So this is what all the excitment is about

I never intended to be a musician, much less a bass player. Three years ago a friend asked me to play bass in his basement band and I laughed - too many things going on in my life, not to mention I had never played any instrument since the trombone in high school more than 30 years earlier.

So a week later he shows up with a bass guitar and a practice amp in hand, gives them to me, says I can learn, and band practice is Saturday at 10am, don't be late. So I run out and buy a So Now You're a Bass Player 101 book, tape a fret chart to my music stand, and three hours of band went by in what felt like 30 minutes. It was otherworldly. Now I meet periodically with two different instructors - one for a focus on scales and music theory and one with a focus on technique and practice drills.

Now for the last year I've been gigging steadily around town in a regular project (unrelated to his basement band - they won't leave the safety of the basement), and playing with a couple of new side projects. Being a bass player is, apparently, to never be without playing options.

I found this forum last week because for Christmas I decided it was past time to get myself a real gigging rig to replace the 80W Peavey head and 112 cab that barely works as a stage monitor. Went into this thinking I was going to get a Mark Bass Tube 800 and a 210 cab, and after days of combing through the threads here I just bought a Genz Benz Shuttle 9.2 for a killer deal and now I'm trying to decide between a nice deal on a Schroeder 210PL, or pay the extra $$ for a Schroeder 1212L or a 212PL. Decisions... decisions...

So glad I found this place.

Life begins at 50. I tell my friends I'm not reliving my youth, I'm reinventing it.

Dan

 

When in May? We have a big event here in Minneapolis every third weekend in May.

Dan