Stoner/Doom Bassists 53: Loud Noises

[Squanch72]

Go back and watch He-Man and Thundercats and all those 80s cartoons and realize most of us had terrible taste as children. The fact that there are kids in the world now who love stuff like Adventure Time, Regular Show and the dozen other good cartoons I can't think of at the moment is really impressive to me. I think you have to go all the way back to Loony Tunes to get to that level of quality entertainment for kids that adults can also enjoy.

Yeah it is almost criminal how bad shows used to be. I am a fan of a bit of 70s cheese though, and recently found The Secrets of Isis. But yeah you have to go back to Rocky and Bullwinkle, Flintstones, Looney Tunes, Jonny Quest to find anything good. I tried to watch episodes of cheers and at the time I din't realize how lousy it really was, and Friends too, I can't believe I watched that crap.

 

[Squanch72]

Haha thanks, man. He's our first and he's a bigg'un. Not even two and he's topping out at 32 lbs.

I'm trying to get into the habit of practicing more, and playing with pedals at home so he's around making music more. I brought my Squier home from the practice space last night and pulled out my old DOD dirt pedal (which sounds surprisingly good with bass...who knew) and he was all into it. My wife had to move his high chair so he could see me while he was eating his dinner last night.

That's awesome, I love when Chicken Neck sings guitar riffs, a good sign to me that he already hears the melody.

 

[Squanch72]

Misadventures of Flap Jack is pretty solid too. I haven't watched more than 1 or 2 episodes of any of those shows but a lot of them seem pretty good.

+1 Flap Jack

 

[Squanch72]

I toked with Vanilla Ice once. Dude was a complete tool haha.

My biggest bummer but still kind of cool meeting a famous person, because I didn't know he was famous at the time I was too young. I was like 12, so early/mid eighties or so and my Dad took me on a trip to Ft. Lauderdale to visit family down there. He lived down there for a long time too. Well they liked to go to Lauderdale beach strip at night to fish, because the nice breeze, no swimmers, and the all the lights no need for lantern, etc. So we are fishing and I am sitting in a a chair watching my pole, a bunch of long hair guys were walking the strip, well see us fishing and shoot over to us, and this British guy with long wavy dirty blonde hair is chatting me up, so I am thinking cool never talked to a brittish guy before, and my Dad is like hi to them, but more interested in fishing, and the guy is asking about how the fishing is and what not. Wished us luck fishing and walked off, with the other guys in tow behind him. Well I was going through boy to young man phase and finally started getting in to music, and my older cousin gets me in to Led Zeppelin and I really took to them and started collecting their albums and learning about them and damn it I was talking to Robert Plant, must of been on tour on his solo stuff, and decided to go for a stroll, and who better to chat with than a kid who doesn't know who you are yet.

 

[mbelue]

That's awesome, I love when Chicken Neck sings guitar riffs, a good sign to me that he already hears the melody.

Been working with my daughter on the doumbek, she loves to hit it, hasn't quite figured out timing/rhythm. I guess thats too much to ask for from a <2 year old.

 

[dcarwin]

...wish every pedal, had a tone circuit bypass, a separate control for mids, and a clean blend on it.

+1

 

[OysteinosaurusG]

My biggest bummer but still kind of cool meeting a famous person, because I didn't know he was famous at the time I was too young. I was like 12, so early/mid eighties or so and my Dad took me on a trip to Ft. Lauderdale to visit family down there. He lived down there for a long time too. Well they liked to go to Lauderdale beach strip at night to fish, because the nice breeze, no swimmers, and the all the lights no need for lantern, etc. So we are fishing and I am sitting in a a chair watching my pole, a bunch of long hair guys were walking the strip, well see us fishing and shoot over to us, and this British guy with long wavy dirty blonde hair is chatting me up, so I am thinking cool never talked to a brittish guy before, and my Dad is like hi to them, but more interested in fishing, and the guy is asking about how the fishing is and what not. Wished us luck fishing and walked off, with the other guys in tow behind him. Well I was going through boy to young man phase and finally started getting in to music, and my older cousin gets me in to Led Zeppelin and I really took to them and started collecting their albums and learning about them and damn it I was talking to Robert Plant, must of been on tour on his solo stuff, and decided to go for a stroll, and who better to chat with than a kid who doesn't know who you are yet.

that's awesome! I met Robert Plant ten years ago when he was touring Norway. My old band had played a gig in a different city and we were gonna take the coastal express (a small cruise ship) back to our home town 20 minutes after the show. we ran like hell and barely made it with. so there we were in the lobby of the ship with guitars, merch and drum equipment, sweaty as hell, and who's standing there watching us? Rob!! he had played in the same city that night and was heading south as well. he said hello as we walked past him and I probably muttered something back. I'll always regret not having the balls to strike up a conversation with him

 

[Squanch72]

Been working with my daughter on the doumbek, she loves to hit it, hasn't quite figured out timing/rhythm. I guess thats too much to ask for <2 years old.
Kids make this music thing so much fun again.

Yeah they sure do, I think music is magical, and something that is taken for granted, such an unusual thing that exists in the world, and is almost exclusive to only us bipedal primates, and the thought of why does it exist, and how sometimes it can take you away from realty like some drug experiences, just blows my mind

 

[Squanch72]

+1

Or wish I smart enough to add those functions to some of my favorite pedals

 

[ampegfuzz]

Speaking of custom builds, any other help on this issue would be most appreciated

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f38/my-shielded-grounded-p-bass-still-hums-973348/

 

[change-jug]

New Venture Bros promo. Freaking hilarious: Link Removed

YES!!!!!!!!! I`m so stoked for a new season!!

My biggest bummer but still kind of cool meeting a famous person, because I didn't know he was famous at the time I was too young. I was like 12, so early/mid eighties or so and my Dad took me on a trip to Ft. Lauderdale to visit family down there. He lived down there for a long time too. Well they liked to go to Lauderdale beach strip at night to fish, because the nice breeze, no swimmers, and the all the lights no need for lantern, etc. So we are fishing and I am sitting in a a chair watching my pole, a bunch of long hair guys were walking the strip, well see us fishing and shoot over to us, and this British guy with long wavy dirty blonde hair is chatting me up, so I am thinking cool never talked to a brittish guy before, and my Dad is like hi to them, but more interested in fishing, and the guy is asking about how the fishing is and what not. Wished us luck fishing and walked off, with the other guys in tow behind him. Well I was going through boy to young man phase and finally started getting in to music, and my older cousin gets me in to Led Zeppelin and I really took to them and started collecting their albums and learning about them and damn it I was talking to Robert Plant, must of been on tour on his solo stuff, and decided to go for a stroll, and who better to chat with than a kid who doesn't know who you are yet.

That`s really cool.

 

[Squanch72]

Speaking of custom builds, any other help on this issue would be most appreciated

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f38/my-shielded-grounded-p-bass-still-hums-973348/

Is there a ground to wire going to the shield? I know that other guy mentioned it, but I still couldn't see it in the pics. And are the ground wires making good contact on the pots? Total newby, but been starting to do my own pickup swaps and have one success and one fail so far, and the fail is newby solder fails, so starting over from scratch on my Warwick again, think maybe do your grounds over from scratch may be the easist unless you are slick at trouble-shooting. Hopefully someone more electronics savvy will chime in too.

 

[mc_muench]

I would like to add spongebob onto the list of new/recent cartoons actually being good.

 

[Kaa]

I torched some shrub with Gerry Cooney (the Great White Hope heavyweight who got brutalized by Larry Holmes)once. Nice guy.

I asked him if Holmes hit hard, he laughed and said "Very."

 

[DethByDoom]

I am huge fan of the tone of Gibson/Epiphone Thunderbird and Les Paul basses but am wondering if you all know of any other basses with a similar tone. I played a two pickup older model Warwick Streamer Standard that was in that classic rock tone ball park and enjoyed the more basslike shape of the Warwick. I will probably bite the bullet and pick up a TB or LP and just get used to feel of the shapes jsut to get the tone, already love the looks of course, but someone might jump in and say no get this bass is sounds close.

SG with the HBs routed, and installed in the right sweet spot?

I've always liked the tone/sound of my sg bass... I only use the mudbucker unless I need more mids & treble for something. I've thought of putting in another mudbucker or a grabber pickup. But I like that my T-bird sounds like a tbird and the sg sounds like an sg.

I think the flying v and explorer basses are closer to a tbird's sound than an sg is. The sg is a while different animal. If you want a tbird get one they're awesome. The new epi tbird classic pro IV is pretty darn close to a gibby tbird.

 

[ampegfuzz]

Is there a ground to wire going to the shield? I know that other guy mentioned it, but I still couldn't see it in the pics. And are the ground wires making good contact on the pots? Total newby, but been starting to do my own pickup swaps and have one success and one fail so far, and the fail is newby solder fails, so starting over from scratch on my Warwick again, think maybe do your grounds over from scratch may be the easist unless you are slick at trouble-shooting. Hopefully someone more electronics savvy will chime in too.

Ill get my meter out and redo all the grounds tonight. Ill be doing a couple other things, fingers crossed.

 

[Squanch72]

Ill get my meter out and redo all the grounds tonight. Ill be doing a couple other things, fingers crossed.

Good luck

 

[Squanch72]

I've always liked the tone/sound of my sg bass... I only use the mudbucker unless I need more mids & treble for something. I've thought of putting in another mudbucker or a grabber pickup. But I like that my T-bird sounds like a tbird and the sg sounds like an sg.

I think the flying v and explorer basses are closer to a tbird's sound than an sg is. The sg is a while different animal. If you want a tbird get one they're awesome. The new epi tbird classic pro IV is pretty darn close to a gibby tbird.

I really dig those Epiphone Allen Woody and I read where some guys change the caps on the tone pot, so would probably work on the SG as well. I think you are right about a certain bass will sound a certain way, and the closest TB, Les Paul, Flying V, and Explorer will ahve the closest sounds.

 

[Squanch72]

I've always liked the tone/sound of my sg bass... I only use the mudbucker unless I need more mids & treble for something. I've thought of putting in another mudbucker or a grabber pickup. But I like that my T-bird sounds like a tbird and the sg sounds like an sg.

I think the flying v and explorer basses are closer to a tbird's sound than an sg is. The sg is a while different animal. If you want a tbird get one they're awesome. The new epi tbird classic pro IV is pretty darn close to a gibby tbird.

I am not an active bass guy so and really want those TB pickups, so think the standard Epip Thunderbird is the way too fly, the standard models are Alder body but if you get the silverburst it is Mahogony like the actual Gibbys. And only 300 bucks too, and tons used out there.

 

[change-jug]

I've always liked the tone/sound of my sg bass... I only use the mudbucker unless I need more mids & treble for something. I've thought of putting in another mudbucker or a grabber pickup. But I like that my T-bird sounds like a tbird and the sg sounds like an sg.

I think the flying v and explorer basses are closer to a tbird's sound than an sg is. The sg is a while different animal. If you want a tbird get one they're awesome. The new epi tbird classic pro IV is pretty darn close to a gibby tbird.

My Explorer came with Thunderbird pick ups but I`ve never played a Gibson Thunderbird to compare the two. I do have a Epi Thunderbird but I`m guessing the pups are different.