Enjoy the benefits of a premium membership!
Upgrade Account
-
TalkBass has been independent since 1998. Add your voice.
Create a free account to reply to discussions, view embedded media, and browse with fewer display ads.
Join free Log in
Want zero display ads or expanded classifieds tools? Compare plans.
NBD - Welcome home old friend....
- Thread starter two fingers
- Start date
A little of both. I have played mostly 5 strings for a while so I'm not the best judge. But I have played a lot of MIJ/CIJ Fender basses over the years and they were all skinnier than this neck. (I used to work at a shop and did a lot of restringing of basses for customers when I had the time.)
Thanks!
It is how I found it at present. I have not swapped strings yet. If I remember my string tension correctly these feel a lot like regular EB Slinky strings....maybe even mediums. But, yeah, my restring will be neater than this.
Edit to add: MY first amp was a TKO as well. The TNT belonged to the school. I loaned mine to a guy who sold it for drugs a few months into playing. My uncle was the Lt. Sheriff of our county. You can believe he replaced my amp.
Oh yeah. It'll be in regular rotation once a friend of mine gives it a good once over.
Good story.
Don't feel too bad about playing in school band. I played low brass, too, but switched to piano for jazz band (we already had a bass player, and he was clearly the coolest guy in the band, so what why try?).
Don't feel too bad about playing in school band. I played low brass, too, but switched to piano for jazz band (we already had a bass player, and he was clearly the coolest guy in the band, so what why try?).
Awesome! I'm glad a blast from your past like that made its way back to ya! Hope it still sings like it did in the 80's!
BTW I was also in the HS jazz band on Trombone, but if you ask the director he thinks I was the bassist lol. I don't feel bad about that era at all. I was in every orchestra and concert band offered at my school. To the point they would pull me from other classes (like core Sci and Eng stuff) to come sit in with the bands, especially around festival time (got around the roster thing by me playing something different in each band). I may sound like a band/music nerd, and that's because I was/am one!
Back then you would have expected been correct. We had a great program. Lots of parents participated in "band booster" programs to raise funds for the band. We were pretty much self-sustaining. By selling fruit, candy bars, doing car washes, etc. we managed to go on some nice trips.
Unfortunately, these days I hear the program is struggling. I was at a football game a few months ago where they honored my uncle (who had been calling the games from the press box since the 50s) and the band sounded good. But they were much smaller in numbers than we were back then.
I was right up until this bass came along. Then we decided to take a different direction.
I managet to finish out that year in the high school band. It was tough juggling playing in clubs all weekend and covering all the high school activities I wanted to be in. So my senior year I wasn't in the high school band.
Funny story. I took my SAT test three times. The best grade I got BY FAR was the morning after a show. We had played a few hours away up in VA. I had gotten home around 4a.m. and the test was at 7. I got a short nap. Put my hair up in a ponytail and went to the National Guard Armory smelling like a smoky bar and looking like I had been mugged on the way in. I was holding one of my first ever cups of coffee which (at the time) tasted disgusting. But I nailed the test that day and even got some scholarship offers. Wound up briefly thinking I would be in academia until I got a taste of it. (No thanks.)
Hey two, great story and great to hear you were able to get it back.
Looks like it's held up pretty well all things considered. Enjoy.
Looks like it's held up pretty well all things considered. Enjoy.
This could not have happened to a nicer guy. Congrats brother.
Great story, @two fingers !!! Nothing like your first bass. I still have mine - never got rid of it. There's some wear to it of course, but it's the bass guitar version of comfort food.
First off great story.
Back in the day, schools in the USA actually had music programs, art classes, wood shop, driver's education, vocational programs, metal shop and other elective courses like home economics and drafting. Schools were able to support these programs and fund them. My high school band had a Fender bass and a huge bass rig along with a Fender Rhodes and even a brand new Roland synthesizer, and PA equipment.The eighties were a great time to grow up and be in high school.
Today, not so much.
i got yer theme music, right here.
