Showed up to recording session without a Fender...

[Rayjay]

Fend her? I just MET her!!!

 

[Bassic Playing]

I once turned up to record with a 6 string Bootsy star bass.

After they finished dousing the studio with holy water, they decided it still wasn't clean and had to burn it down. The people working there had to do a ritual with the Fender Priest cult, and its illegal for me to enter 34 American states, or buy pineapple juice in Nashville.

 

[Humbled]

Fend her? I just MET her!!!

Focus? ...I thought you said they were going to take our picture !!

"...I don't care who you know, It says on your drivers license that you're supposed to be wearing glasses...

 

[wmhill]

this may help explain.....

 

[Smooth_bass88]

Did you find a way to go back in time and write from 1999 or 2000?

Um, no? Not quite sure I understand the point of your question.

 

[bassfran]

I snuck my hollowbody past a Nashville producer once for a take when he wasn't looking. But he probably reamp'd it with a Pbass plug-in after we left anyway.

 

[Nobody]

This thraed is way too serious and not the funny kind of serious but the seious kind of serious.

 

[wmhill]

This thraed is way too serious and not the funny kind of serious but the seious kind of serious.

Is there a "RULE" for too serious?

 

[two fingers]

Guys, lets try to keep this discussion as funny and fake as possible. Please don't make me have to report you for being too serious.

Thank you!

There was this one time I showed up to record soul music with a 6 string Carvin bass in Charlotte. The engineer wasn't having it. I was exhausted and hungry. (We were playing 6 nights in a row AND recording during the day.) I told him I would get my P bass if we could get something to eat first.

So we went to BW3 for some wings and beer. A few pitchers (maybe pitchers?) later, he didn't care so much what I used.

We went back to the studio and I laid the tracks in a few takes each.

Three days later he called and said "Hey I can't remember what that thing you brought in here was, but it sounds fandamntastic!"

True story. Hope it was funny enough to stay within the rules.

Carvin J99 pickups. Can't go wrong. I need to get another bass with those things in it. I miss them badly.

 

[ofajen]

If it's not a Fender, it had better at least be a solid body. You will be run out and forced to flee. Even if you flip it around to cover your back, the crossbow bolts will go right through a hollow body.

Otto

 

[Jughead6]

I have a 12 year-old grumpy ginger cat. He gets a headache and glares at me when I play bass at home. He gets a headache whether it's a Fender, a Rickenbacker or a Flubbergust. I made that last one up. None of this has anything to do with recording sessions. I just wanted to share. But there is one thing I know for sure, and that is Fender basses are made of wood. IMHO wood is really nice to have in a recording studio. OTOH tortoiseshell is only acceptable in a recording studio if it is sourced from environmentally-friendly free-range farmed tortoises, and not illegally caught wild tortoises. Man, those tortoises can get pretty wild. I love my cat.

 

[ZorgRift]

one time i did but it was okay because i had five frets and one string laying around

laid down some good p-bassing with that

 

[two fingers]

This thraed is way too serious and not the funny kind of serious but the seious kind of serious.

Temporary derail.

When I get a notice that you have "liked" a post of mine, it kind of hurts. Because it reads.....

"Nobody liked your post in the thread......"

Aw, come on. SOMEBODY must have liked it. To he sure EVERYBODY didn't hate it.

 

[two fingers]

I have a 12 year-old grumpy ginger cat. He gets a headache and glares at me when I play bass at home. He gets a headache whether it's a Fender, a Rickenbacker or a Flubbergust. I made that last one up. None of this has anything to do with recording sessions. I just wanted to share. But there is one thing I know for sure, and that is Fender basses are made of wood. IMHO wood is really nice to have in a recording studio. OTOH tortoiseshell is only acceptable in a recording studio if it is sourced from environmentally-friendly free-range farmed tortoises, and not illegally caught wild tortoises. Man, those tortoises can get pretty wild. I love my cat.

"Excuse me. Waitress, I'll have two of whatever my friend here is drinking.... and a milk for the cat."

 

[Nev375]

The engineer asked "what happened did you hit a deer?"

I looked back at my wreck of a car but there were no tufts of fur or blood visible.

"How did you know it was a deer?"

 

[BASSKADET]

I was a stand in for the bass player for one song. I used my 4001 Ric. Yes I said Ric. lol

 

[yodedude2]

i showed up with a barker. yup. they told me i was great, sounded great, first take no problem, no need to punch in, that was great!

they wiped my track behind my back. i first heard the playback at a gig soundcheck. that smarted.

 

[wmhill]

I had a Pea bass once, tort & flats too.....

 

[Roxbororob]

I have a 12 year-old grumpy ginger cat. He gets a headache and glares at me when I play bass at home. He gets a headache whether it's a Fender, a Rickenbacker or a Flubbergust. I made that last one up. None of this has anything to do with recording sessions. I just wanted to share. But there is one thing I know for sure, and that is Fender basses are made of wood. IMHO wood is really nice to have in a recording studio. OTOH tortoiseshell is only acceptable in a recording studio if it is sourced from environmentally-friendly free-range farmed tortoises, and not illegally caught wild tortoises. Man, those tortoises can get pretty wild. I love my cat.

OP this post is you have been looking for. Fortified with levity and not a speck of seriousness.

 

[jmlee]

As I enter the studio, I genuflect before the graven image of Leo Fender, flagellate myself with .045-.100 Chromes, stuff foam into my shorts, and recite the collected boogaloo patterns of Carol Kaye. Only then am I worthy to record my poor, pathetic bassLines.