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SHOW YOUR DISTRESSED FINISHES!
- Thread starter JIO
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Just being a part of that process - conceptualizing, designing, implementing, realizing - would be a hell of a day job.
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Considering their trademark sound is also due to being in a small hollow-body - it would be interesting to hear a Hefner pu in a solid-body bass like a Tele or P. It would have to sound pretty different.
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It's funny how a cig-charred hs was the symbol of a nightclub/bar work-horse/road-warrior. Fender even did a fake version on their Road-Worn basses. At least being in the Bay Area where the ban on smoking in clubs in '95 is now 25 years old - when I see it I just think of a stinky cigarette-ashtray bass.
I feel the same way when I see an Oly white vintage Fender look nearly brown - P-U! (not to mention how it must feel!) 
I bet it sounds like Eartha Kitt or Richard Butler.It's funny how a cig-charred hs was the symbol of a nightclub/bar work-horse/road-warrior. Fender even did a fake version on their Road-Worn basses. At least being in the Bay Area where the ban on smoking in clubs in '95 is now 25 years old - when I see it I just think of a stinky cigarette-ashtray bass.
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I don't have anything against smokers in general, my drummer smokes but only outside. I'm just glad I can hear and play music in clubs/bars here without having to deal with it. I played in a blues band with Eddie Taylor in Chicago in the late '70s/early '80s in smoky bars and had to deal with it like it or not. Loved the experience but hated the nicotine that went with it. Luckily my '64 T-bird and case doesn't smell like an ashtray as a result - after Eddie passed away in '85 I didn't use it in the smoky bars anymore.
I played on this LP - recorded on the same strip of old buildings where the legendary bluesmen and women recorded. Odie Payne on drums, Sunnyland Slim on piano, Cary Bell on harp, Steve Beal on rhythm guitar, Eddie on lead guitar. It was a brutally cold Chicago January day that day. Studio was on the sub-par side, we were all in one big old room w/no cans and we couldn't hear Eddies vocals and would have to watch his lips to know when he was singing. The blues.
This was the cover to the original LP which I still have my copy of - the one above was the cover on the CD re-issue.
The man - a total sweetheart. Did smoke and while he played but never saw him take a drink of alcohol. Liked coffee with lots of cream & sugar that I would bring for him in a thermos at gigs for break-time. I was a lucky young man having the opportunity to play in his band. One of those being at the right place at the right time sort of deals. Eddie was Jimmy Reeds right-hand man before he drank himself to death in the early '60s. Eddie played guitar and bass on a number of Jimmy Reeds early landmark blues recordings.
1955 - Eddies signature song - he was occasionally referred to as Eddie Taylor "Big Town Playboy" Quite the funny moniker as he was a very soft-spoken gentle, religious and respectful to women man and no "playboy".
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This warrior has graced the thread many pages ago - a good one for yet another look!
Ah, I missed seeing it earlier. It is a swell looking finish, which I suspect sounds as good as it looks considering the amount of player wear. I’m not surprised someone shared it already.
I'll play. This is "Miss Molly", my Darkhorse P-bass:
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Yes, Miss Molly was one of Andy's basses. He is a true artist when it comes to relicing, and this one is just gorgeous. More importantly, it is the best feeling and sounding P-bass I've ever played!
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I guess some people would consider that "player distressed"
(I saw it on another thread - dig it!)
Well done! Sounds like you have some great memories from that time. Do you mind me asking how you ended up in CA?
