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Showed up to recording session without a Fender...

#143
Nobody said:
Have you ever showed up to a recording session with something other than a Fender or have you ever imagined showing up to to a recording session with something other than a Fender? What was the engineer or producer's reaction or what would you imagine the reaction would be? I bet it would be pretty bad and there would be yelling and medieval weaponry involved.
Please share your experiences / imaginations.
May the tort be with you.
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this thread could be funny, but i feel like all the butthurt from the other thread is gonna head over here
 
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#145
DwaynieAD said:
this thread could be funny, but i feel like all the butthurt from the other thread is gonna head over here
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#146
I'm not a session cat I'm just a regular one but I can tell you a story. One time I brought my Ibanez SRX690 to record our moron opus "Kitty Litter, Marshmellow Fluff, and Other Tasty Stuff". I pulled out my SRX and the engineer broke out in tears and then he turned red and then steam came out of his ears. He left the room and then a few minutes later he came back with a Fender P and dragging some sort of cage thingy. He told me he wanted me to play the Fender. I told him I would rather Play my Ibanez. He said "You can either play the Fender or play the other bass I have but you can't play yours." I asked what was his other bass. He then opened the cage thingy. The ground shook, the lights flickered, my ears started to bleed. This bass like creature came crawling out of the cage and spread it's wings. It looked like an evil moth that had been impaled with a bass neck. I didn't know what to do so I reached out to touch it and it leaped at me and swallowed me whole. I found my self sliding down it's throat like some sort of water slide but instead of water it was fire which isn't nearly as fun as a regular water slide. I plopped down in a pool of some sort of acid like stuff that kinda smelled like hair gel. There wasn't much air in there and just as I was about to lose consciousness the bass beast got a hairball from consuming me and it coughed me up. And then I was like "I guess I'll play the Fender". And then the engineer was like "OK." and I was like "OK".
 
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two fingers said:
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.
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Do they sound much different than J50's?
 
#149
I'm sure I must have many times since I played extended range basses exclusively for at least ten years before Fender started making them. I can remember one project that I was hired to play on that I used a Carvin 6 string for the whole album. No complaints and it sounded good in the final mix. However, I've probably played a P bass on the majority of the recording sessions I've done through the years. These days I bring my Precision, a Lakland 55-02 and a fretless Jazz Bass if I'm not sure what I'm going to be playing. Most of the time the P bass gets used.

The first record I ever played on was produced by Link Wray's brother Vernon. He insisted that I use his Ampeg plexiglass bass, which I did. That record was remastered and released again a few years ago by a Korean record company, and has just been released again on vinyl. I was given a copy of the remastered version and the bass sounds a bit boxy, but not bad for the era that it was recorded in. Back then, 1974, there were all sorts of basses being used in the studio.
 
#150
I usually play in live settings. But one day, I was called up to play in a recording session to play some Kool and The Gang songs for a karoake-type recording. I showed up, opened my gig bag and pulled out a non-Fender bass guitar, and everyone released a fart... simultaneously. Everyone, the recording engineer, guitarist, trumpet player, keyboardist... even the guitarist's girlfriend. It was awful... the smell that is. I was like, "What's wrong?" Everyone curled up into the fetal position thinking the whole recording session was going to be a bust. I was like, "It's a Yamaha bass guitar. It should sound fine through the mix down." The recording engineer died, immediately, of a stroke. The backup recording engineer took over, but was dealing with a lot of anxiety. He asked me if I had a Precision Bass at home. I told him no. The trombone player lost total control of his bowels. It was messy to say the least.
I plugged my bass in the amp and started playing some lines from Ladies Night.... that is usually played with a Precision Bass. At that point, the Fender factory spontaneously combusted into a ball of flames. The end.
 
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After 100 lashes each from the engineer, producer and the guitar player I was offered a reprieve and the loan of a P bass. The session was going okay until I went all mental from the pain and bludgeoned them all to death with my T40 even the drummer was not spared.
Still have the bass and I like the way the blood stains look under stage lights.
 
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Dustin Owens said:
This will never happen to me. I have never been in a recording studio, but I have modded my Pbass for the most optimal tone you can imagine, so if I ever get the chance to lay down some tracks, I will have the sweetest tone that engineer has ever heard.

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hahahahaha

Tort City, that's awesome. I bet there are P bass players who wish they could have that finish work.
 
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Yes, once. After I was ejected from the recording studio, five cab drivers refused to allow me into their cabs, and I was forced to walk home, through the rain, while truck drivers, seeing the non-Fender bass slung across my shoulder, purposely splashed me with muddy water from the gutter. Upon arriving home, my wife refused to allow me into the house. I slept that night under a tree because the mule and the pig kicked me out of the barn. The next morning I awoke to find my non-Fender bass had been dragged half a mile by wild animals and half-buried in a ditch. Well, I may not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but I can take a hint if you hit me over the head with it. I went right out that morning and bought a Fender P-Bass, and within three days I had landed five new gigs, recorded a hit record, fathered a child and lost 20 pounds. Also my hair grew back.
 
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