he's hungry and to check his damn food bowl! Put the bass DOWN!
Art imitating life; my cat Rasputin and a friend's tuxedo Sterling.
If you were older than 15 in 1976 and can remember it then you couldn't have possibly really been there. Just sayin'.....
