Before I die, I plan on leaving a bass to each of my grandkids. They can do what they want with it. If they take it up, more power to em. If they want to sell them, so be it... if the want to put them in a flower garden in the front yard and leave them to rot...… well... maybe I'll just leave em cash.
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One of the greatest joys in life can be roadie-ing for your kid. Enjoy!
Heh, I'm exactly the opposite; my younger son has played guitar for years and I picked up a bass so I could play with him.
It can be a really good idea sometimes to have someone else make suggestions for you!
That's exactly the routine here. I do this, wife is an oboeist/English horn player, the son too up orchestral percussion (hates drum kits), and Em? She took up tuba, now this.
It already is. Just to see her take another stab at it warms my heart. 'Course, I feel that way about anything she tries.
It happens...
Cheers and Happy Father’s Day everyone!
Cheers and Happy Father’s Day everyone!
The girl that played bass for Jeff Beck was Tal Wilkenfeld. She is an amazingly good and young bassist. And now that she's putting out her own albums, you find out she sings really well too. I like her music and, she's not hard eyes either. First time I saw her was with a Jeff Beck concert on TV. She not only has the chops, she has great musical instincts.
Mine started playing bass in middle school jazz band this year (right side, very short hair for a while this year). She’s got her own Ibanez Mikro and a Rumble 40 but it’s more “another class” for her than a calling. Kara’s 12 next week so it’s still very early.
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Awesome! That must be a cool feeling...you're not such a dorky dad afterall!
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Awesome. My little guys loving his bass too.
Awesome bass she's got her hands on by the way though.
Ha, that's awesome. She needs a fretless. And a tube and SS head she can switch through. Decent cabs. And some pedals. And a Taurus floor set just to show up dad!
I tried, but it didn’t last...
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She has since discovered karate and (long sigh) boys...
Is she crazy? Doesn't she know that a chic who plays bass will need that 34" club to beat away the hoards of boys?
Your little guy looks so happy! Great!
Thank you about the bass. It's a local shop that seems to be somewhat winding down their retail, focusing more on lessons, band rentals, and (when things get back up) their full show production arm. That's apparently their big bread and butter. So naturally, there were a lot of pretty lower quality "starter" basses. She found a pretty good G&L on the rack, they took us into the amp room off to the side and BAM, there was the Stingray. She let out a gasp and it was all over. Gave the G&L a token "listen".
