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Let's spread some musical misinformation
- Thread starter pklima
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7 string basses should be strung A B C D E F G so that only sharps and flats require fretting.
Disney Cruise lines announce today that they will no longer be paying the bass players in cash who were under contract with them. Instead they would be supplying them with new strings, after striking a sweet deal with bassstringsonline.com the owner Jason couldn't be reached for comment.....
I had a "Snuckman Blaster" combo which I bought new. Snuckers marketed his amps through Sears at the time. I paid $8.95 and it came with a free instrument cord and a "How To Play Bass" book.
It was 2 watts output with a cab that measured 6ft high by 5ft wide and 4ft deep. It boasted two 15 inch speakers.
And TBers said that 2 10" speakers would be more efficient and louder.
Anybody that wanted the "Philadelphia" sound would use a Snuckman Blaster.
TalkBass was unheard of at the time. Contrary to popular belief most bassists used a Vox bass with a built in amp in those days not the Fender-P.
Most records of that era, it's a Vox not a Fender.
To get the legendary sound you turn your Vox onboard amp all the way up and run it into the Snuckman with an 8 gauge cable which has a splitter to two cables.
You run the second cable back around to the Vox again and this gives you double the power.
Shown here is a Vox Apache...the bass that revolutionized the recording industry
when combined with a Snuckman Blaster.
The amp shown below was alleged to have been based on the design of the original Snuckman combo.
Only 2300 Snuckman Blasters were ever made. Over time it is rumored that they were all bought up by amp makers and destroyed.
The one I had was mysteriously stolen one night. The day before I saw a white cube van circling the block numerous times where I lived.
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TalkBass existed before the internet (which itself goes back a long way), however, because there was no internet, it was done by posting handwritten notes on a bulletin board at MIT. Replies could take a long time, as some would drive several hours to respond and could do so only occasionally.
I wouldn't worry about the white vans. They are harmless. The silent black helicopters are the ones you should be scared of.
Bass playing is all about subtle ambiance. Bass pros will all tell you the secret to success is to go completely Ninja, silently and stealthily delivering your bass lines from the shadows at the rear of the stage. Wear black clothes and a black hat, play a black bass with a dark fretboard and plug into a rig with blacked out grill cloth. Ideally no one should ever know you were on stage so always avoid the spot lights. The absolute best at this was the bass player for The Doors. To this day people still disagree if The Doors even had a bass player, what his name was or what he looked like. He was that good!
The proof of the pudding is in the eating. That's why Sid Vicious wasn't popular at all. He played a white bass and stood in the spotlights, next to the singer.
True...but early on he was using Robert Johnson recordings as his inspiration and couldn't adapt any of those to funk.
So he came up with " I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues".
Bernie Taupin wrote the lyrics along with Davey Johnstone but Bernie was fed up with Elton's constant dithering.
Unable to surpass Elmo in record sales or notoriety, a dejected Richard Newell retreated to his tour bus which he found wanting. He redesigned it, and when concerned friends visited hoping to cheer him up, they were astounded by it. Word spread and soon he found success building the most elaborate tour busses available.
