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[jackajesusfreak]

1. Ken
2. 52
3. Sadowsky basses: a new take on old school vibes
4. I'm mainly a rocker, but enjoy playing all forms of music (except jazz, but only because I'm not good at it)


Bass is my first and only instrument. I picked it up at age 16.

Welcome Ken. You are number 79. Nice stable BTW!

 

[jackajesusfreak]

I should probably clarify somethings. I have never cheated on my wife and although I was born of irresponsible parents I did not follow in their footsteps. My wife and I chose to not have children and believe me society is not easy on that one. My wife and I were separated when I turned forty two and she died of cancer five years later. This post is not about pity. I was raised in the school of hard knocks and feel that I did fairly well considering.. I did die of a heart attack at 58 and was revived.. So maybe I have got more tunes to play rock on world! its a good thing....

Quite a testimony 90k! Yes you do get a number and it is #80! You can get bigger pictures by downloading them to Photobucket and then post them here.
Jack

 

[jackajesusfreak]

Don't think I have posted in here yet, so here goes:

name - rosanne
age - 69
basses - my main basses are both G&L's
history - started playing guitar in high school but did not start playing bass until I was 62. It should have been the other way around!

no pics - maybe later when I get a working camera or cell phone.

Hey, we got another lady on board!!! Welcome Rosanne. You sign in at number 81!

 

[jackajesusfreak]

Mojo Man (Tom)
57
I currently use Marco Bass, and Bluesman Vintage, basses.
Schroeder cabs, Genz Benz Amps.
Started playing bass at 17, only instrument I play.
Gigging for the last 25 years.
Bass keeps me young.

The Old Farts thread has come alive again!!
Welcome Mojo! You check in at #82!!

 

[SlingBass4]

I oughta be a shoe-in fer this one

Slingbass4/Whitey Lewis
60 in a month and a half (Lord willing and the creek don't rise).
Pretty much covers it here: Invalid Link Removed
May I request #88? Weird I know...it's a number thing, and the gap should fill quickly!

 

[popgadget]

Paul
58
A pair of MIJ Fender Pbass Lyte Deluxes. One fretted, one fretless.

Started as a teenager with a Red Hagstrom and an Ampeg SB-12 that I bought from a friend that decided he liked playing guitar better. Bass has been pretty much my only instrument for the last 40+ years.

 

[SlingBass4]

With almost 45 years (off and on at times)...I've reached a level where Im fully aware of the old adage "the more you know...the more you realize what you don't know!"

Another couple pics:

 

[jackajesusfreak]

I oughta be a shoe-in fer this one

Slingbass4/Whitey Lewis
60 in a month and a half (Lord willing and the creek don't rise).
Pretty much covers it here: Invalid Link Removed
May I request #88? Weird I know...it's a number thing, and the gap should fill quickly!

Welcome Sling! Sling has requested #88. He will be assigned that number and the next numbers in this order will be 82,84,85,86,87,89.

 

[jackajesusfreak]

Paul
58
A pair of MIJ Fender Pbass Lyte Deluxes. One fretted, one fretless.

Started as a teenager with a Red Hagstrom and an Ampeg SB-12 that I bought from a friend that decided he liked playing guitar better. Bass has been pretty much my only instrument for the last 40+ years.

Paul is coming in at #83! Welcome Paul. Are there as hundred old fart bass players on this forum??? Is it possible to reach 100??

 

[jumbodbassman]

Jim AKA Jumbodbassman

54

way too many to name (100+) Foderas, Fenders, Gibsons, DP, wishbasses, and lots of scroll basses.

Started playing at 14 on a Kay shortscale and a tunderbolt that i had traded a bassball glove for ( older sisters ex hubby). Bought my first fender at 15 and have been gigging since 16. Paid for college with gig money from weddings/clubs. Over the past 38 years I have played all sorts of venues from Nassau Col, Felt Forum, Beacon to lousy little bars and everything in between. Currently play with 4 groups to try and keep playing enough to stay happy.....

 

[jackajesusfreak]

Jim AKA Jumbodbassman

54

way too many to name (100+) Foderas, Fenders, Gibsons, DP, wishbasses, and lots of scroll basses.

Started playing at 14 on a Kay shortscale and a tunderbolt that i had traded a bassball glove for ( older sisters ex hubby). Bought my first fender at 15 and have been gigging since 16. Paid for college with gig money from weddings/clubs. Over the past 38 years I have played all sorts of venues from Nassau Col, Felt Forum, Beacon to lousy little bars and everything in between. Currently play with 4 groups to try and keep playing enough to stay happy.....

Now THAT'S what I call a stable!!! Welcome jumbo as the 84th member!!

 

[Hifiguy]

1. Paul
2. 54
3. See my sig line; I have no camera except in my phone, and have never figured out how to upload pictures to the intertubes, so no piccies except this one from my band's myspace page. I am the kinda grouchy looking guy second from right: Invalid Link Removed
4. Loved the Beatles as a kid but wound up studying classical and theatre organ as what is now called a "tween."

Rediscovered rock at 14-15 and wanted to play. No knack for the physicality of drums, guitar had too damned many strings, and I didn't want to carry a Hammond and Leslie around even if I'd been old enough to drive and had a van. And keyboards were crazy expensive in those days. So I tried bass in the summer of '72. Took to it like a duck to water after absorbing all that Bach counterpoint in my organ days. First bass was a Precision, which was a little too wide for my 15-year-old hands. Traded it back to the store for a cosmetically dinged-up J, and six months later talked my parents into buying me a new Ric 4001 like my hero Chris Squire played.

I had discovered Jack Bruce and then Chris Squire/Roger Glover/Jon Camp and plowed the "Ric with a pick and RotoSounds" furrow from 1973 until the early 1990s when I finally discovered Pastorius, Casady, Jamerson, and Lesh. Started from more or less scratch playing fingerstyle and rebuilt my approach to the instrument from the ground up, though I still keep my pickstyle chops well-practiced.

Played in a zillion weekend warrior bands, some polished cover bands that played clubs and after a few bandless years have been working with a guitarist/songwriter for the last few years on something that falls into a space roughly triangulated by Dylan, Petty and Wilco, though my prog/psychedelic roots still turn up plenty in my playing.

Playing better now than ever, and only when they tie on the toe tag will I stop trying to improve as a bass guitarist and all around musician.

 

[jackajesusfreak]

1. Paul
2. 54
3. See my sig line; I have no camera except in my phone, and have never figured out how to upload pictures to the intertubes, so no piccies except this one from my band's myspace page. I am the kinda grouchy looking guy second from right: Invalid Link Removed
4. Loved the Beatles as a kid but wound up studying classical and theatre organ as what is now called a "tween."

Rediscovered rock at 14-15 and wanted to play. No knack for the physicality of drums, guitar had too damned many strings, and I didn't want to carry a Hammond and Leslie around even if I'd been old enough to drive and had a van. And keyboards were crazy expensive in those days. So I tried bass in the summer of '72. Took to it like a duck to water after absorbing all that Bach counterpoint in my organ days. First bass was a Precision, which was a little too wide for my 15-year-old hands. Traded it back to the store for a cosmetically dinged-up J, and six months later talked my parents into buying me a new Ric 4001 like my hero Chris Squire played.

I had discovered Jack Bruce and then Chris Squire/Roger Glover/Jon Camp and plowed the "Ric with a pick and RotoSounds" furrow from 1973 until the early 1990s when I finally discovered Pastorius, Casady, Jamerson, and Lesh. Started from more or less scratch playing fingerstyle and rebuilt my approach to the instrument from the ground up, though I still keep my pickstyle chops well-practiced.

Played in a zillion weekend warrior bands, some polished cover bands that played clubs and after a few bandless years have been working with a guitarist/songwriter for the last few years on something that falls into a space roughly triangulated by Dylan, Petty and Wilco, though my prog/psychedelic roots still turn up plenty in my playing.

Playing better now than ever, and only when they tie on the toe tag will I stop trying to improve as a bass guitarist and all around musician.

Welcome Paul!! You are number 82. I see you have a Schecter. I was looking for a second bass and stumbled upon a Schecter Stiletto Extreme at, of all places, Best Buy! Normally GC sells them for $399.99. Best buy had one, new in the box, for $219.99. I couldn't pass it up and it has become quite the player, and I must say I was very surprised!!
Jack

 

[Hifiguy]

Welcome Paul!! You are number 82. I see you have a Schecter. I was looking for a second bass and stumbled upon a Schecter Stiletto Extreme at, of all places, Best Buy! Normally GC sells them for $399.99. Best buy had one, new in the box, for $219.99. I couldn't pass it up and it has become quite the player, and I must say I was very surprised!!
Jack

I got the urge for a 5 a few months ago but didn't want to spend a lot of money. Played a few <$1k fives and the only one I liked was the Schecter Stiletto Elite. The rest felt mostly like toys, and only the Schecter was through-body construction. A few days later I found one still for sale on the Alembic Club swap/sale board. The fellow who had it (I think he won it in a music store giveaway judging by the writing on the box) didn't use it and he was gassin' for something so he didn't want it taking up space in his studio any more. Can't imagine why he didn't play it. He only has 10+ Alembics including at least three commissioned customs.

Seriously, the Schecter is a really good bass, even to my very spoiled and indulged taste in basses, and considering I paid $550 for a factory mint bass ($800 at GC or online) I consider myself a lucky boy indeed.

 

[SlingBass4]

Are there as hundred old fart bass players on this forum??? Is it possible to reach 100??

100 will be a piece of cake - there's a lot of us moldy oldies 'round these parts

HOLY CANOLEE jumbodbassman You provide a whole new meaning to 'bass gas'

 

[Aussie Player]

I used to get up in the morning,
half an hour before I went to bed,
lick the road clean of wet dung,
work 26 hours a day, down the mill,
and when I got home, my dad would kill us and dance around on our grave singing hellelulah.

Well, we had it tough...........etc

1. I am almost 58
2. started playing in 1971 (read that as learning 40 years and still learning)
3. owned perhaps 8 or 10 bases over that time and obviously played a few more.
4. Never been really happy with my amps until I found Hartke a few years ago
5. Mostly played in 3 piece (or 3 musician) bands where bass also carried the middle register and the song during guitar solo's.
6. Longest tennure was with Aussie band "WALRUS" from '74 to about 80 or 81.
7. Longest tennure in the US was with 3 piece outfit (there I go again) "ROCKERBOX"
8. Began playing after hearing jpohn Paul Jones play the Lemmon Song. Liked the playing and the tone especially though I never learned it and never had a Jazz bass until about 2005. (a MIA 5 string I could not play, beautiful guitar though.)
9. Influences to my playing style are Jack Bruce and Andy Frazer. Never really liked any other bass players.
10. Hates - include slap bass, trebly bass tones on a bass guitar.
11. Current guitars include Fender P Bass MIM, Warwick Thumb, Gibson EB 2D.

That's it for now!

 

[jackajesusfreak]

I used to get up in the morning,
half an hour before I went to bed,
lick the road clean of wet dung,
work 26 hours a day, down the mill,
and when I got home, my dad would kill us and dance around on our grave singing hellelulah.

Well, we had it tough...........etc

1. I am almost 58
2. started playing in 1971 (read that as learning 40 years and still learning)
3. owned perhaps 8 or 10 bases over that time and obviously played a few more.
4. Never been really happy with my amps until I found Hartke a few years ago
5. Mostly played in 3 piece (or 3 musician) bands where bass also carried the middle register and the song during guitar solo's.
6. Longest tennure was with Aussie band "WALRUS" from '74 to about 80 or 81.
7. Longest tennure in the US was with 3 piece outfit (there I go again) "ROCKERBOX"
8. Began playing after hearing jpohn Paul Jones play the Lemmon Song. Liked the playing and the tone especially though I never learned it and never had a Jazz bass until about 2005. (a MIA 5 string I could not play, beautiful guitar though.)
9. Influences to my playing style are Jack Bruce and Andy Frazer. Never really liked any other bass players.
10. Hates - include slap bass, trebly bass tones on a bass guitar.
11. Current guitars include Fender P Bass MIM, Warwick Thumb, Gibson EB 2D.

That's it for now!

Welcome Aussie. You check in at number 85!

 

[wolfmancharlie]

We just might see 100 old farts yet.Just look at all the new old farts.It certainly did come back to life. Love this thread,Keep her going strong.

 

[Johno Dunn]

I have to wait until November.

I'll be back.

Me too, but God willing...(Terminator Voice on) "I'll be back." On November 27th!


Johno!

 

[Groove Mama]

Hey, you guys, nobody has posted on here since last May??? What gives?

This seems like a fun group but not very active, so I cordially invite you all over to the Bass Player's Low Down Lowdown (Bass Player magazine forum) at musicplayer.com. You don't have to be an old fart to participate, but that seems to be the general makeup over there. They're a really good bunch of guys with loads of experience, great sense of humor, etc., so come on down!