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Showed up to recording session without a Fender...

#163
tpaul said:
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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In other words, after you bought a P bass your life was like a country song played backwards.
 
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Hey Nobody... Here's Sylvia, exploiting your Handle, badly, but I will admit I'm from the era where I kinda want to have sex with her hairdoo. :)

...from Church Street Station in Orlando, Florida, where Hardy Walker, my second monitor world mentor, (thank you Hardy) honed his chops early on. He's probably running monitors on this one...

Her breakout song, first recorded when she was supposedly still a secretary at a Nashville studio...

 
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#166
Humbled said:
Hey Nobody... Here's Sylvia, exploiting your Handle, badly, but I will admit I'm from the era where I kinda want to have sex with her hairdoo. :)

...from Church Street Station in Orlando, Florida, where Hardy Walker, my second monitor world mentor, (thank you Hardy) honed his chops early on. He's probably running monitors on this one...

Her breakout song, first recorded when she was supposedly still a secretary at a Nashville studio...

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That's the sound of my childhood. I remember that song on the radio all the time in my mom's car back in the early 80s. ........ that could explain a lot about me.....
 
#167
Hope you're not too damaged... :D

My mom's car was a 1957 Chevy Convertable. Mom and Dad played Sinatra, Andy Williams, and Barbershop. My Aunts introduced me and my brothers to Rock-n-Roll.

I think I was almost out of High School before I ever heard a Country song. Funny thing is that Country is the first genre I ever got regular work and earned real money at. Go figure. It's all about not saying "no" when they call.
 
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#168
Recorded with my DBZ. As odd as it looks nobody batted any eye.
 

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#170
Bassic Playing said:
Yea, my bad. I have since sold all of my basses for 6 identical sunburst, tort, 4 string precision basses with La Bella flatwounds, ranging from the years 1956-66. How were the enemas? Is that sound engineer still only able to communicate with tears?
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He doesn't cry anymore. His tears are all dried up. He is still mute, and communicates by pointing to emojis and pictograms tattooed on his face, chest, arms, really everywhere.
 
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Humbled said:
Hey Nobody... Here's Sylvia, exploiting your Handle, badly, but I will admit I'm from the era where I kinda want to have sex with her hairdoo. :)

...from Church Street Station in Orlando, Florida, where Hardy Walker, my second monitor world mentor, (thank you Hardy) honed his chops early on. He's probably running monitors on this one...

Her breakout song, first recorded when she was supposedly still a secretary at a Nashville studio...
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Bass player was using a pick, I saw.
 
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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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Back in the mid-60's (I am an old dude) in Nashville I played a Gibson EB-3 (bought it new), and gigged through a Gibson Titan V amp (all tube, 2 x 15" JBL,s)...I thought I had a really great deep sounding gig rig, but I got "invited out" of three studios (Globe, Tree, and Monument) by the engineers. I traded my trusty Gibson for a Fender P Bass, and engineers were happier...I was not...it always sounded 'twangy' to me compared to my short scale Gibson...Now in my 70's, I picked up a fake P bass to use in Blues Jams...and it still sounds twangy to my ears...I have ordered a flatwounds and Duncan BassLines in hopes of getting 'that bump'.
 
#177
The whole Fender thing for recording is so crazy. Like you can't get a good sound from anything else? (Sarcasm) It's like a good old boy network or something. In the early 50's, didn't the same kind of people only want double basses? An Electric Bass?? No! It's right up there with the ******** saying "It is what it is" What??
 
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