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What a cool head trip!
What a cool bass you have in your avatar. I've seen it before............maybe in a dream.
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What a cool bass you have in your avatar. I've seen it before............maybe in a dream.
johnsonabq
Watch out where the huskies go...
What a cool bass you have in your avatar. I've seen it before............maybe in a dream.
Great bass! Last rehearsal I never even picked up my fiver. Played the Euro4 all night.
Man, I have to ask. For those of you with multiple USA Spectors (or Euros), what do you do for work? lol I think I need a career change!
- Sep 20, 2008
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I am a special ed teacher, have multiple children, work a second job, and even when i was in a signed original band, kept a cover band around to get 100-200 a night........gear fund my friend, make one, if you don't have a second job, get one.
That's how sometimes you afford that which you desire
I work as an Engineer but to tell the truth I always fill up the calender with shows and build up the funds.
I am a special ed teacher, have multiple children, work a second job, and even when i was in a signed original band, kept a cover band around to get 100-200 a night........gear fund my friend, make one, if you don't have a second job, get one.
That's how sometimes you afford that which you desire
Always good to have a gear fund account!
An old Fam pic. I don't have the two on the left anymore,but cool changes are coming soon!
Very nice variation in colors, I like the orange bass...what color do they call that one?
This is why I have an NS2A.
Much respect for you guys who can afford them. I have no envy or anything bad to say for people who rock the incredible gear. You guys work hard for it and at least I can see the sweet pictures....I see a lot of people (not in the Spector group) hate on people with nice equipment. If I see a nice Spector, my 1st thought is good for you, now go rock that thing.
I've been in IT for a while and currently work as a consultant. I got on a team that had some financial benefits I wasn't expecting so that's basically where most of the cash I used for my US builds this year came from. Plus we refinanced this year and I saved myself a lot of money per month doing that, so I struck while the iron was hot.
It's really a double-edged sword though. Sure I do fairly well financially, but there is a lot of stress involved with the work I do, and it requires occasional 24/7 pager duty and overnight work to do software deployments, so it can be pretty invasive to my personal time. There are times I wished I was still throwing boxes around at UPS - at least that work doesn't follow you home.
Jen... ah. Jen.
She's a remarkable young woman. Her primary job is that of a full-time Officer in the United States Air Force.
She is a semi-professional athlete (fitness and women's football).
I met her on a movie set where she was an extra. She was single at the time and stationed in the LA area and just having fun.
I did a photo shoot with her... a fashion shoot. And at the end I stuck my NS-4 in her hands.
worshiprocker
Tonepump Junkie
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no firesale here, but man, I am impatient.You need to work on your patience Donny. LOL
As soon as my NS-5XL gets here I'll be putting my Euro5LX up for sale too. But like we were talking about in the previous thread, I won't "firesale" it. I'll just sit and wait. Of course any of you guys are free to PM me for the "club" price on anything I have up for sale.
I've been in IT for a while and currently work as a consultant. I got on a team that had some financial benefits I wasn't expecting so that's basically where most of the cash I used for my US builds this year came from. Plus we refinanced this year and I saved myself a lot of money per month doing that, so I struck while the iron was hot.
It's really a double-edged sword though. Sure I do fairly well financially, but there is a lot of stress involved with the work I do, and it requires occasional 24/7 pager duty and overnight work to do software deployments, so it can be pretty invasive to my personal time. There are times I wished I was still throwing boxes around at UPS - at least that work doesn't follow you home.
I'm with bunk, I'm a unix sys admin and I consult with a large company at the moment... although I only splurge when I need something. and I do a lot of trading.
johnsonabq
Watch out where the huskies go...
This is why I have an NS2A.
I've been in IT for a while and currently work as a consultant. I got on a team that had some financial benefits I wasn't expecting so that's basically where most of the cash I used for my US builds this year came from. Plus we refinanced this year and I saved myself a lot of money per month doing that, so I struck while the iron was hot.
It's really a double-edged sword though. Sure I do fairly well financially, but there is a lot of stress involved with the work I do, and it requires occasional 24/7 pager duty and overnight work to do software deployments, so it can be pretty invasive to my personal time. There are times I wished I was still throwing boxes around at UPS - at least that work doesn't follow you home.
I am a special ed teacher, have multiple children, work a second job, and even when i was in a signed original band, kept a cover band around to get 100-200 a night........gear fund my friend, make one, if you don't have a second job, get one.
That's how sometimes you afford that which you desire
I'm in IT.
Thanks for answers, guys. Much appreciated.
You're starting to make me wish I had finished my IT certifications. Oh well. A few more months and I'll be doing Service Tech work for my employer. It's about a 10-20g/yr jump over my current pay.Anyone have experience with ordering off-the-wall custom stuff from Spector? I'm wondering if they'd even consider doing a US-built ReBop style bass.
johnsonabq
Watch out where the huskies go...
Betrayer_Bass
Profanity Fish.
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Kind of. I came from guitar first, in standard tuning but was drawn to the bass like a moth to the flame, but with a much better outcome. When I play bass, it all makes sense, I went over to 5 string pretty quickly and wanted to mimic that on the guitar. The fingerings are slightly different, being that you can keep the "box" kind of shape on 5 out of 6 strings. But it's honestly much simpler this way. On a 6 string bass you'd have (using my example) B-E-A-D-G-C but seeing as E standard on guitar has E-A-D-G-B-e I wanted the doubling up of the B which ended up making the entire fretboard much easier to get around. Jazz chords and strange fingerings like that are much easier, sometimes it can be a bit harder considering I'm missing the high e, but because it mimics the bass it makes it easier when writing songs and switching back and forth between the instruments with little effort.
Tl;dr, yeah I had to learn slightly different chords, but it wasn't such a huge deal because of my experience with bass
I can't think of anything on a Rebop that can't be done on a US build. What did you have in mind specifically?
Exactly.
ReBop 5DLX style body, built out of quilted maple, finished in Bahama blue gloss
EMG Reverse P5 (not the humbucker housing 40P5) in the neck position & an EMG Jazz in the bridge position
NS-5 bridge, instead of the typical BO bridge
Birdseye maple neck with Black MoP inlays & Legend style headstock
Chrome hardware
I get the feeling something like this would be super pricey, though. It will be a few years before I could afford it, IF it's even doable.
If I hadn't had to put my rebop in the shop, I would have just pulled the trigger on Donny's NS2A.
I had just freed up the funds from another aspiring mod to my P-bass...
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